The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1920-11-06

While the Post has always recog
1ised the importance Of the farmer t,
the growth, advancement and prosper
ity Of any community, we have never
gone daffy over some of the so-called
farmers' organizations which are DO
htcal organizations pure and simple
and in most cases organized by and
for some smooth politician who ha.
made failure of his own business and
has hit on the bright scheme of work
ing and blking the farmer out of q
membership or organization fee, giving
in return nothing but some anarchistic
and socialistic literature, gotten up for
the purpose of making the farmer dis.
satisfied with his lot, restless and dig
eontented, and disloyal to The best
country under the shining sun.
Without doubt too little attention
has been given by law makers and pub
he officials to the farmer, who feeds
and clothes us all and who is the real
producer of the country and without
whose efforts all other lines of acEv-
ity would end in failure. But this
fact does not justify the activities Of
party organized, led and bossed by
criminal who is now under a peni-
Tertiary sentence which he should be
serving, and into whose personal poek-
cts large share of each membership
fee finds its way.
As you may have imagined before
this, the above reference is to mont
other than the so-called Non-Partisan
league-the most partisan political or
ganization now operating in this coun
try. The Post is very much obliged
to A. G. Townley, the leader Of this
new political party, for sending his
own brother into Colorado to partici-
pate in the recent campaign. Mr..
Townley uncovered the league as no
one else has done, and exposed some
Of the develish workings of the same,
with the result that honest and loyal
Democrats. realizing the manner in
which their party had been stolen
captured body, boots and brooches BY
his un-American and unpatriotic or.
ganization, declared that national 10y.
atty was the speculative quality and
that party loyalty was of secondary
consideration and, guided by this
thought, they cut loose from the in.
truders and cast their ballots for the
candidates Of party of high princi-
pie and noble achievements and of
whose record any good citizen may
well feel proud.
The N. p. L. has proved curse to
every state upon which it has fastened
its tentacles. 1t has stung to the death
every state which has taken up the
slimy thing and warmed it to its bos-
ON. But the people are getting wise
to this unpatriotic aggregation and in
the recent election North Dakota,
where the socialistic N. P. L. program
has been so thoroughly exploited, de-
feated the Republican party, to which
the league had attached itself, not.
withstanding the fact that Republi-
cans in all other portions Of the land
save in the solidest Of the solid south
were victorious.
The result is not without its lesson,
which are many and which should be
apparent to the most casual observer
one Of which is that an organization 4
power and influence cannot be meas
urtd by the number Of sixteen dolla,
membership receipts it issues, and fur
thermore that the average American
farmer is a pretty good citizen and Al
a rule, loyal to his country, and that
being flim-flnmmed into buying mem
bership in disloyal organization
headed by anarchists is one thing, and
casting disloyal ballot is quite an
other thing. The American farme
can usually be trusted, regardless o.
the disloyal advice Of the Townleys.
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