The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-08-19


overalls and they would have so much
business and SO much money that their
wives would not have to send off to the
! National Cloak & Suit company for
| their clothes. And the merchant saw
the logic and they helped us and we
elected every state officer but one and
la majority of the legislature and most
lof the senator's and we got control of
the state government.
and the people liked it so well that
last June they repeated the dose and
elected every. one of the state officers
and Is out of the "a hold-over senator's
and majority of the legislature and
/ the people of North Dakota will keep
control for the next so years They
! have learned to talk We organized
10000 farmers and then we organized
/ the merchants and let me tell you that
the merchant mean the merchant in
the small town surrounded by farming
or milling community, that does not
know enough to stand with the farmers
dCoOlFOS " IdFC ~ RO Jul dlIQ WOlk
on farm. How much of the $43-
100000 war profits made by Swift &
Company goes over the counter of the
! merchant in the small town? Not a
penny He gets his money from the
farmer and the whole town gets its
prosperity from the farmer and the |
merchant who does not know enough |
to stand with the farmer deserves to
lose
when big business failed to scare
the farmers by calling them mild names
they called them socialists and l. W.
WIS. But that was before the war.
Now they call them 'Pro-German +"
You know what that means, don't you?
1t means the farmer who joins the non
partizan league In North Dakota where
the nonpartizan league is stronger than
in any other state in the Union, we
oversubscribed the Third Liberty loan
rs per cent, and we oversubscribed the
Red Cross quota $50 per cent; yet we
are 'pro-German' A merchant in North
Ddkold lOlu IdIlleI llldt tIlcy must
do something to stop the nonpartizan
league because it is pro-German. The
farmer had subscribed for $1,000 worth
of Liberty bonds and was on the bond
committee and had three sons in the !
war and he would not stand for being
called pro-German and he told the mer-
chant SO. And the merchant said that
another farmer was pro-German and
would not stand for that for the oth~-
farmer had bought more Liberty Dor is
than he had and had a son in the war.
and he told the mercf1art this and the /,
said well. he sends off for
his coffee (Laughter.) And there
you have the cause of pro-German talk .
I'VE object to the merchants not
forming non-partizan league of their :
own and sending one man to whero
coffee grows and buying coffee for all
of the merchants so thev can sell it to
us farmers at a reasonable price. There :.
are five thousand highly trained, high
salaried travelling men coming into (.
Dakota to sell coffee and other things :.
% the merchants at an expense Of =
S15.OO0,0O0 a year for salaries and trav-
cling expenses and we, who use coffee.
Jay for it. Let the merchants organize
| non-partizan league and cut off this q
expense and sell coffee at a
reasonable rate to the consumers.
"Why they were not satisfied with
alling members of the non-partizan
eague proGerman. they hauled them
nto court and tried to prove it. / know.
or I was one of those hauled in
1aughter), but they could not prove it.
nut they still say it and the newspapers
ublish that I am pro-German and they
end off for our coffee.
Leslie's Weekly publishes the fol-
owing analysis of 'Townleyism' as
he nonpartisan league is called by
.ome G. Brown, of Minneapolis and
he Star Mirror has been asked to
ublish it with Mr.. Townley's speech.
is well worth reading and study N
lg. It follows:
The most dangerous manifestation y,
Socialism today is masquerading "
nder another name. Mr.. Rome G. ~
rown, of the Minneapolis bar, in II
asterly address on '"Tha Disloyalty f.
Socialism, before the Iowa State n
ar Association, points out the dis ~
yalty and menace Of "Townleyism,
hich is camouflage for Socialism.
he organization is called the Farm
s. Non-partisan League but it is
It a league of farmers, nor is it
Its best name is
7ownleyism," derived from the. agi-
tor who founded ia. c. Townley.
'oxyr 1nuiav10 contI1rod tho crovarv,