The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 14

ADVERTISEMENTS Symbols of Service FROM your seat in the train as you journey through the Middle West, you see at almost every station you ‘pass the great, white storage tanks of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). These bulk stations are maintained to insure prompt delivery of petroleum products to the people in that commu- nity. To them these tanks are Symbols of Service. As you motor over the highways and byways of the countryside, you pass the dark green tank wagons of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) busy delivering petroleum products from the bulk sta- tions to the farmer’s tank. To the farmer these are Symbols of Service. At _convenient points in city, town and hamlet you find attractive service stations, beautifying ugly corners. These are maintained for your con- venience and to you they are Symbols of Service. - ' ~ You stop at a railroad crossing to let a train pass. In it are a number of tank cars, hurrying forth from the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) refineries to re- flenish the stocks at bulk stations. Aside rom their usefulness as carriers, these also are Symbols of Service. s The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is a service organization, and wherever you may see its name or a piece of its equipment, you see a Symbol of the Service it is striving to give in maintain- ing its position as a public servant doing its full duty. ; : Standard Oil Corhpany (Indiana) 910 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 1904 The Labor Party Convention Nonpartisan League Views Placed Before Chicago Meeting Through Friendly Labor Delegates - ALSE reports concerning an alleged amalgamation of the Nonpartisan league into a new national Labor party formed at Chicago have been spread over the country by the press. While in- vited to do so, the Nonpartisan league did not participate as an organization at the Chicago Labor party eonven-- tion. The League’s views regarding a third party and co-operation with labor in politics were given on the convention floor through friendly labor delegates. .Governor Frazier of North Dakota was not a delegate to the con- vention and did not attend it, despite various reports in the papers to that effect. The governor was in Chicago to attend the national conference of the National Public Ownership league, which met a few days prior to the labor convention. He was there only a day or so, as he had to hurry back to North Dakota on account of the coal strike. It was explained to the labor con- vention that the Nonpartisan league is just what its name, “Nonpartisan,” indicates—that the League will not amalgamate or affiliate with any po- litical party, The League everywhere, except in a few instances where cir- cumstances have prohibited it, has True Americanism : (Continued from page 5) the federal government than for the states. We recommend that congress enact a bill compensating ex-service men and women in amount sufficient to meet the difference between their income in the service and the income they would have received had they re- mained at home; that the funds for this purpose be secured by_a special tax on the billions of war profits made by munition makers and other war contractors, and that, if this proves in- sufficient, taxes on large incomes be increased sufficiently, if necessary, to confiscate all incomes in excess of a reasonable amount per year. MILITARISM With the war in Europe won, need for the army has ended. It is unthink- able that any of the weakened Euro- pean nations would attack the United States; it is equally unthinkable that any one in the United States should want a large army kept up to be used in attacking any other nation, whether in Europe or-on this continent. Com- pulsory military training in time of peace, under whatever name it may masquerade, is contrary to the tradi- tions of the American people. It is Prussianism, to wipe out which we expended recently untold lives and treasure. The Nonpartisan league stands squarely opposed to any aban- donment of our historical national pol- icy in this respect. Even the most bigoted reactionary should hesitate to make a mockery of our pretenses be- fore the world by the adoption of a militaristic policy, or anything. that smacks of it. RUSSIA We- demand, the war being over, that our soldiers be withdrawn from Russia. = MEXICO Strong action is needed in regard to the Mexican situation. Our drifting policy has brought us-close to war. Our citizens must be protected and our national honor upheld. It would ill aecord with our national honor to be drawn into a war of conquest for the benefit of a few oil and mining barons. We demand an immediate investiga- tion, by an unprejudiced commission, worked, and will continue to work, through all the parties, and not as a third party. It recommends for nomi- nation, or indorses, after they are nominated, candidates in different par- ties who are progressive and believe in the League program, and seeks the election of these men on the party tickets with which they are affiliated, whether they are Republicans, Demo- crats or Labor party men. 3 Where the Labor party has a candi- date filling the League requirements, and when his indorsement seems the proper thing to do to win victory for the farmers, the League would not hesitate to indorse him, just as it. would indorse a-Republican or Demo- crat, under similar circumstances. It ' may be, if the Labor party is success- fully organized, that some League candidates in various states will be on that ticket. But there is and can be no amalgamation or affiliation. with the Labor party, any more than with any other party, under the principles on which the League is organized. - The League has working political agreements with organized labor in several states, under which labor, like the League, exerts its political strength in combination with the League in the nonpartisan way above described. Is League Platform with Mexico, so that the sources of the funds in both cases may be ascer- tained. We believe such an investiga- tion should also seek to learn whether Mexico has attempted to interfere with our government or legislation, as alleged by jingo newspapers, whether Americans have attempted to inter- fere with the Mexican government or legislation, and whether the two gov- ernments have devoted their best ef- forts to protect law-abiding citizens of the opposite nationality.. We believe all true Americans will agree, as a starting point for such an investiga- tion, that no country has the right to interfere in the internal affairs and legislation of another country, and that war should never be brought about in an attempt to justify such ‘intermeddling, least of all to protect persons or corporations exploiting the national wealth of a friendly country, or to seize concessions for rapacious - capitalists. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Experience has amply demonstrated the wisdom and courage of those who first launched upon the stormy waters of our economic life the National Non- partisan league. } A great measure of the success at- tained by our organization is due to these pioneers (now our national exec- utive committee) standing undismay-- ed and unappalled against the utmost efforts of our enemies to defeat them. Be it resolved, that this convention reaffirms its faith in the work of the national executive committee and its admiration for each and every member thereof. " And be it further resolved, that we pledge ourselyes to support, by every . means in our power, the work of our national executive committee and to stand unflinchingly behind them, come what may, until final victory shall rest upon our banner. (EDITOR’S NOTE: The resolu- tions dealing with free speech and the coal and railroad situations have been condensed slightly, owing to lack of space in this issue. The national com- mittee also adopted a resolution deal- ing with the proposed peace-time alien “and sedition law now pending in con- of propaganda conducted in the Unit-- gress. This question is discussed in ed States, both for and against war the editorial columns of -the Leader.) PAGE FOURTEEN S ; : : & Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers S R Y O B N STt r ST I IIIP————— RS S e A R R A A