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A IN TAL TO Tim
Patriotic Farmers
of Montana
By CARL W. RADDICK, A Farmer from Fergus County
Republican Candidate For
CONGRESS
From Eastern Montana
M1y fellow citizens and friends:
It is time for .us farmers to wake
'up.
We look after the little things and
let the big things go.
Why not elect a farmer represent
ative to congress this fall?
Wly not send a man to Washing
ton who will look after the interests
of the farmer the same as big busi
ness has its interests looked after?
There are 295 lawyers in congress
and only six actual farmers.
FARMERS NEEDED IN CONGRESS
If we farmers ever expect a square
deal we must have our own repre
sentatives in congress to look after
our needs.
I am a farmer. I know the farm
ers' needs from my own experience.
I believe I can make a success look
ing out for my farmer friends at
Washington. I want to be sent to
congress for that purpose.
I am a Republican and proud of it.
I am a farmer and proud of that. I
am an American first of all and espe
cially proud of that. If I go to
Washington I will be an American
first, a farm(er next and a Republican
after that.
NO POLITICS IN THE WAR
I will work above all things to win
the war. I believe the Democrat pol
iticians are all wrong when they
claim it will tale pa Democrat conr
gress to win the war.
President Wilson has had to ask
his own party to defeat a large num
ber of Democrat congressmen be
cause they would not help him in the
war. ft"
Four Republican congressmen have
recently resigned to join the army.
Four. Democrat congressmen have
recently resigned to take high sal
aried public jobs. Chairman Dent of
the Military Affairs 'Committee, Floor
.Leader Kitchin, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, and
other pronninent Democrat leaders in
congress have: opposed major war
measures proposed by the president,
while Republican leaders stood by
the president. These are matters of
actual record.
r-.o)LE FOOLED BY POLITICIANS
Two years ago the Democrat com
mittee fooled the people by shouting
"He kept us out of war." They knew
vwe were bound to be in the war very
shortly and that we should have been
in it three years before, but they
wanted to win a partisan election
first.
They knew that preparation for
war was demanded by common
sense. It would have saved the lives
of thousands of American boys. It
would have prevented the collapse of
Russia and shortened the war by two
years or more. Now, these same
Democrats say "Vote the Democrat
ticket to prove your patriotism."
If it takes a Democrat congress to
win the war, why doesn't it take
Democrat soldiers and Democrat
shipbuilders and Democrat munition
factories? I say it takes Americans
to win this war, and I claim to be a
better American than the people who
said, "He kept us out of war."
TWO SONS IN FRANCE
I have two boys driving battle air
ships on te firing line in France.
No cheap/politiian denied them the!
right to serve because they are Re
publicans, aidd no politfclan car make
me believe I have to become a Demo
&rat to be patrietic.
SAME sEDIiIek FOR EVktrY
But wbt yoe a to .know, my
ltow farm1ers, 'is wsir I will do it
in send m to ashingston. te here
are some of the tings I will vote fYt
q Aht f if -yeme there:
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tutes or other things because if it did
ih would also have to fix the price of
the chief product of the south,
namely, cotton. If you send me to
Washington I will work to correct
this gross injustice.
WHEAT PRICE TOO LOW.
I will also work to raise the price
of wheat. The present administra
tion vetoed $2.50 for wheat because it
would raise the cost of living to the
working man. Let us look into this.
A barrel of flour takes 4% bushels
of wheat. Raising the wheat from
$2.00 to $2.50 would raise the cost
of flour $2.25 per barrel. In peace
time the average American eats a
barrel of flour a year. Suppose a
wo: king man has a wife and four
children, giving the wheat raiser a
sqliare deal on price would raise the
cost of living to a working man
,$13.50 per year, or practically one
dollar per month, and working men
are earning from $4.00 to $20.00 per
day, ol $i00 to $600 per month. But
the administration wouldn't allow
men to be charged a dollar a month
more for their flour. And yet the
Democ at party claims to be the
friend of the farmer and wants your
vote.
WIHU A RICH MAN KICKED
I h:td other iijustices against the
farr,.'~ forc'bly b-hrught to my atten
tin w!!.*n e, cted assessor of Fergus
county by my farmer friends four
years ago. I had promised to assess
all kind of property alike. Our laws
demanded this and I thpught no one
wcul:i complain. Small farmers,
owning two or eight cows, were as
sessed for that number and none of
them complained in the least, but
when I put on the assessment books
the 7,000 head of cattle owned by
one of the wealthiest men in the
state the rich man was astounded.
He had reported but 1700 head. He
wrote mne a letter stating that for 20
years he had run cattle on the free
range of Montana and never before
had he even been asked to give at
accounting. For 20 years he had
seen no injustice in a custom where
by the little fellow' paid his full share
of taxes while the big man paid less
than one-quarter of his. The rich
man didn't like me for making him
pay his fair share. Probably other
rich men will feel the same when I
vote at Washington for laws which
treat them exactly like the poor man.
I initend to do so just the same. I
consider that as one of the things you
will be sending me to congress for.
PATRIOTIC TAX DODGERS.
Rich money lenders of Fergus
county did not like it because I made
them pay taxes on their money loan
ing corporations. They never had
paid, although they were getting rich
off the thousands of 10 per cent mort
gages plastered on farms in Fergus
and adjoining counties. They gloried
in their patriotism, while dodging
their taxes.
Some of the oil companies, rail
road companies and express com
panies made an awful fuss when I
required them for the first time in
their experience, to pay taxes like
ordinary folks.
I didn't mistreat anybody because
he was big. I just treated everybody
alike, And the people of Fergus
county placed their stamp of approv
al on my work by re-blecting me by
5,000 more votes than were east for
the head of my ticket.
I want.to go to congress to give
you the some kind of service there.
SOA4-BD B THE MEAT TRUST
Iast fall:I took six car of cattle
to then Chieag market:. The day be.
foie estl my iattlethe goerne
had u° n tahe -pacrs the brgss
- fir meat ever die. The
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irenvame t, to our a s to pt
s1 Were the - ed a
pop fai
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w, the war.- If you sead me' to
Wasaington I shall work -for a law
Which w Ipe out this outrage.
f.'A MfS GROWING 1OORER
I personally have hundreds of
neighbors and friends who have been
farming for five to ten years, and are
no richer today than when they
started. Some are considerably
poorer, and they have worked from
daylight to dark, winter and sum
mer, good weather and bad. The
tired look on the faces of the women
of the farms tello its own story more
eloquently than I can tell it.
Farm tenantry in America is rap
idly increasing. Farm population is
not keeping pace with the increasing
population of the cities. Every fact
and statistic one can sedure on this
subject leads to but one conclusion:
There is a national need that farm
life can be made more remunerative
an* attractive.
Last year's government report of
taxes on incomes shows that 20 out
of every 100 stock brokers in the
country received an income of $3,000
or over, and that but one out of
every 400 farmers made as much.
Things are topsy-turvy. The scales
of opportunity are out of balance for
the farmer.
WHAT FARMERS WANT
I shall work for laws which will
mean that farmers and wheat raisers
will make the same profit for the
same amount of work that cotton
growers, munition workers and meat
packers do.
Why should men become immense
ly wealthy and draw enormous wages
sc1ling their products to the govern
ment and the wheat grower and live
stock raiher be compelled to sell his
at a loss ?
I shall ask no special favors for
the farmers, but I shall demand that
he be given a .wuare deal with all
other workers.
FREE LAND AND EQUIPMENT
FOR SOLDIERS
There were thousands of unem
ployed when the war broke out. Af
ter the war those thousands will be
multiplied unless American markets
are protected. I stand for protection
of American farmers and laborers.
Our boys at the front are giving
up much. While they are fighting
for us, I would stop the profiteering
that is robbing them and their de
pendents. After the+ war I would re
turn our soldiers to civil life quick
ly and give every one a free home
stead and the equipment to farm it.
We must win this war first of all,
but there is no need for gross injus
tice to the farmer while it is being
won. That is the big reason why pol
itics cannot and must not be ad
journed during the war. Justice must
be done and the American farmer
given a square deal in war times the
same as in peace times.
I WANT PATRIOTIC FARMERS
TO STANI) BY ME
The profiteers, the men who have
been getting special favors from
Washington, won't be for me. They
-will fight me in order to protect their
own special privileges. But for ev
ery vote I lose for that redson, I
want a hundred loyal and patriotic
farmers and their wives to stand by
me, not to honor me, but that we may
send a fellow farmer to congress -to
work and vote for the square deal for
Mentana farmers, that we are en
titled to.
RESERVE NEWS ITEMS
(By our special correspondent)
Mr. and Mrs. Eidness and Miss
Minnie motored to Plentywood on
Tuesday. The latter left on Friday
Imorning for her home at Williston,
N. D., and then to Marshaltown, Ia.,
at which place she is due to report
October 10th in the Student's Nurse
Reserve Corps.
Miss Hanson entertained a few of
her friends to a whist party Thurs
day evening. Refreshments were
served at midnight.
The Fred Bare and O. B. Hoven
families and D. Bowman came down
to hunt ducks and visit friends here
Sunday.
Among those on the sick list are:
Peter Reiten, Mr. and M.I. Jas.
Singleton and daughter, Georgia and
the Overby family.
Oscar Mitstock is having house.
erected on his and his sister's claim
west of town this week.
John K1llak has sold his black
smith shoe to John Kithoff.
Eeserve oversabacribed their liber
ty lon quota.
Two of Pete Whitiahem children
[died at pSanish In&ensa this week.
JWELDR AMUNDSON'S
N1W QUARTERS READY