The nonpartisan leader. [volume], December 21, 1916, Image 11

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maid&s. as- lowly as "lambs and as
humble as the violets that grow
HAD LITTLE, USELESS CLUBS
.There area number of things in aiegis
latfve way that the workers of the mine
shop and farm have needed and desired
^and kept on wanting because it never
X!®occurr£dto th^m that in order to have
legislatures working foi them it was
necessary for them to control the work
ings' of' the legislatures.
.rHeyetOfore the farmers have only
played at organising. They formed little
loiitl societies, lacking common aim pr
united effort, and they called
si^e high.
when the -pSttfe*
cians
»ev6lentl^ arisiJhf?
vilated ali the^
,'#realtl»i!'«£, the^..'
iempite^lftnd^ th,e
plebeians walked
theTM»rth/by *he
suffrance
oi
the
-fr4^
William Saadearsen, miller at. the North talking- with W. E. Thomas, its owner,
Dakota Agricultural college,^ S# and with fanners who were there 'waifc-
a i' rrwj,
About liandwagoners, etc.
Farmer Writes Some Reflections on Victory and Gives Advice
Donnybrook, N. D., Dec. 11, 1916
^Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
1^] Since the first Tuesday after the first
|p|&Ionday of November, our erstwhile sar
ls|castic brethren of- the press have devel
oped a startling defect in vision. The
rubes and all-the-while suckers are
round about as as thickly as ever, but the
caustic brethren can no longer see them.
Of' if they doy they are not saying ^so
-loudly enough ror the mbes to hear. **.
The vituperative brethren- now have
thei^. attention focused on cituen of
another fljjwt, "whom' they- speak of as
"salt of the earth," "brawny fisted Bon
sugary salutations. Before this citizen happening
.the" satirical brethren art as meek as they are not of much use.
ia.
shady
-"lanesk
-Why this gush of mushy stuff? Why
this rush to honor one so lately scorned?
Well^ because this is the first time, in
local and long-distance history, that the
.:••• farmer has set about doing a practical
thing a practical way.
when the ground is not frozen .the best
ttine.to milk is when the.cow is not dry\ ,us all.we have won.,
iuid-the best way"-to—get rich on—the c^. And what pore'necessary than a
fkzin is to? srflsuch grain vhen price* .sentry to'be ever on guard and ^fep'ittt
ridi, great am
phitheatres weife ^'letter I^ sent to "Farm, Stock' and
erected in wWch ^Were 'daily spec- Bome.^ I am sending it to you so' yoji
tacles called' glaidiatori^l combat^, c^n see howwfe Ifeel here inSouth Dakota.
where men bought each other ^like beasts" I think the Nonpartisan League id the
^aad beasts fought feach other like meii, greatest reform ever- started. I am
ror both were tamed in together t6 mi&e watdiing to see how they a*e going to
These investigators covered the Battle
ground that was covered by a represent
ative of the Nonpartisan Leader, as
Recounted in the issul of December 7, but
It happens that they visited different
farmers, and. talked with different farm
ers* wives. The facts they discovered,
however, were of .the same nature.
Everywhere people were satisfied with
the flout being
vmade
date. But it is -not an automatic and
will cease, to-work if neglected or. laid
aside. :It must be kept in' action for
fbrce's which impel.human greed to serve
its own ends are ever at .work. They
may be subdued but are never vanquished,
We have won one battle but we must win
more before .victory is complete, .This
battle was won by an untrained armiy
hurriedly mobilized. It caught the enemy'
tmawares. But "the enemy is .only
these ^defeated it ig not annihilated It will
hannless inventions clubs. Here they not enter the neitt fight unprepared. We
Hv&i that, to bot time to pta. is mart rty in tnuni.g
AgriciSMfar College Sends' Imresiig&orsto Minnesota-Town to Study Milling
of Light Wheat:
HE NORTH DAKOTA Agricul
tural college has sent its investi
gators to the Main Boiler Mills,
Phelps, Minn., the. commercial
flour mill that has been grinding, this^
season's rusted wheat into flour, and they*
have returned with a quantity of data,
which is now being worked into tabular
form and is shortly to be' published as a
bulletin supplementary to the wheat bul
letins ^which have .roiled the big milling
interests this year.
from the wheat, and
the farmers'.were highly elated with the
increased profits which they got.
The men who went were Will&m
Sanderson, millef at the college, and
William C. Palmer, editor of, the agri
cultural college publications, who will
have much.to do"witlj putting the material
^into form. They went to the mill and
spent a day there ^watching it operate,
ijm.
the show as bloody as possible. --^These
spectacles were free to the public and yet
paid the promoters immensely for they
made the ~tabble forget' that it was
hungry. Empty stomachs were forgot
ten in excited discussion of the spectacle
of today, and"eager anticipation of the.
spectaicle- of tomdrrow. So" long as the
populate was amused and entertained the
corrupt government was in no dai^er and
the game xtf-robbery -w^nt on unheeded.
"KEEP ORGANlZATION^f!^
md
Constantly' Advised as to the enemy's
•'lavements ?rrf Therein ^ies our ne^ of
"daily? newspaper^ We need ifoe'daily
to act as a sentry, ever4 vigilant, ready1
With its call to arms, when th$ time i^-.
ripe fah the s^nd battle. ~'V
QL0
1
ing to havfi their 40-pound wheat ground
into flour.- Mr. Sanderson took samples
of the "poor" wheat, and samples of the
flour it was making* and brought them.
back with him.
The wheat is now being ground in the
college mill and capeful data being com
piled upon it. When the run is° finished,
the flour that Mr. Sanderson has obtained
will be compared with the flour that he
brought from Phelps, and separate bak
ings of bread
fwill
be made from the two
lots, and the bread scored for its white
ness, lightness, and fineness.. The two
lots of flour will be baked in exactly the
same way, and when the comparison is
complete there will be means of knowing
how well the college mill stands up along
side of "the commercial mill in getting
1 results for the growers of wheat and
consumers of flour.
The farmers will know whether the
announcements, made from time to time
by the A. C. regarding the miiling and
grading of wheat are correct, accurate"
and practical or, whether they are the
irresponsible, biased, and theoretical
things that the,angry millers of the Twin
Cities say they are. Likewise the millers
will know whether they can get' away
with the offhand charge that the colWfee
head off this fanners'movement. They
surely will make it their business to head
it of 5
S.L. ROOT..
JSditp^ Farm, Stock and Home, -J"
*, Minneapolis, Minn.
feear Sir:
In your paper' of September, page 610,
you tell us how to work in harmony,
You send this article to parties in South
Dakota seeking inforination about the
Nonpartisan League^ I wish to comment
on one item, "The Money Question.''^
I have studied.this question ever siiife
Mr.. Owen was. boostfing the Populist
party
20
As a means, of promoting .social in^r* tribute *non# passed through their hands
coars^immen? clubs are really worth- about ever sojoftei|. ^en'theyjhid the
wine, but for accoinpusliing thuijs really.. same in Jstckloiifs tiixie for 40 years.
years ago. Let me jive
"a short
history."" The "money changers," we are
told, had- ah endless chain by which the
Then in and tibiey had la^s which
Igave the, '3m^ifeyLcBaiiers:„ihe:J..same
W out 151 banks a« briers of the
League they sSed^^ in:^
thd? hands a club that th^oiwy the-people -^f ^s govern,
is really a CLUB, it
-makes Teddv and his ^k |or 6to42 per wt^ They make.
from 11 to 23 per eent on some shdrt
loans, the comptroller of tfe cflr.
Jiaa-performed npbly to to it by saying
ryou could.gefempneyfor 8 p^r cent.
But if. ypu are satisfied with this situ-
tthe
perfect o»r abo.t the other ,!x ad th.
mobilization.or the ne»t conflict may- lose _.
^..
DeSaefc, S.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
you "see I ain enclosing a copy dt-
ISsi
ET.KVE^t
le?d~
'ation, we are hot. I. wrote you. about'one
case reported by the comptroller of" the
currency where the pr6iit was Wer 1090
per cent. That wias a casie where -the
borrower was" charged 2400 per cent".
Now if the people of Noi-th Dakota have
been robbed directly in this don't
yottrthink they are robbed indir^cj ly in a
score of other ,,wa^s This is jpnly one,
J^'Seten .^iniancial (jonspinicies'' which
Have been in operation sincerities Civil
War. I would: like to t^l: every voter
changing some laws, before weJcan have
government "of, by. and for the people."
Now would yea blame, me for taking
and acting^after the plan of the Nazar^na
Onder^similar conditions?
S. L: ROOT, DeSmet,^S. D.
wMyJ:
is manufacturing evidence, or whether
they will have. to revise their kicks, and
attack on a different front. Both farmers
and millers will have new evidence from
ja practical milling source added to the
combined practical mill and scientific
laboratory evidence that has been used
in announcing results.
It is expected the supplemental bulletin
will be issued shortly.
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