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THE NONPARTISAN LEADER
Official Organ of the Nonpartisan League of North Dakota.
B. E. Dehrens 1 Editor and Manager
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Advertising rates on application.
Subscriptions, one year, in advance, $1.60.
Address, Box 919, Fargo, North Dakota.
The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by
farmers. Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly ad
vertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly
•hould they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm
Which patronizes our advertising columns.
Discriminating advertisers recognize The Nonpartisan Leader as the best
medium in the state of North Dakota through which to reach the wide
•wake and up-to-date farmers.
AN INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT
I HE LEADER takes pleasure in announcing to its readers
that very soon we will start a series of articles by the Hon.
Chas. A. Lindberg, Congressman from the 6th Minnesota
district.
Mr. Lindberg has represented the 6th district in Congress
for nearly ten years and is regarded as one of the most sanely
progressive representatives in the lower House.
Mr. Lindberg created extensive interest by his money trust
investigation and his subsequent book on that question. He is
a student of the money or currency problem and what he shall
have to say will be of value and interest to readers of the Leader.
Mr. Lindberg has announced his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for the governorship of Minnesota in 1916.
WHAT THE FARMER LOST IN TWO MONTHS
CCORDINO to Secretary of Agriculture Huston, North Da
kota wheat dropped 33 cents per bushel during August
and 3 cents during September.
We said dropped. What we meant to say was that it was
knocked down, hammered down.
That 3-cent drop meant a loss of $4 ,118,060.
That 33-cent drop meant a loss of $47,118,060.
The total loss for August and September was $51,400,000.
Here is the caper the market cut:
At the outbreak of war wheat was 76 cents.
First of April, on the farms, it was $1.31.
First of April, at Markets, it was $1.50 to $1.75.
When the big crop was a certainty it was $1.06.
When it began to move it was 91 cents.
When it got to moving good, 86 cents.
But the 1916 wheat is worth about $2.00 a bushel now!
THE BLESSINGS OF "PREPAREDNESS*
CLERGYMAN in New Orleans, was awakened by somebody
in liis study. Thinking the intruder was a burglar, he
seized a revolver and fired, killing the son of his friend
he was prepared.
A Cleveland street car conductor was awakened in the night
by footsteps in the hall. He took a handy revolver, one that you
"aim just like pointing the finger," slipped to the door, called out,
and receiving no answer, fired. His eight-year-old girl fell dead
at his feet—he was prepared.
A New Jersey father kept a revolver in the house to shoot
burglars with. The other day his little boy got the pistol, and
while playing with it, shot and killed himself—the father was
prepared.
Two men in Chicago had a "few words." In the heat of
passion one of the men whipped out a handy automatic and shot
his friend, killing him instantly:—he was prepared.
Ten or a dozen European nations have for years spent mil
lions for army and navy maintainance. Today they are all torn
and rent with the greatest war the world has-ever known—they
were prepared.
HIGH HANDED SLUGGERY
HE present rate on wheat from New York to Liverpool is 36
cents a bushel. This is about seven times the normal
charge. The owners of vessels now make
than a normal profit on one trip
The excuse for this robbery is the disappeaknce of German
.hips from the „1
the iiversta ofminy SSS, FreS
and merchant, ships for war purposes.
flesh for its penny.
It costs the farmer 80
sells it for 90, out of which he pays brokerage, dockage, elevator
charges, freight charges and other incidentals.
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In other words, as soon js. competition is eliminated those people their constitutional right to control the issue of money
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The shipping trust takes it from New York to Liverpool and
charges 36 cents a bushel and makes over and above all reason
able profit $60,000 per ship load.
And if the farmer attempts to organize and fix things so he
can get a few cents more, the mouth pieces of big business will
scream "Sucker," "rube," "graft!"
When big and respectable thieves and thugs cop off four or
five thousand per cent these same saintly sheets attribute it to
"business sagacity and industrial far-sightedness."
LAND IS SLIPPING AWAY
HE time "has come for the people of this government to
realize that its land inheritance is slipping away, and
that ownership is being concentrated into the hands of
a limited number of individuals."
In the foregoing words Investigator Holmqn of the Industrial
Relations Commission warns the nation of the growing tenant
problem.
In justifying his alarm he cites some striking instances. Out
of 27 counties in Georgia he points out, 70 per cent of the farms
were occupied by tenants, 20 per cent by owners so heavily in
debt that they were hardly any more independent than tenants,
and only 10 per cent were actually independent.
In Texas, he affirms, more than 200,000 farms are tended
by tenants. That 200,000 farms comprise more that 52 per cent
of the total number of farms in Texas.
As a remedy for these conditions, the San Francisco Bulletin
recommends state credits.
The state can give cheaper credits, because it requires no
profits and because what is to the interest of the farmer is to the
interest of the state. How much more far-sighted it would be for
the state to loan money to farmers at a low rate on long loans
than to loan it to Banks at low interest who in turn loan to farm
ers at high rates.
THEY ARE TRYING TO BEFUDDLE YOU
AST week, under a Fargo date line, a news story appeared
in a Northwest Dakota newspaper purporting to set forth
some of the activities of the Nonpartisan League with ref
erence to candidates for governor.
This report affirmed that the League had held recent con
ferences in /this city at which it was decided to "put up" one of
two candidates for governor, naming them.
The Nonpartisan Leader desires to most emphatically brand
these statements as absolutely false and untrue. No such con
ferences have been held. No conferences have been held. No
such, or any other selections have been made. There is absolutely
no. foundation in fact for this report. It is a fabrication pure and
simple. It hatched in the prolific brain of a conniving political
trickster. It is an effort to confuse you—to mislead you, to befud
dle you.
Remember your rock salt.
When "conferences" are held, you, the members of the
League will hold them. You members of the League will make
"selections" for office when any are made. You thirty-thousand
farmers are the League. When you have done anything you will
know it. And you will do it before the gang knows anything
about it.
Don't believe these stories. The fellows who write them
don't know what they are writing about. Their wishes are the
parents of their thoughts. They are plunging in the dark. They
are tossing in their sleep. They are .worried. They are talking
out of their heads. ,:
OTHERS ARE AWAKENING -w
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ORTH Dakota farmers are not the only farmers that are
coming out of the hypnotic spell-that, the interlocking
league of lenders, speculators and creditors'have cast over
them for so many years.
Out in Nebraska they are awakening At the:convention
of the Farmers Union recently held at Lincoln, a resolution was
passed that will send the cold shivers up and down the spjnal
column of Big Biz ia undulating wave&V
It. went on record "charging that the Federal Reserve Sys
tem has furnished no equitable aid," and pledged its members
to oppose all candidates for presidency, United States Senator or
Congress vho would not pledge themselves to vote for "exclusive
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beheftWand demanded tC to tSe
end demanded ttet the
operate the banks for the benefit of all the people, as it now runs
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Further demands were a real rajra.1 credit act, a national mar-
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