The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 13, 1919, Page 2

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Allen of Roundup, Mont., sends in another take-off on the theme, “Why the Old Man Left the Party,” which is given below. Evidently the writer of the first poem invented a method of expression even if he didn’t have much to offer in the way of improving farm conditions. Why did you leave your party, man, And sign up with the Townley clan? Why .did you bolt the G. O. P. Or Democratic cease to be? Thinkers of pulpit, platform,. press, Are wallowing in deep distress.” They say you’ve lost your 16 “beans,” And squandered “dough’” beyond your means. “T’1l tell you why,” the rube replied, “The pulpit, platform, press, have lied. We bought our bonds and answered calls, And paid three ‘plunks’ for overalls. We raised the good wheat substitutes - And heaped up ‘gold for eastern plutes. When Wilson spoke we lined up strong— That’s why- I say it’s doubly wrong For press and pulpit every week To-call us Leaguers bolshevik. “It ain’t that I’ve quit politics, But when press and preachers throw their briéks At honest men who till the soil, It makes my.loyal blood just boil. Of parties.-old I’ve had a-plenty; So watch our League in 1920.” PR DA DT A S AR S A N S O o B ST, One Party Owns the Show : Some farmers living far removed from Nonpartisan league territory were debating whether they should vote the Republican “or Democratic ticket. Unable to come to an agree- ment on this weighty matter they de- cided to go to consult a certain wise man- who had a reputation for hitting things right when he tould be induced to talk. And this matter would cer- tainly appear serious enough to him to warrant an opinion. “Shall we vote the Democratic or the Republican ticket?” asked the spokesman of the crowd. ; “That is certainly a .very foolish question to be bothering me with,” re- plied the wise man, “when there isn’t any such - thing as ‘a Democratic or Republican: ticket.. I concern myself only with reslities.” 5 t any such thing?” gasped the crowd in unison. “Isn’t Will Foolem running:for ‘governor on the Republi- can ticket' and John Bluffer on the Democratic ticket, and doesn’t the whole future of our state depend on a wise choice ?”- “Are you men still following that FIRST AID FOR THE ENEMY The big press and- the politicians have been yelling “Socialist agitator,” anarchist, pro-German, and bolsheviki at all reform movements so long, so loudly and with such little sense that these terms are now worn to a frazzle. As a source of new material and for variation in the monotonous howling the Leader would suggest the follow- ing from “Alice in Wonderland”’: “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! ’ The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 3 . Beware the Jubjub bird’and shun - The frumious Bandersnatch!” ‘When little Alice read these' verses the -goose flesh ran up her spine, for all these dreadful beasts were un- known to her, and the “terrible un- known” is just what the press and politicians need for their effects. If they follow this suggestion they can invent a new terror every week instead. of sticking to the old stage lions which everybody. now =~ sees’ e - each other names; they would fight if -always gets into: the corn if there is ' any.beastly way of doing so, and he "~ When he’s not Johnny-on-the-spot for ‘end-man comedy’?” asked tfie wise man when he had recovered his intel- lectual composure by sticking his ‘| tongue in his cheek. young; now I am old; yet I have never seen a Democrat or a Republican ex- cept on the farm and in the shop. Since the plutocrats own the show, what difference does it make to you whether Foolem or Bluffer is the bet- ter comedian ?” “But this is a serious issue,” return- ed the spokesman, “the two candidates have different platforms; they call brought together!” “Did you ever see two good end men who wouldn’t ?” asked the wise man. Thereupon several of the crowd who remembered minstrel shows saw a ‘great light and one declared: “I sup- pose we have been asses to -fall for such tricks.” . * “I was on the point of calling you men that,” remarked the wise man in conclusion, “when I recalled that it would be unfair to the ass. The ass kicks when he is overworked.” THE ORGANIZER The organizer—pity him. to, but you don’t. He’s blamed by some because he does : —by others ’cause he don’t. He works all day and half the night; he’s always_on the job. A task like his can’t well be filled by _bonehead, mutt or bob. On Sunday if he ever should desire to go to church, You ought him they start a search. Inside a month he listens to a thou- 3 sand tales of woe, And some believe there’s not a thing but what he’d ought to know. He’s a target for the moocher, and he - . can’t keep out of range Of the tourist who, when stranded, badly needs a piece of change. 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