The nonpartisan leader. [volume], February 01, 1917, Image 17

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The Nonpartisan organization was
effective and produced the preliminary
results desired by its members, solely
because they first Joined the move
ment and then remained steadfast un
til the polls closed on the seventh day
of last November. Bo far, so good.
But the work is only begun. Much re
mains yet to be accomplished. The
farmers declared they would "stick"
and having stuck they won the first
round in an economic battle that will
require considerable time yet before
the fruits of victory can be realized.
The second and equally Important
step will be for every farmer to renew
his membership for two years more
and possibly longer. The cost of mem
bership is a mere bagatelle compared
with the benefits that will accrue to
farmers and local merchants when
some of the tremendous leaks have
been plugged up and a larger propor
tion of the profits of farming are kept'
in the state for improvements and for
bettering living conditions. When this
is done, and the doing of it id entirely
feasible, merchants, bankers and pro
fessional men will all share in the in
creased prosperity of the state.
PROGRAM IS VITAL
TO PEOPLE OF STATE
On an average the farmers have been
mulcted out of not less than $50,000,000,
partly by donating the- by-products
such as dockage as well as paying un
necessary freight bills and for losses
sustained on account of price manipu
lations. Much of this can be remedied.
Much of it should be remedied.
The program voted for so over
whelmingly at the last election is as
vital an issue now and will be for sev
„eral years to come as it was two years
On one petition sent from the little
town of Golden "Valley in Mercer coun
ty to a League member to be presented
.to Senator John Young, who is opposed
to the League constitutional plan, there
were 34 names, nearly half of whom
were business men of the town, repre
senting nearly every business there.
Attorney Alf. O. Nelson of Dunn
Center, also in Senator Young's dis
trict, appeared before a -caucus last
week, while a visitor in Bismarck, and
told of the almost unanimous adoption
of a resolution by the Dunn Center Com
mercial club indorsing the plan for a
constitution to be submitted as soon as
possible by this legislature to the peo
ple. Mr. Nelson said that the senti
ment of that part of the county, re
gardless of whether the residents are
engaged in farming or not, is for the
constitution that the League desires.
"We found House Bill 44 was not the
socialistic document that some of its
enemies said it was," he said before the
caucus:
North Dakota Reorganization
By John H. Worst, Former President of N. D.
A. C., in the New Rockford State Center
W. J. Church, a League member, of
Hearing on his return from EDDs*
boro Saturday that Representative
A. O. Divet of Wahpeton, bad ad
dressed a meeting of Fargo business
men here on House Bill 44, the pro
posed new'constitution for the states
President A. C. Townley of the Non
partisan League, Issued'a challenge to
Mr. Divet to meet a representative of
the League in Fargo in a debate on the
bill.
A The challenge was Issued in the form
of an open letter sent by Mr. Townley
to the Courier-News for publication.
The letter follows:
Hon. A. G. Divet, -V
Depx Sir:
Hearing that you have sought occa
sion to discuss before residents of
Fargo the merits of House Bill 44, con
taining the proposed, new constitution
for the state of Worth Dakota, I wish
to offer you the opportunity to. address
an audience in this city under circum
stances which will Insure the most rep
resentative hearing possible.
I herelpy challenge you to meet a
representative of the Nonpartisan
XeagU~e in a debate on the merits of
the new constitution and the validity
of the process involved in House Bill
4i. I will permit you to select the date
Farmers Write Letters
Senators and Representatives at Bismarck Hear
From Home
Divet is Challenged
President Townley Says League Speaker Will
Meet Enemy of Farmers' Cause
SEVENTEEN
ago, and unless the organization Is
maintained intact the work up to the
present time win largely go by default
If farmers were sincere then they
should be more so now, for having put
their hands to the plow they scarcely
dare to look back.
It .is not likely that serious opposi
tion will be offered by hold-over sena
tors on the ground that they were
elected- before the Nonpartisan League
was organized and hence are not bound
to support its program. True they are
not but they nevertheless know the
temper of the vast majority of the vot
ers, and for them to block the program
voted for will only defer as well as in
tensify the determination of the farm
ers to complete their program even if
it requires another campaign in order
to retire all opponents to private life.
FEE IS NOT BIG
COMPARED TO BENEFIT
Even without opposition the consti
tution will have to be amended liber
ally or wholly revised before half the
program can be made effective, which
is sufficient warrant for a continuance
of the organization until its object is
fully realized.
The two year fee of $18.00 is ex
tremely modest when compared with
what is required of other organizations,
that do not represent a fraction of the
interests involved in this movement
This fee will be magnified tremendous
ly, however, by those who hope to in
fluence the farmer to abandon his al
legiance, but the paltry sum of $8.00
per year will not scare many farmers.
Few are cheap as that especially when
they know that "Big Interests" would
spend millions of dollars to break down
their organization.
Benson county, received a letter from
one of his constituents at Leeds, urg
ing his utmost endeavor in behalf of
the constitution proposed by the
League, in which he said in part:
"I see your name on the honor roll
in the Leader, and commend the stand
you have taken, and hope you will stay
by it If you can not get a good con
stitution bill through, adjourn and
come home and in 1918 the senate will
be O. K. I wrote a letter some days
ago to Senator Kirkeide and also told
him to show my letter to you and
"Maddock. Give my best regards to
"Maddock—and stand by the farmers,
or come home."
A letter from a prominent merchant
in Walsh county to Senator Levang
declares that regardless of membership
In the Nonpartisan League the peo
ple of that section want a new consti
tution modeled on the lines of House
Bill 44, and wrote that petitions are
being circulated in that section to be
forwarded to the senate urging favor
able action.
of the discussion, stipulating only that
it shall be not sooner than Sunday,
February but §3 soon as possible
thereafter, and that the place in which
the debate shall take place shall be the
largest suitable hall available in the
city of Fargo. The hall will be pro
vided without expense to you.
If you desire to obtain the fullest
publicity for the provisions of this bill
and the fullest possible expression of
public sentiment thereon your pur
poses are in full accord with mine and
I believe you should have no hesitation
in accepting this offer qpd in confer
ring regarding details of the meeting.
A. C. TOWNLEY,
Pres. Farmers' Nonpartisan League.
"The purpose of this is just what I
state in the letter addressed to Mr.
Divet," said Mr. Townley last night
"We want to have the public thoroly
informed about this bin, Mr. Divet is
one of the ablest speakers and the most
.energetic of those who are opposing
the passage of the bill. We believe
that if he meets a supporter of the bUl
in a public debate here the people of
Fargo wUl have the best possible op
portunity to form independent opin
ions on the subject.
1 sincerely hope Mr. Divet will see
lit ta accept this offer and set a date
for a meeting."
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