The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 10

R i ] H i ] i ¢ ) 4 1 £ k n (v v LSREHTOBRS o+ - “livestock pool,” which evidence in our possession proves to be in existence. Under the Veeder pools control of the meat trade was effected by agreements regulating the ship- districts, with a system of fines for overshipments and bonuses for undershipments. This scheme was so thoroughly exposed during the proceedings which led to the injunction of 1903 that it was abandoned. Besides it was a clumsy plan, which required a large statistical bureau and regular weekly meetings to determine the amount of the shipments for the coming week into each district and fix the margins. A much simpler and equally effective plan was then evolved in the form of a livestock pool, providing substantially for the di- AMES M. PIERCE, publisher of the Iowa Homestead one of those men whom only democ- racies can produce, has dealt a powerful blow to gang terrorism in Iowa. In .__ 10 pages crammed with pointed illustrations and comment that go to the root of the situation, the Iowa Homestead for August 22 lays bare the vicious propa- -’.—Yw 3 D el \! 2RI, ”5 T SEER) <o ASSOCIATION @8 ganda of the Greater Iowa as- sociation and. other special interest organ- izations and the re- sult of their contemptuous attitude toward the most sa- cred American institutions. The breaking out of the mob spirit in Iowa is another illustration of the fact that wherever the power of gang politicians is threatened, law, order, free speech, sacredness of person and property count for noth- ing. The gang will not conduct a - campaign within the limits set by our state and national Constitu- tions. “It is because I believe that such conditions,” declares Mr. Pierce, “as T have set out in detail are not only doing no good but are actually doing' more than anything else to destroy Iowa’s war-time efficiency, that I have decided to strike at the hydra-headed monster of mob rule the same as I would strike at the spiked helmet of Prussian militarism. It is no time for temporizing or pussyfooting. It is a time for vindicating the rights of the law-abiding, peaceful citizens of Iowa, for making democracy safe in this state while our boys are helping to make it safe for the world. It is time for setting our faces uncompromisingly against.the foes with- indwh’o,are helping to make a mock of law and order. PEOPLE MUST STEP ON IT, AND STEP HARD All these instances prove that the old-gang poli- ticians responsible for violating our laws protect- ing person and property must be chased out of public office and-the private organizations promot- ing thuggery made to answer for their crimes. When these interests see their opportunities for stealing within the law endangered by the awak-: ened intelligence of the voters, they are ‘entirely wxllmg to violate the law in every possible way. There is ne law when these interests do not want it where the old gang is in control. North Dakota, where the farmers are organized, -has given ‘the people -everywhere an object ‘lesson on how. to maintain that law and order which is the founda- tion sf democracy, prosperity-and- civilization. -Mr. Pierce recognizes this and says: “The same glad relief will be brought to‘Iowa when the farmers are. united in demanding it, in exercising their “rights, in' overthrowmg thexr self-exalbed rulere- and masters.” A farmer naoted Car!son .of Hancock county,;v ! Iowa, who had vxsibed relatwes ‘in North Dakota, repeatedly the mob spirit. vision of purchases of the cattle, shkeep and hogs sent to market according to certain fixed percent- ages, which could be agreed upon for long periods “ and needed to be changed only when conditions ments of dressed meats into the various competitive - were greatly altered, as, for example, when one of the big packers purchased an independent plant. This division of livestock purchases is not only an automatic regulator of the relative volume of business of each of the Big Five, but also secures substantial uniformity of prices paid for livestock and, consequently, of the prices at which dressed meats are sold. In brief, the prearranged division of livestock purchases forms the essential basis of a system by which the big packers are relieved of all fear of each other’s competition and, ACT- ING TOGETHER, ARE ABLE TO DETERMINE, Organize to End Iowa s Reign of Terror- ~The Nonpartisan leagune ‘is today the party of law and order. Here in this cartoon you see the corporation gangsters stirring up the monster of mob rule. The story on this page proves by facts printed in the Iowa Homestead, that the usual combination .’ - of politics, big business and the kept press has been instrumental in the traitorous work of stirring up strife at home in these times when all should co-operate.” In view of what has been going on in Iowa as well as in other states, one can see why Secre- tary of War Baker, Attorney General Gregory and President Wilson have denounced Common people must organize for protection of person and property against the silk-hat anarchists. ' Citizens of North Dakota enjoy free- - dom from this terrorism, and have shown all other farmers how to prevent the atrocities of the mobbists .saw the good work the League was doing there and advised his Iowa neighbors to join the move- ment. That, of course, was a crime against gang rule in Iowa. The Homestead says: A MASON CITY KU-KLUX “On a recent Wednesday night some men called at Mr. Carlson’s house in an automobile. They were W. E. Wilson (who calls himself adjutant of United States Reserves of Iowa, whatever that is); Max Gorman, then chief of police of Mason City but now an exile in disgrace, and George Brum- mund, a nexghbor of Mr, Carlson, who wears a star and carries a revolver as one of the ‘state secret service officials’ that have sprung up in every com- munity since the war began. They told Mr. Carl- son that the council of defense was going to meet in Des Moines or Mason City and wanted him to: be present. He said that he would prefer to come .- to Des Moines, but Chief Gorman replied: “No, you will have to go with us to Mason City bomght It should be added here that Mason City is not even in the county in which Mr. Carlson lives and where ‘he has always enjoyed a good reputation. M, Carlson inquired what he was wanted for and was . told that he ‘would be informed after he got to - He asked for time in which to con- " “rgultia lawyer, ‘but was ordered to go with ‘them immediately. - While he was getting® ready to ac-: Mason City. " company his -callers the 45-mile trip to ‘Mason City, the ‘men talked with his wife, asking her how she would like to hav theu' house painted. yelrow. be clearly understood, it is well to start with the James M. Pierce, the Great Farm Editor, Tells of Atroc1t1es of Big \ Busmess b Ny w——-_--iEflgnmwh_ " 'was over.” - OF. DISLOYALTY .7 “There is no- better fermer, 10 more loydl ext:-";‘ : ,zm, in the whole sfiete of Towa:than Wes Randell NOT ONLY WHAT THE.LIVESTOCK PRODUC-: ERS SHALL RECEIVE FOR THEIR CATTLE AND HOGS, BUT WHAT THE CONSUMER SHALL PAY FOR HIS MEAT. In order that the working of this system shall simplest situation—that of a stockyard in which only two of the big packers are represented and where the division is commonly “fifty-fifty.” In such a market the independent packers, local butch- ers and speculators will purchase not to exceed 5 per cent of the livestock, far too few to influence the market strongly, much less fix the price. The" other 95 per cent of the livestock, it is agreed, is to be divided evenly between the two blg pack- (Contmued on page 14) ORISR R PR~ PR e s = iy B -] 7 fi‘---‘ 08 llllflllll L o O I O O O L '—Jfi_ i { ' [ \ '°._n 5 X - (4 Mr. Carlson was taken immedi- ately to a room in the city hall where there were three or four policemen in uniform. Someone ¥ telephoned: to Truman = Potter, - mayor of Mason City, saying that they had Carlson, and in a short time Mayor Potter came in with '3 two more men who were strangers : = i to Mr. Carlson and demanded in a - = - blustering tone, ‘Where is that ‘man Carlson?’ When he was A5 pointed out, Mayor Potter ordered 5 every one out of the room with the exception of Carlson, Chief Gor- man and the two men who had come in with him. While one man took a revolver out of his pocket and laid it with an officious flourish ' on the table in front of him, Mayor = - “Potter said to Carlson, ‘You have been reported as organizing for the Nonpartisan league. ' That is going to be stopped right now. ‘We are gomg to run the Nonpartisan league out of Iowa.’ He went on to say that the League offi- cials were arrested in Minnesota for treason and . that it would not be long before the government ':: stopped the League everywhere. He-also: indulged in other equally wild and false statements, such as - one that the Nonpartisan league had organized in . . California to prevent the - cultivation of 100,000 acres of sugar beets; in which charges there is not | a scintilla of truth.” ; After meeting this and other abuse, Mr. Carlson : was forced to sign a pledge, the contents of which - are unknown to him, and Mayor Potter warned him “that if he reported any of the evening’s events to- .- the Jowa Homestead he would be put where. he could -not do:anything more until after. the war- He was then taken back by auto to: his home county. - A few days later Cluef of Police Gorman made -a brutal assault on a drafted soldier leaving: for ‘camp. and fled from the cltytoescapethecon-»._ sequences. ; TRUMPED-UP CHARGES ad B, Here is how the Homestead dxscunea anoflxer atrocity: 3