The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-27
TOWb[[Y L|MhS
THE PURPOSE Of .
FARMER LEAGUE
North Dakota Man Speaks at Food
Conserver's New York
Convention 4.
DENIES N, P. LEAGUE HAS
PRo-GERMAN LEANING
Charges Millers and Middlemen
with More Than Five Cent
4, Bread, WV

New York, Nov. GA. C. Townley
president of the Farmers Nonpartisan
league Of North Dakota, an organi
cation which aims to eliminate the
middleman in the system of food dis
tribution, spoke al a meeting here last
night called to consider tAe Organi
cation of a similar league in New York
state.
Mr.. Townley and othe rspeakers
John J. Mitchell, New York state food
administrator, and Representative
John Baer, Of North Dakota, denied
that the organization was pro-German
or against the prosecution of the war
but that the aims were ayowedly pa
triOtic.
'..The farmer OF the northwest" Mr..
Townley declared, "did not subscribe
heavily to the first liberty loan lie.
cause he had invested his all for a
heavy crop. as called for by the gov
eminent, but in the second liberty
loan North Dakota surpassed every
other state in the union by oversub.
scribing to the loan by 70 per cent"
Mr., Townley declared. the middle
man reaps heavy toll at the ex.
pense of the producer and the con
sumner" He dwelt largely on war
profiteering," especially among the
millers, who. he said, are making a
dollar barrel on -four when twenty.
five cents is considered a reasonable
profit. The farmers did their part to
establish five cent loaf of bread by
reducing the price of wheat to 1925
a bushel but the excess profit of the
millers compels the consumer to pay
more than five cents for bread, he
added
AN executive conference of forty
farmers and representatives of labor
unions was held in the afternoon at
which Mr.. Townley presided. Res
were adopted that a city in
terms of food, extends beyond it's po-
litical boundaries for miles and in
cluded the food producing farms as
WE'LL and added that the, producers
and consumers of this conference who
in the past have been kept apart by
middlemen, politicians and
their agents must bring their influ-
ence to bear on all citizens food coun-
ellis in which they participate toward
of some kind from both
the produced and consumers"
COALITION ON CONGRESS
Chicago, Nov. 27.-Plans for Non
partisan campaigns wherever neces-
sary to quiet any anti-war political
were discussed Monday by
democratic national committeeman
and state chairman from. twelve mid
western states. Fred B.Lynch, ma
tional committeeman from minnesota,
was elected chairman Of the confer
ence. He declared a.nonpartisan COM
bination was an immediate necessity
in congressional districts and states
where there was any real danger Of
an anti-American socialist cOmbina-
ton that nigh result in the defeat
of the administration and its war pol
icies in 1918.
Wisconsin, with it's immediate stu.
alton, caused by the death of Senator
Husting and the activity of senator
La Toilette, was the center OF the dis
cussion, but those in the conference
were concerned about other states.
Illinois has some counties that have
failed to get behind the war, it was
charged, and in Minnesota and the
Dakotas the so-called farmers move
ment'' has made an impression po-
litically.