The Caldwell tribune., 1920-03-19
FARMER J0lTS
N.P.L. LEAGUE
North Dakota Man Writes O1
Opposition to Organ.
izati0n

place before the Nonpartisan League
gets it from me-
This is what a North Dakota farm
er writes to his brother in Nampa,
l.. B. Rimel, a carpenter living at 3l4
Thirteenth avenue south. The Mr..
Rimel here also lived in North Da-
kota and doesn't think any more Of
the league than his brother does
81 am carpenter and | hold a
card, but am fighting the move to
have union labor join with the Non
partisan League tooth and nail. .
think too much of my country to be
a party to any such nefarious busi-
ness as that. have seen the Non
partisan League at work in its strong
hold and | know what it is. Some
good farmers have been dragged into
it innocently. but the leaders are So
cialists pure and simple and are bent
on forcing a communist system on
this country. Some of them are even
more radical and should be classed
as I. w. W."
In the letter to his brother here,
the North Dakota man says:
I'VE are having quite time here
Crock Lake, N. d. fighting the N.
P. l.. They are strong here. but we
are going to give them ybme fight
this fall The leaders are all Social
stic and some worse. want to see
the Stars and Stripes float over North
Dakota again instead OF the Red flag.
1t is a crime against our state that the
bill against the Red Flag couldn't be
passed here.
"You told me that some of their
agitators out there have been tell
ing about the home building law we
have. 1t is all bunk. 1t creates a
department with lot Of high salar-
led officials but there are no houses
built that anyone ever knows about
Another fine bill that was passed is
the immigration law, which costs us
100000 a year to operate. Then we
have state sheriff law, which gives
the sheriff $4,000 a year to blow
The Smelling law creates another
board with an appropriation of $25,'
600 a year and all it has done so ia,
is to spend money trying to make il
hot for anyone who has patriotism
enough to criticise the N. P. L.
"Well, it cost me something or
taxes this year. Brother Luther paid
$50 in 1918 and $3S4.s0 in 1919
So you see how the landowners get it
Art paid $3.50 on a quarter of lant
in 1918 and $l0o37 last year. The
renter doesn't have to pay nearly a:
heavy as the land owner and peopl,
in the towns get off easier. TIL,
scheme is to tax land too death Sc
people will have to give it up. TIL,
Socialists think land should be owned
by the state.
My taxes did not 60 as high a
the rest of the boys. My taxes TO
1918 were $l32 and this year $22s.
"Forty-two taxpayers have brough
suit in the United States court agains
the N, P. l.. program, so you can Sc,
that we are holding them back some
The N, P. l.. has drained the stat
treasury and didn't have money I,
pay the men at the last session.
AT one time liked it here bu
the last few years have made me sicl
and tired Of North Dakota We hope
though. that the farmers are wakin
up and see how they have been use
to hurt themselves in the end"
Mr.. Rimel says that his brother
letter was personal one to hin
but feels it should be made public s
that the people here may know wha
the Nonpartisan League has accomr
lished in North Dakota.
81 have seen so much of the Non
partisan League that perhaps fes
too strongly about il. but I don
think any state where the league
permitted to get in control would be
fit place for an American to live,
continued Mr.. Rimel ~ would lik
is the downfall of private ownershi
to see the people here wake up an
expel this menace before it grows an
more. These soft soap Socialists ar
busy every day stirring up our farm
ers, promising them everything an
concealing their true purpose, whic
of land and everything else"