The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 22, 1921, Page 3

Py 3 League has never been in Illi- 4. nois, and it has no plans for en- : IF YOU consider Mr. .about interpreting the dream, it isn’t so strange after all. IN THE INTEREST OF A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE FARMERS Entered as_second-class matter at the postoffice at Minneapolis, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879, Publication address, 427 Sixth avenue 8., Minneapolis, Minn. Address all remittances to Th ] Nonpartisan Leader, Box 2072, Minneapolis, Min: Ilonmamxan Iader Published at Minnenpnlls Minn., Every Two Weeks VER S. MORRIS, Editor. A MAGAZINE THAT DAREB TO PRINT THE TRUTH One year Sl 50 Clnssfllsd rnteu ou claulfied page appll Buroau o( Clrcul u:ms S, C neckwllh Bneclnl Agency, advertising representatives, New York, Chicago, 8t. Louis, Kansas City. VOL. 13, NO. 4 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 22, 1921 WHOLE NUMBER 279 Mr. Mansfield’s Nightmare and What It Teaches I. MANSFIELD of Chicago, chairman of the committee of the Grain Dealers’ National association, recently appomted to fight the United States Grain Growers, Inc., got his facts strangely confused when speaking before a business men S organi- zation at Lansing, Mich., the other day. He tried to make his hear- ers believe that the Nonpartlsan league is one and the same Wlth the grain growers’ corporation and other organi- zations which are pooling the farmers’ grain and attempting to market it co-operatively. Instead of attacking as such these co-operative pooling movements, which of course have no connection with the League and which the League has not indorsed, Mansfield, according to news reports, made a hot and senseless attack on the Nonpartisan league, which, to use his words, was “tying up more than 600,000,000 bushels of grain for a period of six years—tying it up on contracts that will not bear the light of day.” He said that “loyal Americans” and grain men had to do something, and added: Beware. of the Bolshevist, the Socialist and the anarchist; look out for the gang that wrecked North Dakota, that leaped into Illinois ovemight and under the guise of the “people’s friends” spread a most deadly poison—the very . p01son that Russia knows. This gang is coming into Michi- gan in a few weeks now. They’ve been making the grain exchanges the goat in North Dakota and in the state of Illinois. They de- clare that they will discard on the whole the law of supply and de- mand, and further, they, organ- ized with farmers as they are, declare they will burn grain and produce in surplus, rather than be beaten in getting their prices. He “thus condemned the Nonpartisan league of North Dakota,” says the Lansing Cap- ital News in reporting the speech. But the League has nothing to do with the United States Grain Growers, Inc., which Mr. Mansfield’s committee was organized to fight the Grain Man’s Funny Dream at Lansing tering Michigan at this time; the League did not organize and has not indorsed the grain pool- ing and holding movement of which he speaks. But— * * * * * Mans- field’s speech as ‘a night- mare—a bad dream—and go It can all be accounted for scientifically. Why did Mr. Mansfield, head of a committee to fight the co-operative pooling movement, dream that the Umted States Grain Growers, Inc., was the same thmg as the Nonpartisan league? Why did he confuse the or- A Nightmare ganization of the grain pool in Illinois with Non- It’s E to - partisan league organization in that state, when S luasy 10~ ipe League has not a single member there‘f Why Interpret did he, in his nightmare, think it was the League and not the pooling movement that was about to gobble him up? Why, instead of attacking the United States Grain Growers, Inc., did he confine his speech, according to the newspaper report, to a tlrade against the Nonpartisan league? The answer 1s simple. It is the Nonpartisan league and not the co-operative grain holding and pooling movement that the-grain men really fear the MOST. They know how the League farmers have kept the grain gamblers on the run in states where the League is organized. They are in terror lest the League get a foothold in other states. The League has been the one, big, effective farmers’ WHAT HE NEEDS —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris. movement that has put grain gamblers, crooked big business and the money kings on the defensive. Mr. Mansfield couldn’t get up steam to fight the other farmer organizations as such. His fear and hatred of the League overpowered him. In his nightmare it was the League, the thing he and others like him feared the most, that was organizing the pool movement in Illinois. To him it was the League that his committee was fighting, although the commit- tee was organized to attack the United States Grain Growers. Mr. Mansfield imagined that any movement that the grain men didn’t like, or that threatened their privileges EVEN A LITTLE BIT, was the League. He imagined that because the League had become identified in his mind with ANY movement in behalf of the farmers and against profiteering middlemen. In confusing the League with other orgamzatxons and attack- ing the League for things other organizations are doing on behalf of the farmers, Mr. Mansfield has unconsciously spoken a little sermon that farmers, especially League farmers, should heed. Let us consider next what les- son the Mansfield nightmare teaches— * * * * * E HAVE shown that Mr. Mansfield, in His speech at Lansing, re-’ vealed the fact that interests op- posed to the farmers fear more than anything else the Nonpar- tisan league. Mr. Mansfield re- vealed that fact unconsciously. Now, an organ- mMERICAN fiFSRMER The Kind of %Ozation deerlqfid 2 . . y men- 1Ke Organization ;. Mansfield You Want and other ene- mies of the farmers to be the most menac- ing to their unfair advantages and privileges, must be a pretty effective organization for the farmers—in fact, THE MOST effective organization for the farmers. The worst and most effec- tive enemy any one has is almost always the one he fears the most. Men laugh at some of their enemies. They pay no at- tention to other of their enemies. But if a man has a real, effective, menacing enemy, he soon finds it out. He finds it out before anybody else, because self-pres- ervation is the first law of na- ture. And when he finds out he has an enemy which really men- aces him, he does not laugh at it. He does not ignore it. If he feels his own helplessness in a fight with that enemy, he begins to FEAR. He betrays his fear in dif- ferent ways, very often like Mr. Mansfield did in his nightmare. And so it is that Mr. Mansfield’s FEAR of the League, which begat his nightmare about the League, is pretty good proof—in this case conclusive proof—that the League is the one organization above all others that the farmers ought to stick to and use to fight their enemies. Why? Simply because it is recognized by FARMER ENEMIES, who are the BEST judges, as the most MENACING and EFFECTIVE. Now then— * ¢ 3w ) * * I ET us consider the kind of organization that Mr. Mansfield and his kind do NOT fear, and therefore the kind of organization that is the LEAST effective weapon of the farmer. For Mr. Mansfield accommodatingly threw great light on this phase of the matter. He said: I want to say to you that we are not opposed to farm bureaus that ARE farm-bureaus, organized for the purpose of showing the PAGE THREY z * e A e e A AT A e B ek