The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 12, 1919, Page 14

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Roofing Paper & Paint Factories, Inc. SALESROOMS Nicollet Ave. 82 East 4th St. NNEAPOLIS Dept. M. ST. PAUL 107 Ml Edison Records and Phonographs °\ Send me your orders for Edison Records. I carry every Edison Record made and have thousands in stock. Send for list of records. I pay parcel post charges on 6 or more, If you want @ phonograph, write me. WILLIAM A. LUCKER, gt 7.ci."" airn. BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS FOR SALE NOW One herd boar, two years old; 10 extra good Booking orders for spring pigs at weaning time. Best and biggest breeding; lots of quality, with heaviest bones. The kind you are looking for. ‘Write me. C. F. GUMMERT, Renville, Minn. Pioneer breeder in the state. Mention * the Leader GOOD HOLSTEINS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW Better Dairy Cattle—Better Farming—Better Returns— A Better Tomorrow We offer some very choice animals of both :::iea. backed by large official records and our repu PAYNESVILLE STOCK FARM, Paynesville, Minn. THE HOME OF GOOD HOLSTEINS Pioneers Tell of Profiteers of Bygone Days Woman of 75 and Elisabeth Miller Recount How Specu- lators Mulcted Workers and Settlers 60 Years Ago Meridian, Idaho. Y DEAR MRS. MILLER: I read with much inter- est your letter of early days in North Dakota in the woman’s page of the Leader. It called to my fading memory early life in Wiscon- sin. We did not suffer from drouth, as I remember, but oh, the struggle with hard times that father and mother had! They came from a home of plenty in a rich York state rural population. They left all luxuries be- hind and landed in Milwaukee from a crude lake ship in the fall of 1839. The family consisted of my father, my mother and my brother. By dint of the hardest toil and scrimping, they did forge ahead. They first had to build a log cabin and make a fireplace to cook their frugal meals.- The floor was made of logs hewed on one side, but that did not trouble them so much. But what I started out to say, that even in that time the eye of the specu- lator in land was a menace to the honest homesteader. The corner lots, the best locations, were seized, and such names as Ludington and Swift and many others I can mnot recall, were familiar to me in my childhood when I struggled for my education in a cold log schoolhouse under a poor, inefficient teacher whom I worshipped with a child’s wonder how one could obtain so much knowledge. My father said I ought to be a finished scholar with such a chance as I had. - After I was older there was a new schoolhouse with some desks to write on, and a heating stove—such a won- derful school indeed. If I can hear from you, I would like to trade experi- ences, and tell all the stories of rascal- ity and graft that even in those days hampered industry. ; I am 75 years old and have been a cripple in my wheel chair for the last six years. MRS. WILLIAM DAY. Dear Mrs. Day: I am very much interested in your letter, as my own grandparents were also early on. but all under cultivation. all under cultivation all be broken, WE OWN AND OFFER FOR SALE the following described land: - 480 ACRES, five miles from Galesburg, N. D. All under culzivation, new set of buildings ............... A $65 PER ACRE 640 ACRES, adjoining the townsite of Merricourt, N. D., no buildings, This can be divided in one or more quarters as purchaser may desire ...... iasR e $55 PER ACRE 160 ACRES, six miles from Ardoch, N. D., good set of buildings, and .......................... 1280 ACRES, prairie land, six miles from Hurdsfield, N. D., can nearly This can be divided in one'.or more quarters, as Seiviaib e sre el il e s e e $25 PER ACRE These farms are all rented to good tenants on shares for this season, and if sold before June 1 our share of crop goes with the land. Will make terms as low as one-tenth in cash able time to suit the purchasers, with interest at six per cent. For particulars write to Ransom County Trust Company 'SHELDON, NORTH DAKOTA purchaser may desire ........ $55 PER ACRE and balance in any reason- Wisconsin settlers. From a letter carefully preserved in the -family, written by my grandmother in 1843, I quote the following: “A—— has been very busy lumbering this last winter. He and uncle together have got logs enough to the sawmill for 50,000 or 60,000 feet of lumber. What they do not want for their own use they raft and take down the river some 30 or.40 miles into the prairie country, where they get $10 per thou- sand feet in exchange for stock or goods.” : Quite evidently profiteering is not the invention of the present genera- tion. But it has remained for the ex- ploited of this generation intelligently to combat the profiteer through educa- tion, organization and political action. Long live such movements as that of the Nonpartisan league! - ELISABETH MILLER. Lawmakers Halt Minnesota Progress (Continued from page 3) ing their entire ticket of candidates during a campaign. The legislature also proposed a return to the old “free pass” system by which legisla- tors would ride free on all railroads. When the facts about these meas- ures were brought to the attention of the people such a protest was raised that few of them were passed. The political convention bill was beaten, and so was the bill to limit the cam- paign expenditures of farmer organi- zations. The motor corps constabu- lary bill failed to pass, and the free pass bill was beaten by the combined efforts of the farmer members. The “red flag” bill was amended so that it does not bar League pennants. The negro battalion bill was passed, but in view of the protest against this organization it is doubtful whether the Burnquist military machine will at- tempt to organize the new force. There was a small group of League members in each house. These men did all that was humanly possible to - get some progressive and constructive legislation passed. To them belongs the credit for the killing of the dan- gerous bills that met defeat. The League legislators co-operated throughout the session with represen- tatives of organized labor. They also introduced bills covering all the meas- ures in the League program for Min- nesota—state-owned terminal eleva- tors, tonnage tax and mine royalties tax, guarantee of bank deposits, sol- diers’ relief, and a bill to prohibit the use of oleomargarine in state institu- tions. All of these bills were killed, some in committee, some in the house, and some, which had passed the house, in the senate. One bill, the oleo bill, which had passed both houses, was vetoed by Governor Burnquist, appar- ently purely out of spite. A LEAGUE BOOSTER o Wolter, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - I have been a silent reader of OUR paper. I.am a farmer, one of those simple-minded rubes that was told to “go home and slop the hogs” at Bis- marck before the League took hold. I am a booster for the League, and in no silent way, as I have learned from the teacher, experience, what it means to us. If the common people will work shoulder to shoulder with the ballot as- our tool, we can have a real de- mocracy, a government of the people, for the people and by the people. The farmers of this state must stick like tar until 1920 and beyond. ; JOHN HAMMER. ADVERTISEMENTS ‘Send .NO Money! Youwill be. delighted with thecomfort and ase tonished at the economy ON ARRIVAL Send NO Money Blessed comfort and built full of solid Wear. Two full oak leather :onluwoublt the wear of ord Smm=CMall This Ooupon Now ===== Boston Mail Order House, Dept. 329D e Essex P. O. Building, Boston, umu'lh:?d‘my -mofq‘ back éo:bl'o?qml want i€, I risk nothing ! 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