The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 9, 1918, Page 13

e industry. How busy the League ene- mies have been! But how stupid they are to think that anonymous pam- phlets can hurt any cause! The indus-~ try still goes on, however. Only this. week the Leader was notified of two new anonymous pamphlets now in process of preparation at St. Paul for Minnesota circulation. What -have these pamphlets dealt . with? Obviously this article can de- scribe only a few of them. A few - typical ones will be listed here, from which the reader can, judge the entire output. The following pamphlets, al- most all anonymous, are those illus- trated in the accompanying photo- graphic reproductlon (1) Issued in the interests of -anti- _League candidates in North Dakota. Purports to ask the farmers’ gover- nor, Frazier, questions which “prove” the League to be an I. W. W. organ- ization and which insinuate he is not really governor, but that “Townley and others” boss him.. This pamphlet and numerous others like ‘it failed to cut Frazier’s vote, which was much bigger than two years ago. (2) Issued and circulated by anony-b mous persons in the state of Wash- ington.. Contains quotations from the chief big daily papers fighting the ‘League throughout the country, giv- ing the usual lies and misrepresenta- - ~i tions. (8) Circulated-in Minnesota anony- mously. Attempts to prove the League “socialistic.” Believed to be the prod- _uct of the Reliance Publicity service, which violated the corrupt practices law at will during the primary elec- tion, but which escaped punishment | through a lenient judge. (4)- Circulated in Minnesota and South Dakota. Attempts to prove that the League will force state ownershlp of land and force the farm- ers to give up their land, one of the, very silly, absurd “arguments” of the pamphleteers. () Circulated in Minnesota. A funny pamphlet devoted entirely to “proving” the League misquoted Lin- coln! The charge is not true, of course, but it is typical of the way the opposition spends money to make trivial things look important. Not anonymous. Circulated by an insur- ance association. (6) Printed by the. mxlhons and cir- culated through commercial clubs in a dozen “states. Claims among other things that the League pays its speak- ers $1,200 a month—that League of- ficers and employes get from '$6,600 AND UP per year! A marvelous work of the imagination. (7) Circulated. in Colorado and Idaho. An attempt to make out that the organized farmers of America correspond to the bolsheviki of Russia. Remarkable only for its stupidity. ‘All Brothers in Sweat and Toil, Unite! ~ (Continued from page 9) and rain (and often worrying about whether he would get even these), re- ceived but one-fourth of what the la- ~ boring men of Chicago paid. -And so it goes with every other form of farm products. And. that is why I say to you that either the farmer is receiv- ing too little or you are paying too much for the necessities of life, and very likely both facts are true. mutual benefits of an economic char- acter,-which can come to farmers and organized labor through. co-operation. Nor would the results of a political character be less beneficial. - You, the industrial and agricultural workers of Iowa, have more to gain through good government and more to lose through misrule than any other classes in the state. What difference does it make to men who are the head of large business organizations, whether ‘we have . honest and economical govern- ment in Iowa or not? If our taxes are higher than they should be we can pass them along in the form of in- creased prices for manufactured prod- ucts or higher interest rates or added advertising costs, or whatever we hap- pen to be interested in, and the ulti-’ mate consumer will pay the bill. But— you—the workers of Iowa, living on fixed wages, or the farmers, whose prices are fixed by the government or the packing combine—can not shift these unnecessary burdens along so easily and it means just that much out of your yearly income. POINTS TO 'NORTH DAKOTA Supposing we. had ‘a legislature controlled by the farmers and by the. organized laborers of JIowa—what would happen? Exactly the same thmg would happen that has happened in North Dakota, when for the first time its state capitol has been moved from the Ryan hotel in St. Paul to Bismarck, N. D.; when the people have become: the bosses, in. place of the northern transcontinental railroad * systems and the milling interests of the- Twin Cities; when swollen cor- porations have for the.first time been - compelled to pay their proper share of the taxes; when the workers have ‘been given a fair share of the wealth fir the : . which they create and ; thp people. by tha people In - this situation is the suggestion of the the farmers of the state. quarter of a century of economic and political slavery. = To such a union of interests both the labor organizations and the farm- ers of Iowa could bring much strength.: You laboring men, with your genius for and experience in organized ef- fort, could lead. the way where the farmer- alone might lag, for reaSons which I have pointed out earlier in this address. And on the other hand, the farmers could bring to your sup- port the strength of numbers and of wealth. Just stop and think a moment what it would mean to organized labof in Towa if its rights had the support of The last federal -census .shows that out of a total population. in Jowa of about 2,225,000, over 1,600,000, or 69.4 per cent, was rural in character. The lat- ter includes, however, residents of towns of less. than 2,500, which the federal census considers as rural be- cause their interests are so largely those. of agriculture. But even if we . take -only those living on farms, their number is considerable over 1,000,000, or almost as many as all those hvmg “in incorporated cities and villages. The total number of persons engaged in mechanical or manufacturing pur- - suits in Iowa in 1915 was only 118,579 as compared with 217,000 farms' in the state, on most ‘of whlch there are several persons engaged. The total value of manu;factunng and mineral products in Iowa in 1915 was less than $350,000,000, whereas | our corn- crop alone last year was worth over $400,000,000 and our total .field ‘crops well - over $800,000,000. Dairy and poultry products.bring the total value of farm products up be- yond the billion mark. There is in- vested in manufacture in this state capital fo the extent of $233,000,000, while the value of farm lands, ma- chinery and livestock is nearly four and a half billion dollars. The tax- -able value of farm land this year was $5687,000,000, as compared with only $179000000 for town lots, and $80,- 000,000 for all railroad, interurban | and sleeping car property. These few facts will give you an appreciation of the vast predominance of agricultural interests in Iowa: and the strength - which ¢o-operation with them would lend to the cause of organized labor. 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