The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 18, 1920, Page 4

Giving the Nation’s the fields because farmers can not get a price sufficient to ship it to the cities. From the cities comes the wail of the working- men that they can not get food at prices within their means. In Michigan the peaches from millions of trees are wasting. FROM all parts of the country come reports of food rotting in - In Colorado farmers are offered 85 cents for cabbage that cost 65 cents to raise. In Minnesota agricultural experts say the farmers will lose money on every crop produced this year except wheat, and will barely break even on that. Farmers Lose Money on the Year’s Crops city workers must solve. It can not be solved by violence. The politicians who have beeh governing this country have shown their inability to solve it. It must be solved by electing real representatives of the people, who will go to the meat of the matter and see that efficient systems of marketing and distribution of food products are worked out. to the scandal in professional baseball. It seems that a syn- dicate of gamblers offered members of the Chicago White Sox $100,000 to lose the 1919 world series, paid them about half this amount and won between $500,000 and $1,000,000 in bets. Most of these papers have nothing whatever to say about the robbery of the public that goes on every day in the year on Wall street, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. But the amount that is won by the stock and grain gamblers every day is more than was won by the base- ball gamblers on the whole world series. In a way it is wrong to call these men gamblers. A gambler is a man who takes a chance. The baseball gamblers who bribed the White Sox were not tak- ing any chances. They wouldn’t bet until they knew they had a “sufe thing.” The grain gam- blers have a sure thing too. The farm- er takes a chance, when he plants a 7/ crop, whether he will % raise it, and, having ; raised it, whether he will get the cost of it back when he sells it. The workingman, when he goes to buy the farmer’s product, runs the chance of having his whole pay check taken away from him. But the profiteering middleman, standing between them, takes no more chances than the baseball pirates. Nearly every newspaper is agreed that allowing gambling in baseball is a bad thing. Why not end the gambling in food? Is baseball more important than the nation’s food supply ? THE New York assembly has again expelled its Socialist mem- NEWSPAPERS all over the country have been devoting pages Gambling— in Baseball and in Food N\ / ey Y ; .J/Z@“W,//;‘Lma(if CRRE e 6] 4@”’:— ok bers, although, since they were first expelled, all five were re- elected by increased majorities. Republican leaders of the assembly admitted that there was no basis for the charges of per- sonal disloyalty against the Socialist legislators. They also admit- ted that paragraphs in the Socialist platform, previously branded as unpatriotic, had been eliminated. In other s words, the Socialists were expelled because they First Plank 1 Gone—Which "ere Sqmalists and for noother reason. WilleBe Next? It is interesting to read in this connection a plank in the Republican national platform, which was adopted at the insistence of Charles E. Hughes and other Republicans who saw that the original expulsion of the Socialists had been a political mistake. This plank reads: We demand that every American citizen shall enjoy the ancient and constitutional right of free speech, free press and free assembly, and the no less sacred right of the qualified voter to be represented by his duly chosen representatives * * * One plank of the Republican platform already has been thrown overboard. How many others will follow after election? That is the problem that the farmers and. | IN THE COUNTRY—IN THE CITY \S g ( / . Morris has pictured here the condition that obtains all over the country today—food going to waste in the country while the workers of the cities can not afford to buy it. More production is not going ta solve this problem. A better marketing system is what is needed and that is what the Nonpartisan league proposes to furnish. News the Once Over F REPUBLICAN leaders who voted to expel the Socialists were guilty of breach of faith with the people, what can be said of the 17 Democrats who voted with them? Simply that they de- serve the leather medal for stupidity. : If the Republican majority in the New York assembly can expel Socialists because they are Socialists, they can turn around immediately and expel Democrats grl-‘gt g‘:;: Be because they are Democrats. Then the majority Daélm:cra t:? group among the Republicans can vote to expel the minority group among the Republicans be- cause their views differ. This can be kept up, re- gardless of whether the voters re-elect the men expelled. Post, assistant secretary of Labor. The Legion charges him with blocking the deportation of undesirable aliens. It is discouraging to friends of the Legion, liberals and thinking citizens of all classes generally, to find the Legion making such a mistake as this. Mr. Post’s “crime” consisted merely in enforcing the alien deportation law and observing the letter and spirit of our Constitution and free institutions. He in- sisted that mere suspicion was not enough te cause the deportation of aliens; that they should have a fair and impartial trial; that our Constitution and laws, in their provisions to safeguard liberty, ap- ply alike to citizens and foreigners living within our boundaries. He put a stop to “railroading” aliens without evidence and without proper trial. He approved only deportations which were legal. The partisan congressional committee which “investigated” Mr.Post : was forced to acknowl- edge the lack of evi- dence against him. Mr. Post is not a Bolshevist or in sym- pathy with any plan to accomplish reforms ex- cept by lawful, peace- ful and orderly meth- ods. His loyalty to the traditional American spirit of fair play, and the real Americanism which protects every person from high- -handed seizures, even in a time of excitement and hysteria, should have been commended by a soldiers’ organi- zation which claims in the preamble to its con- stitution to stand for law and order. The ac- tion against Mr. Post will not hurt him in the long run, but it will stand as a black spot in the record of the Legion. We can : not believe that the rank and file of the returned soldiers approve this action. THE American Legion has demanded the removal of Louis F. The Legion and the Case of Mr. Post socialistic. They “prove” it like this: “Socialists believe in general public ownership. The League stands for public own- ership of terminal elevators. Therefore the League is socialistic.” If we chose to follow such “reasoning” we could prove almost anything against any of our opponents. One of them, let us say, is fiond ofi:'. eating chicken. Negroes like chicken. There- “Socialism” fore t is man is a negro. . i = Argument It is cheering to see that this sort of “argument Is Failing 4 I \HE favorite argument of anti-Leaguers is that the League is is losing its force. An instance is to be found in the recent report of the National Catholic Welfare coun- cil orn “Bolshevism in Russia and -America.” The Catholic church is an outstanding foe of both- socialism and bolshev- ism. The report deals sternly with the workings of bolshevism in Russia. Turning to Anierica it states, according to an official digest _in “The National Catholic War Council Bulletin”: The united labor movement is exonerated from the charge of bol- shevism. _The Plumb plan for the railroads and Mr. Plumb’s later sug- gestions for all industry are examined and the conclusion is reached that they are free from bolshevism, the soviet idea and socialism. Government ownership of a few industries is also declared not to be socialism. In connection with this an outline is given of the pro- grams of the Labor party, the Nonpartisan league and the Committee of Forty-cight. They are found to be neither Bolshevik nor Socialist.