The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 17, 1918, Page 21

“ciples. B Farmers and Soldiérs Call fo Baer The Message of the West Is Eagerly Sought by Maryland and Virginia Granges-and by Men in Camps Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader TELEGRAM received at the office of Congress- partisan league mem- ber of the house, reads: “May 21, 1918. “Camp Humphreys, Va. “Congressman Baer, “House of Representatives, “Washington, D. C. “Can you speak Sunday evening to~ 4,000 or more men in large open air theater, Camp Humphreys? This is aY. M. C. A. program and you can render a g'reat service to this new and large engineering camp. “W. L.- WESSELS, “General Secretary, Y. M. C. A.” . The League’s own member of the house has received a long series of in- vitations of this kind, and he has fill- ed as many dates as could be combined with his regular daily work in con- gress. That has meant his leaving his office at the end of the day’s work in the house and going out to a meeting anywhere within riding distance from the capitol, to tell the soldiers about the nation’s purpose in the war and how the organized farmers’ movement is. actively supporting that purpose. After his speech at Camp Humphreys, the authorities asked permission to print his words in a pamphlet to be put in all the Y. M. C. A. huts at the front. 5 Baer draws pictures for his audi- ences while he talks. He lets his pencil tell the story of the contribu- tion that the farmeérs are making to the struggle for human liberty. He shows why the farmers are straighten- ing their shoulders mowadays,. and why big business is trying to break them of that habit. The farmers of Maryland and Vir- ginia have been asking Baer to come and talk to them; too. The other evening he went out to a Grange sup- per at Olney, Md., and had an en- thusiastic audlence of farmers and their families. With him went Ser- " geant Byron Rox, son of the secretary 'of the North Dakota State Council of Defense, who has been in camp at Fort Taylor. The Olney Grange owns a substan- tial building, the upper floor devoted to a fine library where the NONPAR- TISAN LEADER was prominently shown on the tables, and the lower Stick Up for an Honest Editor - West Fork, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Some of the deluded small-town business men of Valley county are ' aligning themselves against the farm- ers from whom the bulk of their busi- ness is received. We have a county paper here, the Valley County News, whose editor has a habit of boosting for what he thinks is right. He has investigated the Nonpar- tisan league and approves of its prin= He has therefore been boost- ing for the League. It is needless to state that he has been drawing con- siderable of his income from adver- tising and job work from these small business men, who have flatly de- manded that he refrain from printing anything favorable to the League. part of them, have told the editor of the Valley County News that if he continued to print anything favorable. to the League they would withdraw their support of the paper. As he is a free-minded editor and will not be " dictated to by his advertisers, they have withdrawn at leaut part of flxen'. man John M. Baer, Non- - - goon do this. R floor given up to a meeting and din- ing hall. The congressman found this gathering of Maryland farmers the most alert and best informed~of any audience he had faced in the East. They knew all about the League. They v knew economics and they were fa- miliar with political history. They re- -alized the importance of the demo- cratic struggle in this war. He came away agreeing with them that the eastern farmer has no need to fear organization; he will be able to do as much in that line as the western farmer, once he makes a start. Whether to farmers in their Grange halls or to soldiers in their camps, Baer gives one message: This war is going to change more than maps or military or political policies of the na- tions; it is going to enlarge the men- tal vision of every one, and it is going to make every one realize his own re- . sponsibility for active democratic citi- zenship to maintain the safety of the world. Old things “will pass away; new. institutions, serving the common good, are coming. Every man who | has at heart the cause of democracy must be awake to the passing of the old selfish ideals in America. The . soldiers - cheer this message quite as much as the farmers do. ELIMINATE THE SHARK . Omah?y, "Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Some years ago a stranger, observ- ing how seine fishing in the waters off Florida often resulted in Mr. Shark following up the ) haul and snapping his razor edged jaw-trap on the fish-filled seine bag to gorge on the contents, jocu- larlyremarked about folks who take pains only providing for such monsters. The war is said to have trebled the number of our multi-mil- lionaires, while it has more than doubled that of the plain millionaires. Why not eliminate the shark to save the profit for all? H. MOLL. Mr. Moll encloses a newspaper clip- ping which states that the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce announces that speculating in wheat may be permit- ted this year if the crop is large.— THE EDITOR. There are about 4,000 League mem- bers in Valley county and I do not think they will allow this editor to _become financially embarrassed on account of printing articles favorable to the farmers’ cause. They will also remember the Glasgow business men when purchasing goods. . I'can not see why our local business men are opposed to anything that will benefit their farmer customers. If we can cut off some of the profit of the middlemen so that our local business men can buy cheaper, they can sell to us cheaper and still make a legitimate profit, and we will not have to have so much credit at the store and be in better position to buy goods, so that it seems to me that the ¢ ,League is as much to the small busi- The business men of Glasgow, or. ness man as it is to the farmer. Our local banker, I think, has the situation properly summed up when he says that the League is coming, if ‘not already here, and that if it is not RIGHT, it is up to the farmers and laborers to find it out and rectify it. If it .is not right tbe farmers. will L. 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