Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-28
No Stock to sell-No Dividends to
Promise.

Promise.
Sixth-Now.aI am not out here TO.
sell you any stock. . not out hers
to promise you any future dividends.
I am not out here to- tell you how 70
get rich quick shy investing your
money In some co~fhpOration. ! am
PC. here FAM foES S4 al s. ;so To6ar
AS A REPRESEETATIvE OF THE
iNoNPARTlsAN LEAGUE. which.s.i s
perfecting an organization to: sstAb-
lish the. stores and buying systerll
Ihave explained and to get every nelrS.-.
Der OF the league to Join hands a.
they did in the political orsanisation,
regardless Of whether he has money
dreds upon hundreds OF mfddlemen
that now do nothing except to take
away from you a part Of what you
produce every year.
I will now read, you the contract.
THIS is A CONTRACT BEING
MADE BETWEEN OFFICERS OF
1.-THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE AND
THE MEMBERS. and which will bAA
binding contract between you and the
ORGANIZATION which will be i%ncorpor-
ated and run under the auspices OF
the Nonpartisan league through. its
president and executive board. (Read
contract and Expiain).
Answer to Hard Lack, Poor Crop
| stosy.
You say your. crop is poor and that
you are hard up and cant afford TO
go into this proposition now. Be-
cause of your poor cropeand lack of.
money this year it Is more important.
that you save and make your money
more important to save $500 when
you have only a $500 crop than to
save 5000 when o have a $4,000
If you are al hard up 40 you say
you are and owe a great, deal of
money, it Is more Important that you
have this organization now so that
you buy-so that you a pay OF
your obligations that much sooner
and get on your feet.
The eason You are hard UP is be-
cause you paid $50. 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
yWo%nN ssH SHOULD n5ad,I have Spa, paid in YOUR
BANK ACCOUNT OF THE BUsI-
NESS MEN OF Minot-name Of town
Fargo, Minneapolis, st. Paul-ip
the bank account of the big middlel
men-IF you HAD THE SURPLUS
WEALTH THAT YOU HAVE PRO-
DUCED IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT,
it would be the business men and the
big concerns that would be hard up
Iinstead Of you.
You may not have thought Of it be-
fore. but it is a fact that in the Red
River Valley, the best and richest
farming section Of the state. when
the Nonpartisan league organized
there two years ago. 50 per cent OF
into the leagu-coULDN'T WRITE
THEIR CHECK FOR SIX DOLLARS.
THINK OF, later FARMING
THIRTY YEARS! And the reason is
because excess profits have been
charged them and their surplus taken
away from them a piece or a little at
a time on the things they buy. And
like the Nonpartisan league they
worked together. Worked together.
not to sell you goods cheaper, but to
charge You more every year. They
organized nj raised the price on
everything you buy-Wagons. binders,
harness, shoes, augar. clothing. gro
ceries. A binder does not cost moro
today because it cost more to produce
it. but because organization has con-.
trolled the binder business and now
they simply take away more Of your
surplus every time you buy a binder
and put that much surplus in
THEIR BANK ACCOUNT. That IL
why you have to pay $25 more. for a
binder this year. that is why you have
to a more for sugar, for OH, for
everything, because they are organic
ed against you and use their power to
raise The price every year. just the
same as the grain combine use their
power to force the prices down in the
fall and up in the spring.
You say the stores can't do as much
business. selling for wash, when peo-
pie are hard up Did YOU w stop to
think that the people who are hard
up p%atronize Sears m Roebuck and
they are located thousands Of miles
sway from their customers, and in
100 MILLION DOLLARS Of bust
ness a year. The Door people who
are nard up have built up that firm
THE LARGEST MERCANTILE
CONCERN IN THE UNITED
STATES. II the league stores in
North Dakota got only what Sears
a TEN .MILLfoN DoLLAR business
land REMEMBER Sears and Roebuck
only get. a tail end OF the business.
You don't. buy twine from Sears
and Roebuck.. You don'tssbuy, apples
from Sears and Roebuck. You don't
sell butter and~eggs to Sears Roebuck.
These things you can ~patronize Sears
and Roebuck. or buy from them, but
you will be able to at your local
stores. The poor people alone in
North Dakota would make this system
larger than Sears and Roebuck's bust
ness in the state, but think of what 1t
means to you when EVERY FARM
Ter becomes a member and does, his
business through this organization. 1T
would be the greatest mercantile or
Eanization i'm the world.
Too Much Power in Hands Of Town.
ley or the Men 1t Head of League.
All the big organizations in ths
"A United States today that control
prices. control them by having their
power put into the hands OF a few
men, and sometimes ONE MAN. Sys-
tenn and efficiency and central con-
ltrol make them powerful.