The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 2

ADVERTISEMENTS EQUITY SHOES By Parcel Post Prepaid *On Approval”’ WE specialize on this Sboe—the EQUITY. WOREK and Oa! Door Shoe—exactlylike picture Built on stylish 1ace Blucher last; very flexible, soft and easy on the feet. - Special tanning process makes o8 . they out wear three ordinary pairs of shoes, CUT OUT THE & SIIOE PROFITEER, DELIVERED This shoe is of wonderful value; we gladly send “on approval; you are the judge. Why pay 86 or %6 for shoes not as good? Send your name and address; be sure to give size you want. 8end post office money order or draft. If not sat- fled, raturn shoes and get your money back. Reference: Gateway State Bank, EQUITY SHOE COMPANY 424 goston Bik. Minneapolis, Minne GUARANTEE VENTILATORS At Wholesale Prices Save one-third on the price of your ventilator Guarantee Ventilators are sold direct to you at the Iowest rock bottom prices. Compare our prices with any others of equal uality. Here’s a chance !ur Nonpartisan league members to save money. Money back if you are not satisfled. Order quickly, direct from this ad, as we cannot guar- antee these prices for over 30 days. Order by number. Ven No. Base Flue Price l 36x36 in. 20 in. 33.98 41in. 361n, 57.36 . 0. B, Twin Cities All nbove ventilators are shlp in sections all up, complete wlth nlckel plnted light- ning .rod point and gold leaf weather vane with any farm animal you want. If you are going to buy & ventilator, don’t wait; order now and save money. GUARANTEE VENTILATOR CO. Not a Corporation. Dept. A, St. Paul, Minn. IMPERIAL TIRES — GUARANTEED 4.000 MILES 5 We intend to sell them DIRECT to YOU only thru the NONPARTISAN LEADER. And we know they will save YOU money Just send us your order. No deposit re- quired. Tires sent on approval. Size Plain Skid Tubes 80x3 11.00 11.56 2.10 30x3 14.60 15.50 2.60 82x314, 16.656 17.60 2.75 31x4 22.00 28.10 3.00 33x4 28.36 - 24.76 8.40 34x4 24.00 25.30 8.50 35x4%% 35.60 37.30 4.60 37xb 43.76 45.40 5.50 We carry a complete stock of sizes. Inner Tubes Guaranteed 1 Year. TIRE SUPPLY CO. 12th & Hennepin, Minneapolis, Minn, IMPERIAL TIRES ARE THRIFT TIRES. "AlLittle Ad’ -But A Big Bargain We are saving on space and giving it to inthez%odl Dontbs 8 cream separator until ie aava I‘&mtkm on newlB Qmodall. easy cleant Four Good t Four PR‘ Wlil‘l‘! 'I'ODAY For I.ow Price Olueshiwlunln é’ Colfee at Wholesale f-Prices DIRECT to CONSUMER i Webuydlroctrmmnowenmdnlldimto Roasted ~dally. d - shipped the .day order. Paum;-hdupwmm o g Goldn Olw (Regular 30c Coffse) 2 Pla Elagiaten, (nowifar "Sso, Cotiog)"lo oe.”. 'ty 10 Ibs, t t sa wo wlu mruml‘ omm‘:n':' n Rot sutirely Gleason- Wholosale Coffee Co. : e lolhs. ' 482 Robert St. St. Paul.- Minnesota, Mention the L«wler When Writing Adverfiun BAREC S St BASRR Hit NE TR il i i e Rural Independence in Nebraska League Farmer Writes of Wonderful, Carefree Life on the Farm—Even Relieved of Pohtlcal Duties BY H. E. WOOD MEADOW The boy begins to study and read, GROVE, NEB. .. and arrives at the conclusion that re- HE boy reads about the form of some kind is needed and that happy, independent life - it is as much his duty to labor for -on the farm (written by = reform as any one else. He decides some city lobbyist hired to go back to town and talk these to mold public opinion), things over with the lawyer, banker, he gets into his unionalls, grain dealer, lumberman—the men he goes to the barn singing, “This is the has always regarded as leaders of pub- life,” trying to appreciate his happy lic affairs—feeling sure they would be condition. . He discovers the hogs are glad to assist in making any change in the melon patch just finishing up for the better. He suggests that an the melons. After getting them out- agricultural county and state should and the fence repaired, in doing which send men to our state and national he smashes his thumb with the ham- capitals who are pledged to demand mer, he proceeds to milk. The flies and secure legislation that will bene- are a little bad, old Bossy wraps a fit the majority of the people, rather long, sloppy tail around his neck, puts than to send men in the same old way her foot in the bucket; he hurries who are pledged to stand by the lead- through with the rest and then goes ers of their party. to harness the mules. One of them But after explaining his ideas in offers to shake hands with him, but regard to all the good that could be" he dodges and only gets a glancing accomplished by working together for lick. The other one steps on his foot. the benefit of all the people, the wise Then breakfast is ready. The soap men shake their heads and say that -he uses costs 15 cents a cake and has this is not the time for anything of about 1 cent of material in it. His the kind. They tell him to leave it breakfast food costs about 15 times - all to them, and when they think re- what he sold the grain for that it ' form is needed'they will let him know. was made of.- The bread was one- .They tell him that his ideas are se- half substitute, which cost 25 to 50 ditious, disloyal, pro-German, and per cent more than the flour did. The that he would. be encouraging class eggs were some which were rejected - hatred, and for these reasons they at the store as unfit for the packers warn him against farmers assembling to hoard until control of the supply together for the purpose of discussing was secured. these things, and wind up by telling During the summer he has the wind, him to go home and slop his hogs. He poor seed, weeds, dry weather, hail goes -home, humiliated, mad. He is storms, cyclones and early frost to determined to do something to make - battle with, but in spite of all he conditions better, so he enlists and is raises a crop. He takes a load of anxious to find someone he can legiti- grain to town; a man with a hard- mately take it out on. boiled shirt, seated in a swivel chair, That is the reason the American tells him what it is worth, and no °boy from the farm makes the best matter whether that' is the cost of = fighter. And the reason the boy from production or not, he can take it or the city is nearly as good is the simple haul the grain back home. What fact that he is an AMERICAN. hogs.didn’t die of cholera he hauls to —— e town.._The packers had run the price A SAFE BET of hogs up to 20 or 21 cents when The special ‘interests make much of very few were coming in and until the argument that the farmers should they had secured government con- Jeave politics to the men with the tracts based on said high prices paid “know how,” but it would be entirely to a few; then they dropped the price as low as they think the people will any farmer, big or little, in the submit to and take in the big run. At~.Northwest— the same time they pay for ads in 1. Who would tiot kiow better than nearly every paper in the country ad- ' to fix a price on wheat without fixing vertising that. their profit amounts to prices on what the farmer has to buy. only a fraction of a cent a pound. ° 2 Who did not know at least a year After settling for the hogs he goes t0 gnd a half before congress got around the lunch counter for a lunch to keep o it that there should be hlgh war him alive till he can get-back to his profits taxation. = independent home. #He calls for the 8. Who did mot know that monopo- hind leg of a chicken that his'mother - Jies could not' effectively regulate had fed and cared for all summer and. themgelves through their own $1 a sold for ‘16 cents a pound, which has year men on regulating boards... . already been through- the hands of 4. Who conld not see the injuistiée ; of shifting the basis for the minimum about three dealers, and he pays 26 cents for the one piece.. He has.to .price of hogs after the farmers had have some . extras for the machine about: 26 cents per 100 pounds, and ' jence is un-American. ; for which he pays 25 to 50 cents for 6. Who does not know that the' farmers have as much right to or-. shoes and finds that he must give $5 ganize as the bankers, or the millers, one pound. - He has to get a pa!r of ‘or_ $6 -for a shoe.that ‘is made of th leather ‘from -a hide that the farmer gzt packerfi' and that by so doing WISE MEN SURE % o them by our constltutxon and tra- NOTHING IS WRONG : ;i ditions. ? He sees the county assessor, who What the special interests fail to' not only taxes the improvementsin make public is that the “know how” addition to the land, again giving the of their brilliant politicians is for | hemgelves and not for the farmers. speculator 'in unimproved land “the 4 -best of it, but he must give in every IW' not lfive gixorg farmer ”“‘know pig, chicken, article of furniture, what 0W In public oflice : he has ‘stored to’live on; and pay e VTS T 'taxes on the land whether someone ~ MONTANA MEMBERS NOTICE else holds a mortgage on it for three-: The state office is now located in the . fourths of its value or not.. Then he ' Stanton Bank building, on the ¢orner s | reads that Rockefeller refuses to pay .of Central avenue and Second 8treet, ‘his taxes at all. "He remembers that’ Great Falls, Mont., occupying rooms “Rockefeller was fined $29,000,000 once- 84, 86, 87 and 88. Please note this | before for breaking the laws, but got - ~judgment put off till he could get an-- " other judge who could and did teverse ‘change of address so that if you come ‘the former decision: safe to_offer a substantial reward for’ 3 accepted the government’s promise.. which are’ manufactured at a cost of 5. pWho doesg riot know thalé mob vio- : they can not get more political repre- - got about 30 cents for.. : sentation than is fully guaranteed |: o fnwn you: wa not look for this’of- ‘ i . . ADVERTISEMENTS Help make the Equlty & - Co-Operative Exchange the largest selling agency - for live stock on the Chi- cago market. . This is a bona fide farmers’ organization with over eleven thou- sand stockholders, and a paid-up capital stock of over $450,000.00. - If you have live stock to ship write for free market letter. If interested in or an- 1zmg a real .co-operafive ship- ing association, write. for ree by-laws. If you have cattle, sheep or hogs to market, and want full value for them, consign them to the Equity Co-Operative Exchange Union Stock Yards, CHICAGO, ILL. We'll Sfick—We'll Win. You Are Surely Entitled to the Full Market Value for Your Livestock If you do not get it, somebody. else gets the benefits you should have. The day is passed when business is done on senti- ment, and only results in dollam and cents count: : We . want you to compare the re- sults in dollars- and cents we get for you with those received else- where. . A" comparison will- convince . you that “Kirk Service” gets youn the most money for your :livestock. J. R. Kirk Commission Co., lnc. South St. Paul, Minn. - Authorized Sales Agency of the - American Society. of Equity THE LAST CEN'l‘ Our salesmen - will get it”for you if you .- ship’ your live stock to - The Independent Commission Co. So. St. Paul, Minn, . Chicago, 1IL E < ROOF LEAK? 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