The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 17, 1918, Page 22

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Editor Nonpartisan Leader: This is a copy of a letter I sent the Kansas City Star: Mr. I. R. Kirkwood, the Kansas City Star: In your issue of May 8 there is an edi- torial called “A Chance for the Nonpartisan League” The Nonpartisan league is doing more to win the war than any edi- tors, for we are farmers,.and pro- ducers. Pray tell me what you are producing and where your money comes.from to pay your Red Cross dues and buy your Liberty bonds. I pay Red Cross dues and own two Liberty bonds. I work in the sun and wind and dust and cold, while you sit in_your office by a good fire. AND YOU DON'’T WANT THE FARMERS TO ORGANIZE. I belong to the Nonpartisan league, the National Defense league, help con- duct bond and Red Cross drives and raise wheat, corn, spuds and hay. Here in Idaho we have a large Nonpartisan league membership and are going to elect farmers to every office in the state before we are through. I was born in Kansas, of French ancestry. As Kansas is a progressive state, I be-’ lieve it will be a Nonpartisan state. C. E. JARVETT. Why Farm ‘Boys Make the Best Soldlers : (Continued from page 4) if your boy doesn’t write as regularly as he might, don’t imagine he is sick. He is probably so busy he hasn’t been able to lay hands on pencil and paper. At least this is the first chance that I have had to write a letter for a week, and I am forfeiting my Sunday pass privilege now to stay in my tent in camp and try to catch up on a little of my back correspondence. And if you get some blue letters during the first two weeks, if your boy says he isn’t getting enough to eat and the officers are all down on him and he has been given twice as much work as Frank Peterson, who must have a stand-in with the top sergeant, don’t pay too much atten- tion. See if he doesn’t feel better,.if the letters aren’t more cheerful, after the two_weeks’ quarantme are over. Remember that army life is different from civilian life, that your boy has been thrown into an entirely new world, where there is no one to pet him or make a fuss over him, where he has to take his chances with 2,000,- 000 others, but where chances work out pretty evenly in the long run. And if the soldier can come back after being “bawled out” for some little mistake, or after doing some dirty piece of work, with a grin on his face and the idea in his mind that he is going to make a better job of it next time, he is al- ready on the way to success in the army, if I am any judge. After all, army life is not fighting The Perverted Press of Minneapolis (Continued from page 11) Minneapolis Journal strongly sup- ported the candidacy of Frank Kel- logg for the United States senate. Mr. Kellogg was attorney for the United States Steel corporation. In its edi- torials of September 2, 1908, the Min- neapolis Tribune predicted that the steel corporation was interested in the election of United States senators and eight years later we find that the Journal has completely reversed its policy on the tonnage tax and is sup- porting for the United States senate the hired attorney of the very trust it once attacked. In view of these facts, Mr. Jones’ statement.that the United States steel trust has not “one penny’s worth of interest in or one atom of influence with the Journal does not carry much conviction. Ac- tions speak louder than words and if the Journal is judged by its actions it can not justly complain if the public concludes that it is a bally-hoo for big business in general and for the steel trust in particular. Later developments indicate that the purchase of the Journal was financed, in part at least, by a Chi- cago trust company. Who controls the Chicago trust company" Nat- - urally an ex-broker on the grain ex- change might be acquainted with the great grain gamblers. Does the grain combine of Chicago—Armour and his crowd—control the trust company which Mr. Jones later admitted financed his million-dollar deal ? These are questions in which the public has a legitimate interest and the studied gilence of the Journal on this point is a virtual admission ‘that ‘it is ashamed of its financial parentage. WHERE DO THE FARMERS COME IN? Naturally a newspaper, subsement to the great grain gamblers and. the - United States Steel corporation, doe,sr not look favorably upon the National Nonpartisan 'league and seeks to malign and misrepresent the farmers’- “organization by every means within FPearing -to discuss’' the - program of the League and unable to- | answer. the arguments in its behalf, the Journal, like all the .others of the, !‘_. Mention the Leader When Writing Advertiuu: Pl its ‘power, = P A T T poison press, attacks the League on grounds of disloyalty. The insincerity of this charge is best shown by re- calling that the Journal also opposed the great Equity movement -several years before. At that time the United States was not in war and the con-. venient dodge of disloyalty could not be raised. But the Equity movement threatened the selfish profits of the grain dealers and then, as now, the Minneapolis Journal was found on the side of the profiteers and agamst the farmers. Before concludmg with the Journal, we will relate one amusing sidelight which illustrates the character of its editor. During a legislative session a few years ago the Minneapolis Journal was editorially advocating a .certain measure reducing railroad rates, but at the same time its editor appeared at the state capitol and per- sonally requested certain legislators to vote against the bill. When taxed with this inconsistency he shrugged his shoulders and said: “Oh, those editorials are only for public effeet.” By methods of this sort the Journal manages to maintain -a certain repu- tation for progressiveness. The Jour- nal is more dangerous than blunder- ing big business organs like the St. Paul Dispatch and the Minneapolis Tribune, because it must be conceded that the paper is edited with a degree of cleverness and tries to hide its big business tendencies by mildly espous- _ing many progressive .measures of minor importance. But this is mere camouflage. ‘'When the interests of the steel trust or of the grain gam- blers are seriously menaced the Jour- nal can always be found using its’ columns in their behalf. And the fact ‘that the Nonpartisan league platform proposes a tonnage tax that will re-: duce the swollen profits of the steel trust, and certain constructive meas- ures that will put the grain gamblers permanently out of business, amply explams why the aneapohs Journal is doing ‘everything in its power to obscure the real issues and to poison . public opmion against this great and mentonous fp;ward movement ot the- . twixt order and l}tgshevxsm. : " principally, but. work, hard work and lots of it. It has been figured out, I believe, that the average soldier. in Europe is under fire about 16 minutes out of each month. That 16 minutes is important, but it is not a bit more important than the other 29 days, 23 hours and 44 minutes not under fire. THE FIGHTING STOCK FROM THE WEST And because army life is principally hard work, I have noticed that the country boys, fresh from the farms of the Mississippi valley, the North- west and the Pacific coast, seem to take to it better than any one else. They don’t have to be intreduced to old man hard work, they are well ac- quainted already. They have callouses on their hands already, so they don’t get blisters. They don’t have to buy liniment to put on their backs and they don’t have to spend so much time belly-aching about the hard work that - the mess' sergeant gave them ' on kitchen police. They may have a little trouble at first with squads right and’squads left, but as soon as they learn that the top sergeant hasn’t got it “in for them” when he bawls them out they are going to get along all right, and when it comes to kitchen police, sani- tary detail, land clearmg' and the like, the country boy is there, large and heavy and with both front feet. AN ENGINEER WITH US Blue River, Ore. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I have read your paper through and - will forward it to the deleg.tes of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engmeers in Cleveland for their perusal. I have been trying to get the brother- hood~to create a nonpartisan league similar to that of the farm- ers ‘and then to co-operate and federate ‘their bal- lots with the farmers and all other labor or- ganizations. The kept press has maligned the farmers’ National Nonpartisan league so much -all over the country that thousands, yes, millions of laboring men would like to know the other side of the question. The kept press: no longer moulds public opinion but turns the' people against those it supports. The-reading of the kept press decided my mind for subscribing to your paper and I believe a copy of the Leader sent to a workingman would certain- ly bring the same sort of a decision from him. I am an ex-farmer. S. M. CARTER. THE LAW AND THE LAWLESS Parker, S. D. Editor Nonparhsan Leader: > It seems passing strange that pub-A lic opinion will stand for the gush and anarchy wrought nowadays in the name of patriotism. Surely the anchor is slipping from the Constitution when a man can be arrested by any “will- o’-the-wisp” and be pushed out into a mob by officers of the law. This very thing occurred. in an Qhio town to a Bible ~student who ‘had passed out some tracts. For shame that county and city officers should' countenance: =~ -such intolerance in this twentieth cen- tury Mayor Short of Sioux City, Ia., ‘seeing the venom pomted at- certain truth tellers, said: “It is wildest fol- ly to-charge sedition against: these =~ - " simple religious folks. ' Let the peo.b‘. ple’s church alone,” he advised. “Let us find ‘the line of. demarc