The nonpartisan leader. [volume], August 16, 1917, Image 18

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Fargo,. N. Dak.
ADVERTISEMENTS
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possible in financing the crop USE
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ALL GRAIN SHIPMENTS. THIS
IS THE YELLOW KIND.
We honor drafts for 75 per cent of
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for
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Livestock Department
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216 Broadway FARGO, N. IX
HE KNOWS BAER
AND KNOWS FACTS
"An attempt is made by inuendo in
this editorial to charge discredit and
disloyalty to the people of North Da
kota on account of the result of the re
cent election in North Dakota in the
First Congressional district, in which
Hon. John M. Baer, whose candidacy
had been indorsed by the farmers' or
ganization, known as the Nonpartisan
league, was elected by a large plurality
over the other candidates at the elec
tion for this office. On account of the
refections in this editorial, and also on
account of similar slurring reflections
that have recently appeared in Wash
ington and New York papers in refer
ence to Mr. Baer's election, I am impel
led to say a few words in regard to the
election of Mr. Baer and in regard to
Mr. Baer himself, who will soon take
his place in this body.
"I had hoped that Mr. Baer would
be here this week to speak for him
self, but I am advised that certain im
portant engagements will prevent him
from reaching Warrington for several
days, arid since he is not going to ba
here for some time I can not longer
pass without notice the unfair com
ments and references that have been
made as to the reasons for his elec
tion.
"I have known Mr. Baer personally
for about ten years. He is a splendid
type of young American manhood, who
is in every way worthy of a seat in
this body. (ApplauseO His loyalty
and patriotism needs no defense from
anyone. To those who know him It
speaks for itself. He comes from a
long line of fighting rather than talking
patriotic Americans. His father was
one of those brave men who assisted
in saving the Union. His father, al
though a staunch-Democrat, carried hia
rifle in the front of the battle, and gave
the fullest measure of his support to
the plans of President Lincoln for car
rying on the war between the North
and South to final success. (Applause.)
His brother sacrificed his life for his
country as a soldier in the Spanish-
American war. John M. Baer himself
has been, as long as I have known him,
a loya.1 and intensely patriotic young
American. His election was not won,
as has been suggested, on any pacifist
platform. (Applause.) HiB election
was not won on any platform in oppo
sition to the present war. He advo
cated in hia campaign, as far as I know
nothing un-American and nothing dis
loyal or unpatriotic.
BAER ADVOCATED
WEALTH CONSCRIPTION
PAGE EIGHTEEN
"In his campaign Mr. Baer announc
ed time and again that he was in favor
of conscription of men and the carrying
on of this war to an early success, but
that he was equally in favor of the
conscription of property to meet the
needed expenses of this war. (Ap
plause.) Mr. Baer during his campaign
strongly supported thejplaii that & larg^
part of the revenue for the
of the present war should Te &
Lies About Baer Nailed
Congressman Norton Tells National Congress
Something About Farmers' Representative
1ONGRESSMAN P. D. NOR-
ton of North Dakota, in the
L^lJ house of representatives at
Washington, D. C., last week,
nailed some of the lies which
the corporation controlled newspapers
of the East have been printing about
the farmers of the Northwest and their
newly elected congressman, John M.
Baer of North Dakota.
Congressman Norton told congress
about the efforts that North Dakota
farmers had made to help the United
States with a bumper crop, about their
subscriptions to the Liberty Loan and
Red Cros funds and finally about the
military record which North Dakota
troops made in the Spanish-American
war.
Norton paid his respects to "Lafe"
Young, the notorious standpat politi
cian of Iowa whose paper, the Des
Moines Capital, recently made a veno
mous attack upon North Dakota farm
ers and Congressman Baer. The fol
lowing quotation from Congressman
Norton's speech is taken verbatim from
the Congressional Record:
"If former Senator Lafayette Young
or the slimy saurian who gave birth
to this editorial had taken the trouble
to become really acquainted with the
farmers of North Dakota he would
have discovered that their loyalty and
patriotism is in no way and in no -de
gree less in this war than the loyalty
and patriotism of the best farmers of
Iowa and would have found, as a mat
ter of fact, the loyalty and patriotism
of the farmers of North Dakota aver
age higher than the loyalty and patriot
ism of a like number of people in al
most any other section of the country.
from taxes on large Incomes and on
excess profits. This plan of financing
the war is one in which the rank and
file of the people of my state and of
many other states as well are much
interested. This plan for financing the
war has been advocated by myself and
By my colleague (Mr. Young of North
Dakota) and by a number of others ia
the house and senate since the war
began.
"It is an issue to which the country
Is much alive. It is a practical and
feasible way of financing the war. It
is a fair and just way of securing the
revenues to carry on the war. It in
volves the policy of distributing aa
equitably as it 4s humanly possible to
do so the burdens of the war, among
our people. It involves a fundamental
principle of taxation to which I trust
a majority in the congress will give
favorable heed in the final considera
tion of all revenue bills to provide
money for meeling the expenses of the
war. (Applause.)
"In conclusion, let me say to the
editor of the Des Moines Register and
to other editors of like kind who have
recently taken it upon themselves to
freely criticize the patriotism and loy
alty of the farmers of North Dakota
that the farmers of North Dakota
need no precepts of patriotism or loy
alty from them. On the other h&nd,
these verbosely self-acclaimed patri
otic editors might, to the better welfare
of their country, follow the example of
patriotism and loyalty already set by
thousands of North Dakota farmers
and North Dakota, farmer boys and
girls since the beginning of the war-in
their real contribution of those things
which will most aid in bringing suc
cess to our cause in this war.
"If the people throughout the rest of
our country- do their part in this war
as well as the farmers of North Dakota
are certain to do their part, there wiU
be no occasion for anyone to fear but
that monarchy and autocracy will re
ceive a final deathblow in this war, and
that a reign of real democracy will
have a new birth throughout the na
tions of the earth, and that after the
war the whole world will be happier,
safer, and better place for the rank
and. file of humanity in which to live.
(Applause.)" a ,.
HE'S A NONPARTISAN
At last North Dakota has an attor
ney General that knows the laws and
believes in enforcing them to the ietter.
The latest raid occurred at Grand
Forks lately. A brewery was operated
in Minnesota~and catered to North Da
kota trade. In order to buybeer of this
brewery one had to become a stock-1
holder, which was very easy, as there
seemed to be plenty of brokers on the
North Dakota side. This novel plan of
disposing of its wares had the officials
of our state puzzled, but it didn't get
Langer's goat. It doesn't make much
difference to Bill whether you are a
street sweeper or a banker when it
comes to law enforcement—BUFFALO
(N. D.) EXPRESS.
FARGO MAN WINS
PATENT SUIT
The federal court at Minneapolis has
entered a decree sustaining the validity
of a patent on a wild oats separator
owned by Albert Holland of Fargo,
The decision is by United States Dis
trict Judge Page Morris.
The suit was commenced about a
year ago against the Minneapolis Sepa
rator company because of its infringe
ment of Mr. Holland's patent, and th«
defendant is now enjoined from con
tinuing the manufacture, use, or sale
of the Infringing separator.
Mr. Holland is the inventor and suc
cessful manufacturer of the separator
which takes advantage of the fact that
wild oats are bearded, and removes
them from the cultivated grain by
causing them to" stick to a lining ot
cotton flannel on the Interior of a re
volving cylinder. By this simple and
comparatively Inexpensive machine the
seed is purified and the fields are prov
tected against an injurious growth of
weeds.
"The competition of the infringer had
not been extensive but the great value
of the decision Is due to the fact that
it will deter others from unlawfully ap
propriating Mr. Holland's clever inven
tion. When a patent has.,once been
sustained the federal courts are likely
to deal summarily with subsequent in
fringement It is understood that the
defendant will not appeal from the
decree granted by Judge Morris and
the decision is therefore likely to be
final"
lUr, Holland was represented by John
19. Stryker, a St Paul patent attorney,
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