The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 1, 1919, Page 16

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GLOVER CO., Inc. ‘B Pionmer - § H.OLA R Dn llt(kluo: 118 West 31st St., New York. i PAGE SIXTEEN i League Is Real Chrlstlamty Veteran Methodist Minister of Iowa Shows Hypocnsy of Farmers’ Sioux City, Iowa. | DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: As a Methodist cler-, gyman, believing that Jesus Christ came not only as a spiritual guide but as an economic, de- fender of the rights of the common people, I am amazed and heartsick at the tirade of abuse that some ministers in the various churches have heaped upon the Nonpartisan league. To read some of the editorials in the leading church papers against the League and its ideals, makes me wonder whether some of these church editors really are acquainted with the life and teach- ing of Jesus. We preachers no doubt have been sometimes guilty of reflecting - the sentiments of those who pay.our sal- ary. Profiteers oftentimes use the church as a mantle of respectability in their schemes of exploitation of the common people. We have been inclin- ed to preach other things than to de- nounce legalized robbery. But if we can not denounce exploitation from the pulpit, we can, out of loyalty to our Christ, refuse to be a party in denouncing any organization like the Nonpartisan league, which is expos- ing profiteers and the exploitation of society. I was a homesteader in North Da- kota when the League was ‘born. I used my Civil war soldier rights and located near my two sons. I knew the farmers were being robbed—that the grain game was in the hands of the grain gamblers of Minneapolis. The banking interests of the Twin Cities and other centers were co-op- erating with the grain men. The more I studied conditions, I recognized that there was a direct legalized sys- tem of robbing the North Dakota farmers. When the Nonpartisan league first took action, I often discussed the mat- ter with some of the leaders. I went to the League rallies and realized that it was a crusade for better living, for fair play in marketing, and to give the farmer half a chance to prosper. I have studied the League literature and many of their pubhcatlons I know their program is for a better America for the people. To me the ideals of the League are “applied Christianity.” I can not but con- demn any preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ for currying favor from organized capital, when he delivers tirades against the = Nonpartisan league. JESUS PERSECUTED WHEN HE ASSAILED GREED I think the time has come for the preachers to know what the League means. In my study of the scriptures I find that Jesus was not persecuted by any organized greed until he arous- ed the resentment of the exploiters ‘the time he drove out the money changers from the temple. Let each preacher ask this question of himself, if Jesus Christ were here in person would he condemn the Non- partisan leaguers in their fight for a better government and better living conditions, or would he condemn the “profiteering interests” as they squeeze out from the fathers and mothers the last drop of profit and starve the boys and girls in their mad greed for the American dollar? Think of it! Hundreds of thou- sands of boys and girls in rich Amer- ‘ica going to sthool every morning without breakfast. Think of it! Over half a million boys in the first American army draft who could not read or write the English language. Nine children_ out of ten Thmk of it! “--*‘5“.‘*.“.’*» Enemies have to go to work before; they reach the eighth grade. Oved 6,000,000 women in this country have to work outside of the home that they may live. Over three-fourths of the men that reach the age of 65 get there without one ‘dollar ahead. To any man who is reall§' concerned about his country, the thou}ght is ter- rible that in Christian America the rich are growing richer and the poor growing poorer every day. Ought we not preach against the cause of this political unrest and not deliver tirades agamst the Nonpartisan league, which is one of the great remedies? So far as I can see it, thg Nonparti- san league aims”to shlft the burden of taxation from the poor to the rich. The Nonpartisan league aims to ut- terly destroy the system of the greedy profiteering food speculators that “hold down” the farmer and “hold up” the consumer. Amen to that. North Dakota, a League stronghold, "was' the only northwestern state to - take care of the returned ‘soldier on an economic basis, giving him flour as well as flowers, and home—bmldmg arches as well as home-coming arches, giving him the chance to have the music of a happy-family as well as the music of a heroes’ band. The League in North Dakota also ‘gives a poor man the chance to buy a farm and build a home. England is doing that and calling it common sense, and yet some preachers here call it social- ism. . As a veteran of the Civil war and as a preacher who has pr eachqd the gos- pel for over 50 years, I thope that those ministers who condemn the League will read and learn first what the Nonpartisan league is before they utter their condemnation. “If they are true to the gospel of the Christ, if they are true to their convictions, if they are true to their ordinations, they will no longer condemn -the League but will commend R. N.- M¢KAIG. EDITOR’S NOTE: Doctor ‘R. N. McKaig lives in Sioux City, Iowa. Doctor McKaig has been one of Meth- odism’s leading preachers. He preach- ed in the first Methodist churches in Minneapolis, Lincoln, Omaha and Sioux City, and was at one time dis- trict superintendent in the northern Minnesota conference. . WOOL STOCKS INCREASE Dealers, ‘manufacturers and the government held 729,373,000 pounds of wool, grease equivalent, on September 30, 1919, according to the bureau of markets, United States department of agriculture. < This represents holdings in excess of those’ reported in any quarterly period ‘since the reports were first issued. Stocks on Septem- ber 30 were 8 per cent greater than on June 30, 1919, and 50 per cent greater than stocks held on September 30, 1918. . At the present rate of consumption the bureau points out that the total stocks on September 30 are sufficient to last for more than a year. Both manufacturers and dealers hold more of all grades with the exception of fine. wool. A decrease of 22,000,000 pounds of fine wool holdings compared to June 80 is shown for dealers’ stocks, while manufacturers’ holdings of this grade increased 5,000,000. pounds. Yet in the face of these facts the prices of wool clothing have continued to soar. If the dealers, jobbers, manu- facturers and other middlemen' were not, allowed to profiteer, increased con- sumptmn would probably hold up the price for wool growers. Muth of the reported surplus: is’ probably due to the fact that man: up wearing ‘wool.’ y have had to nge : 283