The  Non-partisan  League  of  North  Dakota 
Great  Struggle  for  Farmers’  Rights 
AT  the  recent  State  primary  election  in  Vermont 
a  fine  old  farmer  went  to  the  polls  to  vote 
against  the  great  danger  of  State  or  National  in- 
and  made  farm  land  a  basis  for  government  security. 
This  old  farmer  considered  that  “«  step  toward  so¬ 
cialism' ”  and  he,  with  others,  voted  it  down  about 
five  to  one.  At  the  same  time  this  good  citizen  was 
doing  what  he  called  his  duty,  his  grandson,  as 
like  him  in  appearance  as  grandfather  and  grandson 
a  mighty  experiment  in  pure  democracy.  It  took 
two  generations  and  3,000  miles  to  break  down  the 
New  England  fear  that  the  State  might  go  bank- 
nipt  if  it  really  did  things  to  relieve  the  people.  It 
must  have  required  a  mighty  jar  so  to  shake  up  a 
purebred  Yankee.  Let  us  understand  what  it  was. 
A  Case  Where  the  Third  Party  May  Well  Be  Excused.  Fig.  543 
torferenee  with  business.  Senator  Page  was  up  for  can  be,  out  in  North  Dakota  was  right  in  the  heart  A  POLITICAL  RING. — Whenever  grafters  are 
reflection,  and  part  of  his  argument  was  that  he  of  a  great  social  and  political  revolution.  For  on  married  to  a  public  treasury  there  is  a  wedding 
opposed  the  rural  credit  law  which  made  the  gov-  those  prairies  and  sand  lulls  the  farmers  are  sweep-  .‘•ring,”  and  they  had  one  in  North  Dakota  that  was 
o nnucn t  ft  partner  in  the  money-loaning  business,  iug  all  before  them  for  State  control  of  utilities  and  a  jewel.  We  all  think  our  own  political  “boss”  is 
