The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 24, 1919, Page 22

ADVERPISEMENTS Built ForThe Man WhoWants Good Machinery . WIDE DRIVE DRUM TRACTOR NO DELAY FOR REPAIRS TIIE GRAY has established a new low record for repair requirements. This is impprtant when spring work must he done quickly, as a tie-up of a day or two becanse of hreakage is very costly. Gray construction is designed to stand up under long constant work. We would like to prove this to you. WIDE DRIVE DRUM DOFS SPRING WORK " QUICKLY AND WELL The Drum tracks just inside the two front wheels, so a strip of soil 70 inches wide is rolled at every trip of th across the field ru or wheel tracks even in soft sofl. At plowing it crushes vegetation, which then turned under and completely cov- ered hy the furrows. No other tractor is built like the Gray. The construction necessary to accommo- date the wide Drive Drum serves two purposes—greater simplicity and wider useiulness. There are no spokes to break, or become clogged in wet soil. No dif- ferential is required, and the transmis- sion uses but six gears all spur type. No bevel geurs are used. 18 Drawbar H. P., 36 Belt H. P. Weight 6,200 lbs. Bt e e AR AN T e \ Side Arms Greatly Increase the Day’s Work These arms are quickly removed when-not required. At soed bed preparation and at seeding they enable full use of the tractor’s ‘power. No other tractor offers this fea- ture, No special implements are required. By a hitch of dises and harrows, 60 acres of seed bed can be pre- pared in a 10-hour day. ; GRAY TRACTOR CO., INC. 239 30th Ave. 8. E., Minneapolis, Minn. \ SPECIAL OFFER LEAGUE BOOKSand PAMPHLETS These books and pamphlets will furnish you with good ammunition for the fight. Facts for Farmel's A book of 94 pages full of just the things you want to know’; 15 cents single copy; lots of six or more, 1215 cents each. Facts Kept From Farmers lots of six or more, 121 cents each. A book of 82 pages giving the inside of Big Biz -politics; 15 cents a- single copy; . The whole story of what the Lea: has d i Where the Pe0ple Rule North Dakota—the best argument of all: eingle copies, 5 cents; lots of 10 or more, 3 cents each. 2 National Nonpartisan League sl Purpose and Method of how and why and what of the League; single copies, 3 cents; 12 for 25 cents; 50 for $1 At the Producers’ and Consumers’ -Convention 9, A. C. Townley’s Speech #f & Frodueers =nd speech Townley ever made, and that’s going some; single copies, 8 cents; 12 for 25 cents; 50 for $1. Winning the War The real things you want to know from the president’s letters, messages. and addresses, including the 14 war and peace aims which -all the world is discussing today; single copies, b cents; lots of 10 or more, 8 cents each. Make everybody pay according to their ability e HOW to Flnance the “ ar to pay; a scathing denunciation of the prof- iteers ; single copies, 5 cents; lots of 12 for 26 cents; 50 for $1. - Why Should Farmers Pay Dues An arsument or two for you to give your business friends who are so worried about that $16; single copies, 3 cents; 12 for 25 cents; 50 for $1. THE_ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION and THE FIGHTING PROGRAM OF THE LEAGUE adopted at the National Convention held in St. Paul, in December, 1918. : ‘We will send you one of each of &ll these pamphlets SpeCIal Bundle Ofier and books for 40 cents. Send for a bundle today. Two Books Every League Member Should Have ll:oresident Wilson’s great book. This is the “The NeW Freedom” ok biz business would like to suppress and has tried its best to do so. It will furnish you arguments and open the eyes of some of your friends in town. Get this bock by all means. “The High Cost of Living” 21,Iiie, & Eoye At “What’s the Matter With Farming,” for it tells you what is the matter with it and why the farmers have to organize to change conditions. A book full of facts. Prices for “The New Freedom”—Single copies, $1; lots of five or more, 80 cents - each; lots of 10 or more, 70 cents each: lots of 25 or more, 60 cents each. Prices for “The High Cost of Living”—Single copies, $1; lots of five or more 80 cents each. Special Ofier The two books—*“The New Freedom” and “The High Cost of Living”—and the bundle of League pamphlets- listed above for $2.00. Put a two dollar bill or a check in a letter and get this League library. THE NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL DEPT. : BOX 495 ST. PAUL, MINN, . D A packing company which is advertising to sell stock in a new plant at Sioux City, Iowa, gives the following intere packing house profits: = Meat Trust Profits Present worth of $1,000 had it been in- vested in any of the following companies: ago ago ago ago ago ago ago ago ago ago ago -ago ago ago ago ago 5 6 3 6 5 2 4 7 5 5 5 b ek TN S in Armour & Co. $32,000 AN SWIEL & C0:. e o via s ainit Saie, s1n stein san o' 20,000 in Morris & Co. ......coviviviiineennnn . 23,000 in Cudahy & Co. ........ gt A .. 26,000 in Union Pacific company ............ ... 21,000 in Wilson & Co. ........ 7,000 in Lafayette Packing company ......... 16,000 in Western Packing & Produce company 27,500 in Erie Packing company .......c..e0.... 5,000. in Kentucky Packing company ........... 7,200 in Fort Worth Packing company -...... 7,750_ in Armstrong Meat company eeee. 16,000 in Independent Packing company .......? 12,000 in Atlantic Packing company ........... 1900 in Standard Packing company .......... 3,250 in Pacific States Packing company ...... 71,500 sting figures illustrating o . ago in Green Bay Packing company ..... ceen 18,000 S. D. Legislature Learns Nothing Special Interest Control Obvious—Pre-Election Platform With League Program in.the Discard BY TOM AYRES ze] OSSESSED of power that ®| is complete, and as yet harmonious, the Norbeck machine in South Dakota ‘has idled away 30 days - of its time in making a record more reactionary than that of any legislature in the history of the state. If it had been content to do nothing but sit cn a dry goods box and whittle, it might have been more easily excused. Instead, it began, un- der the guidance of the state railroad commissioners, to demand the imme- diate return to private owmership of all the public utilities taken over by the government during the war. The esenate is stubbornly, stupidly standpat. It has shown a boorish eagerness to serve the special inter- ests. "The railroad commission, if it were being paid by the corporate in- terests of the state, could not have been more active and hostile to the - policy of public ownership and con-. trol. In former years the old rail- road-Standard Oil-brewery machine controlled affairs with a sure but gen- tle grip. Now the railroad commis- sion does the work for the special in- terests with a stealthy energy never rivaled by the. paid lobbyists. Early in the session resolutions be- gan to pour in upon the lezislature demanding immediate return to pri- vate ownership. Behind every one of these stood Pete Daugherty, chairman of the railroad commission. 'In the senate, concurrent resolutions were rammed through without being print- ed and with little. or no discussion. These were taken before the railroad committee of the house and under the pretense that rates were being out- rageously and unjustly raised as a con- sequence of government control, they were shunted into the house. The provision calling for return to pri- vate ownership evas not mentioned in the house committee. It was left to a League member, Best of Beadle county, to drag the nigger out of the woodpile and expose his presence in the resolutions. 2 The house has been wrangling over these resolutions for two weeks. Re- peated votes have been taken, but up to date they have been modified de- mands for a return of the utilities to private management. The thin-skin- 1-ned fellows among_ the house mem- bers have endeavored to sidestep the issue, but the record up to date has been one of consistent obedience to’ the requests of the railway executives. ‘With this sort of an attitude toward /the ‘principle of public ownership and tion of public utilities is it rea- sonable to suppose that the Norbeck machine will comply with its plat- form pledge to enact legislation to put into force the amendments call- ing for state terminal elevators, mills, packing houses, waterpower, cement and coal enterprises? Up to date they have shown a disposition to re- pudiate Republican platform pledges. If they finally redeem the ante-elec- tion promises it will be because they are frightened into compliance. The Norbeck machine has fears. It has” nightmares too. These night- mares are the bills being passed by the North Dakota legislature. Al- ready some of the wise ones have be- gun to seriously consider the jprob- able effect of the constructive meas- ures of the League embodied in the Bank of North Dakota bill, with its credit-emancipating~-features and its wonderful possibilities for financiny the farmers and manufacturing insti- tutions to be run by the state. It does not require a very keen intellect to see that these things will appeal to the producers on the farms, and that the proposal to make home build- ing easy for laboring mien in the towns may mean a difference in the attitude of the town voters toward ° the League, when the North Dakota program, fully completed and set in operation, comes down from the north like a great rescue wave later in the season. : - The farmers of South Dakota are weatching the South Dakota legislature this year more than for 20 years. They are getting the record of the votes of their members through the League newspapers. Merciless publicity has been applied to the proceedings of this session for the first time in many years, and it is havingits full effect upon the voters, while it is giving the machine ringmasters no end of un- easiness and discomfort. o The South Dakota legislature may trick the people again this winter. The machine may delay its day of execution for a time, but the farmers - of this state, being the majority class of the state, will not long defer the day of their own deliverance. THE “CLASS”- ARGUMENT - I have been on this earth <quite a -spell myself. I never have known of any great - reform being ' carried through where the people whose: es- tablished conditions would be disturb- ed by the carrying out of the reform did not say that the people who were - trying _to -bring about’ the “reform were stirring up class again_st_ claga i JUDGE AMIDON. Q.. 7 » 7