The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-11-21
chairman declared it would

temporary chairman declared it would
be the policy of the organization to
"see that the representatives of ag-
riculture shall not make any entang-
ling alliance with any class"
Another policy will be to "steer clear
of and have no dealings with the non
partisan league, which has set up a
socialist government in North Da-
kota and some of whose leaders had
been convicted of violating the espion-
age act"
The reasons that this proposed or
g%anization seems likely to become a
permanent and abiding and powerful
institution are several.
In the first place it appears to be
inaugurated under sane leaders. There
is no manifestation of a clad" any
where, or an attempt to obtain "spe-
cial privileges" above other varieties
Of workers in the country, such as was
sought under the Farmers Alliance
regime when it was proposed to de-
post carrots and turnips and pota-
toes with the U. S. in exchange for
cash or currency. That plan of course
was devised as a scheme to put the
farmer on the same plane with the
nan who bonded his whiskey, with
this difference, however, that the whis-
key was always salable and the older
it stood the more valuable it became,
while vegetables and farm truck for
the most part, had but a short market
able life.
Another reason for promised long
evity Of this institution is that it pro-
poses to be strictly a farmers or
ganization and to steer clear of ZEN
tangling alliances" In other words
it proposes to be as Independent as
is the industrious farmer himself and
to not allow it's power to be used by
scheming emissaries from other Or
CARNATIONS, political, financial or in
dustrial, to endeavor to force through
legislation or concessions from the
mass of the people, equivalent to "spe-
cial privilege" which is so roundly
condemned in speech but practiced
wherever the opening can be found.
The resolve to keep from the exploit
tation of any such theories as that up
on which the %nonpartisan league is
founded will be another principle that
will tend towards permanency. The
greater part of the farmers Of the
United States have learned by long ex-
perience and hard knocks that prac-
tically everything that a mar acquires
in this world he has to work for and
when he does get it by honest effort
and self denial he is entitled to hold
and enjoy it. Fiat money was explod-
ed with the sensible farmer many
years ago and the "fiat finance" of
post-dated checks such as are ruled
to be "collateral" by the North Da-
kota supreme court, the farmer of the
new day will denounce and avoid. He
knows that while the supreme court
of North Dakota may declare post
dated checks legal tender and "col-
lateral" in that state, men with mon
ey to loan cannot be compelled to &C
cept them as such and will not accept
them as such.
The new organization, if conserva-
lively managed, as it promises to be,
will have no difficulty in disrupting
the nonpartisan organization as it will
Immediately draw from the league
those members who are honestly striv-
ing to secure recognition and adjust
ment of whatever inequalities the far
mer may be laboring under but who
do not expect preference rights over
all other labor or capital.-Miles City
Star.