The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 12, 1920, Page 3

] IN THE INTEREST OF A SQUARE " ~ ‘DEAL FOR THE FARMERS = . Entered as_second-class matter at the pos at M 3 3 , (1819, Publicarion addvens. $51. Slath svese B B Nonpartisan = Minn, égdress all remittances to . Leader, X 2075, "Minuneapolis, Minn, VOL. 11, NO. 2. \ these days. No sooner is the Minnesota primary out of the. way, with tremendous gains for the League, than the North Dakota primary returns begin to come in. As this issue of the Leader goes to press it is apparent that Governor Frazier has beem renominated with the greatest number of votes he ever received in % GOOD news is coming thick ajnd fast for the League farmers FRZCSS o esy NG i A EROM ~ s A % § Ao B PANHE BT g - 5 2 %7 i s < a’'North Dakota primaty. The opposifi(m was better financed and e better organized than ever before, but despite their utmost efforts J= greater degree than ever before. : tor, with fully as large a vote as Frazier’s, and while returns are i still meager for other offices, the Lgaguers*appe,ar to have won all down the line. in North Dakota, with complete returns. Watch for it. " Also watch the other states swing into line with League vic- = tories, just as North Dakota and Minnesota have done., : . : THE CASE OF MR. VOLSTEAD i 5 ~YHE nomination of Rev. 0. J. Kvale, Nonpartisan lsaguer, in ) i “‘the seventh congressional district of Minnesota, has a lesson all of its own. Rev. Kvale defeated Congressman Volstead, chairman of the judiciary committee of the house of representa- - tives. The judiciary committee is the committee of lawyers which has had-charge of the drafting and consideration of the espionage, alien and sedition bills before congress, attempting to deny Ameri- n citizens and-aliens alike the rights of free speech, free press and Stateful assemblage guaranteed in the Constitution of the United es.’ B3 i o aliie o : Congressman Volstead, coming home from Washington to his district for the campaign, was.quick to sense the’opinion of the peo- - > : el /7 ‘%a'ZN€V€'{2~ g eNemt HeaRp b e e e to 'deprive the TJévhfxerican citizen of the right of free speech. He was an entirely different sort of a Volstead fro/m what he was at Washington. : : ; v - But the people were not fooled. Volstead’s record spoke so loudly that the voters did mot hear his feeble excuses. They retired _him to private life, where he belongs, and where a good many of the other congressmen and public officials will find themselves in/the near future. = 7 : © With Mr. Volstead before them, as a horrible example of what happens to/a congressman who persists in running counter to the wishes of his constituents, we wonder if either the Republicans or Democrats will be so enthusiastic about sedition bills when congress meets again, b o : B © . THE LINEUP BECOMES PLAINER \VER since the Nonpartisan league was started it has tried to B4 show the farmers that -theregs little or no real difference be- % M _4 tween the Republican and Democratic parties. There was _ once a division on such subjects as the tariff and slavery, but we s \“ (52 ‘N - The Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan Léagne—-l"‘very Week A OLIVER 8. MORRIS, Editor. VoEES _MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, JULY 12, 1920 _ i3 " Farmers Stick and Win Again in North Dakota ‘Frazier gained substantially. The farmers stuck and won to a « Doctor E. F. Ladd has been nominated for United States sena- " Next week’s Leader will carry the full story of what happened ple. “He fried to dodge responsibility for putting forward the bills ‘ crop, if 1920 costs should remain thé same as 1919 costs. Of course = B S : ; . PAGE THREE = A 'MAGAZINE ’!' DARES TO PRINT THE TRUTH . One yeas, in advance, $2.50; six months, $1.50. Clas- sifled rates on classified page; other advertising rates 3 r . Audit“Bureau o 3 .. Beckwith Special Agency, advertising represen- \ tatlves, New York, Chicago, St, Louis, Kansas City. " WHOLE NUMBER 249 defy any one to today what is the difference between a Repub- lican and a Democrat.. oo Our opponents used to try to contradict us on this argument. -They tried to show that it was nothing short of heresy for' League candidates to run in one state on a Democratic ticket and in another on a Republican. i But now our opponents admit everywhere that they were wrong. In Idaho two years ago Leaguers ran as Democrats and mofinated their full ticket in the primaries, whereupon the old= guard Democratic leaders and officials campaigned openly, for the Republican ticket. In Minnesota two years ago the Democratic candidate for-governor admitted, after the election, that his one aim was to elect-the Republican candidate for governor. < And in Minnesota today, with League candidates indorsed on the Repub- lican ticket, Republican state officials are openly advocating that in- .dependent’candidates, representing thebig interests, either shall be . '&aufia;.wn-”‘?fé!; R Demarpmmes Borsguuauts 48> 4 2 5 Lies GUAY <l ' " s‘\ 7 a7 N /;LX‘ ,} @il lican-party. : S : The lineup is just as the Leader and the League have always pointed out—the politicians and special interests on one side, the common people on the other. And the present tactics'of the poli- ticians in Minnesota and elsewhere are proving this fact more plainly than could we, in writing about it, in a dozen years. AVERAGE AND NECESSARY WHEAT PRICES "AST week the Leader published the results of an investigation 3 into wheat raising costs made by the United States depart- ment of agriculture) which found that the average cost of producing all wheats is $2.15 a bushel and the average cost of spring wheat $2.65. T ' _ ) Some half-baked statesman probably will make the proposal now(that the price of wheat should be forced down to the average cosf of production (a figure which allows no profit to the farmer) as a means of lowering the high cost of living. ' ~ What would happen if the price of wheat should be placed at $2.15? * This would mean that half of the wheat growers of the : country would be making no profit. ' They would, therefore,.be com- . pelled to give up planting wheat. The American wheat crop would- . be cut in half, world-wide ] famine might result and, prices would reach the sky, with most of the‘\profit, of course, going to specu- lators. - According to the department of agriculture figufes on 10 per - cent of the farms covered in the survey it cost from $3 to $5 a bushel to grow wheat. If the 1920 wheat price should be forced be- ~low $3 g'bushgl, 10 per cent of the farmers will lose money on the PNos coewy Py B L OAEL oot WHEAS P i oy : 5 SosieEr” : % : Tl 7 S bp o2n 7 oy ”, “\." <3 AN the fact is that everything has gone up since 1919 and the cost of the 1920 wheat crop will be correspondingly higher, -~ o s Increased production and the elimination of profiteering are the only means of lowering the high cost of living. The farmer must be paid a fair price for his crop, if he is to continue to produce, and - he must be protected from the profiteering speculator in selling it. put into the race, or Dembcratic candidateg indorsed by the Repub- ™ T R I RrTRRs