The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-05
WELL PAID SOLICITORS


 These solicitors have another object they are seeking members, for they are paid by the organization $4 for every member they secure, and not a few of the solicitors have found it possible to make greater earnings in this way than they were ever before able to secure. Notwithstanding this payment of & for each member secured, nevertheless the initial fee is so large that the league has been able to build up very large revenues. These 1t employs with real skill. It pays well for able services. It has established newspapers and recently it broke ground for its own packing riant at Fargo. This is only of sev- eral elaborate and ambitious schemes which the league has in view.
 Now this influence is spreading, and it is feared may secure foothold in northern Minnesota and may sweep through South Dakota It is an influence which many of the citizens of those states are now preparing to reach and overcome, but the political campaign in these states this fall will probably have as it's sole issue the question. Will tnls league dominate other states as it has dominated North Dakota, or will it be confined to North Dakota, there to dem onstrate whether it is doomed to failure whether US success IS so great tId | other agricultural communities may De prevailed upon to accept 1t
 This organization and the serious situa- ton which has been created by the labor agitators in some parts of the west, do cause some anxiety. Nevertheless the farmers of the northwest are doing won- ders this year in the way of production. Business men in the ninth federal re- serve district and bankers united in the early spring before it was known that there would be an offer of liberty loan of s2 coo. GOO 900 in an effort to per suade the farmers greatly to increase their acreage The farmers responded cordially to these appeals and were able to do that because the banks of the northwest gave liberal support to them. million acres of crops which are awaiting harvest in North Dakota would not have been planted had 1t not been for the urgent appeal of bankers and business men, and for the assistance of the banks. The aggregate of the loans to the farmers in North Dakota was probably as much as $10000,O0o
 Throughout the entire agricultural country, some of it very rich in soil, be- tween Minneapolis and the Rocky mourn tains, the farmers responded to an appeal of this kind as they did in North Da- kota, The banks encouraged great pro- duction and were Wiling 10 take more of a chance than in any previous plant ing season. They did this because they realized that the northwestern wheat crop this year is to be an extremely important factor in the worlds situa- tion.
 By midautumn or before the hard frosts come, these farmers should be receiving hundreds of millions of dollars for then harvests, provided climatic conditions are favorable. and it is the belief that if the farmers do as well with their harvest as is expected, they will more iberailS subscribe to the new loan than they die to the liberty oaa. Furthermore. many of them are just beginning to compre- hend what the liberty loan meant ana how greatly the country, as whole supported it.