The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 15, 1919, Page 6

L 7%, “Z“’/// e, 7//‘7/7. | ///// A é W I B ] Nonpartigan Teader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League—Every Week Entered as second-class matter September 3, 1915, at the postoffice at St. Paul, Minnesota, under the Act of March 8, 1879. A OLIVER S. MORRIS, Editor E. B. Fussell, A. B. Gilbert and C. W. Vonier, Associate Editors. > B. 0. Fosg, Art Editor. Advertising rates on application. - Subscription, one year, in advance,- $2.50; six months, $1.50. lease do not make checks, drafts nor money orders payable to indi- viduals. Address all letters and make all remittances to The Nonpartisan Leader, Box 575, St. Paul, Minn. k ; % MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU. OF CIRCULATIONS } SPECTAL AGENCY, Advertising Representatives, New THE S. C. BECKWITH York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City. Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible- firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising coiumns., : A WINNING FIGHT ’ CCORDING to announcement made by Julius Barnes, head of A the government grain corporation, the shriveled, under- weight wheat produced in the Northwest this year is to be bought on a basis that at least approaches payment on milling value. The “spread” between the fixed price for No. 1 northein and No. 5 northern is to be reduced from 28 cents to 14 cents. The average wheat produced in the Northwest this year prob- ' .ably will grade about No. 4 northern. This grade will command a B e ok b b ber that will be well worth sav_ing or handing on to some neighbor. price 10 cents a.bushel higher than under the old differentials. North Dakota farmers, who raised “Feed D” wheat in 1916, and sold it for approximately half the price of No. 1 northern, will remember well the fight of three years that has led up to the new ruling. The farmers of North Dakota knew they were being robbed on their 1916 crop. Doctor E. F. Ladd of the North Dakota Agri- cultural college and the Nonpartisan Leader were able to show them that the light-weight wheat, rich in gluten, was being blended with the low-priced “starchy’” wheats of the Pacific coast and the South, and that from this blend a flour was being produced by the Minne- apolis millers that they advertised as even better than the flour they usually manufactured from No. 1 northern. 2 - Did the North Dakota farmers get help in 1916 from govern- ment officials, from commercial clubs, from the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission? Quite the contrary. These interests were almost unanimously supporting the millers’ plea, now wholly discredited, that the shriveled wheat was chicken feed. Who did the North Dakota farmers go to for help? They went to no one. They organized their Nonpartisan league. They elected their own state government and sent first. John Baer and then others from their own ranks to congress. When government officials such as Charles J. Brand attempted to discredit Doctor Ladd’s findings as to the milling value of shriveled wheat, the farmers brought for- ward the FACTS in their own paper, the Nonpartisan Leader. The farmers of North Dakota were not well enough organized in 1916 to get justice. But they knew that the change of the seasons would be likely soon to bring another year with a shriveled wheat crop. And 1919 was the year. . . This year the three years’ fight of the farmers for justice ha borne fruit. The Minnesota state university conducted experiments with shriveled wheat which upheld the findings of Doctor” Ladd. The equity of the farmers’ cause was so apparent, and their victory 80 sure, that even organizations like the St. Paul Association and the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission joined in the demand that shriveled wheat be bought at a fair price.’ ~ = North Dakota this year produced a wheat crop of: abproki- ' The recent ruling of Mr. Barnes, re- - mately 50,000,000 bushels. ] ducing the marking down of shriveled wheat, will mean an average price increase of 10 cents a bushel on North Dakota wheat or an increase of $5,000,000 in the price paid for the North Dakota crop if the prices fixed by Mr. Barnes are followed by buyers. oo - This is only one benefit that the wheat growers of North Da- kota have received from their organization, but it is a benefit in which nearly every northwestern wheat grower will: share this year. Is it any wonder that the North Dakota farmers stick by an organization that wins for them, and that “We’ll stick and we’ll win” is becommg"\a fighting slogan all over the Northwest? AN ANNOUNCEMENT birthday. v ITH next week’s issue the Leader will celebrate its fourth We are planning an extra good number, with - ¥+ plenty of good cartoons and news features. It will be a num- 3 S A S A D S A I A AR AR 25 G A S S T S A “so-called ‘Loyalty’ league.” good for nothing but - i ' DR ty, % / Y, THE FAKERS AT WORK e HE New Day in North Dakota’” is the name of a pamphlet issued by the industrial commission of North Dakota, con- taining the complete text of the industrial laws passed by the last session of the North Dakota legislature. It is a booklet eight and one-half inches long and six inches wide, with its name prominently printed in capital letters on the cover. It has gone into thousands of homes in North Dakota and surrounding states, and requests for it have been received from points as far distant as England and Australia. - ek All of which has given some small-minded opponents of the League what they consider a bright idea. There has been issued recently in Montana, for circulation in that and surrounding states, a booklet called “The New Day in North Dakota,” eight and one- half inches long and six inches wide, with the name prominently printed in almost exactly the same kind of type used for the North Dakota publication. The only difference in the outside appearance of the two books is that the North Dakota publication has blue covers, while the Montana publication has covers of a dirty yellow tint. e \ The inside of the Montana book is different, however. Instead of printing the full TEXT of the North Dakota laws, so that read- ers may learn facts for themselves and draw their own conclusions, the Montana publishers print only WHAT THEY SAY THE LAWS MEAN. They are afraid to print the laws themselves and lét the people of Montana see them. ; A reader who has the patience to go all through the Montana booklet can find, on the back page, who is responsible for it. Tt is the so-called “Montana Loyalty league.” the war ended, this “league” from the first has attacked the organ- ized farmers, giving as an excuse the allegation that such organi- zations in war time were “disloyal.” _ Now that the war is over it is seen; plainly enough, that no questions of loyalty bother the Montana “Loyalty” league. Nor is it farmers’ organizations, as such, that they object to. No, indeed! It is-the LAWS PASSED BY THE ORGANIZED FARMERS that bring the objections. v : : . On second thought, we may be too harsh in speaking of the The Montana Loyalty league is un- doubtedly loyal—to the Anaconda Copper Mining company. It is symboli¢al that their edition of “The New Day in North Dakota” is printed with colors of a dirty yellow tint—for yellow is the color of copper and the dirt is explainable easily enough in connection with Montana politics. memorial has been the color of cowardice. And that is appropriate enough, too, for it is a typical coward’s trick to use disguise and thus try to reach the reading public with the poisoned half truths and whole lies that are to be found in the Montana edition of “The New Day in North Dakota.” : s THE CONSTITUTION EPTEMBER 17 is'the 182nd anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. Reactionaries are J planning celebrations of the wisdom of the “fathers of the country” to urge that the Constitution, as it now stands, be left unchanged in perpetuity. The true supporters of the Constitution are not those who want its: faults left unremedied. - The original drafters of the Constitution agreed to 10 amendments, to strengthen it, within'three years after the Constitution was put into effect. The real friends of the Constitution are those who want to see the Constitution in the best form possible to serve the people of the country. The mealy-mouthed spokesmen for the special -inter- ests, who want everything left just as it is, are not standing for the country or its Constitution. They are’ standing for nobody but themselves. : S _There is tonic in ‘the things that men do not love to hear, and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to the ocean and mala- rial regions; which waft away the elements of disease and bring new. elements of health; and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred and death comes fast—HENRY WARD BEECHER. : A e P et Organized just before . ° Yellow is also a color that from time im- 3 o B 3 \ q