The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-04-10
Townley and Brinton Using
League for Consumers United
Stores Company Propaganda

y Propaganda
cents a pound on Irvine, but think of
it, if $4,000 formers in North Dakota
were to club together and send q man
down to Mexico or Cuba, where sisal
grows and Irvine is made, you could
get Irvine as cheap as the Information
al Harvester company gets it-that's
where they buy it.
No Stock. to Sell-No Dividends to
Promise
Now, I am not out here to
sell you. any stock. I am out here
mot to promise any future dividends.
! 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 cor
poration / AM NOT HERE TODAY
AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
|NONAPRTISAN LEAGUE which is
lerfecting an organization to estab-
fish the stores and buying system l
have explained and to get every mem
Der of the league to join hands as
they did in the, political organization,
$4,000 of them would have one man
would buy all their canned and dried
regardless of whether he has money
or not, and to do away with the hum
ldreds upon hundreds of middlemen
that now do nothing except to take
away from you a part Of what you
produce every year.
l will now read you the contract.
THIS is A CONTRACT BEING
MADE BETWEEN OFFICERS OF
THE NoNPARTISAN LEAGUE
AND THE MEMBERS and which will
be a binding contract between you and
the organization which will be incorp-
Grated and run under the auspices Of
the Nonpartisan league through its
president and executive board. Tread
Contract and. Explain.)
Answer to Hard Luck and Poor Crop
...... ....... Story ....... ......
You say your crop is poor and that
you are hard up and can't afford to
|gc into this proposition now. Be
cause Of your poor crop and lack of
money this year it is more important
that you save and make your money
go as far as possible. In fact, it is
more important to save $4,000 when
you have only a $500 crop than to
save 5000 when you have a $4,000
crop.
If you are as hard up as you say
lyou are and owe a great deal of
money it is more important that you
have this organization now so chat
you can save a little on everything
you buy-so that you can pay off
your obligations that much sooner
and get on your feet.
The reason you are hard up is be-
cause you paid $40 or $25 more than
you should have paid for that wagon;
because you pay more for everything
than you should.
If you had the DIFFERENCE be-
tween what you have paid and what
you SHOULD have paid in YOUR
BANK account instead of in the
BANK ACCOUNT OF THE BUSI-
NESS MEN of Minot-name OF Gown
Fargo, Minneapolis, st. Paul-in
the bank account of the big middle
men-1F YOU HAD THE SURPLUS
WEALTH THAT YOU HAVE PRO-
IDUCED IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
it would be the business men and the
big concerns that would be hard up
instead of you.
/ You may not have thought of it be-
fore, but it is a fact that in the Rec
River Valley, the best and richest
farming section of the state, wher
the Nonpartisan league organized
there two years ago, 80 per cent o.
the farmers couldn't pay their due!
into the league COULDN'T WRITE
THEIR CHECK FOR SIX DOLLARS
THINK OF IT--AFTER FARMING
THIRTY YEARS! And the reason i
because excess profits have beer
Enlarged them and their surplus takel
away from them a piece or a little at
time on the things that they buy. AM
like the Nonpartisan league The.
worked together. Worked togethe
not to sell you goods cheaper, but t,
charge you more every year. The,
organized and raised the price OF
everything you buy-wagons, binders
harness, shoes, sugar, clothing, gro
%ceries. A binder does not cost NOR,
today because it costs more to .produca
it, but bcause organization has con
trolled the binder business and nov
they simply take away mor of you
surplus every time you buy a binde
and put that much more surplus il
THEIR BANK ACCOUNT. That j
why you have to pay $25 more for
binder this year, that is why you hav
to pay more for sugar, for oil, 70
everything, because they are organic
ed against you and use their power t
raise the price every year, just tn
same as the grain combine use thei
power to force the prices down in tn
fall and up in the spring.
You say the stores can't do mucl
business selling for cash when the pee
pie are hard up. Did you ever stop t
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