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CONVENTION

the pledged members of the league
! legislators. There was never Il finer
example of boss rule in the history
of American politics.
There is no space here to set forth
, the astonishing bills that were showed
through the secret council by Townley.
the car. Mention of one will suffice.
This was the famous House bill A.
1t was nothing less than a bill to-
abolish the Constitution of the State
by legislative enactment and to sub
stitute Socialist charter. a Socialist
| charter of the most radical nature
1t was proposed to raise the debt limit
from 100000 to the sky. That was
the only limit. 1t was proposed to
| lend school funds on bonds of the
State, and at the same time the State
was to be committed to numerous
Socialistic enterprises which would
! have made, and eventually did make
in some cases, investments very pre-
carious. 1t abolished certain safe
guarding provisions of the Constitu-
ton and it eliminated patriotic prin-
ciples. The House passed this bill
with whoop, but the Senate fortu-
nately stood fast.
His Cooperative stores.
AS time went on Townley and his
ring gained more power and gradually
put into operation the chain of Co
operative enterprises" whose bad
paper brought about the collapse of
the northumberland Bank. The
| principal one of these enterprises is
the Consumers Omitted Stores Company
with a capital stock of $4,000 and
which has taken in probably $1,5O0,0O0
| from farmer subscriptions. Every
member of the National Non-Partisan
League paid 800 for membership in
the store scheme and about all he got
for the 800 was the privilege of trad
ing in one of the stores, He did not
| buy a share in any store or in the
company. He got no return for his
500 except the buying privilege and
| the promise of goods at cost plus
| freight and 10 per cent. profit The
agreement signed by the farmers Is
an interesting sample of what can be
Done in the way of alluring promotion.
| It was as fallows:
AGREEMENT FOR BUYERS GER
TIFICATE IN THE CONSUM-
ERS UNITED STORES co.
Al. ............
| 1. We the Undersigned, for
the purposes set forth herein, do
each subscribe One Hundred Dol
lars. to be paid ins cash or note,
to the Consumers United Stores
Company of North Dakota, a cor
poration to be formed.
2. 1t is expressly understood
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directors, would mean total o
100000 a year in interest alone.
looks very much as If the trusting
farmers of North Dakota paid $40
apiece for their education in Socialism
for this and some fine patches of blu
sky.
Cold BlOOded Business.
Nor did the business heads of TIL
time in marketing the notes and pos
dated checks given by the farme
members. One might suppose that
with cash coming into the leagu
treasury SO flowingly, the eXecu
tives could have retained the pape
and made easy business terms will
the comrades. Apparently they didn'
let comradeship interfere with bust
ness, as witness this invitation t.
capital:
Real Estate Mortgage Bond Com
pany.>
Authorized Capital 100000.
$50 Security Building,
Minneapolis, MINI.
March 2, 1914
GENTLEMEN-We have for sale
S15O,OOO worth of first class
well secured, North Dakota paper,
denominations of $1,000 each at
per cent. maturity from Decem-
Der Is, 1917, to January Is, 1918.
Each 81 900 note Is secured by ten
notes of 800 each, given by good
No 70 al
due from October to December l,
1917. There are additional securi-
ties of $3.50 worth Of post dated
checks, dated to be cashed from
August ITO December /, the
average amount OF each check
being approximately $12. On each
one of these checks 10 cents eX-
change will be allowed in addition
TO the actual cost of collection.
To the parties who buy this
paper we desire them to use their
best means in sending these checks
and notes through the proper
channels for collection as fast as
they become due and apply the
receipts thereof to the one prin-
cipal note of $1,000. The principal
note is given by a million dollar
corporation, of which SS50,000 is
paid, and they have no liabilities
/ outside of this issue OF corporation
notes. From every standpoint this
is an excellent investment and will
stand investigation from top to
bottom.
II you are interested and would
like to have us submit you an
Offering, let us know at once.
Very respectfully,
REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE
BOND COMPANY.
(signed) e. e. Dryden. Gen. Mgr.
K-EED
The more you examine the opera
tons of this Townley enterprise tn
more you wonder where the none
went. The liabilities of tho wrecke
bank list the Consumers Stores a
having borrowed $4,000 and of tn
collateral supposed to be in the vault
of the bank as security for the $500
much was not in the vaults at all, bu
had been taken out by the Consumer.
which Townley personally promoted.
1t would be tedious to relate in deta
the formation Of other Townley enter
prises Of this nature. such as tn
League Exchange intended to financ
the Non-Partisan Leagues politics
activities; publishers National servic
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al or political interests of the
farmers or both.
3. The Consumers United Stores
Company agrees to establish the
store at ..'............ not
later than the first day of. =.
.., 10. 49,. and will imme-
diately thereafter issue a certifi-
cate to each subscriber hereto
granting him the right to pur-
chase goods and merchandise at
said store, or any other store the
said company may establish, and
to order the same through the
company's stores, by paying the
wholesale market price together
with the freight charges, plus a
margin of not to exceed 10 per
cent.
4. The Consumers United
Stores Company reserves the
right to cancel any certificate or
certificates upon the payment to
the subscribers herein of their
subscription fees, less $10--for
each year for which service has
been rendered. The company
further agrees that in the event
it shall discontinue the operation
OF its store at.
within ten years after 1t shall
have begun business, 1t will re-
deem all certificates at the rate of
$40 for each year less than ten
that the said store was so oper-
ated, and IL the assets Of such
store are not sufficient to redeem
all such certificates in full, then
the whole amount Of the assets of
such store shall be divided pro
rata among its subscribers.
5. The purpose of this sub
scription is to aid and assist the
producers and consumers Of this
nation in educating themselves to
efficient cooperative buying and
selling and to assist in making
democracy a real factor in our po-
litical and economic life.
Subscribed and signed on the
day and year written above our
signatures.
Where Did the 800 GOT.
The agreement does not answer IL
question: What becomes of tt
500 paid by every farmer" TIL.
question has never been answere
Half of the 800 went to the con
pany, $40 went to the establishmei
of store in the chain, IS went to Il
organizer" and the other SIS was spel
for Organization expenses" whatev,
they may have been. It was a hus
success in promotion, benefiting ever,
body, it appeared, but the farmer
Men who went out In the busy lit
Fords to get subscriptions filled the
pockets.
'They sure come in punches
one organizer. IT got twent,
seven subscribers in one day. Near
all the workers are cleaning up 50,
to $500 a month";"
One organizer took in 1857 in sevt
weeks. Others made from $50 to s.
a day.
The stores organized usually on
basis Of $4,000 paid In by the farme
for each store. OF this only $50
went into the store and the $3.50
was left for any purpose the dire
tors might have in mind. A gre
many OF the memberships were pa
for in notes. These notes were us,
as collateral and were good inves
ments in themselves for the Col
sumers' stores directors for they DO
interest of s per cent. from date
issue. A statement has been ma,
that approximately one-fourth OF Il
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memberships were paid for in cash.
If that were true, then probably $4,000
farmers gave notes. and this, for the
directors, would mean a total of
$1,000 a year in interest alone. 1t
looks very much as If the trusting
farmers of North Dakota paid 800
apiece for their education in Socialism,
for this and some fine patches of blue
sky
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
~D'ANNUNZIO IN

1.-THE latest expedition undertaken by Gabrielle dAnnunzio.
10 cara, the former Austrian capital of Dalmatia, turns out
Ia have been a very interesting enterprise, and one from which
large historical events may flow.
DAnnunzio, firing perhaps of the rather prosaic state
INTO which affairs had fallen at Fiume, descended the Dial
natian coast a hundred miles in an Italian destroyer, secured
The cooperation of Admiral Milo, The commander of the
Italian army of occupation in Dalmata. and is, so far as
appears on the surface, the undisputed master of much of tho
eastern shore of the Adriatic.
Theoretically he is in arms against the Italian govern
mcnt, but practically he is an agent of his fellow cOuntrymen
unofficialy authorized to get possession of the. coveted
Dalmation waterfront for them. Just what the outcome of
his latest bold adventure will be it is as yet impossible to
say but there are constant accessions to his army from the
regular Italian forces and a considerable portion of the navy
seems ready to assist him.
1t all comes back to the situation in which Mr.. Wilson so
strangely interfercd. Appealing to The Italian people over the
heads of the government at Rome, he urged them to recognize
shore. They promptly lined themselves up, instead, in ardent
support of their government, and since that time America in
general and Mr.. Wilson in particular have been anything but
popular in the peninsula. Now comes d.Annunzio, accurately
interpreting Italian opinion, and undertakes a unique mill
tary enterprise in behalf of the countrys Dalmatian ambi
tions-an enterprise without legal standing and yet of such
Intrinsic strength that no ministry at Rome is able or willing
TO proceed against it. Does it SEEM likely that Mr.. Wilson,
in view of all that has happened and is happening, will be
equal to the task of imposing his personal view of what is
right and fitting on the Italian people at this late day? He
has failed to do it in America, and is likely to fail in Italy
He never had any mandate to speak for America in that
quarter. And in his own original draft of the league covenant
no reference whatever was made to the Monroe dotrine. Do
you wonder that the senate refused to give him a free hand
and further power?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
WHAT RAILROADS ARE WORTH

Figures on railroad valuation just given out by the inter
slate commerce commission do not support the WHO STATES
,oenhs of the bolshevist orators as to the shadow capital on
which the public is expected TO pay interest For instance the
tentative value of the Chicago. Milwaukee 4 St. Paul Is con-
siderab,v in excess of 800 a share, and these figures also
apply to the Boston & Maine, the New Haven and the Rock
Island. The fact that the values reported are based upon the
conditions of five years ago is also worth noting, for II re-
placement cost were taken as the basis OF computation ue
estimates would be staggering to the persons who 90 a Soou
deal of talking about inflated securities.
A member of the valuation department of the government
contributes timely information on the cost of equipment; he
saws that while ON the purchasing board of the railroad admin
islration he passed upon purchases of thousands OF freight
al at $4,000 per car which he inventoried in his valuation work
al $500 per ear"
A statistician who compared This statement with the fig
ures of the rolling stock of all the roads draws these interest
ing conclusions:
"f the 100000 freight cars and 100000 loco
motives which the railroads of the country own
were inventoried at present values it would increase
the value for the railroads by over S6OOOOoO,0oO. In
other words the value of equipment would total
$i2!OO0OO0, instead of less than S5O0o.NO.oW as OF
1914.
railroad bonds and notes, equipments trusts and
railroad shares could be bought at present market
prices for less than Sli,OO0OOO.0O, or $i,OOWOOW,WO
less than the present value of the equipment alone,
the rails. roadbed and terminals being thrown in
for good measure"
Probably if congress had known the facts when the Valua-
lion scheme was started, the work would not have been
ordered at an expense of Il hundred millions or more. HOW
ever, the country will derive some benefit from the reports OF
The Interstate commerce commission-the official valuations
will stop a lot of crazy talk about Fictitious capital" in the rail-
roads and will prove that radical agitators have made no
approach to accuracy in estimating the actual worth of The
transportation systems of the United States.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
A TAXED GOVERNMENT LOAN

Canada has tried the experiment of floating a bond issue
which carries no tax exemption at all, and t is a success. The
new Victory loan of three hundred millions is oversubscribed
more than one hundred per cent. The result is the more
impressive since the stimulation of a war loan was absent. tt
is probably the case that the bonds were heavily subscribed for
on this side of the border.
A compilation of the taX-free bonds now ds&ibuted in the
United States. federal. state and municipal. would make a huge
showing of invested capital the increment from which escapes
the assessors. The most striking example. of course. is the fed
eral land bank bond. paying five per cent, which is not a gov
crnment issue although the government assumes a sor, of
moral responsibility for it.
Canada has shown that the Importance of the exemp ion
feature for securing a ready sale of what will always be the best
security on earth, a government bond, has been exaggerated.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
SENATOR CORES MESSAGE


Senator Gore. the blind senator from Oklahoma, last week
sent a message to the voters of his party in that state which is
calculated to wake them up to what is going on as he sees it
If a blind senator can be supposed to see. Oklahoma since it
came into the union twelve years ago has been one of the
strongest democratic states in the entire list. Until recently
all the state officers, both the senators and seven of the eight
members of congress were of that party. The two senators, Mr..
Gore and Mr.. Owen, both democrats. have represented Okla
homa since it became a state, and the former won by a plu-
recently to fill a vacancy the republicans carried one of the
strongest democratic districts of the state. and the issue was the
league of nations.
1t was not alone the overturn in the Fifth Oklahoma dis
trct that prompts the senator to sound a note Of warning. He
recalls that the party, elsewhere than in Oklahoma, was visibly
repndiated at the general election last year-the only instance
in American history of an overthrow of a party in the midst of
"acclaiming the end of a triumphant war" Recently, too, he
has witnessed a normal democratic majority in MARYLAND
reduced almost to the vanishing point, a startling republican
triumph in the Bourbon State of kentucky" and democratic
catastrophes in Massachusetts and in New York city. Survey
ing the whole field, the senator is able to discover only a single
"oasis in the desert" New Jersey; and that state event wet
rather than democratic"
The wise take counsel of adversely he suggested to the
faithful back home; only the stupid re-enact a tragedy.n He
Goes not mince words in expressing his opinion of the main
cause of the trouble. Thus. he doubts the wisdom of adopting
a rubber stamp as the lone emblem of democratic fidelity, or
the sole insignia of democratic craftsmanship" He pleads
for more democratic liberality and less autocratic intolerance"
Presumably the democrats of Oklahoma will understand what
he means, without mentioning names.
Senator Cores term expires in March. i92i-tbe election
to fill his seat will occur next November. Whether or not he
intends to run again, he is naturally interested in his partys
condition. If the percentage of loss suffered i'm the by-electidp
in the Fifth district should become statewide. Oklahoma would
turn over and elect a republican senator BY twenty-five tbo,-1
sand. [
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

The Lewises and the Farringtons. fighting for the honor
of being president of their organization. the coal miners, may
think it's lot of fun to shut off the heat, but how would they
Feel about it if the farmers would shut off their food supplieso
It's a fine thing to punish others. but til not the same when the
punishment is inflicted on us ourselves. The average striker
talks about providing for his family, but how much thought
does he take of the other mans family? He disclaims a great
deal about the inhumanity of men, but he himself is apt to
disregard all human claims, and in that respect the striking
miners are the worst exemplficaton of modern industrial
evils. S.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
WHY WE pUssYFOOT

A writer in the Saturday Evening Post spropounds IN inter-
,sting question and comments upon it as follows:
".Why is it we always have to go pussyfoouhg
for fear if might provoke somebody? they ask one
another. The American uniform ought TO protect a
man anywhere in the world
al have often specialized on that myself since this
administration came into office, for no matter where
: Americans go they must needs walk softly. In ltaly,
in Germany, in Mexico, they must take suDhissIVev
what comes to them lest assertion OF their rights
should provoke trouble. Britshers may go almost any
where in the world without fear of molestatlon-saVe
Mexico. which is our sphere of Influence under the
Monroe. Doctrine-because the world knows that Great
Britain will protect them with a strong arm SO long
as they mind their own business and behave them
selves.
"But during the past few years Americans. have
learned that they dare not assert their u%ndeniable
right. Our policy has been to turn the other cheek.
Every pygmy nation on earth knows that now. 1t
will take years of firm dealing to correct this mistaken
impression and restore American prestige"
The reason for our pussyfooing is plain enough. we have
not fulfilled our pledged word as a government. we have hd
no continuous or consistent policy. We have wobbled In our
relations with Mexico and with Europe. We have failed to pro-
tect the lives and property of American citizens abroad. It's
no wonder that Europe distrusts us and that Mexico feels that
our threats are not to be taken too seriously.
For this highly unfortunate condition of affairs the respOn-
have been the cardinal points of the administrations foreign
program in recent years. We paid the penalty in the case OF
Germany, we are likely to pay it in the case of Mexico.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
HO.yW WE MADE THE f RESPECTABLE

Every day uncovers one or more of the Reds who have been
attached to Uncle Sans payroll and ensconced in a position
of responsibility if not strategy in the government service.
Right in the very place which Lenine or Trotzky would have
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

Mr.. Wilson said last winter that opponents of the league
of nations would find it inextricably interviewer with the peace
treaty. Perhaps he has his moments of wishing that he had not
demonstrated SO stubbornly his talents as a weaver.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

The probability appears to be that self-named candidates
for the nomination to the presidency in the republican conven-s
ton will, to a considerable extent, be graciously pleased to
express a preference for Calvin Coolidge for running mate.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

The voters of the Fifth Wisconsin district have full liberty,
of course, to- re-elect Berger to the seat that congress has refused
10 let him have. But they should understand that the seat will
never be filled by Berger in the life of the present congress.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

chosen for him if The choice had been conceded to them, was
for several years, until congress began to ask questions about
him, one of the most dangerous of the radicals. that have
recently afflicted the country.
Many of us who have read his contributions, from time to
time, to the radical literature of recent years, have wondered
whether our government at Washington was asleep or in sym
'pathy with the propaganda that was being sponsored by the
socialistic freak who was known i'm official life as the commits
sioner of immigration at the port of New York. His name was
Frederic c.. Howe. He was a writer and reform propagandist
of the Lincoln Steffens-UptonS inclair-GeOrge Creel Brand.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

And it was one of Frederic Howes school, Lincoln Steffens.
later attached to the American peace commission, who procured
for Trotzky the passports that took him to Russia to pull that
country. with its millions of troops, out of the war with Ger
many just as we were getting into it, These passports, granted
over the protest of England, cost Russia more lives than the
cost her and all the allies. And the end is not vel.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-10-18
NEGLECTING THAT
COLD OR COUGH;
Why, when DR.. Kings New
Discovery so promptly
checks it

IT'S natural You don't want to b.
careless and let that old cold OF
cough ,lra@ ou or that new attach
develop seriously Noi when you cai
get such "A proved successful remedy
rs br Kings New Discovery.
Gold, cough, grippe. Group does moi
resist This standard believer very long
rs quality is A. high today rs h al
WAYS has been md lt's been growing
Strndily n popularity for more that
nifty wears. CO. aud Sl2O BOTTLE n
all druggists GNr IL a trial
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-10-18
WOULD PAY eoss $50 a MONTH
Admirals Wilson And Washington Also
Urge Raise For officers.

Washington Fifty dollars a month
should D. the minimum pay Tor naval
enlisted mon. the House Naval Com.
mittee was told b. Admiral Wilson
.1mmlnder " the Atlantic fleet. and
Roar Admiral Washington. Chief OF
Nasislson They urged all advance OF
30 per cent, FOR enlisted men and IS
per cont Tor officers
Ninety per cent OF Us are in the
,.aNy because We love g. ADMIRAL VII
son stii We are making no demand
ana i IS not a question 81 Joining any
Federation OF labor We belong 10 ne
organization and lew OF rs vote"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-10-18
Constipated? Here's Relief

MOI thar often harmful, always VIC
lent AMI temporary help that come,
from harsh wir-ltiv">, bur IA" com
Portable graz III, corrective r'-ula
ton d. >'ulhnu tuwcl> So pronounced
In Dr. KIM New Life PMS.
Tonic IN action. they promote free
bile How. stir up tao lazy, thoroughly
but gently cleanse the system "f vast
matter and frrnonling i"odS. and s.Nt
you keen zr,l fnr hard work ant
hcnlthtul recreation. All druggists
- ceAtS
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-10-18
Ex.PREsIDENT IN JAIL.
Gonzales. OF Costa Riea. Arrested In
Libel Action.

New rurh y DEPUTY sheriff by the
name 81 Murphy ,ad another rs the
name OF E,scus'olu, gave an answer t.
the old qucstcL 81 what 70 10 with
IPrrsidents here They pu' on IT
jail He 1, Alfredo Gonzales who three
years ago was president OF Costa Rica
Gonzales was arrested As the result,
OF libel action brought by Lincoln
G. Valeni!as to recover 1888 900.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-10-18
MEXICAN QUARREL ENDS.
Announces Adjustment or OitcultIe,
With Britain.

Mexico cry Ptsspori difficulties
be,weeu MeNito ana ENGLAND have
been adjusted according - state
men, ISSUED by the For".sa Once II
is uuoaeialiy stated the Mexican
British iiplomat.e -i'uatiou shows I'm
ptoyemen' With me early appointment
u diplomatic representative, by botl
countries prob4bl