The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 7, 1920, Page 10

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League. : -‘"ffow Readers View Unfair 'Publications ; Raps Colher s Farmer Hands Reactionary Mag- azine Some Facts magazine that has been . organized farmers. two occasions staff rep- —-Arthur Ruhl and Samuel Hopkins Adams, both writers of national rep- utation—have been sent to North Da- kota and.Minnesota to investigate the Both Ruhl and Adams came | west rather prejudiced against the ' League, but both learned the truth as- Be-" 5 ‘the the result of their mvestlgatlons cauge they insisted upon writing the TRUTH when they returned from. their txips of investigation, Collier’s refused te print their articles. ecently Collier’s, knowing that the Nénpartisan league is making wonder- ful headway, came out editorially nrg- ing the old parties to insert in their platforms a “farmers’ plank” to get the votes of the men: who are “the backbone of our country.” = This is letter. that a- ‘South Dakota ¢ Leaguer has written to Collier’s: “Editor Collier’s Weekly: Your ed- itorial in the March 13 issue, ‘A Plank ifor Our Backbone,’ read and carefully ¢ mnoted. In this article you are admit- “ting some’chmg that you and your kind . | denied in" the past. i tween the lines I can: see that you | | dread something, you have g shiver In reading be- | .running up your backbone and you § honestly believe ‘that by inserting ia | farmers’ plank into the platform of ¢ the old parties you will bolster upthis | fear and dread and take the shiver out. “I want to inform you ‘that the foundation of your platform isso rot- { ten it could not hold another. plank.. What you need is a new reinforced | concrete foundation and then put on i your planks. “Your - foundation is composed of Jjust 'such men as you are knocking in | your editorial—the land shark, ‘the i ‘middleman, the grafter, the profiteer i and the many other parasites. . good will it do to knock out one or two i rotten planks and put in one new one? i Why don’t you come out with the truth {"'and ‘tell us what you are afraid of? “Is it the Nonpartisan league? If 80, do not fear it. You forget it is a ¥ { farmers’ organization and a farmer is Mother Nature’s greatest friend. A © fap-aer is not here to destroy the beau- i tiful ‘things nature has created, but to“preserv.e them ' or improve them. ¢ The farmer destroys -only weeds and parasrtes “The Noxipartisan league is” an ¢ agency to destroy weeds and parasites 't § mnot forget that the Do* Nonpartlsan that are destroying the farmer. i league is here ‘to ‘stay, because it is i nature’s- agency to destroy paras:tes, ‘{ wa piker growing flax, but there’s ‘one . { an axe, without the daily papers to / turn the old grmdstone, except a few i ‘and a farmer’s plank in the old-party : platforms will mean- a -great v1ctory | for the League. “Uhca, S.D. E.H FRANGHIK" i WE'LL SAY 80 Editor Nonpartisan Lieader:’ Tl try another shot. | * They - say that ‘A, C. Townley was © thing that he can do, and that is. grind f‘ small weekhes, or some the farmers i - f own. JOHN GARDNER aneapohs, an B i : W2 OLLIER’S WEEKLY is a manifestly unfair to the On resentatives of Collier’s . “‘the What -« f I you | i can not use this ditty, or rather tom- | ,1 myrot, and you will just mform me; . Lwe Letters on szely Topzcs ITINERANT SEED SELLERS “Editor Nonpartxsan Leader: to call the attention of the farmers of North Dakota to: the fact that there ' are.a number of itinerant peddlers of seeds' going over the state, apparently having no residence or location of ‘business, who just pick up any grain wor- seed they ‘can get and sell it for high class stuff. We are unahle to protect you if you persist in' buying: or ordering ‘from such pergons. We have a number: of letters from people making complamt The complainant usually sends in . a sample of- very foul seed, saying es- sentially: = *I expected to ‘get high class seed and this is what T got. ' T paid in advance,” etc. It is not safe to buy any kind of seed * from unknown sources ‘and from such’ itinerant peddlers without seeing. the’ bulk of the seed which you are to get. ' . some publishers should be willing to : ‘" H. L. BOLLEY, # State Seed Commxssmner Fargo, N. D. TAXES IN OKLAHOMA -Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - cent,.if not more, are for the League in tlns country, . and hope it ‘won’t be “long" till we may join hands. * T am sending you an article publish- ‘ed in' my county paper, written by some bishop of Bismarck, N. D., about He thfnks that - ‘taxes in Dakota are the only ones that have gone up. My taxes last year on 160 7acres were somethmg like $67. This year on the same place I am pay- If ‘that North: Dakota -taxes.: ing $166, an inerease of $99: - ~ bishop will take the time and look it -up he will find taxes up in every state' in the Union. 5 Kremlin, Okla. - AL W, RENN Iwish = I had ~must prevaxl the pleasure. of ‘meeting one of the . + Nonpartisan organizers in 1919 and can: say he had no trouble in 'getting ‘boosters, as you know the people of . /“the South generally keep an eye on North ‘and - especxally ‘North Da-- kota. Iam safe i in saying that 75 par - 5 THE “TIMES” FAKE X Editor Nonpartisan' Leader:. Wlien ‘I read Mr, Selden’s article on ‘the" Nonpartisan league in the’ New York Times I'wondered how. it was ‘possible. that a newspaper of the standing of the Times could ‘perpetrate. such ‘ai story upon ibs readers.. I had had an opportunity ‘more than a year earlier . to’visit the Middle Northwest and, of couzse, knew that a number of the- statements in Mr. Selden’s article” were. grotesque, to say the least. ' I: feel grateful, therefore, for your letter Jin: the Times: of January 25 after the . .-editor-had:cut out such paragraphs as ‘he thought' wiser 1ot to print.- Your statement 'is cértainly 1llummatmg and 'increases my astonishment- over the atroclously misleading article . printed in the Times as submltted by Mr. Selden. It is “difficult to understand why print statements like the one produc- ed by Mr. Selden, unless it is that they . have been misinformed or do not yet realize that in the long run the truth - Very ruly yonrs,. - JOHN B, ANDREWS, Secretary American Association i - for" Labbr Leglslataon. New York ’City 3 | 'rnom MISSOURT ‘Editor. Nonpamsan Leader. Am ‘sending check for two snbscnpt:om --for your paper pxcked up-on the trail of the sample coples you sent at our: : request. The farmer s handwapped in all orf lus reading matter, and we know. no publication ' among ‘the’ farmers in' ‘Missouri that shows so plamiy where and how to ‘locate:the nigger in the ’woodpxle ‘as does the Leader, and we do pray and hope it may live long. . H. ALLISON. : Malta Bend, Mo SRR v > -\ Booster: % ~-.Commercial Traveler e Answers League Cfme About Salarles Travehng Man Shows Up Lea : ; - Opponent . - DITOR Nonpartlsan Lead- ‘ ‘er: I presume ‘you are: aware that the. commer- . "cial travelers are not all out: boosting for 'the ’League, unless you figure every lmock is' 'a 'boost. Quite fre- guently ‘I meet some of the hoys who ‘spend ‘2 good deal of their time in” knocking the farmers’ organization. . While ‘on a- freight south of Jim-. - town a few days ago the conversation - turned to the Nonpartisan league. One of the travelers was especially bitter: “in - the. denunciation ~of the League, “while another traveling man proved- to be just as much: of a booster. After “Mr. Knocker had exhausted ‘the dictionary and was starting in on’ ‘the encyclopedia Mr. Booster asked’ him what'he had against the League. Mr. Knocker said he didn’t have any- . thing against the League, it was the ‘leaders to ‘whom he had Treference.” Booster asked him what he meant by « ‘the leaders. Knocker replied that he had reference to 'l‘ownley e Booster: ‘What the matter wrth “Townley?” : Knocker: “He'is gettmg away w1th the farmers’ money.” %I motice by the button “on your -coat that you are a member ‘of the Tilinois Commercxal Men’s ‘as- # sociation. Now it ‘costs us about $9 per year in the I. C. M. A, the same as the farmer pays into lus organiza- tion, and I haven’t seen any farmer worrying about someone getting away . with our money. I understand we pay ‘our secretary-treasurer over $50,000 ' per year, 10 tlmes more than Townley receives?” . Knocker: “'WeIl Cavenaugh ought .to get a good thmg out of it, he has 'built 'a great orgamzatmn of over 200,000 members.” . Booater ‘great orgamzatxon of nearly 300000 . members.” ‘Knocker: “We only pay: Cavenaugh - b0 cents on ‘each member.” Booster: “The farmers pay ToWn- : ‘ley less than 2% cents on each mem- ' ber.. If Townley were to send two let- " ters to-each member his sglary would “not pay: the postage” A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. Mmot, N.D. . FROM INDIANA BOOSTER Edltor Nonpartisan Leader:' 1 am mclosmg a sample of the material that is being scattered over this state = among the members of the national Grange. 1 have written Mr. Chapman “a* personal letter asking him 'a few " questions, which T fear he will not at- ‘tempt to answer. I would be pleased to have you make mention of this at- ,;,'tempt of Big Biz to influence the vot-_ prices pmd for blooded stol northwestern farm: ‘paper. a prominent stockman and mem a_picture of his Hereford b . ‘affidavit that he paid $31; ‘old, weighs' 2,575 pounds an the fair ciremit this fall.. 2 Joan, bt;t:il grand champlo (er8 ‘of Indiana at the commg pnmanes i .in youtf paper. = @ Butler, Ind.: H P BEVINGTON ‘Mr. Bevmgton mclosed a ‘copy of a reprint of “Senate Document 260,” the Y attack of Rome G. Brown, waterpower ‘lobbyist, ' against ' the Nonparhsan league, and a letter from one Edward ' . Chapman, a former: lecturer of the - ‘ nahonal Grange, ‘attacking the Lea 18 o5 " and also- Senator Hiram Johnson California because he got the suppotb of ‘North: Dakota voters in the presi-' : ‘entxal pnmarxes. “On page 5 of Iast: “Townley has bullt a i der dxscussed thxs: b