The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 10, 1919, Page 14

2 ADVERTISEMENTS feeding value., The Adams ure is oaretu.llyolemed m:dfll test, and has produced derful crops of minimum cost. ples, or order s $6.sg,_§; ! s HE ADAMS SEED CO. greens will PR A s fy Ja a ONE YEAR _TO PAY ,; the New Buti 38 L)xht mning, lose skimming, d e, NCW-NBUTTERFLV The Modern lj Country Home _ 8 They are not extravagances. They descriptive matter, etc. SPECIAL OFFER you a special introductory price on our Unit Plant. Address: Department D MINNEAPOLIS Facts for Farmers ~ cents each. -Facts Kept From Farmers lots of six or more, 1234 cents each. Where the People Rule copies, b cents; lots of 10 or more, 8 cents each. ‘National Nonpartisan League 50 for $1. A. C. Townley’s Speech in St. Paul. Winning the War of 10 or more, 8 cents each. How to Finance the War Why Should Farmers Pay Dues Special Bundle Offer some of your friends in town, Get this Special Offer Ipetve b EDUOAT[ONAL DEPT. nox 495 Fruit Trees® I have as fine a nursery stock on my farm as can be found in the North- west. It is home-grown, hardy and free from Dblight or disease of any make an excellent windbreak and will keep snowdrifts and cold away from the door. few shrubs about the house will help out the appear- I can furnish Hansen plum trees that will bear delfcious fruit within two years, and my hardy cherry and apple trees should interest you. You Should Have My 1919 Catalog I have found the fruit tree agent to he an unneces- sary middleman, whose heavy expenses must be added I want my fellow League ance of the home. to the price of the trees. members to send for my catalog and prices to direct purchasers. The catalog valuable instructions about planting and caring for trees in the Northwest. Send for it. LAKEVIEW NURSERY W. F. Krieger, Prop. ROHACO FARM ELECTRIC PLANTS “THE PLANTS OF AMPLE CAPACITY” make it possible for the farmer to install equipment which will Improve Health, Lighten Labor and make cling to the old Homestead instead of moving to the city. Let us send you complete Address in full as below and if we have no agent in your vicinity, we will make RoBERTS-HAMILTON COMPANY - SPECIAL OFFER LEAGUE BOOKSand PAMPHLETS These books and pamphlets will furnish you with good ammunition for the fight. A book of 94 pages full of just the things you want to know; 156 cents single copy; lots of six or more, 123 Origin, Operation. 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Prices for “The New Freedom”—Single copies, $1; lots of five or more, 80 cents ‘e‘?l?b 1’;‘3?:."&33 or Ix;&;e;"’fls(;em;a each ; l%tf olt '35 :rfimore, 60 ceg‘t).s eagn Phrlces for he of ngle copies, ots of five or more cents_eac! S books—*“The New Freedom’” and “The High Cost of Living”—and the bundle of ‘above for $2. 00. Put a two dollar bill or a check in a letter and get this League llbmry _THE NATIONAL NONPARTISA_N LEAGUE A book full of facts. League pamphlets listed . 8‘1‘. PAUL, HINN kind. My ever- et my low so contains EORGE CREEL, chair- man of the government’s great committee on pub- lic information, which rendered splendid service to the cause of the Unit- ed States during the late war, dis- cusses the persecution of the Non- partisan league and its members in Minnesota and other states in an article in the March issue of Every- body’s magazine. If the loyalty of the Nonpartisan league needed any vindication, and if the trumped-up disloyalty charges against the League needed any further showing . up, the United States gov- ernment’s own publicity agent has ac- camplished these things in the article referred to. Mr. Creel is not a parti- san of the Nonpartisan league. In fact, he is opposed to the League’s program, and not very long ago the newspapers carried a letter written by Mr. Creel in which he took the League severely to task on the alleged charge of trying to represent that he and his committee were favorable to the or- ganization. Regarding the persecution of the Nonpartisan league, Mr. Creel says: ~ “The leaders of “the Nonpartisan’ “league came personally to Washington to ask the government to commence a campaign of patriotic education, and Minnesota was selected for the initia- tion of the drive. Our speakers, how- ever, upon arrival in Minnesota, were informed by the state public safety commission that they would not be allowed to address any meeting ar- ranged by the Nonpartisan league or under its auspices. There was no quarrel with the men we sent, for the commission asked permission ‘to usg them in its own speaking campaign. “As we tried to expla.m to them, however, the main purpose in sending speakers over the United States was not to address these already enthusi- astic in the national service, but to reach and convert people out of touch and sympathy with American thought and aims. Even if the Nonpartisan league were disloyal, then the more reason why our speakers should smash at its membership with the truth. But the state public safety commission stood like iron, barred our speakers absolutely, and inaugurated a cam- paign of terrorism that had its ugly reflex among the farmers and labor unions in every state. VIOLENCE ALLOWED AGAINST FARMERS “In summer the proscribed farmers were compelled to hold Liberty loan ‘rallies or Red Cross meetings out in the fields under the blazmg sun, and in winter they huddled in cowsheds and car barns. Parades were stopped by home guards or broken up by townsmen. Old men and women were dragged from automobiles, and on one wretched occasion a baby of ‘six months was torn from its mother’s arms by the powerful stream from a fire hose. Tar-and-feather “parties” were common, and even deportations took place, men being driven from their homes and from the very state ‘because they had sons belonging to the League. “This policy. of brutal intolerance spread -to other commonwealths, and tarring' and feathering took on the ap- | Dearance of a popular outdoor sport in Washington, Idaho and Montana. Had it not been for the Praeger lynching, and the president’s solemn appeal to the people against mob lawlessness, there is no telling: to what extremes of cruel violence this brand-of “pa- triotism’ would have been carried. A nature of the persecution. Creel Exposes Antl-Farmer Gang Chairman of Committee on Public Information ‘Tells of Political Persecution of Farmers _promptly recruited a second, and 3,887 “There is no doubt as to the political .| The Non- partisan league had carried the state of North Dakota, and was showing such strength in Minnesota, .South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana and Idaho . as to arouse the alarm of Democratic and Republican politicians. These leaders made no bones about confess- ing that the disloyalty issue was the means by which they hoped to crush and destroy the Nonpartisan league as a political organization. “Such is the seeming invincibility of the democratic ideal, however, that even campaigns of terrorism could not drive its membership, largely German and Scandinavian, into disloyalty. North Dakota, where the League elect- ed every state officer, has a record of which any state might be-proud. NORTH DAKOTA’S GREAT RECORD 5 “Three successive crop failures, and yet the farmers of that state over- subscribed the first Liberty loan 140 per cent, the second 70 per cent and the third 70 per cent. With only one regiment at the outset, North Dakota men entered the service as volunteers. The draft records show that the cost per certified conscript in North Dakota was $1.83, against an average of $4.23 for all other states. In the last Red: ICross drive, North Dakota’s allotment was $200,000, and it subscribed $575;- 000. Its Y. M. C. A. allotment was $100,000, and it subscribed $175,000. In 1918, North Dakota increased its wheat acreage over 630,000 acres at the request of the government; it was one of the first states to decree that all persons between 18 and 50 must be employed in essential industry; also to provide a moratorium protecting soldiers from foreclosure of liens. 5 “The state councils of defense did splendid work, as a rule, and the coun- try owes much to them, but there were exceptions that aroused far more anger than loyalty, conducting them- selves in a manner that would have been lawless in any other than a “pa- triotic” body. During Liberty loan drives, for instance, it became a habit, in certain sections, to compel a regu- lar income return from the foreign- born and the poorer classes. ~Men, claiming authority, would visit these ' homes, insist upon a statement of earnings, expenditures, savings, etc., and then calmly announce the amount of the contribution that the dazed victims were expected to make. Any- thing in the nature of resistance was set down as “slacking” and “disloy- alty,” and some of the penalties visit- ed were expulsion from the com- ADVERTISEMENTS iBIG HONEY IN ORNERY HORSES MY free book will amaze you. See the money that is being made by those- taught my fanious system of horse breaking and training! Wild coltsandvicwus. unman+ lx'ea e horses can epic ed up for ason:. you can quickl: them into nn% -ell themat .:glg profit, fees breaking m m m-mu. Nooblte § -