New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-01-23
.P0PULISI LEADER
TALKS TO FARMERS
C. D. BREWER OF KANSAS WARNS
NoN-PARTIsANs NOT TO
BE MISLED
EXPLAINS USE OF THE MUCH
CRITICIZED MEMBERSHIP
FEE OF SIG

FEE OF SIG
Farmers to the number of five hundred
or more gathered at the Turner Hall
Saturday afternoon to attend the Non
partisan meeting which had been adj
vertised for that time and place. There
were very few business men OF New Ulm
present at the meeting but there had
been practically no opposition to the
holding Of the meeting here and for that
reason no exciting developments oc-
CURED. Tie meeting was a good one
and very interesting to those who
attended.
Populist Leader Speaks
L. w. Samuelson of Lafayette, member
of the Executive Committee of the Nom
partisan League, introduced the speaker,
Geo. D. Brewer of Kansas. He is a
member of the State Campaign Com
mittee of the League. He was formerly
Kansas legislator and is here in Mir
nesota at the present time for the purpose
Of getting enough information on Nom
partisan League activities to be able
to 60 back to his home state to organize
the farmers there on similar basis.
Mr.. Brewer told his audience Of the
course Of the Populist movement in
Kansas years ago. He explained how
the business, interests of the state told
the farmers to let politics alone as they
did not have sense enough to run the
government. The farmers thought diff
ferently and kept right on with their
organization. But when Big Business
found that they could nor squelch the
farmer, they approached him in a diff.
ferent manner and suggested that they
go in together. They told the farmers
their organization was all right but that
it needed expert business men at the
head and the farmers of Kansas listened
too long. The result was to be expected.
The speaker of the house appointed
corporation lawyers for all legislative
committees and it was not long before
Kansas was bowling along at the same
old corrupt rate as the other states in
the Union. The lesson of Kansas, Mr..
Brewer said should teach Minnesota
not to be misled by any proposition
offered by Big Business.
Profteers Are Disloyalists
The speaker branded as. disloyal all
gamblers and profteers who are boarding
up billions of dollars in. the present
crisis. He gave instances Of the difference
in the price of food stuffs between the
producer and the consumer, showing
how COW, selling for $50, when
canned by the beef trust brings them
$500. Minnesota flour sold at Min
neapolis for SIG. a barrel and at the
same time in London for $8.45. United
States armor plate sells for one-third
less in Russia than in the United States.
Potatoes brought in Northern Minnesota
in 1917 cost eighty-fve cents a bushel
and sold in New Y ork a few months
later for SIS a busEel. Mr.. Brewer also
attacked the war tax which future
generations will have to bear, claiming
that it is a crime to tax our children
when men like Rockefeller do not know
what to do with their millions.
Victory in 1918
A sweeping victory is predicted for
the Non-partisan League in 1918 in
this state. The speaker said that the
reason Big Business is worried about the
SIG membership fee is because that is
the first money that the farmer has
spent that Big Business did not know.
what he was spending it for. Mr..
Brewer explained that the money is
spent for organizers, automobiles, hotel
expenses, speakers, halls, weekly paper
and other literature, conventions, filing
fees and campaign expenses for cans
didates. Also for keeping up lobby
at the State and National capitols.
Mr.. BreNvr said that the purpose Of
the League is to loosen the fingers Of
Big Business on the hard earned dollars
Of the common people and said that if
the business men Of the small towns
could realize it that the movement
would certainly benefit them BY keeping
the money at home to be passed over
their own counters instead Of being
m,llcted from the farmers by Big Busi-
ness in the larger centers.
Meeting Of the Advisory Board
! Until further notice the Medical
Advisory Board Of sibly and Brown