When you get through reading this letter, you will agree with us that we have something worth while to tell you-worth while to you who live in Nebraska. The Appeal is now employing a large staff of investigators who are working up material for a great series of articles on the wonderful things now taking place in the great Northwest The capitalist newspapers have lied so much about the Non-Partisan League that we have decided to get the facts first hand. The Non-Partisan movement is more than a farmer's movement although primarily it deals with his political and economic troubles. This The entire state movement is a people's movement. They are succeeding. government of North Dakota is now in their hands. Farmers A Story of the Nonpartisan By John W. Gunn Appeal to Reason Girard, Kansas The Soviet Land Law The following "Fundamental Law of Socialization of the Land" in Russia went into effect in September, 1918, replacing the earlier and briefer Land Decree of November 7, 1917.] DIVISION I General Provisions. Article 1. All property rights in the land treasures of the earth, waters, forests, and fundamental natural resources within the boundaries of the Russian Soviet Republic are abolished. Article 2. The land passes over to the use of the entire laboring population without any compensation, open or secret, to the former owners. Article 3. The right to use the land belongs to those who till it by their own labor, with the exception of special cases covered by this decree. Article 4. The right to use the land cannot be limited by sex, religion, nationality, or foreign citizenship. Article 5. The sub-surface deposits. the forests, waters, and fundamental t Liberty for All Free Speech Victims! Will Be THE NEW APPEAL, GIRARD, KANSAS Radical Program of Legislation is Being 47 And "Comrade" Mills, who was Socialist candidate for the United States Senate in California in 1916 and who for years had been a contributor to the columns of the "Appeal to Reason" and to whom Kate Richards O'Hare owed all she had ever been able to accomplish was put on the payroll of this "Farmers' Organization," dominated by Socialists who never farmed, and they introduced "Comrade" Mills to the farmers as an "Economist" and a "Prohibitionist." Note the following: The Monpartisan Leader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, DECEMBER 31, 1917 Big Speakers for North Dakota Some of the Most Prominent Men in United States to Lecture at Leagu What is this school? IT WAS ORGANIZED in 1900. IT IS NOW TO BE CHARTERED under the laws of the State of FIVE THOUSAND CORRESPONDENCE STUDENTS and IT IS THE PUBLISHER of the books of WALTER THOMAS MILLS, including The Struggle for Existence," 640 pages (1904), fourteen editions (50,000 copies sold), and Democracy of Despotism, 260 pages (1916), 4 editions (7.000 copies sold), and besides it has published many millions of pages of educational litera ture bearing on the history and economics of labor. It now proposes to provide for those who wish to join in its work the opportunity to earn and to own their own homes and their own self-supporting employment, with the widest opportunities for social service and the best educational advantages for themselves and for their children. Does this mean you? INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECONOMY R. R. No. I, Box 15 Two years before D. C. Coates and Joseph Gilbert met in Chicago with Haywood to perfect the I. W. W. organization, Mills published THE NEW TIME, A SOCIALIST WEEKLY. Gives its readers a High Course in Socialism. ....Broad, Constructive and Liberal ... Socialist Publishing Company, Spokane, Wash 1 year 50c; 6 months 25c: 10 weeks 10c. Do you want the News of the Movement in Colorado? Colorado Chronicle, O. F, THUM AND DC. COATES, Editors. The Brightest and Newsiest Socialist and Trade Union $1.00 PER YEAR: Kate Richards had recently graduated from this Socialist school and Frank P. O'Hare, whom she afterwards married, was also advertised by Mills as follows: FRANK P. O'HARE You don't need to send for O'Hare, he'll come anyway. When he comes the whole town will know it and will never forget it. If you are wise you will ask him to make his coming the first day possible. |