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

Farmers’ Union Bars McAuliffe’s Paper» Anti-League Propaganda by Editor of Ogfima.l Kansas ; Paper Is Violently Protested by Membe STQRM of protest is go- ing up all over Kansas from members of the Farmers’ -Educational and Co-Operative union, against the arbitrary ac- tion of M. McAuliffe, president of the Union and editor of its official paper, the Farmers’ Union, in attacking the Nonpartisan league. A sample resolution is the follow- ing, adopted by Prairie Hill Local No. 1269, F. E. & C. U.: “Whereas, our state constitution provides that nothing of a :political nature shall be discussed in our Union meetings, the object of such rules be- ing the keeping of dissension out of our meetings, “And, whereas, our state .official publication has for the last year car- ried in its editorials wuntrue state- ments of a political nature, thereby creating dissension within our Union meetings which is causing many of our members to drop from the ranks of our organization, ] “And, whereas, under threat of sus- pension of our charter for discussing the dirty, mud-slinging editorials con- tained in the issues of our state of- ficial publication of the F. E. & C. U. we -are obliged to bar it from our meetings, “Therefore, be it resolved, that in the interest and welfare of our Union the “editor of our official paper be in- structed to absolutely refrain from further publishing of such defamatory articles against a political organiza- tion to which all our members belong. . “COMMITTEE ON RESO- LUTIONS, “W. P. Roth, Chairman; “George J. Klein, “Ed Achatz, “A. J. Klein, “Frank Robl.” On the same day that this resolu- tion was received, the mail brought several letters from Kansas protest- ing against the methods -of Mr. Mec- Auliffe. William -Westhausen of Belleville, Kan., sending one of Mr. McAuliffe’s particularly untruthful attacks, frankly calls them “poison.” He adds: “It vexes me to read such dope. All I can say is pour it to him the way you did a few issues back.” ~WHO PAYS McAULIFFE? KANSAS FARMER ASKS M. J. Hilger of Garden Plain, Kan., - wants to know from whom Mr. Mec- Auliffe is getting his salary to sup- port his paper, from the farmers or big business? “When' they orgamzed us here (in the Union) they said just like the Nonpartisan - Leader,” Mr. Hilger writes, “but this does not sound a bit like it, does "it? change? L‘et us hear about it through your, paper.” ‘George J. Klein, writing from El- linwood,: Kan., says:. = ¢ 7 “Our natlonal pres:dent, Mr. Bar-' rett, said at the convention held at Topeka in January that the ‘farmers must wake up and get into: politics.. The farmers are doing just what Mr. Barrett said and now they are called Bolsheviki, I. W. W.s, Socialists, and it won’t be long before they will be called somethmg else, because they are organizing for thelr own political ~-interests. “I' am surprised at the attltude Mr. McAuliffe takes against the Nonpar- tisan league. Is it a crime for the farmers to organize politically? “The League is 800 strong in my county and will be 1,600 strong in 1920, and no doubt many of the old political gang will do lots of bawling - between now and then.” - - Mr. McAuhfl’es attacks upon the< .. own paper show that the membership Since when- this _ off it should be laid on the ground or " out of the fleece and it does not take of Body " League -are so untruthful that it is hardly worth while to attempt to answer them. He says the League wants to ‘“wreck the government” when the League’s only desire is to upbuild the government for the bene- fit of the people He says the League legislature in North Dakota was com- posed of “Socialists.” As a matter of fact, every League member was elther'a Democrat or Republican. He says the League favors public owner- ship of all farms. He can not bring an iota of proof of any such charge. It is useless to go further with the list of silly falsehoods that Mi. Me- Auliffe utters. Recent issues of his of his own organization has had enough of him; he is having a hard time to defend himself now. The members of the F. E: & C. U. of Kan- sas can be trusted to take care of Mr. McAuliffe. Manhattan, Kan. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Mr. McAuliffe is oiling a little old Democratic party machine so that some time in the future the Kansas Farmers’ union may ride into political power—that is, a few of the leaders may. Mack’s machine may work, but the bearings are rusty, the cogs are worn smooth and we can not afford to run the risk or depend on luck. We must get together in the Nonpartisan’ way and get results. The packers are not asleep, neither are the millers unwary. 4 M. J. HAMMETT. PRODUCE}! AND NONPRODUCER Bunker Hill, Kan Editor Nonpartisan Leader: _A friend sent me three copies of the Leader and I was very favorably im- pressed with the.paper. I have been in Kansas over 50 years and spent from 1896 to 1909 farming in Marshall county. For -lack of knowledge or lack of a proper analysis of economic conditions, people often do rot see things in their true light. They are frequently bewildered by cant phras- es, such as “producer and consumer.” The fact is, we all are consumers from our earliest existence until we cease to live. We had better divide society into its real status of producer and nonproducer. Wealth is as necessary as wisdom, according to Doctor N. D. Hillis. Profit might be plunder or robbery, but property or wealth hon- estly come by measures the prosperity of any nation: *Lincoln said there were three classes of labor, useful, useless and destruc- tive. The two last are a burden on the first. The world is poorer for the last great war, but the Rothschilds of Eu- rope and our own capitalists have now a. tighter grasp than ever before on our economic machinery LLOYD- K KISTLER. PACKING”FLEECE In shearing, do not separate the fleece, but try to take it off in as near | one piece as possible. 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