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ment in the organization of farmers’ and wage- eainers’ co-operative associations. “7. We favor state inspection of dockage and grading of grains and other products. “8., We favor the right of collective bargaining by farmers and workingmen through their own chosen representatives and up-to-date labor legis- lation that will insure decent hours and working conditions. “9, We favor better schools and an increase in pay for all school teachers in accordance with the importance and responsibility of their work. . “10. We favor added guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and freedom of the press. “11. We favor public ownership of the railway sys- tems of America, as proposed by the Plumb plan, and retirement to private life of the senators and con- gressmen who voted for the Cummins-Esch bill. Senate 'Using People’s Funds to F @s| HE United States government is in '| debt some $30,000,000,000 and is go- ing deeper in debt every day. Its debt is so large, old-gang politicians say, that the government can not afford to pay a bonus to returned service men. The debt is so large, the same politicians say, that the government can not lend money to drouth- stricken farmers to put in a crop, although the world is crying for more food. ‘But the government has plenty of money to pay for the publication, as an official document, of the propaganda put out by a representative of the waterpower interests of the nation and the milling interests of Minnesota attacking the Nonpartisan league. Farmers throughout the country have been send- ing the Leader copies of “Senate Document No. 260,” printed by resolution of Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, known as a staunch friend of the United States Steel corporation, one of the biggest political forces in that state. “Senate Doc- ument No..260"” consists of a speech delivered by Reme G. Brown of Minneapolis. Brown has for years been attorney and lobbyist for waterpower interests. He also represents Minnesota millers, controls the Minneapolis Tribune, an anti-farmer and anti-labor newspaper, is prominent in politics and was one of the political hosses concerned in an attempt, two years ago, to bribe a League or- ganizer . to betray the farmers’ organization. Brown’s influence with United States senators has “12. We condemn proposal No. 333, ballot No. 88, submitted by the constitutional convention to the voters, which makes possible the creation of an industrial court. 3 St “13. We condemn the activities of.the Ne- braska fair price commission as now operated as useless, needless and an-economic waste. “14. We condemn the ‘code bill’ as written and administered as a dangerous centralization of power. “15. We favor the adoption of an anti-injunction law, limiting the power of courts to grant injunc- tions and prohibiting the issuing of restraining orders and injunctions in labor disputes. “16. We favor equal suffrage for women. ¥17. We favor a bonus to soldiers by both the federal and state governments, and to be paid in the main by the 16,000 additional mil- lionaires created by the World war. been shown before, the Nonpartisan league making public a letter which Senator Knute Nelson had written Brown, asking the lobbyist’s advice on a waterpower bill then pending before congress. “Senate Document No. 260” is filled with false- hoods from beginning to end. It starts by stating that the Nonpartisan league is a “Socialist con- spiracy,” and that A. C. Townley “says himself he expects to see the Townley flag of socialism wave on every state capitol dome of the country and upon the capitol at Washington itself.” Mr. Townley has never made any vuch statement. - Brown further says that Townley now “stands self-registered on his registration blank in North Dakota as belonging to the Socialist party.” Mr. Townley is registered as a Republican. A FEW OF THE LIES THE SENATE HELPS TO CIRCULATE Brown goes on to say that no one except those “sworn in” were admitted to the caucuses of League legislators in-North Dakota, a statement which dozens of newspaper men from all parts of the country, who came to Bismarck to investigate the legislature, know to be false. Brown adds that the tax laws of North Dakota were intended to take the land from the farmers by making the taxes so high that the farmers would be unable to pay them. The fact is that taxes on farm lands in North Da- kota are lower than in almost any other state. Brown says: “The total per capita tax (the “18. We faver and urge co-operation becwec the city worker and the farmer in electing officia: and in securing progressive legislation.” Judge Wray has long been one of the leading progressives of Nebraska. 'He was born in Yorl county, Neb., 40 years ago and has lived there al his life. He is a lawyer and has served four year: as county judge of York county. He was one o: the founders of the Progressive party in 1912, anc was national committeeman from Nebraska. He is head of the Committee of Forty-eight in Ne- braska, and is at the present time mayor of the city of York, where he has made a vigorous anc successful fight for municipal ownership. - Robert Mousel, candidate for lieutenant governor. comes from Cambridge. He is a farmer and has never before engaged in politics. He is known as the greatest breeder of - Hereford cattle in the world. ight League average tax paid by each person living in the state) has been doubled in a year by an increase in taxes from about $2,000,000 to about $7,000,000.” In mentioning $7,000,000 a year Brown probably was thinking of the average income of some of hiz friends in the steel trust, the waterpower trust o1 the milling trust. As shown in the Nonpartisan Leader recently the per capita tax in North Dakota is lower than in any other western state, with but two exceptions. Brown goes on to say that the state library is circulating books “advocating socialism, bolshevism, free love and atheism” throughout the state, al- though this charge was disproved by the unanimous decision of a legislative investigating committee at Bismarck, including two anti-League leaders. Brown adds another flat lie when hé says: “In the same way pictures of Lenine and Trotzky and other “red radicals are sent out to North Dakota families, while those of Washington, Lincoln, Pershing and other American patriots are suppressed.” “Senate Document No. 260” ends with the state- ment that the Wisconsin branch of the Nonpartisan league “helped to finance the defense of Victor Berger in his recent trial for violation of the es- pionage act and helped to bring about Berger’s recent election to congress,” both flat lies. Yet this is the kind of stuff the United States senate has plenty of money to publish, though it refuses to help drouth-stricken farmers or do jus- tice to the returned soldiers. I | LEAGUE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR IN THREE STATES I Doctor Henrik Shipstead; candi- date for governor of Minnesota, * Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, for re-election. PAGE FIVE L N Mayor Arthur G. Wray of York, candidate for governor of Nebraska. ‘