The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 5, 1918, Page 16

| RSN g » BRIBING THE PUBLIC PRESS Holly, Col. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending you a full-page an- nouncement of the big five packers as it appeared in our local paper. Whom shall we believe, the packers or the federal trade commission? Are they advertising in the national pa- pers also? Are they going to oppose paying the excess profits taxes? GEORGE A. PARKS. TRUTH AND POETRY The Nonpartisan Leader, We farmers all need ’er, And should all learn to heed ’er, I say. Ignore that old pleader, The gangster’s ringleader, Who says, “Why not read ’er My way.” If hot air turns the feeder And pulls the grain seeder And the sugar beet weeder, Let’s rest. The fact is this bad deeder’s As slick as an Eider, A Prussian intriguer, A pest. So read through your Leader, All of us concede ’er A wonderful eater Of tricks. And the nation, God speed ’er Though profiteers bleed ’er, Swat the autocrat breeder, And “stick”! —C. A. YOUNG. Dubois, Idaho. _ “THE MILLS OF THE GODS” Sauk Center, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: It has been said by a very high au- thority that “the mills of the gods grind slowly, they grind exceedingly small, and if we only have patience they finally will grind for us all!” This is most truly illustrated in the late election in-North Dakota, where that grand “young man,” Governor " Frazier, went over the line with 20,000 votes to his credit. The cartoon on the front page of the Leader, July 15, is worth an even Just think how the artist, Mr. Foss, worked out the truth in picture in the “End of a Perfect Day,” show- ing how the old farmer waited for the gods to get ready for the “grinding” and ground out at the primaries from the political woods of rotteness, the North Dakota Ppolitical gang, which according to our artist is as dead as a door nail. Thus would it appear the truth goes marching on, and we down here in Minnesota are waiting for our grist to be ground, and while we wait we think of the 150,000 votes as a “starter.” ' Then while we read and consider we look at that fine, manly-looking face of North Dakota’s present (and next) governor, Frazier, and do not wonder at the tremendous vote.which he re- ceived in the primaries at the recent election. On page three of the Leader one can easily see in that cool, collect- ed, kind intelligent face, expressive of peace and highest honesty, there re- -flected the face of a man living man- like; the’ face of a man having the best principles of a2 man, believing in the fact that his fellow men shall have their honest dues and his administra- tion of these just and honest dues shall be truly given to them. A. D. CARPENTER. L Fro Editor Nonpartisan Leader: What the Soldiers Are Thinking & Vi /@ Vs Camp Kearney, Cal. Kindly send my “Leader” to this address. My former address was Buford, N. D.; afterward I had you send it to Company 7, Depot Brigade, Camp Lewis, Wash. I am very much interested in this great movement for the bet- terment of the people. Every time I read of one more victory for good I am proud that I am a member of the Nonpartisan league: It is especially gratifying to know that its leaders are broad enough to recognize every issue that concerns the welfare of the nation and that they have the capacity to handle every move in the right way and at the right time. Some day we will have finished our job of finishing the kaiser, and I look with confidence toward the preparation that the League will make for the returning of thousands of men to civil life.” Will there be multitudes begging Big Biz for the right to exist? No, the League can and will prevent that. Very respectfully yours, CORPORAL KENNETH W. GREEN. @ @ GOING SOME IN OKLAHOMA Hobart, Okla. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: As I have not seen anything in your columns from this section of “God’s moral vineyard” and as we are com- ing along some, having attained mem- bers to the number of 619, with more to follow, I thought I would send you just a line or two as a random shot. On June 22, many farmers of Kiowa county met at Hobart and nominated the writer as a member of the next legislature, subject to the Democratic primary, August 6. I make no claim of being a League candidate, because our organization is not perfected; but those who nominated me are mostly members and we expect to do things in the future. If the farmers can only organize and come into their own, my election, at this time, is of small moment. I am looking forward to the time when every farmer has joined a sound co-operative sociefy and we can stand and chant the refrain: “It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll; I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” League organizers in this county are not meeting with as much abuse as elsewhere. Personally, I know of but one case of the kind. Our crop . prospects in the vicinity are not flat- tering. Wheat is almost a failure, cotton must have rain soon, and our forage crop can stand up under the present drouth for but a few days more. H. 0. GEARHART. Editor Concrete Herald, +Concrete, Wash. ® @ @ An Editor Off on the Wrong Foot © © @ A FUTURE LEAGUER Munich, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am a reader of the Leader and not many words escape my notice. The Leader is the first magazine I read and we get quite a few other papers. We were to have a League speaker here about a month ago, but he was barred from speaking by some kind of a defense council, or “down with the League council,” or most any- thing else—but what’s in a name? But our little town was packed with cars, and the hall was too small, as some others spoke on League subjects. While the meeting was in progress some kids threw flour on a few farm- ers through the corner of a broken window pane, undoubtedly hired by some tommy-rot for a cone of ice cream. I know that the League is the only means of escape for us farmers from the clutches of big business ; and the way they are sneaking and hiding to stop it, one has to think they know it, too. My father joined the League over a year ago and seems to feel good about those $16. In our mail-box thé other day I found pamphlets in favor of the grafters, with many false car- toons and paragraphs about the League and Townley. And also the names and pictures of the men the sapheads have indorsed for office, ‘when they aren’t fit'to run a skunk- ranch. I am not old enough to vote but I can boost the good work just the same. Here’s success to the League and everybody that is with it. C. E. UNGER. Sauk, Wash. _will meet you half way and see that the farmers’ Under separate cover I am mailing you a copy of the Nonpartisan Leader, which I consider a real farmers’ paper, and a true champion -of the cause of.. democracy . both at home and abroad. After you have studied it thoroughly . I am going to ask that you do one of two things. One is to come out like a man and apologize to your farmer readers for your recent vile and slanderous assaults on their organization and the men they have selected as their leaders. The other is to cancel my subscription to your miserable dirty sheet and return the balance of my unearned subscription money. You may take your choice. I am tired of furnishing fuel to feed the flames that flicker around the founda- tion of freedom. Naw if you wish to come out in the open and discuss the principles of either the Grange or the Nonpartisan league on their merits we side is properly cared for. Now if you are really interested in dealing on the square it seems that this. 'ought to appeal to you as being about the right idea. Please do not consider - that this is written in a rage of anger but rather it is the result of a coolly - calculated business: proposition. : : : - 8. B. ELLISON. | PAGE SIXTEEN 2, % 2 " 0// SENATOR HITCHCOCK’S PAPER North Platte, Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Am sending clipping - from the Omaha World-Herald, which bunch would prostitute this great nation. Notice the deception of the pretense of attributing of an editorial to the ° National Grange, written up for the occasion in the World-Herald office without a doubt. I have tried to reply to this through the Omaha News. JONATHAN HIGGINS. A COLORADO BARD I write as a reader Of the Nonpartisan Leader To say that I live in a state Where the grafter Big Biz Shows his homely old phiz, But this year he won’t name the slate, That we farmers will back, When we go from our shack To cast our own little votes, For we’re learning at last How he’s done in the past And lately we’ve been taking notes. The League’s growing strong, And I don’t think I’'m wrong y When I say that we’ll win in a walk; But listen, remember, Watch us in November And you’ll see this is no idle talk. For actions, they say, Speak louder than words . And by their deeds shall ye know them. Though the grafters may doubt, They’d better look out For at the polls we will show them. - —W. W. COX, Arapahoe, Col. TO A LEAD-PENCIL FARMER : Ellinwood, Kan. Maurice McAulife, Salina, Kan.: Please stop sending your YELLOW ' JOURNAL, it is not welcome in my mail any longer. . The articles you write regarding the Nonpartisan league are not true, since no one but a farmer can join the League, and any sane man knows that the I. W. W.s don’t farm. I do not believe that you know very much about the League by the sound of the editorials in the Farm Journal. I take it for granted that you are a farmer like Big Biz, who farms the farmer and not the soil. Who are the people that produce the food for the army, the allies and the nation? Have you awakened to the fact that the supreme court cleared President Townley? The supreme -court of Minnesota held on Friday, July 5, that A. C. Townley, president'of the Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gil- bert, League organizer, did not violate any state law by circulating certain literature which referred to the war. The farmers don’t seem to bite at " the bait in the Farmers’ Union Week- ly, not by the way they are piling into the League at the present time. Since every other body of men in the country are organized, the farmer 'is waking up to the fact that in ‘union there is strength. So the slogan of the countryside is ORGANIZE NOW. The farmers have been backward in coming forward, but now they are going it with a rush. God speed them, the day of their delivery is at hand. In my district 95 per cent of the food producers belong to the League. I am a member of the Farmers’ union, like its methods of co-operation, but have no use for the camouflage —- journalist who is for corporation farming, He, like Big Biz, will sing his last song in the 1920. ELECTION. . " GEORGE J..KLEIN." -+ - i Y 7g i A 4 v‘ '«\ R &> v, % it { 9/ i | . oy 2 5 AN 7 A ,l kR i ¥ i y ji"\ 4R VO & 7 B F}( ] <k 3 o @ (' v P ‘S ' - 7 : >y - ¥ ““'\y \ : -~ 5 P