Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-24
FOUR STATES ADDED
TO LEAGUE LIST

FOUR STATES ADDED
TO LEAGUE LIST
National Headquarters Of Farmers
Organization to be 1t St. Paul.
National headquarters OF the Farm.
ers' Non-partisan League will be ca.
tablished in St. Paul, within a month.
according to g. statement made by A.
Z. Townley, president of the league.
President Townley's announcement
opens another epoch in the history of
this remarkable political organization
which, launched in North Dakota less
than two years ago, swept the state
In the primaries and general election
and already has been extended into
three other states.
With the establishment Of the Ma
t1onal headquarters in St. Paul, the
League will launch organization work
in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and
Michigan. Organization already has
attained great Roadway in Minnesota.
South Dakota and Montana.
Later the organization will be ex-
tended into the south, the southwest
and the Pacific coast states.
The object of establishing the head
quarters in st. Paul, is to provide a
central Office from which the work of
organization can be more convenient
ly directed in all western, central and
southern states. It is a convenient
point from which to keep in touch
with organization work from Michi-
gan to the coast and south into Iowa.
Kansas and Nebraska.
The establishment of the head quar-
tiers at st. Paul means that the or
ganization has already become ma
t1onal In its scope. The problems of
the farmers of North Dakota are the
same as those of the farmers of all
the agricultural states of the union.
They can only be solved correctly by
the united political efforts of all the
farmers of the nation.
The program of the Non-partisan
League Of North Dakota in its essen
tials, seeks to find remedy for econ
omic abuses from which the farmers
of the state have suffered. Programs
In the other states in which organiza-
ton work is going forward are almost
exactly similar. They call for strict
state supervision of making conditions
and public ownership of important in
dustries which relate to the market
ing Of farmers products, such as
grain elevators, by which it is pro-
posed to establish a fair system of
grades and marketing, packing hous-
es cold storage plants and -four mills.
Ultimately it is planned to have
Federal ownership of grain elevators
and other important and necessary
adjuncts to marketing which are now
controlled by monopoly to the great
injury Of every citizen Of the United
States, consumers of farm products
as well as farmers.
Each of the states in which organ
ization is now under way has an exc
cutive board of farmers living in that
state. David PaQuin of Long Prairie
is chairman of the board in Mime
sofa, where there are now about 49,
900 members. Great progress has al
SO been made with the organization
work in Montana and South Dakota.
President Townley, as the head of
the national organization, will move
from Fargo to St. Paul upon the es.
tablishment of the national headquar.
ters in the Minnesota capital.
The success of the Non-partisan
League movement in North Dakota in
capturing the state administration
and a majority in the state legislature
has given it tremendous impetus in
adjoining states. League leaders in
North Dakota state that even before
the primaries they began to receive
many inquiries from other farming
states regarding the methods of Or
ganization in North Dakota. After the
primaries this crystalized into defin-
tie requests from men prominent in
farmers cooperative movements in
other states that the North Dakota
League should undertake to direct the
work of forming similar and allied or.
CARNATIONS in the neighboring states.
AS a result representative farmers
in these states met and drafted pro-
grams similar to that adopted in N.
Dakota and under the direction of the
organization bureau maintained at
League headquarters in Fargo, the
work of enrolling members in these
states began and has been making
rapid strides ever since. It has now
attained such Roadway that it seems
certain to sweep over the entire ma
ton and to bring about united politi-
cal action by the farmers Of the ma
ton on a scale never before witnessed
in the United States.
It is planned to have great nation
al gathering of League members held
in ST.. Paul within the next two years,
possibly within the next year, which
will be the greatest mass gathering
NJ farmors ever held
An added reason for establishing
the national headquarters in Mime
sofa is that the biggest fight for the
League right now is against the mon
opoly exercised by the Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce part of which
is the Minneapolis -four mill ring.
1--WE intend to sail right into them
with our program of state owned ele-
vators, flour mills and packing plants"
said Mr.. Townley, land before we get
through with them the members of
that combine will look like last sum-
mer's roses.'-Courier News, Fargo.
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