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iOlLEÏ OPPOSES
HEAD OF NONPAUTIZAN LEAGUE
DENOUNCES EFFORTS TO PRO
DUCE MORE WHEAT ,
The program of the nonpartisan
league and the campaign it is carrying
Ion to control the legislative and indus
■ trial situation in western states in
interest of a special class, should
.given the deepest consideration by every
thinking man and woman.
Predicting the whole campaign is the
• socialistic cry that the so-called rich
fnan is grinding down the poor man and
capitalizing his labors without just
turns.
This sentiment is voiced in the public
■utterances of the leaders of this move
ment and as an example wc quote from
the published report of President 1 own
leys speech delivered the day after reg
istration day at Willislon, N. D. :
"Billions of wealth are piled in
the laps of the already rotten rich,
placed there by your industry here
«it home—wealth they need not, but
which is a detriment to them and
WE say to our country 'Come take
of their wealth as much as you want
and as much as you need.'
"We are told it is our duty to
raise large crops, but I say it is
more our duty to find out what is
going to be done with our crop than
it is our duty to grow it.
; . refuse to urge you farmers to
raise a larger crop until you or they
wipe out this monstrous wrong and
I will say that unless they are big
enough to control the transportation
of food and coal for the Northwest
I cannot see a possibility of the '
^United States being successful in
this war."
Such expressions as this create claâs
hatred, stir up strife and discord and
magnify grievances which are largely
imaginary and which the government is
handling in a manner far superior to
socialistic management which the league
- advocates.
It is such language as this tliat creates
•confusion and unrest among our own
people at a critical time.
And it is such advice as this that is
largely responsible for the falling off in
acreage of such crops as sugar beets this
year when we should have had a great
Jy increased production to meet the
world shortage of sugar.
Last but not least, the revolution and
following demoralization and break down
of government in Russia is a striking
illustration of fanning the flames of class
Batted until the conflagration took place.
Many excuses can he pleaded for the
■Russians for they have lived for cen
turies under grinding oppression and
ignorant and uneducated people,
No such condition exists in the United
States and no such excuse can be plead
-c'd and yet we find the leaders of this
•so-called farmers' organization, using
language to incite our citizens which
would pufc to shame the leaders of the
Bolshevik! element in Russia.
As citizens, oroperty owners and tax
payers are vou ready to adopt the social
Stic platform advocated by this league,
including state ownership of your fartp
lands, horses, cattle and machinery t*5
specified in recent North Dakota pri
maries, turn our government over to a
reign of socialism and become a landless
rent-paying tenant?
Do you think a campaign of this kind,
creating political unrest, and uncertainty
Mis««
were an
your state and nation to a campaign of
radicalism and experimenting which
might severely handicap it at this time.
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ISSUE STATEMENT
TELL WHAT THEY ARE DOING
IN FEEDING THE AMERICAN
AND ALLIED ARMIES
American packers are
doing far more than merely furnishing
meat foods to the soldiers and sailors of
the United States and her allies, accord
I ing to C. S. Churchill, advisory superin
tendent for Swift & Company, who ad
dressed the American Meat Packers'
CHICAGO.
convention today.
"The general public realizes little of
j (.| ie W ork that the packer is doing to
win the war ," said Mr. Churchill. "We
are furnishing a great deal of material
( f or ti le rnafiufacture of munitions, in
! eluding glycerine, potash, and sulphuric
acid. Our sheep skins are used to manu
facture cold-proof coats.
: too numerous
which, I believe, does not have an im
portant place in the conduct of the war.
"We, of Swift & Company, believe in
giving credit where credit is due, and I
want to say that our labor has per
formed cheerfully the giant tasks set for
us by the food administration. No order
has been too big, no job too overwhelm
ing for them.
"Recognition of this willingness to
scrv e has resulted in an increase for
ma ] e labor totaling more than 100 per
cent since February, 1916. In the case of
our female help the increase has been
even greater, this help now receiving
155 pe r cent more than in 1916."
i'o take care of the war business, Mr.
Churchill said that all the packers in
(i ie country had been forced to build
new freezers and buildings of every de
scription at a cost two to three times
greater than pre-war cost,
H e paid tribute to the government in
spcctors of the bureau of animal indus
try and of the army who select the meat,
and said.
"i n addition to the safeguard that
this is to the soldier and sailor, it is
a safeguard to us. It safeguards us from
attack from those who for their own
personal aggrandizement or for other
reasons mav seek to criticize unjustly
one of the" few industries that in the
éarly days of the war, and up to the
present time, has continued to supply
our government with what it wanted, as
it wanted it, when it was needed, with
out quibble as to price.
"That is a record of which we should
be proud, gentlemen. It demonstrates
that we are doing—not our bit, but our
full share toward winning the war, doing
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"Every pound of wool that we have
is taken by the government as fast as
we produce it, and the price is fixed by
the government.
"There isn't a pound of stock food
manufactured today that is not being
used to help win the war, because it
! goes to put weight on live stock that is
1 badly needed by our soldiers and
sailors.
"The tons of fertilizer which we
manufacture aid in growing more crops
that will be used later to feed more sol
diers to fight the Hun. Glue has its
Soap certainly is a big item.
Albumen is another highly important
product ; it is now used in the construc
tion of airplanes.
"There are also many other products.
to mention, not one of
uses.
WHY THE KAISER
ASKED FOR PEACE
WILEY BUTCHER PLANNED TO
STOP LIBERTY LOAN AND
TROOP SHIPMENTS
It is by this time fairly obvious
the most superficial students of the
war just why Germany let loose
extremely shrill and entirely insin
cere plea for an armistice.
Hindenburg and Ludendorff, unable
to find new soldiers sufficient to fill
the enormous gaps made by Foch's
bites all along their front, faced the
necessity of shortening that line.
Two years ago, Hindenburg was
able to withdraw to the "Hindenburg
line" before the allies discovered what
he was doing. The movement was
therefore free from pressure and cost
the Germans practically nothing
men or material.
This year, however, with allied in
fantry, artillery and tanks right upon
his heels along every inch of the line,
the German has been forced to
treat, not withdraw, and his retreat
has been accompanied by the loss of
thousands killed and prisoners and
millions of dollars worth of munitions
and other supplies.
On no front could he shake his
pursuers off long enough to make an
orderly withdrawal of a single unit.
Hence the peace plea on the for
lorn hope that a slackening of allied
pursuit, if not an actual armistice,
would give him the few days
sary to straighten out the disorgan
ized tangle into which Foch had
thrown his armies.
Fresh triumphs by the allied troops
have shown the kaiser how clearly
Marshal Foch discerned that the Ger
man peace plea was a cry for time.
But there is apparent danger that
one of the lesser objects of the
quest for an armistice may be suc
cessful. This was the kaiser's hope
that the imminence of peace would
cause the American at home to lose
his enthusiasm for the support of
the American fighting men—that the
man who should be buying Liberty
bonds would say:
"Oh well, peace will be declared
very soon now. Let somebody else
buy Liberty bonds."
The kaiser was too farsighted not
to know that the actual approach of
pea U would have that eÿfecUHtoo
deep-dyed in treacherous propaganda
not to realize that the phantom peace
his cry raised would have a similar
effect.
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Relative to the effect of the latest
". e ,5 man P ea ce offensive on the fourth
Liberty Loan campaign, J. K. Lynch,
governor of the federal reserve bank
of San Francisco and chairman of the
Liberty loan committee of the Twelfth
District, says:
f wants time to re
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don t let him do it. Close this loan
up quickly and shut off the output of
po son gas as well in America as
in F rance. If we slacken our ef
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The War is Not Yet Won.
The fourth Liberty loan must be
not only subscribed, but far
subscribed. Buy fourth
bo^'i» and if vou have already bought
—BUY MORE.
over
Liberty
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SEVEN WAR WORK
RELIEF AGENCIES
JOIN IN DRIVE
Recognized Great Organizations
Representing Ail Creeds and
Elements Welded Into One.
$170,500,000 IS THE GOAL
Plan of War Department to Avoid
Waste of Energy and Duplication
of Effort Enthusiastically Adopt
ed and Unity Is Achieved.
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WHAT GENERAL
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On November 11 the American peo
ple will start a one week's drive to
raise the largest amount of money
ever given outright by any people in
the history of the world.
The drive will be a new thing under
For the first time Protes
the sun.
tants, Catholics and Jews, forgetting
all their differences, will line up shoul
der to shoulder, welding their Indlvld
ual organizations together In their
common devotion to the boys In the
cantonments and over .here.
This
amalgamation of the seven great agen
cies engaged In war work is one of the
fine developments which have been
brought about by the war and under
the wise guidance of President Wilson.
The seven organizations which to
gether will make this united appeal
are the Y. M. C. A.. Y. W. C. A.. Na
tional Catholic War Council and K.
of C., the Jewish Welfare Board, the
War Camp Community Service, the
American Library Assoclatldn and the
Salvation Army. Each of them will
need funds this Fall ; each had planned
a separate campaign for support.
Now, acting on the suggestion of the
President's letter of September 5, the
seven campaigns will be rolled Into
one. The American people will be
spared the burden of seven separata
appeals, and the nation will have an
opportunity to demonstrate splendidly
that men and women of all creeds at
home can work together, as men of
all creeds over there are fighting and
dying together.
Dr. John R. Mott, whom President
Wilson has spoken of as one of th«
ablest and most useful men of his gen
eration, has been selected Dlrectoi
General of the drive. It Is Interesting
to note that Dr. Mott's name wa«
placed in nomination by John G. Aga«
of the National Catholic War Counci]
and seconded by Mortimer L. Schiff ol
the Jewish Welfare Board. The gen
ernl committee having the campai gj
In charge contains such well known
names as Raymond B. Fosdick, Chair
man of the Commission on Training
Camp Activities ; George W. Perkins,
Chairman of the Finance Committed
of the U. S. Steel Corporation ; James
F. Phelan of Hornblower and Weeks |
Honorable Myron T. Herrick, former
ambassador to Franc.e ; Cleveland H,
Dodge, George Gordon Battle, Mrs,
Henry P. Davison and Frank A. Yam
derllp, president of the National City
Bank.
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In every city, county and town th«
campaign will be in charge of the big 1 -
gest men of th.e community.
Together these seven organization!
represent a work that Is staggering in
Its proportions. They have more than ,
15,000 uniformed workers, standing
shoulder to shoulder with the boys ev
ery step of the way from home to th«
front line trenches. They operate zpor«
than 3,600 buildings and ship 500 ton«
of supplies to the boys In France ev
ery week. Fifteen miles of film set
sail for the other side each week nn
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der their direction, and the regular
weekly attendance of soldiers and sail- |
ors at their motion picture shows is
more than 2,500,000. The Bibles fur. !
nlshed to the boys since the war broke
out would, If piled one on another,
make a pile more than twenty mllee
high.
"Morale," said Napoleon, "is as oth
er factors In war as three to one." By
which he meant that one man who 1»
kept contented and happy is better
than three men who are discouraged
and homesick. It is the business of
these seven great agencies to help
maintain morale. They are keeping
up the fine fighting edge of our boys,
and by their ministrations, helping to
put added power into our army and
navy and so hasten the hour of victory
when they will bring our boys home
again.
It is predicted by national leaders
that this great victory drive will "go
over the top" in a larger way than any
campaign that has preceded it
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The Virgin of Montabau, the only
thing left of a strafed village. This
town has just fallen to the British af
ter the Huns had given orders to hold
It at all costs.
HUNS ARE SPRINTERS
Georgia Lieutenant. Gives His
Estimate of Enemy.
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Over the Boche, He
Says.
Atlanta, Ga.—"Don't worry about
me, mother ; I'll be better in a few
days than before because of a good
rest," wrote Lieut. L. V. Stephens to
his mother from "over-there," after he
had recovered from a gas attack and
shell shock during the big drive start
'Kamerad, Kamerad/ ,^Y^.h
some few exceptions the? abso utely
will not mix It with the Americans.
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This Is no exaggeration at all, but a
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the infantry with the exception of the
first all through the drive until I was
sent back to the hospital, and therefore
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I know what I am talking about. I tell
you, man for man. the American has it
all over the Boche. As long as they
are massed they fight. But get them
separated, even a little, and they are
through.
"I am Inclined to believe that the
Boche have changed their opinion in
regard to the amateur soldiers and of
ficers of the American army."
ed July 18. He longs to go back into
fiction. Describing the Hun's fighting
ability Lieutenant Stephens says:
"What a treacherous, cowardly lot
They'll blaze
they are,
away with their machine guns and do
their best to kill all the Americans
on earth, but when we get to within
a hundred or two yards of them, out
they come with absolutely no weapons
on their persons, their hands high In
the air and calling for all they're
worth :
he said.
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DEAF MEN FAILURES
IN AVIATION SERVICE
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Akron, O.—"Silent Bob" Ho- J'
gan of this city has decided that î
a deaf man has no business In J
the aviation service of the army. +
He tried to get in and found that ^
those who are deaf have no *J*
sense of balance. Balance is J
due to eye, ear and muscle. The +
trial of six deaf mutes proves X
that the ear Is one of the requl- T
sites for balance. X
RfiiCP RARRITÇ FOR Cflfin !
nMiot nMDDI o run ruuu
Ofl Man Takes Contract to Eliminate !
Olaremore, Okla.—Bert Sprangle, a
well-known oil man, has the biggest
job in the gift of the city of Clare
more. He has been awarded the con
tract of eliminating mosquitoes from
the city.
He is burying olF barrels in the
city sewers, and plans to keep a steady
but slow stream of oil flowing through
them. All poöls also will be oiled.
The oil is donated local oil com
panies.
Will Soon Take Its Place in West
ern Markets Along With
Other Meats.
will take Its place In Cleveland and
Cleveland, O.—Rabbit meat now 1
other Western markets as a house- )
hold food along with other standard I
meats.
The raising of rabbits for meat is
Just starting In Cleveland, Secretary
H. M. Adolph of the Cleveland Rab
bit Breeders' association declared,
following a movement that has re
cently been started in the far West.
"There is no reason why rabbit
meat should not become as popular
ns any other meat," Mr. Adolph said,
"for when It is produced on a stock 1
farm basis It is as delicate as any."
TO RID CITY OF MOSQUITOES
Pests From Oklahoma
Tov/n.
RAIDING PLANES
TERRIFY ENEM
Germans Thrown Into Panto by
Daring Tactics of Allied
Flyers.
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MACHINES SKIM THE EAETI
Low-Flying Airplanes Disorganize To»
by Sudden Burst of Fire at Close
Range—Break Up Transport
Columns.
London.—The progressive effective
ness of the allies, both in the construc
tion of airplanes and In the air Sibl
ing, has never before been more c'-jap
ly proved than In the recent operations
on the western front. In last motth'S
offensive the harrying of German cav
alry, marching Infantry and transport
by low-flying airplanes was the first
example of a really large scale coun
ter-offensive from the air.
FWb a R. A. F. officer of lon^s|^
perlence It was learned that it
a deliberate method of air fighting
conducted on the tip and run prindJH
of one swooping dive to earth, brlagln?
the airplane Into close rifle range "only
at the lowest point of the dive, bt-t by
machines which fly audaciously low
until their ammunition Is exhausted, so
low that pilots have identified the
regimental Insignia of the troops at
tacked, so low that the airplane wheels
have been known to skim the earth.
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Transport Columns Broken Up.
The object of these low-flying pilots
has been to disorganize the Germans
by a sudden burst of fire at close range,
and very successfully they have done
It, especially when breaking up trans
port columns and causing stampedes
of frightened horses. But the method
has developed until now a British air
plane will fly along—not merely across
—a trench, machine-gunning It, and
such a thing may happen, as at Hamel,
where airplanes and tanks co-operated
to such purpose that the infantry ad
vanced upon an already quite disor
ganized enemy.
I It Is routine work for the low-flying
airplane to Interrupt German working
1 parties far behind the lines with ma-"
chine gun Are, and when one remem
bers tliat the same parties are likely to
j be bombed In their billets from the air
by night, their heart for work may be ■
Imagined, for both day and night the
bombing of railways, airdromes, camps
and dumps goes on with its almultane
j ous effect upon supply, communication
, and morale, and far behind the lines
the sources of supply on the Rhine are
„ persist ently devastated,
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suffer , s In T
ceaseless bombing of billets. It Is the
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^esslve air war of the entente which
s ' eadly and accumulatively depreci
ates the mora,e of the German soldler '
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"And an ammunition dump was
blown up." What thrilling stories may
He behind many of these brief stereo
typed phrases In the official communi
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An ammunition dump was
blown up,"—and much rise besides.
Sprays Them With Bullets.
Here Is Just one little Incident told
by Lient. L. Walmsley of the R. A. F.,
which may serve by way of Illustra
tion :
The Germans were reported to be
concentrating at the village of X. A
little chaser was run out, and the pilot
ordered to confirm the report, to harass
the enemy as much as possible with
machine gun fire; also to use his
pigcfous light bombs on the best avail
able target. ■
Ten minutes' flying brings^him to •
the trench lines, and the deafening
noise of battle drowns even the sound
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of the engine.
The Germans arq attacking and a
long, ragged, gray line of piled up
cor Pses, which the airman at first mls
takes for sandbags, shows the terrible
price they are paying.
But sheltering behind this ghastly
rampart of human flesh are living
Huns, and the pilot dives down until
he Is only 50 feet above them. Then,'
as he skims over the line, he opens fire
with both guns, pouring out a hall of
death that soon visibly thickens the In
animate gray masses.
But there is even more important
work at hand. The village of X is
quickly reached. The market square
Is crowded with artillery and ammu
nition carts. Diving to a height of less
than 600 feet, the airman drops a
bomb, and turns, just In time to avoid
the force of the concussion caused by
the tremendous explosion that fol
lows. A direct hit has been made on
the ammunition cart, and the havoc
wrought In that market square baffles
description.
The roads leading backward from
the village are now carefully recon
noitered. There is no sign of life
until a large wood is reached. Here a
squadron of Uhlans Is found. A sec
pnd bomb is landed right in the midst
of them, and in a few seconds the ad- ] 1 4
joining fields are brown with stam- j |
peding horses,
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The Unloaded Gun.
Stevens Point, Wis.—While playing
soldier Dan Rosenthal, thirteen, accl
dqtnally shot and instantly killed his
eleven-year-old brother, Nick, when he
pointed a supposedly empty shotgun at
the smaller lad and then pulled the
trigger.
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