The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-02
The new MINNESOTA
NON-PAR1ISAN LEAGUE
Expects to Have Membership OF
100000 by Harvest Time. Cook
County to be Represented. ~-

resented in the new Minnesota Non
Partisan League, the farmers organ
ization formed recentlyf or the fur
Their development of Minnesota as an
agricultural state and the better
ment of marketing and other farm
ing conditions.
This is the assurance given by Of
fcers of the League, who have an
nounced that in the near future a
systematic canvass of the county
will be made under the supervision
of the local director to give every
farmer an opportunity to enroll I'M
der the Minnesota Non-Partisan
League Banner.
Incorporated less than a month
ago, the movement has met with
such encouragement that the officers
now confidently predict, that it will
number close to 100000 farmers in
it's ranks before the next crop is
harvested.
Mr.. John A. Stoneburg of Cam
bridge, Minnesota, is president Of
the new organization, and Mr.. c. F..
johnson of Marine Mills is secretary,
while Mr.. Oscar w. Blomquist Of
Spencer Brook is third member of
the advisory board, which will be in
creased as soon as the 100 directors
have been elected and can hold o
meeting.
Many persons have made inquiries
concerning the League, and at their
suggestion, the officers have issued
the following statement:
The Minnesota Non-Partisan
League is an organization of, by and
for the farmers of Minnesota
The League was founded on the
theory that the farmers, represent
ing as they do, the states greatest
and most important interest, are en-
titled to WELD their share of power
and influence. This, as is we'll known,
they have too frequently been unable
to do in the past.
The Leagues sole object is to pro-
vide a common ground on which the
farmers Of the state can unite and
secure that power and influence, and
through it's wise use, accomplish re-
forms which will make Minnesota a
greater state a etter state to live in,
and make farming more attractive
and more profitable
The Leagues platform is on file
with it's articles of association in the
public records of the Secretary of
State at St. Paul. Chief among it's
thirty-six planks is this: ITO favor
laws that tend to the conversation
Of all property or properties that
through the government belong to
the public; that will prevent ruin,
waste and destruction; that will i'm
prove natural resources to the true
benefit of humanity for all time"
Everything about the League is o.
pen and above board and as such is
subject to it's strictest regulations.
This means that there will be no
graft for anybody.
The Leagues active membership is
open to bona fde farmers of Mime
sofa, and it's honorary membership
is extended only to those Minnesota
citizens known to be honestly inter-
ested in agriculture, and approved
by the farmers themselves. Only &C.
tive members can vote for it's Off
GERS and directors.
The board of directors, must come
from every section of the state No
more than two can reside in the
same county according to the
Leagues bylaws.
None of the officers and directors
will receive cent of salary for their
services as such. They must be sub
stantial, public-spirited citizens, re-
spected in their own communities
and possessed of sincere desire to
secure justice for the farmers. They
will not therefore be inspired by am
bition for personal aggrandizement
or personal gain.
The elimination of these high sal
aries makes possible the low mem
bership fee fixed by the League Sc
for a two year term, and insures
that every cent of it will 20 to pay
the legitimate expenses of carrying
on the Leagues work.
Just how low this fee is can be
readily seen by comparing it with
the amount the sum of SIG the North
Dakota Non-Partisan League charges
Minnesota farmers for letting North
Dakota men run their affairs
major share of that amount would
be paid to it's officers and promoters
(and used for buying Fords for it's
soicitors.) The fact that the men,