The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 18, 1921, Page 13

cality, crop improvement, health im- provement, community = spirit, ete. These and many other statistics will all help the farmer directly or .indi- rectly through the welfare of his city brother. Facts thus gathered will be as useful for the League worker as if they had been gathered by the League direct and they will have the addi- tional value of being acceptable to many who will not listen to League statisties. -Further than that, if gath- ered- impartially the facts will either prove or disprove our contentions and in either case they will be welcome if we are sincere in our declaration that we are striving for impartial justice and fair play to all. Malta, Mont. F. T. NELSON. AGAINST THE BUREAUS Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The Cleveland Press recently had this: Miss Helen Keller, who is deaf, dumb and blind, was asked this question the other day in Cleveland, “Which is the greatest of these human afflictions?” Miss Keller replied: 3 “None of them is the greatest afflic- tion!” . y : “What, then, is the greatest human affliction ?” Miss Keller was asked. She replied: “Boneheadedness!” Miss Keller is right; it is worse to be a bonehead than to be deaf, dumb and blind! They need not suffer with that affliction unless they want to. And, usually, they want to, because it requires work—mental and manual, but mostly mental—to get out of the “bonehead” class. They don’t think, can’t think, won’t think, never thought and don’t know how to think. his letter is especially for the ben- efit of C. E. Ludden, who had some- thing to say on the Farm Bureau in Washington in a recent Leader. Can’t he and his like think and rea- lize what that agent is there for—to take up the meeting’s time so that they can not take up any matter to take the profiteer off the farmer’s back? Let Mr. Ludden and his like read the March 7 number of the Leader again—not merely read, but think and read, and think again. I mean “Facts About North Dakota,” page 5, and “When Farmers Began to Co-Oper- ate,” page 8. Yes, Mr. Ludden, the county agent - knows how to cull and pick the non- layers. He got it out of a book, but you can do the same without him. What you want to know first is how you can pick the grain gamblers and profiteers off your backs. WHY DID BUREAU CHIEFS BOOST ESCH-CUMMINS ACT? Have Mr. Ludden ask this county agent to tell them at the next meeting of the Bureau about M. L. Baker’s letter in the Leader of March 7 in re- gard to the farmer who shipped a car- load of sheep and was short $24 of enough to pay the freight bill on the. same. Mr. Baker had another prob- lem for you, Mr. Ludden. The thir- teenth annual report of the commis- sioner of Iabor, volume 2, 1898, shows that every man that works with the modern improved machine today earns $10 a day. Mr. Ludden, are you get- ting yours and how soon will you be a . millionaire ? : This Farm Bureau is nothing but to head off the Nonpartisan league. Is it not funny what a terrible thing the League is, yet it is doing its polit- ical work in the open while the grain gamblers and the profiteers are and have been playing in secre.t, and that is thé way they got their strangle hold on the people. But now that the people found them out, they howl it is all wrong and the boneheads believe them. What do you suppose they give all that money for campaign expenses for if they did not expect to ’ -tract the currency at will. get it back a thousand fold? Not for love of party or country, oh, no, they’re not built that way. .- W. C. LANG. East Cleveland, Ohio. The above letters represent views of readers of the Leader. To make the stand of the Leader clear again we will repeat what we have said before. We do not oppose the Farm Bureaus or any other organization of farmers. We believe, however, that the Farm Bureaus make a mistake by permit- ting bankers, lawyers and other men who are not working farmers to be- come members because these men, who have much more time to devote to such affairs than working farmers, of- ten are able to gain control, although they may constitute only a small per- centage of the actual membership. Furthermore the Leader has pointed out that national officers of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau federation have consistently used their position in an effort to line the organization up with big business and against the working people of the cities, who are the nat- ural political allies of the working people of the country. We believe in many instances the local Farm Bu- reaus have done good for the faymer, where progressive farmers have taken the lead and have not allowed anti- farmer interests to control. Whether the progressive farmers can control the state and national federations re- mains to be seen.—THE EDITOR. THE MONEY QUESTION Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Why is not more said about the money question? The government makes all of the money and all the people are back of it, but a few have control of most of it. Is this kind of condition right? Is it just? How long can it continue? * Suppose some force was juggling with the blood that runs in our veins. Would or could the heart work right? TUnless the blood circu- lates freely we can not have a healthy body. Hence our slogan: Money, blood of the nation. Let the people own the banks. The making and distributing of money is a government right and not a private one. Make it a crime to run a private bank the same as it would be to run a private postoffice. We can see the ef- fect of private banking. They are surely giving us just now a demonstra- tion with vengeance—expand and ¢on- So when- ever they get the people in a cramped position to make it impossible to meet obligations. A grain of corn can produce more corn. A grain of wheat or anything that has got the germ of life within itself—this we call natural increase, or profit. But the dollar should be used for a medium of exchange and nothing else. We claim that interest on money has got the seed of ruination in itself. Here is a concrete example: Suppos- ing there was $1,000 and that was all the money. Some private party would loan it at 10 per cent. A got $250, B got $250, C got $250 and D got $250. When A comes to settle it would be $275 instead of $250. Likewise B and C. But when D comes to settle his ac- count after getting all the money in circulation, which would be only $175, D would still be short $100. We can see where this kind of profiteering has led us to. ~ There are men that seem to be hon- est, but are all the time doctoring ef- fect instead of cause. If it thunders we naturally look for a storm. What ' is the matter with us is that we can ADVERTISEMENTS Heeding no barrier of river, mountain, forest or desert; unmindful of dis- tance; the telephone has spread its network of com- munication to the farthest outposts of our country. The ranchman, a score of miles from his nearest neighbor, a hundred miles from the nearest town, may sit in the solitude of his prairie home and, at will, order the far-distant city brought to him. And the telephone obeys his command. - Time and space become of small account when, through desire or neces- sity, you would call across a continent. 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