New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-12
Farmers Urge
President to
Draft Wealth
Farmers Non-P artisanLeagu
Sends Delegates to
Capital 4
Big Convention TO
Be Held in St. Paul
Radicals Will Draft Protests
Against $40
Wheat
By Theodore M. Knappen

CHICAGO, Sept. ll.-Couriers OF
what is apparently the most formida.
bic economic revolutionary propaganda
/ The war has yet caused passed through
: Chicago to-day on their way TO inter.
I view President Wilson tomorrow
/ They represent the National Non-Par.
tisan League. which already dominate,
the politics and government Of North
Dakota and is making tremendou
strides in all the Northwestern States
/ with view to similar control of them
/ IN the interest OF the agriculturis:
II is the grange. the farmers alliance
and populism Of other days in new
birth.
The ambassadors Of the organization
which elected a country newspaper car
toonist to Congress just to show its
power to regular politicians and polti-
cal organizations, are: II. Z. CASTOR.
editor of The Courier News" the daily
paper published by the Non-Partisar
League al Fargo. y. y, and J. G..
Scholtz, representing the legislative
committees Of the farmers organiza-
ton OF Idaho.
High Profits Taxes Urged
A. c. Townley, president Of the
league, which has its headquarters in
ST. Paul, sent the President the fol-
loving telegram 10 pave the way for
his Representatives:
The National Partisan League.
IN cooperation with other organizations
OF farmers and organized labor, will
( have delegation in Washington rep
resenting over one million voters on
I Wednesday, and requests the privilege
OF brief interview with you regarding
the pending revenue bill. 70 urge your
, cooperation in securing higher excess
profits and income taxes 20 carry out
your noble assertion that profits and
patriotism cannot be used in the same
sentence"
Big Convention Planned
The interview with the President is
a piece Of advance publicity work for
the national mass convention of pro
. Gucers and consumers that the league
/ has called to meet at St. Paul next
week. Il will be a gathering chiefly
OF league members, organized labor
/ representatives., Socialists, reformers
and radicals generally
Among the men whom President
Townley has invited by telegram to
join the league representatives in wait
ing on the President and the Finance
1 Committee OF the Senate and the Ways
and Means Committee Of the House are
Amos P.nchot, John J. Hopper, Owen
I r. Lovejoy and J. G. Phelps-Stokes. of
New York; William +. Cochran. of
| Baltimore; Andrew Furseth, Samuel
Gompers; A. " Todd. Kalamazoo,
Mich; Clifford Thorne, Walter Fisher
and Graham Taylor, Chicago; Frank p.
I Walsh, Kansas City. and john p. White,
Indianapolis, president Of the lnterns-
tional Mine Workers Union.
Wilson To Be Invited
This delegation will seek to elicit a
declaration from President Wilson in
favor Of the CONSUMPTION Of wealth,
and will invite him to attend the con-
vention. They will probably urge the
Congressional finance committees 10
add $4,000, 100000 more to the income
sur-taX.
The programme Of the convention has
not yet been made public. but il is re-
ported that Senator's La Toilette and
Gronna will be among the speakers.
The wheat price of 1920, Chicago.
established By the food administration.
will be bitterly condemned, and the
convention will probably be asked to
advocate immediate seizure by the gov
eminent of all the basic Industries,
natural resources and the railways
The farmers of the Northwest are so
much interested in the programme that
il is believed that very little wheat
will be marketed until after the con-
vention, in the hope that il will result
in higher price for wheat.
Leaders Anxious for Peace
B While it is stated that the conven-
ton will stand squarelv behind the
. President in his war policy, it is more
than likely that il may grow into a
sort OF disguised Peoples Council, and
it is probable that many members OF
that organization will attend. The Non
Partisan League favors the peace terms
of the Russian Council of Soldiers and
Workmen, and Its leaders have very
little sympathy with Americas par.
ticipation in the war. The leaders will
however, doubtless endeayor TO confne
. the discussions to internal questions
but with a mass convention open 10
any one who can get TO st. Paul there
is a good chance that the meeting will
make its own programme. Attendance
Of about 10000 is expected. One re-
suit of the meeting may be to broaden
the scope of the Non-PArtisan League
so that others than farmers may be ad-