For a quarter of a century previous to the Civil War the doctrine of rebellion and secession was being talked, advocated and applauded throughout the slave-holding states of the south, and when the citizenship of America found forts, arsenals, guns, ammunition and the military forces of the United States subject to the orders of men at the head of eleven seceding states whose policy was the destruction of this government, and the citizenship of those eleven states powerless to resist the will of a small minority-(less than 300,000 slave holders) we learned that it makes a difference who rules the state.

For a quarter of a century previous to the World War, the doctrine of hate and war and murder was being taught the youth of Germany, preparing them for the sacrifices they were to be called upon to make, and the world has learned that it makes a difference who rules the state.

In this country are to be found 100,000,000 people-the best fed, the best clothed, the best sheltered who have inhabited the earth in any land or in any age. These people are provided with more pounds of wool and cotton per capita, more beefsteak, ham and mutton-more good pure milk for the babies-more good substantial, comfortable, well-heated, well-lighted homes, than were ever provided for the popu-' lation of any nation or any race before. Here the standard of manhood and womanhood is higher the opportunities for men and women are greater the star of hope shines brighter than in any country on the globe, and yet

In this fair land of ours, for a quarter of a century men have made it their business to sow the seeds of anarchy and revolution-they have divided our citizenship into classes and are organizing various groups for war against other groups-they have minimized the achievements which have made this nation and its people the wonder and excited the admiration of the whole world-they have magnified our grievances-and in all the tons. and tons of literature which they have published-and in the tens of thousands of addresses they have delivered to American audiencesnever once in a period of a quarter of a century have they uttered a single word in praise of this-the best-the freest-the least governed -the most democratic-the richest country in

both natural resources and in manhood and womanhood that the sun ever shone upon.

We harvested the crop which came from these teachings on a thousand battlefields from Bull Run to Appomattox, via Shiloh and Get

tysburg, and the world has harvested the crop which came from the same teachings in Germany, and students of history and of the revolutionary literature which has been spread broadcast over this nation for a quarter of a century are now pointing to the dangers which threaten this republic.

For many years these forces operated in this country under their own name, as "Socialists."

In 1905 there grew out of this organization, what was called the "Industrial Workers of the World," and practically every delegate to the Chicago convention in 1905 where the I. W. W. organization was perfected was a socialistand that was true, also, of their newly elected officers.

Failing in their efforts to get labor into the I. W. W. organization and the farmer into the Socialist Party, the leaders of Socialism and I. W. W.'ism carefully laid their plans to gain control of a real laboring man's organizationthe American Federation of Labor-and to cease operating as "Socialists" in the Agricultural Districts-organize a "Farmer's Organization" absolutely dominated by Socialists, to be known as the "Nonpartisan League" and by uniting the farmer-labor forces at the ballot box, gain control of the state for "Socialism," which was utterly impossible while operating under their real names.

The reader must clearly understand at the outset that this publication is not in any sense an attack on farmers, and that a clear distinction must be kept in mind at all times between the farmers who are members of the Nonpartisan League and its socialist leaders who are not.

Under the Articles of Association (as will be noted later) of this Farmer-Labor political organization (to which the farmer contributes $18 and the laborer nothing) only farmers can be admitted to membership in it.

This publication deals with the aims, purposes and records of the leaders of the Nonpartisan League who are neither farmers, laborers, nor members of the league, and shows their autocratic rule of this farmer's organization.

We will permit the Socialist leaders of the Nonpartisan League who are neither farmers nor members of the League, and whose autocratic rule of the organization is now complete, and, under the Articles of Association, never can be broken (as we shall clearly point out later) to present to the reader their

AIMS, PURPOSES AND RECORDS in their own language through their own letters, documents and publications.