The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 10, 1918, Page 19

_Confident the Farmers Can Win - An Editor Warns the Old Parties to Accept the Organized ‘. - Producers as Strong National Fp : ROM H. Whittemore of Pomona, Cal., and also from H. W. Bailey of Hingham, Mont., the clipping out of the Los Angeles Examiner. “Such talk makes me feel good,” says the iarmer Fol- lowing is the clipping: AMERICAN FARMERS WANT ONLY JUSTICE AND : MEAN TO HAVE IT Both the Republican and the Demo- cratic party organization leaders might as well make up their minds to accept the leagues of farmers and workers and producers generally form- ing throughout the country as already strong factors in national politics and as factors that bid fair to grow to be the strongest influences in the politics of the nation. The farmers have at last come to understand that the politicians have treated their pleas for justice with contempt, simply because those pleas were the pleas of INDIVIDUALS and not of a compact ORGANIZATION, united in a common purpose and in a . common resolve to have justice from their public servants, or to put men in their places who will give justice. The farmers know NOW that their weakness has been lack of organiza- tion. And, knowing this, they are or- ganizing with an enthusiasm and a rapidity which are truly remarkable. No class of men are more absolutely vital to the life and to the prosperity of the nation, no class of men perform their. obligation to the nation and do their duty to the nation with more labor and with less reward than these men who till the farms and sow and reap the crops and provide for all the rest of us the food upon which our lives depend It is easy enough for poetically in- clined journalists and orators to, pic- ture the bliss of a farmer’s life. But nobody knows better than the farmer what tommyrot that poetic stuff is. The average farmer lives a hard - life, and his family a hard life. Thou- sands and thousands of farmers and their families practically work the whole year round for a litile more than clothes to wear and enough to eat and a place to sleep. This is especial- 1y true in the East. Every farmer and his family sup- port a city man and his family. And, as a rule, the city man and his family work less and live better and have more advantages and more pleasures than do the farmer and the farmer’s family. Now, the farmer is not an unfair man. He does not want the whole earth. But he does want to have, and he has the right to have, a better and a pleasanter living for himself and his family than he and his family now have. And the trusts and the middle- men - and the politicians HAVE FINALLY TAUGHT THE FARMER THE WAY TO GET A BETTER LIV- {NG FOR HIMSELF AND HIS FAM- LY. The farmer has discovered that the way to get that better living is TO ABOLISH THE EXPLOITERS AND THE PARASITES who live fat at his expense. He has dlscovered that his exploit- ers have been enabled to cheat and to despoil him because they were cunning g enoug'h to control elections and to put . in office senators and representatives and members of state legislatures and judges to protect trusts and monop- olies and middlemen in their enjoyable task of preying upon the farmer who produces the nation’s fo&fi, and upon ' the wage-earners who must have thelr - share of that food. ! s And 50 the farmers, ha‘%ng leamed Leader has received a actors this lesson, are going to put:their in- formation to practical use. - THEY ARE GOING TO UNITE THEIR STRENGTH: ' TO THE STRENGTH OF THE WAGE-EARN- ERS. And between them they are going to put men in office from top to bottom who will be the willing and active and obedient servants, not of trusts and corporations and plutocrats of all kinds, but of the producers and con- sumers of-the nation and of the farm- ers and of the wage-earners—of the masses instead of the classes. We bid the farmers Godspeed in their work of organization. We are absolutely confident tha_t_.' the farmers can attain their just and rightful purposes if they continue their work of organization—if they stick together as one man and if they let nothing sheke their firm resolu- tion to win. N (] Consumptien of potatoes is increasing, mainly on account of the patriotic ef- forts of the people to save wheat and utilize the great crop of tubers. No aid is being given the government by the restaurant keepcrs of the cities. A baked potato still is sold for 15 cents in most of the cafes. Where potatoes used “to be included with every meat order, the restaurant pro- prictors now gouge their customers for anything from a nickle to a quarter for a portion of potatoes. HOW TO GET THE VOTE Fessenden, N. D. Editor Nonpartlsan Leader: As a League member and booster I am very much in favor of woman suf- frage. I realize that sex is merely a matter of physical nature, and con- sequently has nothing whatever to do with mental endowments. Having a loving mother and five sisters, I have the conviction that only a-very, very small per cent of the fair sex are bad eggs. In view of that conviction I venture to say that the per cent of morally degraded men is not one iota larger than that of the opposite sex. One of your woman correspondents falls into the fallacy that men and whisky are twin brothers. This has too often been used by women who en- tertain sex antipathy. Would it seem feasible to try to raise the moral standard of women by heaping ridi- cule on their mates? I am sure there is a large field for improvement on both sides. - But it ean never be ac- complished by knocking the one while trying to raise the other. If we, men and women, jointly work hand in hand to further the suffrage propaganda, - victory wxll mfalh’bly be ours. STREIBEL '~ PAGE NINETEEN' S A SR L LS i In the Special Sale By Mail | there are more than a thousand opportunities to ‘make a dollar buy more. That is what Montgomery Ward & Co.’s Special Mid-Summer Sale by Mail offers you. This is a price-smashing sale—a remarkable collection of bargains. You probably have the 100-page Book of Bar- gains of this sale. If not, send us your name and address for your free copy at once. Study this book and you will realize the money-saving opportunities that this Mid-Summer Sale brings right to yourdoor. Look through it again—today. Every offeron every page saves you real money. 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