The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 22, 1918, Page 16

e vy wd e G it L I/I% BOOSTERS IN COLORADO Haxtun, Col, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The business men of our town, who painted an organizer’s car yellow and ran him out of town, are still fighting the organized farmers. But we are in very good luck, having an editor, V. C. Monroe of the Haxtun Herald, who is a champion of our cause. Everything they do seems to cement the farmers together like brick. The farmers are going to establish a co- operative mercantile store. This is a direct result of the business men showing their teeth at us organized farmers. The northeast part of Colo- rado had a big picnic and Fourth of July celebration at Bryant, Col. The League is getting very strong in this community, for we have learned that we will either have to “hang together” or “hang separately.” We sure do enjoy the Leader. It is full of inspiration, amusement, education and facts. I know the cause will win, for it is built on the foun- dation of truth, righteousness and justice. " We often send the Leader to some one whom we think will be _interested in the movement. . F. H. SMITH. AN EDITORIAL FLEA Montpelier, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending a clipping taken from the Preston Times, Preston, Minn., a paper very hostile to the League. Mr. Bowen was down there recently and made a speech, I think, to help or- ganize the farmers in Fillmore coun-' ty, and the very next issue of the Times contained the inclosed tirade. Now this is the first I have seen of such resolutions, and possibly they were drawn up by the holdover sena- tors. At any rate, you will be able to ascertain the truth or falsity of otheseé accusations, so I inclose the - clipping. I was born and raised in Preston, but I despise old Sam Langum and his Preston Times. « JOHN NAGLE. RESPECTS TO T. R. Lindale, Texas. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Teddy was a bear when he was “over there” in Germany, when he fixed up like the Kaiser, both his whiskers and his hair. But it gives us a pain to read the notions of his brain (?) (?). He’s down and out, and he knows it, and he can’t get up again. But he has been a husher. He still is a gusher, and he’s known by all the farmers as the king of “four flushers.” So why should the farmers care, when Teddy tears his hair, and with tongue or pen dares to jibe the farmer. For Teddy had a chance, but he surely tore his pants, and the workers know it makes’ him warmer. So let old broker Teddy jibe, for to the White House he can’t ride, because he failed to' tie his Jittle bull outside. "'THis ‘for Teddy. 0D BEUGENE BRIEGLEB, JEALOUSY Plankinton, S. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Inclosed find copy of South Dakota “Union Farmer. This is the second time this sheet has made an attack on the Nonpartisan league. The first was some time last winter, which met with a lot of opposition by Union members. Then we got the Mitchell Gazette, with instructions that our subscription was paid by a friend. The other day I got notice that my -subscription would run out July 1. ADOLPH GRAMBIHLER. ‘same thing. -and give it to the Red Cross, or invest Y%, W QUITTING HIM COLD " Deering, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending a letter I sent to the Farmers’ Dispatch. ‘I am a League member, and voted the ticket straight. We would like to have a speaker at Deering. Wish you all the success in the world. 3 D, E. PAULUS. Farmers’ Dispatch: I have always been a reader of the Farmers’ Dis- patch and I have my subscription paid until May 1, 1920; but I want stopped. The Farmers’ Dispatch is against the farmers’ organization, the Nonpartisan league, of which I am a member. Will willingly give you the subscription which I have paid you, if you will stop the. paper. MARY Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece had grown two years, " And when it finally shed it off, 'Twas grabbed by profiteers. Poor Mary still retains the sheep, She also has the shears, But, when the mercury’s in the bulb, She’s shedding chilly tears. ONE-HORSE LIES Gilmore City, Iowa, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Inclosed you will find a clipping from -the Gilmore City Enterprise of June 20. This paper is published in a little one-horse concern of a town in which all business is controlled by the commercial club, which in turn is controlled by the Greater Iowa as- sociation. The Greater Iowa associa- tion seems to be the great stumbling block between business men and farmers of the community. Please tell me whether these attacks are true or false. P. H. CORDES. The only -word of truth in the mouthings of the Iowa editor is that the Greater Iowa association is con- ducting a vicious fight on the League. No one can believe what he sees in the kept press.—THE EDITOR. PATRONIZES NO ENEMY Bushnell, Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I see in the Leader that the League is organizing in Colorado, which I had been looking for for a long time. I hope all the farmers get busy and line up for this fall’s election. I also see _that the politicians are getting busy with their mobs; but don’t let yourself be bluffed, stand by your rights. Let us all stick and win. I hope the or- ganizer will be around before long. I . "read the Leader a few times and then hand it to some friend, telling him to read it, and either hand it back to me or give it to some friend of his. At that, I hate to part with the copies, - for I like to read them over again. The paper should be in every farm- house. Now the Pathfinder magazine broke loose—find clippings inside. I sent the editor notjce to take my name off his mailing list. That is the way I do: with all the papers that shoot off their gab about the League. I hope all the Léague members do the Better take that money it in Thrift stamps to help win the war, than support a League fighter. / JOHN A. BIENZ, From AT O s 2] AS LINCOLN WOULD DO Fort Collins, Col. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I hardly know what I would do with- out our friend, the Leader. I am in my 76th year and have always lived on the farm. In Lincoln’s time I was a staunch Republican and stayed with them until the salary grab, the Credit Mobilier, national banks, destruction of the greenbacks, and demonitization of silver. Then I said goodby. Have been knocking about here and there until I found the League; then I jumped into the bandwagon. I expect in about a week to start for Florida, and stay there a year. So I will not be able to get my Leader, but I as- sure you that just as soon as I get located you will hear from me again. E. H. BUSHNELL. GOOSE The profiteers stole Mary’s coat, Because they had a pull, Now Mary’s eyes are opened wide Since the parting of the wool. Fasts and frosts make Marys think; Knowledge makes them kick. They form a League, and then de- clare, Politically—“We'll Stick.” . —ED. BOND, Oakes, N. D. FROM A FARM HELPER Larimore, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: So many young people write the Leader that I will do the same. Well, the best part of it so far is the more Big Biz tries to go against it the faster it goes. I wish I could draw pictures, but I will tell you Big Biz will have to hammer for a while, I think. I am a voter for the Nonpar- tisan candidates and I will never stop either. When the farmer is {rying to get his rights, Biz gets mad. The trouble is he wants the other half of the hog. Well, he is a rascal, and ought to be locked up. I am a helper on the farm and I enjoy reading the Leader, which has righteous news in it. We'll stick, we'll win, is right. The Npnpartisan Leader can show what selfishness is and what the truth is. I wish I could talk for the League. Without the truth no man can come into heaven. That is Scripture and is true. = LAWRENCE CELANDER. A CITY MAN IS WITH US Kansas City, Mo. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: 4 . I am sending you an article in the Kansas City Star from the pen of that frothy old brand of Oyster Bay, the man who broke up the Republican party, -established the Progressive party, then sold out the Progressive party in the interest of Big Biz. Mr. "Townley should be proud of the fact that Roosevelt is coming west to get his—Townley’s—hide. T see the Non- partisan movement is getting the farmers and wage earners together. That is the thing to do. All the peo-* ple need to do is to get together on the political field and march to the ballot box and take possession of the government, and inaugurate govern- ment of the people, by the people, and for the people, through the initiative, referendum and the recall: I am go- ing to vote for and with the Nonpar- tisan league, wherever and whenever I get a chance, for I believe they are on the right track. . i I looked for my Leader last Wed- nesday; to tell the truth I ran to meet PAGE SIXTEEN T AT T ST ¢ ///% ers W B the postman. I wanted to read the Leader so bad. I quit my work and sat down and read it half thremgh without stopping. I am going to clese out my hotel business and go back on the farm, for I see better conditions for the farmer and the working people in the near future if the Nonpartisan league gets control of the government. Please send me the state platforms of Minnesota and North Dakota. 1 am yours for the overthrow of the prof- iteers. J. W. MORRISON. g” A %77 THE WAY TO CONGRESS Caldwell, Idaho. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I noticed in one of your issues an article on railroads in which you state that congress and the senate would not have voted any different if they had been elected by the stock- _holders instead of the people and I ‘would like to put you next that many were elected by the corporations in- stead of by the people.. The first thing that opened my eyes politically was when O. V. Havemeyer was put on the witness stand when the sugar trust was investigated by -a congres- sional committee. - He was asked this question: “Do you use money to elect any political party to power?” He said: “We do not. In a Repub- lican district we furnish money to elect a Republican; in a Demoeratic district we furnish money to“elect a Democrat. And when they are elected they are supposed to work for our interest.” F. P. KIPP. VOTES FOR LASSIES! Editor Nonpa: I'beg to differ respondent who t rights for women. woman suffrage? What we want is equal suffrage. I think if women are capable of being president and the people elect one, she has.the right to govern the United States as well as a man. : Many women are as capable and “more so of voting and holding office as some men. Some women are bet- ter educated. My opinion ‘is that equal suffrage would help America. Too many youths and men pay no at- tention to what their government ‘is doing. If women voted, they would be afraid that the women and girls would know more about it than. they. They would read up on the actions of their government, as would women. - Democracy means equality of op- portunity, does it not? In Germany the women practically worship their men folks. Does it do that country any good? What kind of country is it now? . . You may say if women want to vote, let them fight at the fromt in war. But the women are helping fight this war. They conserve food, and farmers’ wives and girls help produce more food. 'A soldier can not fight unless he has food to keep him in condition. 5 . When a soldier falls wounded, who sees that he is taken care of?7 A Red Cross nurse—a woman. Don’t #he mothers have to give up their sens to fight this war? Then why notilet them have the same right men Bave to vote for what they will fight' for and what they won't fight for. . If women have property they are taxed as well as the men;-and dwm’t have any say how the government should use the taxes. This is govern- .ment of the people, by the people and for the people. Are not women people? BELINDA RIEMENSCHNEIDER, : . A farmer girl of 16. g i