The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 5, 1918, Page 11

pect the farmers to fight back and to give them a well-deserved lesson. - This lesson will come quickly because most of ' the Minnesota towns treated the farmers’ move- ment fairly, and the farmers thus have good towns they can turn to at once for all they need. These towns placed their halls at the disposal of the farmers without any silly question about farmers’ loyalty or the loyalty of the League; some went so far as to entertain League speakers. They did not listen to the lionlike roar of the kept press and the small-town gophers who squealed be- cause the organized farmers were likely to step on their tails. The sooner the small towns learn that the farmers are organizing and are going to keep organized and that the farmer has the auto- mobile, the more chance they will have to save themselves. These things mean that the function of the small town has changed from that of domination to that of serving the farmers. The town politician will no longer carry the farmers’ vote in his pocket; we shall soon have co-operative elevators every- where and state-owned terminal elevators; we shall ave exemption of farm improvements from tax- ation; we shall have rural credit banks to give . the farmers more credit at lower interest rates; we shall have state-owned warehouses and flour mills; we shall have state hail insurance. These and other measures to promote farming will be put through, The farmers will secure political power proportionate to their voting strength. All of these things will indirectly build up the small town be- cause it must live out of the return the farmers get. Also the fariners are not hostile to legislative measures the small-town business men want. The surest way to kill a town in the Northwest, on the other hand, is to get it to play the game for big business against the neighboring farmers. Poor OId Jerry Bacon Seeks New Fields Giving Up Hope of Misleading the Farmers, the Hate Expert Is Mailing His Pamphlet to Montana Business Men—Among Friends at Last " "DIGNANT LETTERS. On the .- =.contrary, he will be able to D S A SR . bers,-but when he sent pam- . whom he is sending the [ERRY BACON of Grand Forks is still at it. Everybody will be interested in Jerry’s latest stunt. He has secured from J. H. McIntosh, state manager of the Employers’ association of Montana, A LIST OF MON- TANA EMPLOYERS AND BIG BUSINESS MEN. And now Jerry has written to the list furnished by Mr. McIntosh and submitted them copies of his re- markable pamphlet, “The Farmer and Townley- ism,” which contains more misrepresentations about the League in 96 pages than any other document ever printed. - In selecting friends and members of the Em- ployers’ assoctation of Montana as customers for his anti-farmer publications, Jerry has shown con- siderable astuteness. The Montana Employers’ association is similar to employers’ associations in all states and is allied with the National Employ- ers’ association. These are big business associa- tions whose chief aim is to throttle organized labor. The Montana association is par- ticularly pernicious in its ac- tivities against the workers, and has decidedly a copper color, due to the fact that it is largely dominated by the big guns of the copper trust of Montana. ENEMIES OF PEOPLE WILL LIKE IT It has been long since Jerry has exhibited more perspicacity than he has in finding a mar- ket for his attacks on the League through the Montana Employers’ association. By his sending “The Farmer and Townleyism” to names fur- nished by Mr. McIntosh of the Montana -Employers’ associa- tion, JERRY IS THUS AS- SURED THAT NONE OF THE BOOKS WILL BE SENT BACK TO HIM WITH IN- ‘accumulate a considerable number of testimonials from these Montana employers, which will enable him to outdo the patent medicine testimo- nials which are the principal asset of the purveyors of dope in that line. ; Jerry has attempted to cir- culate his pamphlets among farmers and union labor mem- phlets to persons of that char- acter, they had -a surprising way of coming back to him, ac- companied by letters, many of which have been published in the Leader, stating that the recipient was not -in the mar- ket for poison of that kind, and ‘that Jerry, super-patriot that he is, might better be spend- ing' the money to help the Red Cross or buy Liberty bonds. . But all ke will get from . the persons in Montana to booklet will be warm I far as to belittle the courts. words of praise, and this ought to make up to Jerry for the indignant letters he has been getting from mere tillers of the soil, who are on to his game. The Employers’ association has already taken’ up the fight against the League, as it has in all states where the League is organizing, because *ORGANIZED FARMERS ARE JUST AS MUCH A MENACE TO THE BIG INTERESTS AND TO SPECIAL PRIVILEGE AS ARE ORGANIZED WORKINGMEN, whom employers’ associations have been fighting unsuccessfully, for lo! these many years. DRIVEN OUT WHERE HE IS NOT KNOWN Jerry, however, made a slight mistake, probably without fault on his part. Mr. McIntosh, who furnished him with the list of names of the Em- ployers’ association of Montana, BY MISTAKE GOT A FEW FARMERS MIXED UP.IN THE LIST, and these farmers were quick to send the | WHY THE ANTI-LEAGUE GANG IS SO MAD You: read how the supreme court of Minnesota blocked the farmers’ enemies by ordering .the charges of disloyalty against the League and its officials to be thrown out of court as .there was no doubt that every move of the League has been in defense of the nation. The . farmers’ enemies are in despair.. They raise their fists in impotent anger, even going so But as before, there is nothing but empty noise in them. They. stand helpless before the forces of demo;:racy and justice. . PAGE ELEVEN Nonpartisan Leader the correspondence which they had received from Jerry. Therefore, the Leader is able to present in full the letter with which Jerry is submitting his anti-farmer literature to members and sympathizers of the Employers’ as- sociation of Montana. Following is the letter of submission referred to: “TO YOU PERSONALLY: “Your name has been suggested to me by J. H. McIntosh, state manager of the Employ- ers’ association of Montana, as one who would probably be interested in a truthful message exposing the Socialistic and pro-German ac- tivities of the group of professional disturbers invading your state and poisoning the minds of Montana farmers and workers. Such evil propaganda is not only a threat to legitimate business but a menace to our government and the success of the great war for human rights. We urge that the surest way to offset such baneful influence is to reach the people with the truth. Read the in- closed pamphlets and see to it that at least one of your friends reads them. “Yours very truly, “J. D. BACON.” Jerry neglected to explain in this letter that his dope does not seem to have much stand- ing in his own state. Jerry publishes a newspaper at Grand Forks, as well as run- ning a hotel there and “farm- ing” 8,000 or 10,000 acres of “land. His newspaper and pamphlets and booklets, STRANGELY ENOUGH, fail- ed to prevent North Dakota from deciding to try the Non- partisan league principles two years ago. And also, STRANGELY ENOUGH, North Dakota recently voted by BIGGER MAJORITIES to continue the Nonpartisan league in power in that state. . It would seem, therefore, that in failing to mention how little his dope is thought of in his own state, JERRY HAS DE- PRIVED MONTANA MEM- BERS OF THE EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION OF PERTI- NENT FACTS. However, it may be that Jerry considers the fact that he is utterly re- pudiated in his own state un- important. Possibly it is. At tion of it in the preface of his book, “The Farmer and Town- leyism,” and in the letter which he sends out with it. BINDER TWINE FOR 1519 5 The United States has ar- -ranged with the growers of at Gulf ports will be 16 cents instead of 19 cents, the price charged this year. On the 500,- 000 bales contracted for. this saving would amount to $6,- 000,000, but-the harvester trust will get it unless the govern- ment and the farmers keep a sharp outlook. ; any rate, Jerry omitted men-- sisal fiber in Yucatan so prices ’ e R A I T T D A I e 8 s