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

\ ~ ownership or control: of elevators, _for and appeared in the New York - tems. preceding page. / numbers of copies to send to friends or acquaint- ances Or others they may hope to influence against the Nonpartisan league. : : The first issue of the ‘new magazine, for Sep- tember, is dated at Chicago, Ill.,, and Gordon ap- pears as editor. ever was set up and published at St. Paul. The Chicago date line is camouflage, apparently. indulged in to prevent discovery of the fact that the institution named as the publisher does not exist. The maga- - zine purports to be published by the “Pan-Amer- ican Anti-Socialist wunion.” There is no such “union” or organization. ~Van Hoesen is the “Pan- American Anti-Socialist union.” You will note in the letter that Gordon suggests to Van Hoesen this" : camouflage for the new magazine. Furthermore, inquiry at Chicago reveals the-fact that mail for the “Anti-Socialist” is delivered by the Chicago postmaster to the Chicago office of the Van Hoésen . & Collins Advertising agency, and that the ele- vator man in the Chicago building where this agency has its office refers-inquirers who ask about the “Anti-Socialist” to this office. Why this camou- flage, if not to prevent Minnesota people from finding out the fact that there is no such organi- zation as the “Pan-American Anti- Socialist union,” supposed to be “pub- lisher” of the new magazine? The contents of the first issue of the new magazine, which the promot- ers so frankly discuss in the accom- panying letter, can be summarized as follows, giving a good idea of the stuff ‘the promoters expect to feed business men on in order to get their money: 3 AGAINST EVERY : PROGRESSIVE MEASURE Articles against public ownership, * attacking the League. . Several articles showing that farm- ing is immensely profitable. S Articles defending the packing trust and attacking the federal trade commission for exposing it. Article 'advocating. higher . street - car fares. i £ Reproduction of an article against Socialists that originally was written Mail, a paper whose stock is owned by . the German government, according to- charges made by the United States government. . Article” attempting to show that a Nonpartisan leaguer -and a Socialist are one and the same thing. Articles attacking the. League and organized labor for advbcating state warehouses . and other terminal mar- keting machinery. SR Article opposing the tonnage tax on iron ore in Minnesota. Article attacking government own- ership of the postoffice. 3 : Now, as to 'the letter itself, read it and find out the class of men and in- terests that are “seen” when anti- League propositions of this kind are . floated. Note that Gordon says that, ‘at one time he received $100.a month from a big corporation simply to give-~ this corporation “first call” -on his services, and that when. he "actually did any work for them he got $25 a - day besides! The “M. 0.” books re- ferred to in the letter are “municipal ownership” books—that . is; ' books against cities owning their own street. cars, water, light and telephone sys- , The list of big corporations and big business associations® that - Gordon thinks will be' “interested” in’ page. " this anti-League niagazine and in the sho anti-municipal ownership book is cer-' " In reality, however, the magazine. tainly astonishing. Gordon has a wide acquaint- ance as an “industrial expert.” Notice the suggestion for a camouflage organi- zation to pose as publisher of the new magazine, a suggestion afterwards carried ouf by Van Hoesen, who. invented the imaginary “Anti-Socialist union” for the purpose. ) 2 VICTIMIZE THE BIGGEST PLUTOCRATS OF THE NORTHWEST Notice that while in St. Paul helping with “On the Square” and writing and speaking against the League, that Gordon met “Dick” O’Connor, “the big Democratic boss,” who has close connections in financial circles, he says! Isn’t that good? Then Gordon met Prince of the Merchants National bank, a “fine fellow” who will doubtless be “inter- ested,” says Gordon. In Minneapolis he met Car- penter, he says—Carpenter, the millionaire Re- publican boss and lumberman! Gordon is cer- tainly “nonpartisan.” Leader readers are already familiar with Carpenter’s activities against the farmers. : And who is this Horace Lowry that Gordon met? He tells us himself—president of the street P \ Has the Hour Struck for Public Ownership? - -~ '}\‘Ile L W.W.Convicted . - - } ¢ ; : —From the Minnesota Leader. -The above is a photographic reproduction of the front page ‘and a part of page 4 of the magazine referred to in the remarRable letter on the opposite Read the Gordon-Van Hoesen letter and the accompanying. article on these two pages for the interesting account of how these two promoters sought “support of ‘the “big fellows” in their promotion. It- will make plain to you the methods used to fight the League. The/magazine shown. above: is calléd - the “Pan-American Anti-Socialist” ‘as a camouflage. 'It.is. anti-farmer, anti- labor, particularly designed to-feed the hate of preju the L(le'ia ue, and to prejudice other 8 1 .._H X | SRR R LR R R CEERSSS vnmnavrnawne OU can not afford to miss a word of the sensational exposure of anti-League methods on this and on the ’ Read first the remarkable letter of Gordon to Van Hoesen. Then read who these men s are and what ’thg magazine they refer to in the letter is. This is one of the most remarkable exposes the _ Leader has published. It is almost equal to the famous Quigley exposure and is as interesting as the exploit of the renegade Maxwell, whose story has been postponed. The Leader has new and sensational evidente concerning Maxwell and his selling out to the enemy. It will be given in due time. We have new documents in the Maxwell case that will surprise you. Maxwell is still in hiding in Chicago. Whileé awaiting the Maxwell story, digest the significant facts on this and the preceding page. You,may think you know all about anti-League methods, but, even so, the “My dear Van” letter given here and its explanation will interest Yyou. diced business. men against business men. The insert says that it is t This is a He. It is published at St. Paul.. The insert 1blis y: the “Pan-American Anti-Socialist union.”" That - guch union except in the mind of the promoters. S i railroad. This eminent gentlemen will need no in- troduction to Minnesota readers. Taken all in all, we'll say that the Gordon letter to Van Hoesen is a “peach.” When this letter fell into the Leader’s hands, it was some find, wasn’t it? If these agitators were successful in milking all the big interests named by Gordon, even at $1 apiece, it would furnish quite a fund to fight the League, wouldn’t it? A Live Wire From Kansas EORGE E. MARTIN of Attica, Kan,, a mian who heard of the League and could not wait until an organizer called on him, recently sent in $16 for mem- bership and has written the follow- ing ‘letter to the Kansas state office: “You want to know what I think of the move- ment and the organization. I think it is the great- est move for democracy at this time, and the most efficient organization for the benefit of the farmer and thé common people that has ever been start- ed. I am more enthusiastic about it than any other ' movement with which I have been connected. Since becoming a member I have read con-- siderable in the Leader and other pa- pers regarding -the League and I am anxious for the time when I can get out and help to boost it along. It seems to me the time is ripe for just such an organization, and I -believe if it is rightly presented the farmer will take to it like a duck to water. I am talking and working for the League and its program and I am handing am asking them to pass them along " opportunity to show to others that the League .is a loyal organization and is backing the president to a. larger extent than many members in his own political party.” ‘A MONTANA STICKER - ; Saco, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: We farmers out here in the West are reading with a good deal of amusement the attacks made on Presi- dent Townley and what they term certainly cutting the mustard,-and proving very effective in its fight to put the profiteer out of the running. That is evidenced by the howl put up by the watchdogs of the Big Biz in- terests all over the country. Townley need not fear that we farm- ers will go back on him as long as - he can show us the same results as he has in the past. s MARTIN O. MALMIN. " A WOMAN BOOSTER . Bovina, Col. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Inclosed you will-find some clip- pings from a country paper, the Arriba Record. The short article was published one week, and two of our members quit the paper, and the fol- week. ‘A number .of our members think they intend to do more than that of future results. the editor of ‘the Lincoln Democrat. out the League papers to others and: . to their neighbors, never losing an - his - autocratic management "of the League. Townley’s management is most _lowing article was published the next have had their papers stopped, and I - about it. But as there is a threshing: machine in this neighborhood right now we are very busy. I shall write I am also sending - you a copy of a reply 1 have written MRS. E. L. BEEDY. - R ey i i