The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 4, 1915, Page 1

onparfigan Tader Volume I s : 'FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, NOVEMBER 4, 1915 Number 7 ¥ Cd =22 | Y NN\ SnEm —— e - ~ 21233 !/ KR &= dusTice . DPAnKERr g ARG 3 725 SN The F armers’ Justice State versus railroads; sixteenth conviction; Charge, bribing assessor to make false returns; - The lower tribunal without jurisdiction— 3 Is defendant Timited to just what it earns? What do yon know of the state constitution? When will the Common People learn their own:place? Reprimand. plaintiff - for false prosecution! Discharge the defendant.- Call the nextcase! State versus the Banker; charge, defalcation,, ' Using his depositor’s funds as his own; Blue-sky investments; there’s no demarcation, The criminal purpose conclusively shown. Boodle-bribed: juries—no prison sentence - . That would bring to -his fair name disgrace— He paid them enough. to show his repentance? Then—Sentence suspended! Call the next case! State versus the Farmer; charge, speculation; Chamber of Commerce says its profits are few— To hell with the Farmer, who feeds all Creation! What says the defendant? The charges are tite? Into the courts with him-—get a conviction— We'll teach him to barter and seh his own grain! . Foreclose the mortgage —get a writ of eviction— < Defendant. admits that he did it for gain! % Big Business won’t see in the Farmer a brother- ' & A frayed, ragged lot that discredit the race! - The lays must be enforced some way or another—— Back to the dirt:with him! Call the next case! : BeaEE Tt . —R. 0. Zollinger.