The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-04-10
Object of Your Visit.

Fourth-Now that is why I am out
here today. To explain to you what
the Nonpartisan league is going to do
for its members RIGHT AWAY, so
that they can reap a benefit, an inn
mediate benefit from their organiza-
|tion, FROM THE POWER 1T HAS
WHICH YOU AND THE OTHER
FARMERS IN NORTH DAKOTA
HAVE MADE POSSIBLE. The Non
partisan league is going to establish,
as fast as the ground ear be covered,
a local store in every county in the
state, and eventually two, three or
four stores in every county in the
state, and eventually two, three or
-four stores in each county, but just
now We are going to put in one in
each county in the most central and
best trading center. In addition, we
are going to put in a warehouse and
distributing place in such places as
Minot, Mandan, Fargo, Grand Forks,
etc., places where we can ship goods
in carload and trainload lots to get
the benefit of carload and trainload
freight rates, and then distribute the
goods to the stores in the section of
the state surrounding the warehouse.
For instance: We are going to put in
warehouse as well as a retail store in
the city OF Minot, to supply all the
stores in this section of the state.
RIGHT NOW We are going to organ
lie ten stores, buy ten stocks of goods
at n time for the lot and then re-
distribute to the ten stores. Eventu-
ally there will not only be ten stores
to supply through Minot, but so or
even more, just as soon as the organi-
cation a organize the territory-and
it will be very rapid-as this is much
more important and will bring more
direct AMI immediate benefits than
the political organization.
Drive Arguments Home.
Fifth-Now, 10 better illustrate to
you the benefit of this system of do
ing business, I know you will agree
that if all the farmers in the vicinity
(name of town) would buy all their
o~veralls at M time, they could buy
them much cheaper, and if all the
FARMERS OF NORTH DAKOTA,
$4,000 of them would buy all their
~overalls at one time they could get
them for less than half the money
that you o pay at your local stores.
If all the farmers of North Dakota,
10000 Of them would havt one man
go to the canneries down in the east
ern states and buy their can toma-
toes, where the tomatoes grow and
are canned, they would get them
twice as cheap as they get them now
from your local store, which gets them
from the Minot and Fargo wholesale
houses, who get them in turn. from
the Twin Cities and then again from
the larger jobbers in Chicago and the
big commercial renters.
If all the farmers of North Dakota
would buy al their canned and dried
fruit by sending a man to California
to buy direct from the growers and
fruit associations there, they could
get them a great deal cheaper You
realize that if ali the farmers in North
Dakota would buy their apples
through an organization by sending a
man direct to Washington, Idaho and
western Montana, they could get them
a great deal cheaper, because apples
out there sell as cheap as 15c and zoe
per box, when you pay as high as
$500 a box.
Farmers now club together to buy
Irvine through some local farmers,
! elevator because they can save a few