The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 25, 1915, Page 6

PAGE SIX - ' THE NONPARTISAN LEADER PUBLISHED WEEKLY : Official Payer of th: Farmers Nonpartisan Political League of N. Dak. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. HE most difficult job the Leader has been to complete the organization of its mailing list. To set the type and ar- range 30,000 names and mail the papers each week dur- ing the process of starting a new . publication is a tre- mendous job and many mistakes are likely to be made, and es- pecially in view of the fact that many new names and changes of addresses are received by us daily. : ¢ So be charitable with us for a little while. Everything . Entered as second-class matter Se ptember 8, 1915, at the post office at Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. u@ Subscriptions, one year, in advance, $1.50. y Communications' intended for the paper should be addressed to the Non- partisan Leader, Box 919, Fargo, N. Dak., and not to any individual. S i S R L GRS DY RN SRR e O AR will" be establiahed. i iy e If you are not gettting your paper promptly, and every sub- scriber should receive it not later than Saturday of each week, let us know about it. Kick and kick strong, as we propose to see that every member gets the full measure of his membership. So let us hear from: you if you are not getting the paper The Leader solicits adverticcments of meritorious articles needed by farmers. Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly ad- vertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly . should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm , i which patronizes our advertising columns. i i Discriminating advertisers recognize The Nonpartisan Leader as the best i medium in the state of North Dakota through which to reach the wide- i swake and up-to-date farmers, ; WHAT'S THE EXCUSE NOW? PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. ; 3 ] WORD as to patronizing the advertisers in the Leader. n N frult canning season, sugar always takes to the highest 1- This is a very impottant matter to every member of branches. They say that the “law of supply and demand | is the cause. Now, as Christmas approaches and mother begins to plan on cooking a lot of “holiday goodies”, Mr. Sugar is acting up again. The “law of supply and demand”- has about as much to do with such capers as King Dodo of -Timbuctoo has to do with politics in Hinkey Dink’s home ward in Chicago. Manipulation, juggling, combination and greed for gain is the whole cause of the whole big steal. (& Leader are of first-class firms who ‘can be dependen upon to give every patron a square deal. The revenue which comes to the Leader through this sourve adds to the support of the paper and the cause of North Dakota farmer. Every mem- mail order houses unless you find their advertisement in the |Leader You can buy articles you need from those who do, or we can supply you with such sources - Faithfulness to this principle will make for a bigger and stronger Leader and the Farmers Nonpartisan Political League. You can be sure that the Leader will never be controlled even in the slightest degree by its advertisers—they advertise here because they want the business of members of the Farmers Nonpartisan League and for no other reason. . And you should patronize them because they advertise in your paper. Let us all stick together. at this point and the success and power of the Leader and the League to do th'ngs for the farm- ers of North Dakota is certain. HOLMAN ON TENANTRYf— HE Leader presents today in another column the views of Charles W. Holman on tenant farming. It would be idle to comment on the thought aroused by this very illum- inating article. Every one intérested in creating conditions which will give to every individual opportunity to exercise his God given talents will find the Holman story full of meat. Its 1 subject is one so close to the financial . interests and chances of ; all that it should interest every class. The problem of bread and meat for the present and the next generation forms its most absorbing idena. That would center the attention of every man and woman who wants to know why the present cost of liv- ing is high and why it is mounting. S SUPPORT YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION HERE is one big 'impelling reason for the support of the "~ Leader by the farmers - of North Dakota, also of the Farmers Nonpartisan Political League and the methods of its organization. One of the great sources of sup- port and of the power of the agencies which prey upon the farmers and their families are newspapers which pollute the & ONLY PHYSOLOGICAL. HE Kansas City Times declares, editorially, that the only benefit derived from the Federal Reserve Bank, this the first year of its existence, is wholly psychological. - “So far as actual tangible benefits,” it continues, “measurable by statistics, are concerned, there has been prac- tically none.” Sy e Practically every farmer in the United States, especially those of the Northwest, already knew that. : SR But it must be remembered that the Federal Reserve law wax at_first very bitterly opposed by the bankers of the nation. That they journeyed to Washington to lobby against it—large Pullman car loads of them. Suddenly’ they faced about and ..came out strongly in favor of it. - : : We wonder if that is the reason that it has been no benefit: We deq’t say it has, but we just wonder. and facts which they\should know for their general good. If the farmer wants the truth told and honest support for their cause they can only get it by owning and publishing their own paper. The Leader will sodn prove this by the important ‘Inews which it is gathering all over the state and which other newspapers will not publish. dividuals or: private companies are run for money-making pur- poses; not for the purpose of supplying the people with real news and information, and to secure political and other power over the farmers for ulterior purposes; whatever political or news. policy ‘interferes -with money making or creating pawer railroads; banks, politicians; commission men, grain graders, etc “THE TUNE THE OLD COW DIED ON.” causes the latter to complain about his inability to get a fair price for his product and the proper consideration at the hands of publicofficials. =~ -+ i o £ e ‘So there is only one way to get pure news and honest sup- OW many of our readers ever heard the “tune” the old ! cow died on? Most all of us have heard the expression. § Well, here’s the “tune”: sl [SIIE *:S,:«,_IS_’; 23Ty “There was a: poor man and ‘he had an old cow, And he had no grass to give her, : So he took down his fiddle and played her a tune, ‘Consider, good cow, consider.’ e This is no time o’ the year for the grass to grow, ‘Consider, good cow, consider.” e % as the Fanners»_anpartisan‘ League is doing.. e Let this stick in your mind. = . & = -~ PUTTING ONE AND ONE TOGETHER. VERY innocent looking little news dispatch from Washing- ton: appeared in last. week’s ‘papers announcing ‘tha b B} effort will be made t lish the office of the comptrol- -~ ler of the currency. Gt SRR ~ That’s number one. Ts far back as the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, politicians have been promising that as soon as they “are| elected” they were going to “consider” some legislation in the in- * terest of the real people. R S ] _They are always going to “consider” the situatio a commission or committee to “consider” it.. ~ The upshot of the whole matter is tha continue to. vote into office pie-hungry politician - to sing the song, “consider, good voter, consider’ will be in fine shape soon and then clear and correct mailing promptly, and then if you don’t get it ask your rostmoster why? the League. Advertisisements in the columns of ths - ber should stop buying anything whatever from merchants or: news and keep the farmer blind to the sources of infarmation Get this fact into your head: - All newspapers owned by’ih-_ i is changed to one which will bring these things. As a result the (who own and control newspapers have the coin and power and they are used to serve their purposes against ‘the farmer, which port for the farmer to change present conditions, and that is for the farmer to orgaize and then own and run their own paper,