The nonpartisan leader. [volume], December 21, 1916, Image 9

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I notice on the
.last page an
^article entitled
Jt ^An Immigra-"
Vtion /Story."
I While7.1. know
but. very "little
about North
.. .... ., Dakota^ real
estate men,. think fjrpni the article above
referred to many of theiri ar^about the
same stamp of ?'critter" as we find the
world over. Now I have never been stung
by any of them and never intend to do
any business with theib, but at the same
&me I ^wotdd like to see soihe of the .worst
type get it in the neck good' and plenty.
spring, or rather lateiin the win
ter of 1914 a mto Mine to this state from
lowa to look up something to bitter his
condition COmrng so late in the season
he. could $nd nothing that looked good and
Was1 about to go further when socle one
suggested to him that he call on a locals
*eal estate man.
.. Oh yes, he—thereal estate man—had
Just what this Iowa man was looking for.
Why didn't you come to me jirtfiefirst
place, he said. "I've located lots of
you Iowa men and they are all doing'well
—getting .rich hand. over fist. They
can!t help it here anyone can make
money i£. he hfcs any 'git' at all- Ill
take you right root this afternoon. Let's
go and -have7- dinger fiifefcf-f™
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AGENT DID NOT TEt#^
ALL ABOUT THE PLXCE
the Iowa man bit.
took Mm out aboot 12 miles in the
country and showed him Wiiat-lie had.
,Th$fe wasabout three feet of snow on
the level and the agent forgot to state
that about. 99 per cent of the Water from
.the snoyf. would not run off the place
.when it melt# in the spri&gr He ai&o>
fo®Bp| to jstatef-that the rest .of the
that was-high enough to farriE, was so
fop of "quack" grass that he'coqldn^
put his plug hat down, without spoiling
the "quack" m«re or less.'
s' Mr* Re&lEstate .Wan would a lot rather
*ell' titan rent the place, but the Iowa
man was -shy-"and 'said he would rather
rent fori few years first, and finally did
rent the place at $4.50 per" acre for a
.'term-of five years.
Well, after he^got his familyjup from*
lowa and his ear of stock planted on his
place he began to inqmre^arotuid among
Sis new? ifei£hborB and.foi^d wher^ ,1k Mpv
Tiorl f\Aan .vbKimm' jr*ri_
had, been stung' good' aiid 'hafd."^Kie
.place, he found, had changed hands' five
times'in foot years, and the last man
^gjrcho owned it told his son he could rent
it for the taxes^ but &e young fellow
flras "wise."
"Noting doing, jlad," he saidi
Our Mend from Iowa^being from that
£State, plitiited'everything could gfet at
£to.conij and that Iras a total failure that
Sothe liad nothing to jpay3i& rent
*«, with* He then went, to the agent and
g^jbsked him to wait till next year for his
This Iowa man, knowing- he- was
i't^ip ^gainst it, yet was, willing to put his
^liose. to' the grindstone to make,that rent
up- Her was, not. a, quitter. He hacK
sptotk:and 'he .wanted to do the best he
Sure, Mr' Agent wag^ wilting to wait
for .the rait—didn't want,_to puah our
Iowa friend. Of iirse not. But the
agent just liad to hi^re a little: mortgagre
on the Iowa man's personalr.propex^ 4s
Just a little business formality
i»^«f slapping a chattel mortgage on ail thef
stoclfc, nMfthiiijdy eti^'v So they fixed -it
ujp.' jjWhat -^g«oiddrthe Iowa man dt?
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DITOEr Nonpar*
tisan Leader:
In your issue
of December 7
7J-V.:
The agent
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The Iowa man, who caine to Minnesota
with enthusiasm, two 'strong handB and a
fine farm equipment, including stock, is
working for a dollar "'a day, and if it
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Editor Nonpartisan Xieader
IWEAT AN6BACKACHE
ITEn^OvgSCQNp CROP
Ifc. Rent^r went aftor it again the^ne#
£y®ai\\with thfe T^sjUt J^st he had« fairly
^good «rop. He xoi^bit with fhat^fcum
potaid froml sun-up to sun-d^vn: ^God
^oti^MiieriRreat and backache pqtint«
iJtat ctopf- He laiew thejf 'had him dead 's -»-«o
'to
rigfite'
unless-ief dfd~get a- crop and'-he
^-Bll the l^eague candidates-*and all the League members!. Your true
worked with the courage of desperation.
reader andiaember of the organization,^
So he got a fairly good crop, much to "V 1^.'
ATrue Story of Minnesota
lows is God's truth. That agent took"SfWt for his family he even wouldn't
all that second year's crop for the second be drawing that down for himself, for if
ye^rs rent, and lie foreclosed the chattel he was a single man they would garnishee
mortgage for the first year's rent. He his pay and make him live on roots, I
stripped the Iowa man as clean as a suppose.
hound's tooth, and left him broke and% That agent is still doing business at the
stranded without a Cent and a long way* :same old stand and I understnad has the
from Iowa. And there was a big1, place rented again to another poor cuss.
grocery bill to pay, and the running
expenses pf the family for nearly two
years to 'square Up.-
®^S®Probing- Rotten,.Teeth
This is the second true story of the northwest to be printed
In the Leader. The Leader wants readers to send more of them.
They should tell of pioneer days and the struggle of the farmers,
whether successful or not, against conditions, or, like this one,
they can tell of present times. The Leader wiS pay liberally for
true.stories accepted and printed. Stick to the facte. The Leader
will not print true names when the pubUcity would humih^te farm
ers*. No attention will be paid to anonymous inters inclosing stories
of this kind. 1
The writer of the 6nie story on this page has drilled right, down
into the nerve cavity of a rotteh tooth of our eeonomic system. I He
has prodded the nerve and it~~hurts. It is only by sucK probing
and prodding that evil conditjonSjcgtt be brought to public attention
~when a rotten tooth like this one hurts we i)ay attention to it aij.d
have it rs^air6d or if too badly rotted we will extract it.
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This" true story tells of tbe exploitation of a tenant farmer.
Why should farmers have to pay, rent for land anyway? There is
land enough for everyone who wants it and is-willing to put brain
and brawninto it and make it yield. But landlords a^e withholding
it from production for speculation .or for high rentals that mkke
th6 fanner merely a. slave. They charge enough rent so that he
has nothing left over after pacing expensies—they milk the last
cent df tribute put of the tenant. This is not a remote problem.
The last cemus showed that tenantry on the farms is increasing at
an alarming rate. Our landed rural population is fast becoming a
^fttinsr peasanti-y. ./
'•.f This story also shft^ws the results ^ieh unscrupuious^real
estate men. ifre allowed to deceive ihtendmg land buyers and
renters. "Let the buyer beware," the sWgan of ttie medieval mer
chants is all Well enough but what of it when all our laws and
customs are made to give the seller a free'^eld to' dxploit atld the
buyer little diiance to prevent himself being exploited when we
protect by law and custom the Unscrupulotis land agent jl whfen we
shower honors on him as an eminently.respectable person ahd often"'
send him to the legislature to make laws'for us, as the writer of this
story points out? Because lie is a "booster" he i^% member of .the
Commercial club, and his influence gets laws aiding immigration on
a plan to benefit real estate middlemen and not the. immigrant or
the residents already on the lan() and trying to m^e a living out of
it.
He is a respectable business man. He
belongs to the class we have been send
ing to the legislature to make laws for us.
He is a town,booster and his words have
weight in the-counsel^ of the Commercial
"Club, .j
In closing this true story I might add
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FAR •,OMC
see. A SkI'mNU(v\
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FROM LEAGUE MEMBER
C^Aliilon^N.
Leader: ^*"1 ~V
Lam very thankful to the Nonpartisan League antt^^riiljlra
for the*victory we had on November 7 last.. We never could have
gotten whatTveKave now if it wasn't for the Leagfte, and i^we stick,
together in.the" future li^e we.aid this year,, then wp ^ilKfljid out
that the League is a great blessing to us,
I hope 4hat by January 1 there won't be a fairmer-iejfrwh'o -isiL't
a League member. -"T ^n
Respectfully, and withtone voice:" Long live the N. P. League
«iiii "M_n
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T% Qecthim
a$y 5K
He could send his children to school and
let his .wife take a rest once in a while.
(God pity the wives of. the' tenanj farm
ers.) Now the land is up to' $4 and $5
an acre and the poorer the land the
higher the rent, so it seem?-. Ninety per
cent of the renters are not making good*
Of course, the hist few years have been
bad, but the rent has to be paid, just the
•same. ... ..
-Acute an& chronic -treated'at the
'Sanitarium by the uge of Badlo
Osteopathy., and Jtfy.4rlo.tlo
wwiw'
Tf3
that before the real estate men got hold
of everything in this country that wasn't
nailed down, land coqld be rented hen
for from $1.50 to $2.50 per acre.' A' 'f
renter could make a living on the best
of the land7 at that, if he worked hard*
Yours respectfully,
A RENTER.
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