New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-18
Farmers Gather
In War Council

ably will force IL in the long run to
come into the open and act directly as
new political partya new radieaI
party, party intent on government
ownership and the extension OF govern,
mont control, n party that will not call
itself socialistic and that will not seen
10 nut forward a general philosophy
but which will work for one dchni'o
reform after another. .
Want Burden Shared
The primary cause OF the pIes,n'
conference Ia the governments action
in flying the rricc Of wheat at S3'lo'
The dav this price was fixed wheat was
selling M So O6 the bushel The test OF
the farmers patriotism has beeh
severe one, but he is game ana Is PiII
narod 10 stand II, provided tnaV az
other producers take the same KIM VI
"Fiy the nrice Of what ! buy as wen
&C What 7 sell" says the farmer spesh-
nc tbrough the league. In TINS sltuh-
80, .ha LEAGUE sees great opportuhlt!
20 ADVANCE its main programme
clemens for the fixing of the price oi
everything whose relative price Is ols
turbsd nv an arbitrary price lot Wned';
IL would have the price OF oresd hNeu
ord Of everything the farmer mas 70
use and buv in making wheat tha' ne
must sell At s2,2C.
Either that or remove the RoNein
uent price altogether and let Ine
farmer oct his share Of profiteering IN
a mad rush for the trough. In gen
cral wav the men end women to-day
swarminr into St Paul 70 attend the
conference would like TO see the gov
orrment take over the railways, the
mines and all the basic industries Tor
the pcriod Of the war, snd then, VINO
knows, perhaps for all time.
Ban on Sedition
Although many Of the leaders have
little sympathy with Americas par
ticipation in the war, they nave
learned lesson Of discretion from the
sad fate that befell the Peoples Coun-
Gil, and President Townley has an
nounced that the league is for the gov,
eminent in its war for democracy ana
will not permit any seditious talk at
the meeting. Whoever talks sedltloh
will be thrown out, he says.
And yet Senators La Toilette and
Gronna are on the programme, and also
Jeanette RANKIN.
La Toilette is billed to speak on
THE Peoples Fight" which Is sub
ject quite broad enough for him to
get onto the topic of the war before
he gets through. Gronna's subject,
Wheat and the World War" will give
that statesman liberal opportunity
to express his intense patriotism.
Congressman George NJ. Young, OF
North Dakota, is going TO talk about
cone Hundred Per Cent Conscription,
which means the conscription OF all
war profits for the National Treasury,
and Senator Borah, Of Idaho, is down
for an address on "Amerlcanlsm YER
sus War"
Explosive Topics
A score Of other topics Of an eX-
plosive nature are 10 be discussed by
men prominent in the agricultural and
labor union fields, and wide margin
Of time is TO be reserved for general
discussion, in the course of which the
"sedition" will probably break out II
at all.
In brief. It may he said that the
war has started lot of things, and
has made more complications than any
body dreamed Of The Non-Partissn
League thinks the war has opened the
door to a new ers-not only the
Of the world. but tho
complete characterization OF the United
States.
II is now loading the first gun in
a great campaign to make new Amer
lea out of an America already so
changed by the war that II hardly
recognizes itself. II has determined
that the crystallizstion Of systems and
institutions out of the war chaos shall
be on brand new lines.