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Show I GRANGE AND NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE Some of the best friends of agriculture in the United States, who have proved by their works that their devotion to its wel- -cere, are seriously disturbed over the spread of a n-r. ment in the Northwest which bears every indication of containing .a positive menace to the highest progress of the real farmers of the country, and which is destined to injure the very cause which it professes to espouse. Reference is, made to the so-called Farmersr Non-Partisan League, in several of the states in the Northwest, which by whirlwind whirl-wind methods, by extravagant promises and by radical pronouncements, pronounce-ments, has been gathering great momentum in some sections, while the movement is also gaining a foothold in some of the Eastern East-ern states. The very nature of the new organization does not point in the direction of permanence, nor does it contain those elements ele-ments of strength 1 h:.l j.- vrc rry: i.VJrg service to the farm people peo-ple in any state ; while the unfortunate entanglements this organization organi-zation has permitted, with those whose purpose is clearly to undermine under-mine the American government, to reduce its fighting efficien-y and to give aid to the enemy, is an indictment against the Non-Partisan Non-Partisan League from which it can never clear itself in the estimate esti-mate of patriotic, red-blooded American citizens, farmers and otherwise. If the Non-Partisan League has not actually surrendered itself 10 msioyai practices, it has at least trifled with its reputation to a degree sufficient to put it under suspicion, in the eyes of everv " true American. ' But the chief purpose of this article is to make clear that the AnS? ls.u0t identlf ied in Wfly with the Non-Partisan League and that the Grange stands sponsor in no way for its principles or its results. Efforts that have been made, in countless cases to so entangle the Grange should be repudiated at everv point' for the Grange and the Non-Partisan League are moving from absolutely different viewpoints and have no common basis The grange was here, doing valiant service for the farm people of the United States, long before this new movement of the Northwest was ever dreamed of; and it may still be here after that movement move-ment has been forgotten. The Grange is non-partisan in the true, broad sense Its service is unselfish and continuous for the farm interests of America. The Grange seeks no class legislation or special favors lor farmers, simply because they are farmers, but names as its supreme ideal "Th.e greatest good to the greatest number" The Grange is absolutely loyal to its government and tolerates within its meetings and among its leaders no spark of even the suggestion sugges-tion of disloyalty. On these four decisive issues the Grange and the N on-Partisan League are as wide apart as if oceans separated tnem. Let this fact be here and now made clear to evervone that whatever may be the future of the Non-Partisan League, no responsibility for that future rests upon the Grange or upon the real leaders of the Grange. As the two organizations go on, the fruits of each shall prove it, of what manner it be. National (.range Bulletin. |