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The sun., 1918-10-09
A Little Song From = Girls Heart.

To THE EDITOR OF The suN-Sir: DO
you think the following Is available
for your paper?
Buy a bond! Buy a bondi
The cry 10 everywhere.
Don't refuse II, don't eiude It,
Do your little share.
with each bond life you'il save,
SO now give, please give some aid
TO your country and our men
That they may coon return again.
p. soNENBLIcK.
New YORK. October s.
The sun., 1918-10-09
Rheims.

Deliveraneo Of Rheims completed; freed
from shell nre after four years--The ns,rs.
Scared by . ruthless eonqueror's heel
Torn by the lust OF the foe,
Rheims Is the City OF Desolate waste,
or silence, OF ruins of woe.
Marking the Rheims where heroes fell
To check the Hunnish band.
The naked stones In her sacred soil.
As monuments viii stand.
NJ. "A.
The sun., 1918-10-09
True as Truth.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
word "Eanks" has plenty of snap.
IIow's this?
Young
Americans
Nip
Kaisers
Scheme.
IL J. HARERIsoN.
PouoHKEEPsIE, October s.
The sun., 1918-10-09

Junkerdom Is beginning to realize
that 1t Is a trine easier to begin q
world war than to win and end one.
The sun., 1918-10-09
Ideal Travel,

First Gerui-IFind the subway crowded?
Second Germ--Well. somsbody always
gives mo q scat.
The sun., 1918-10-09

While MAMMALIAN talks about peace,
focH fights for 1t. and you buy Lib
erty bonds.
The sun., 1918-10-09

Each bond bought Is additional en-
phasis to the No armisticel in the
Presidents reply.
The sun., 1918-10-09

you. Russia, you. Italy, you. England, you,
Germany. all you nations of the Continent
shall. without losing your distinctive quail.
tiles and your glorious individuality. blend
In q higher unity. and form q European
fraternity, even as Normandy. Brittany.
Burgundy. Lorraine, Alsace. all the French
provinces. blended into France.
day will como when war will seem
as impossible between Paris and London.
between Petersburg and Berlin, as be-
tween Rousn and Amiens, between Bos-
ton and Philadelphia. . ......
A day will come when bullets and bombs
shall be replaced by ballots. by the uni
vsrsal sunrages OF the people, by the
sacred arbitramsnt OF q great Sovereign
Senate, which shall be TO Europe what
the Parliament Is to England, what the
Diet 10 to Germany, what the Legislative
Assembly 10 10 France.
day will come when 4 cannon shall
be exhibited in our museums a. an In
strument OF torture 10 now. and men shall
marvel that such things could be.
day will come when we shall see
those immense groups. the United States
OF America and the United States of Eu-
rope. In face OF each other. extending
hand to hand over the ocean. exchanging
their products, their commerce, their In
dustry. their art; their genius clearing
the colonizing deserts, and ameliorat.ng
creation under the eye of the Creator.
And TO you appeal. French. Eng
lish. Germans, Russians. Slavs, Europeans
Americans, what have We TO do to hasten
the coming of that great day? Love one
another. To love ono another, in this i'm
mense work OF pacifcation, Is the best way
OF aiding God. For God Wills that this
sublime will should be accomplished.
The sun., 1918-10-09

The Kaiser may soon announce his
abdication In favor Of Colt.
The sun., 1918-10-09
VICTOR HUGO THE SEER.
The United States OF Europe Fore.
Swallowed by q Great Frenchman.

the course OF an address at the Peace
Congress in Paris in 1s49 victor Hugo
foreshadowed the United States of Eu-
rope" in the words below quoted. Ger
many's subsequent role in the history
of nations. more especially the theft
Of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871. and her Dra-
CONAN policy OF the past four years.
leave no doubt OF Hugo's attitude with
respect to Germany's representation in
tho proposed confederation, were he liv-
ing to-day. ISAAC MARKENa
NEW York, October ..
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
The. Farmers VIII Stick

the farmers. In one township in
Day county only Is out of SO farm
ers voted. In another township in
the same county one ballot box was
returned empty. In a township in
Beadle county seven out of "A votes
were cast, and in a township in Rob
erts county only six votes were east
This is the story of the farming dis
tricts all over the state.
What could show more eloquently
the utter disgust of the farmers
with the politicians and the old pc.
litical methods? We are in the midst
of one of the most remarkable pc
litical uprisings in the history of tn,
country. IF there is not landslid'
to the Nonpartisan League candi
dates next fall, all signs have failed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

Montana insurance agents have
organized to fight the Nonpartisan
League and their dues, instead of
being a modest So a year, are put
at 500. Each insurance agent in the
state is assessed $50 month for q
year in order to help finance fight
against the League.
These Montana insurance agents
are real progressive in their meth
DDS. They do mot send out organ
izers to reason with their fellow in
surance agents and by this means
wiring the $50 from the unwilling in
surance agents whose children may
need shoes. No such crude methods
are employed. The insurance men
are simply told that they. are mem
beers and that their dues are $50 q
year and that all they have to do is
TO pony up.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
FACING THE FACTS.

North Dakota never faced more
important campaign. Its voters are
confronted with a choice between
state socialism and the old order of
things. If the farmers decree that
the theories of Townley be tried
out, the state forthwith will become
laboratory for applied socialism.
There is no escape. The League Is
not concealing its issues. The prin-
ciples for which they fight are direct
ly stated. in house bill A, which be-
comes the burning issue of the pres
ent campaign. If the League tri-
umphs, it means that as fast as law
can be formulated, North Dakota en-.
tiers into state ownership in severa
conceivable forms.
No amount of ranting. No amount
of personal invective will avail. Per
sonalities have too large place il
all campaigns. Opponents of the
League will do well to avoid over
indulgence in the biennial TRADE tina
SO often confuses the real issues ant
in thes end gets nowhere
The League candidates honestl,
believe that state ownership is nee
essary To. what extent it will b
applied they wisely refrain from
saying; doubtless they do not know
until the first venture is launched
Thousands of farmers desire to Sc
inaugurated a system of state dis
tribution of farm products through
publicly owned agencies of distribu
ton.
The war has not banished this de
inand. It has quickened It. 1t j
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

Wall street is going into wheat
farming in the West on a scale that
will surely revolutionize agriculture
in America in a short time # its
latest ventures succeed.
The dire need of wheat in this
critical period has led the govern
ment to throw open 100000 acres
on Indian reservations, much of which
is the richest kind of wheat land.
Wall street capitalists have subscrib-
ed several million dollars to plant
an enormous acreage this fall. They
are planning to purchase all the lat
est. in farm machinery and organize
strictly modern industry that will
look like combination in restraint
of trade. 1t will be nothing but a
big corporation wheat factory.
Bonanza farming was thought to
/ have failed once in America. But
that was some time ago and these
big corporation farms managed by
hired men and operated by armies
Of wage laborers equipped with mod.
FERN machines are now succeeding
| That the latest big Wall street ven
/ ture will succeed is almost a fore
gone conclusion.
| RI "a
small .'srmer? There is only on'
thing that it can mean--unle.ss tn
farmer takes the proper steps t.
protect his interests corporation
farming with machinery and moderI
business methods will largely sup
plant individual farming.
/ One of the big facts that is like
" to cause such change is tina
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

The farmers will stick. This has
just been proved in a striking man.
ner. The Nonpartisan League of
South Dakota asked its farmer mem
bers not to go into the recent pri-
maries. It is the plan of the League
in South Dakota to put its candidates
ON the ticket by petition.
Results indicate the most COM
plete boycott of politicians election
ever recorded in this country.
The South Dakota Leader says:
aAccording to- all available. data only
one-third of the normal vote was
cast this year This is conservative
estimate, the estimate, in fact, OF
the politicians"
This paper tells of some remark
able instances of the solidarity OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
North Dakota Again Leads

it ahead of all other states.
North Dakota led in the second
and third Liberty loan subbscrip-
tons. 1t was first in the last Red
Cross drive. It was the first state
to put the Stacker acres of absentee
land spectators to work to produce
food to win the war. 1t is the only
state controlled by the Nonpartisan
League. 1t is a state where the
League voters are in an overwhelm-
ing majority. Of course it is easier
to believe that these facts are all
"mere condolences" than to suspect
the profteering interests were wrong
when they charged the League with
disloyalty.
"The newspaper best suited" ETC.,
is well demonstrated by the fact that
the "Pie-near Press" entirely over
looked the fact that Sheridan coun-
lty Veteran made a speech at the Or
pheum theater on June 9th. OF
course this was perhaps occasioned
by the fact that this Veteran was a
farmer boy from near Froid and moi
one of the .court house gang" II
does not seem to be news to the
|"Pie-near" when a farmer boy returns
and tells of actual fighting.
The way to help the boys at the
front is to curb the profteers ane
the dishonest contractors at the rear
We could live without the profteel
but not without the producer.
! from the well to the auto thus flow
to Mr.. Rockefeller. Food producer,
and consumers who want the stat,
instead Of the food trusts to act ar
Only following an illustrious example
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
MAYOR GETS aPHUNNY."
Scobey, Mont, 6-18-18.
Editor, Producers News,
Plentywood, Mont.

| wish to inform you of a matter
of Importance to the people OF Sher-
idan county, and which took place on
the streets of Scobey today.
A few days ago the Equity organ
ization of Peerless, little inland
town in Valley county, about 70 miles
west of Scobey, held a meeting and
at which it was decided to hold a
picnic at that place, June 80. 1t was
also decided to hold the picnic in con-
junction with the Nonpartisan Lea
que. Those in charge had previous
ly correspondent with the Speakers
bureau of the Nonpartisan League
and had been informed that U. s.
Dist. Atty. B. K. Wheeler and Cong.
jeanette Rankin would attend to de-
liver patriotic addresses for the oc-
casion. Today a couple OF farmers
came to Scobey and got out. bills
announcing the picnic. The bills,
as printed, announced that the pic
mic would be held under the auspices
of the Equity organization and the
Nonpartisan League, and also that
the entire proceeds would be donat-
ed to the Red Cross. The Women's
Red Cross organization of Peerless
intends to take up the collection ano
all of the same will go to the Val
ley County Red Cross chapter.
i When these farmers began to plac,
a few of these bills about the
streets of Scobey they were stopped
Mayor Sid Bennett of Scobey stop
ped them and asked them to let hin
see the bills. When he had read on'
hat they handed him, he rolled it
tore it up and threw it into tn
street, and in very emphatic Language
told these farmers that they coui'
not advertise any Nonpartisan picni
in Scobey and gave them what h
considered a severe tongue-lashini
for their activity in advertising tn
picnic. He branded the League as
disIoyal organization and said tina
there would be absolutely no per
mission given for any such publicit
IN sSeobey or elsewhere where n
could stop it. =
The significant thing about TIN
matter is that this picnic was be
ing gotten up by good loyal farmer
of Valley county, all of whom al
most Loyalty supporting the war an
doing their utmost to support the he
Cross wo1.z of this very town of SCI
hey, and the further, fact that tn
entire proceeds will be turned owe
: TO the Red Gross organization
= Trusting that you will give this ma
ter publicity,
Very truly yours,
A Scobey Farmer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
Wall Street vii Farm

the vast productive superiority OF
big scale, machinery farming over
small scale farming has been defi-
nitely established. The little farm
can not compete with the corpora
ton farm when the corporation farm
actually establishes itself and begins
to do business. Another big fact is
that so much capital seeking invest
ment has accumulated that it has to
overflow into all new fields in an
overwhelming fiooa. Thin of our
staggering war profits. Think OF
15 900 new millionaires. Think or
the billions that are being piled up
by our great monopolies. Do you
thin this ever-swelling accumulation
of capital can be kept forever out
of agriculture? Already we have
corporation fruit farms and corpora
ton wheat farms in the west and
many sugar factories are raising
their own beets. But we know OF
nothing that will give corporation
farming such an impetus as this lat
est agricultural venture of the high
est financial circles of Wall street.
/ We live under an industrial system
that is in tremendous stage OF
1 change. The foundations of the ole
order are being broken up. Only
by cooperating with his neighbor, or
ganizing himself politically for his
own protection, and using the pow
ers of state and national govern
ment, can the individual farmer re
main an individual farmer and keel
from losing his farm and sinking e
the condition of wage-earner work
ing for a corporation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

North Dakota has established so
many records since the farmers were
awakened by the Nonpartisan League
that mention Of even a new one
sounds almost trite. We can not re-
frain, however, from abiding to the
latest patriotic achievement of the
only League state.
1t surpassed all other states in the
Union in the last Red Cross drive.
Latest reports record an oversub-
scription by North Dakota in the last
Red Cross drive. of l60 per cent. It
is conservatively estimated that
when completed the oversubscription
will reach 185 per cent. This, ac-
cording to authentic estimates, places
How fortunate it would be to Have
the Sheridan county commissioners
handling the Red Cross funds some
time when Little Joe" needed a
contract to keep the "Pe-near Press
The funds of Sheridan county are as
much a patriotic fund as any mon
eys could be. and we could only judge
what might happen by, oh, well, per
haps they need the money and they
are all good fellows and .paytriots'
anyhow. Only the farmers, who pay
sixteen dollars to find out aboul
these gentlemen are unpatriotic. Keer
your sixteen, Mr.. Rube, and thu
county sspaytriots' ard the "Pie-neal
gang will see that you find ou
nothing.
The Standard Oil Co. has takel
over the retail oil business in Kan
sas. The Standard Oil Co. does no
4 believe in middlemen. It finds then
too expensive. All Of the profit
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

Think of it! No referendums as
TO how the money is to be spent and
no word in the management by the
member. 1t is enough to make big
business weep. Surely the farmers
will send out literature to these mis-
guided agents showing them how
they are being used.
And there is another point worth
noting. Of course, having dues
money on hand, the executive COM
mittee will doubtless invest it all in
Liberty bonds so the members neee
have no worry as to how it is being
spent.
This is worth bordering, but the
main thing is that the Montna In
surance agents see the handwriting
on the wall And they do not like
what they read.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMERS

Come on Progressive Farmer
Come, while the weather.
We're going to have a picnf
The fun begins at nine.
The dates June 22nd,
TIE place is Welliver,
So bring your wife and fan
Your neighbors will be 3
There'll be a lot of speakeh
And lots of things to eat
A ball game and foot rae1l
Tc see which side can b
Therc'll be a bucking bronc
The widest we can IND
On which will ride a COVE
C3pSent IN heart and D
And dancing, in the evenlns
10 music that's a treat
Will help to make the picn
A day that's hard to bes
So tell your friends and
To come to Welliver,
On June the 22nd,
We're planning for you
i
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

last Saturday, June 1. 1t va
grand success. About 500 pecal.
tended. We had planned to han
A. Mills, one of our capable on
izers and speakers to address
meeting, but learned last Ma
that Mr.. Mills was sick. Hon,
we we're able to get Mr.. P. E. h
postmaster at Scobey to deliver i
dress, and he gave us a Ven
cellent talk. Mr.. Morley repres
the Producers News and gave !,
very interesting talk on the In
ant needs of a press conducts
the interests of the farmers. h,
explained the League program
carefully. There were some b
ers at the picnic, but nothing
was started In fact, it woun
been very unsafe for them to
Such gatherings as these, d
splendid thing. It brings the
ers together. not only the men
but also the non-members, vii
result that they have a cha
compare their ideas and get al
understanding of the Farmers i
and what may be done when the
ers are thoroughly organized
| The result of a complete ora
ton of the farmers will mea
they will use the political mac
| in their own interest, instead
ing It used against them as
case today. This is the reaa
Big Business is so violently
to :he organization of the IA
! Let every farmer understaa
, and let him help to get every
who is not yet a member IN
League movement.
Do not he misled by The
statements and reports that
, in tho kept press from day.
They are simply intended toi
! age organization
: Yours for complete organic
the farmers.
!. A B00S
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
HANG TOGETHER !

Most of the newspapp
sition to the NonparIS
do not touch on it's prog
vote most of their etfOr'
ing exploded personal cl's
men active in the LeagV
nouncing the League
without producing any
that serious charge agSr
bership of this organ
few papers that do men.
gram dismiss it as lnr
ionary and unworkaDlS
community. To the y
nothing to do but draw :.
IS actively connected WY
litical organizations,
looks not only imprae".'
gerous as well. And
him. The only CLEAN
politicians is "that tns
never known to hang
they can always be
before election" It's
mers to fool them
ley County MONT ~
The pr,<lx.eo,-c New
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21

just as well to face the y
exigencies of war have TO-
to Federal control OF eve
ant commodity and ever!
avenue of distribution.
Here lies a potent any,
the Leaguers. That they
when the time comes s@
saying.-The Bismarck "
hume.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
OPEN FORUM

ur friends and foes alike cordially invited avail thems
f ta nae If this the peopes column. Write plainly
one side OF the paper Nothing currous will be pubh
with
otherwise your may published do not want
know who This
no responsibility article appearing in these con
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-21
A FINE PICNIC.

June z, 1913.
Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Dear Editor
We had fine picnic at Peerless
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-01
STATE SENATOR NELSON
PROGNOSTICATES POLITI-
CAL OUTCOME IN IDAHO
Occur d'Alene Press

State Senator Ralph 5. Nelson re-
turned last evening from a trip ex-
tending through a number of Uhe
northern counties of the state and 10
Boise When asked as to the political
outlook in the state he said:
"Nugent and Borah, it appears, will
get the Nonpartisan vote and large
part of their respective parties vote.
However, good many republicans
are going to vote for Moore as against
Borah on account Of the fact that the
senator did not repudiate the nonpar-
tisans. since IL has been apparent that
the leaders OF the uonpartiSans are
closely allied and connected with the
/ w. VS. For the same reason a
good many democrats are going TO
vote for Gooding as against John
Nugent.
AS far as the state. ticket is con-
cerned with the exception of Mr..
Parker, an old line democrat who is a
candidate on the democratic ticket for
state treasurer against John Eagleson
the contest is straight fight between
the republicans and the npartisans.
At Boise most of the Influential
democrats are openly supporting d. w
Davis for governor. They are doing
this by interviews in the newspapers,
public letters aud other active public
efforts A few rabid democrats who
are either candidates for appointment
or who are actively connected with
one faction of the organization, are
supporting SamuelS. They seem TO be
doing this in spite of the letter from
Scholtz's office which stated that the
reason the nonpartisans went into the
democratic party was that a certaic
amount of ignorant democrats could
b, depended upon to vote democratic
ticket no matter who the nom nees
were. The leading democrats who
are openly working for d. w. Davis
say the reason they are doing so is moi
that they dove the republicans more
but because they feel that the social
istic, radical nonpartisan doctrines
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-01

conflictingsas they are in this alleged
combination. The laborlug men and
nonpartisa as who live from Hayden
Lake south are vitality interested 10
seeing that the county is not divided
Mr.. Root ran on the county division
ticket two years ago and of course is
for county division. I may be mis-
taken but l cannot help believing
that the labor union men and a great
many OF the nonpartisans living in
the middle and southern parts of the
county will vote for the republican
legislative ticket on account of its
stand against county division.
"Mr. Kiger and I, two years ago,
defeated the county division bill. In
doing this we incurred the enmity of
the voters 10 the north end of the
county. Both OF US voted for every
reasonable law that was In the inter
est OF the farmers and laboring men
and | am sure that feeling of graft
tude and appreciation will cause a
large majority Of the voters ia this
county To vote for US and the other
members Sf the legislative ticket who
are pledged against county division.
1.-THE farmers of the state are
Z, beginning to realize that this league
| is foreign body TO the state; that it
is close corporation so To speak or
an aristocracy controlled solely and
| absolutely by men from Minnesota
aud Dakota. The farmers union and
the grange, on the other hand. are
controlled locally. These organiza-
tions being locally controlled looked
after the local conditions of the
farmers in the different parts OF the
state. This is not so OF the nonpart-
isan league. Its president being
elected for twelve years and he and a
few leaders having full control of the
policy and fndnces of the league die
tate the leagues course. Men elected
on the nonpartisan ticket to the
Legislature will be subject not TO their
own Judgment hut are hnund to
follow the socialist leaders from a
foreign state. The Idaho workmen
and farmers when they realize they
fare Surrendering their individual
rights surely will net vote this social
istic foreign body into control of our
local affairs"