The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-27
Officers Using League Name And
influence to Promote Their Stores

State. RIGHT NOW we are going to
organize ten stores, buy ten stocks
of goods at one time for the lot and
then redistribute to the ten stores.
Eventually there will not only be
ten stores to supply through Minot
but so or even more, just as soon as
the organization can organize the
teTritory-and 1t will be very rapid
as this is much more important and
win bring more direct and immediate
benefits than the political organiza-
ton.
DRIVE ARGUMENTS HOME.
Fifth-Now, to better illustrate to
you the benefit of this system of do
ing business, / know you will agree
that if all the farmers i'm the vicinity
(name of town. would buy all their
overaIls at one time. they could buy
them much cheaper. and Il all the
FARMERS IN 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 now pay at your local
stores.
If all the farmers Of North Da-
kOta, $4,000 of them would have one
man go to the CanneTies down i'm the
tomatoes, 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 Min0t and Fargo
wholesale houses, who get them in
turn from the twin cities and then
again from the larger iobbers in
Chicago and the big commercial cen
tiers.
If all the farmers Of North Dakota
would buy all 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
North Dakota would buy their apples
through an organization by sending
a man direct to Washington, Idaho
and western MOntant they could get
them q great deal cheaper because
apples out there sell as cheap as 15C
and zoe per box when you pay as
high as $500 n box.
Farmers now club together TO buy
Irvine through some local farmers
elevator because they can save a
few cents a pound on Irvine, but think
of it, if 90 900 farmers in North Da-
kota were to club together and send |
where sisal grows and Irvine is made |
you could get Irvine as cheap as the |
International Harvester Company
gets it-thats where they buy it.
NO STOCK TO SELLING DlVI-
bends TO PROMISE.
SIXTH-Now, I am not out here |
to sell you any stock. / am not out |
here to promise you any future divi-
dends. ] am not out here to tell you
how to get rich quick by investing
your money in some corporation. / |
am not out here promoting a stock
corporation.
! AM OUT HERE TODAY AS
A PRESENTATIVE OF THE
NoNPARTISAN LEAGUE which
10 perfectina an organization to
establish the stores and buying
system have explained and to
get every member of the League
to join hands as they did in the
political organization, regardless
of whether he has m oney or not,
and to do away with the hun
dreds upon hundreds Of middle
men that now do nothing except
to take away from you a part of
what you produce every year
will now read you the con-
tract, THIS is A CONTRACT
BEING MADE BETWEEN Of
FlCERS OF THE NONPARTI-
SAN LEAGUE AND THE
MEMBERS. and which will be a
binding contract between you
and the organization which will
be Incorporated and run under
the auspices of the NonPartisan
League through it's president and
executive board. (Read Contract
and Explain.)