The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 4, 1916, Page 10

! oY s PSS, SRSt 70 DA SNSRI £ oy —cemwaan O IN this tremendous fight of the peo- Q2 ple against the interests the peo- ple have more weapons' than they suspect. For instance, here’s the press. Many of the newspapers are owned or controlled by the Interests: and: compelled to cover with lies and slan- ders. every movement of the people for emancipation. : Every thinking man knows this well enough and knows that it is with this weapon that the Interests have killed ff many a people’s movement and o fully expect to kill off many more. THERE IS A WAY TO SILENCE SLANDERS. But what a_ few thinking men do know is that the people do not really have to submit to these lies and slan- ders. They have a handy method of silencing these servile liars and of making the mud slingers keep ~their mud at home, if the people will only use that method. Even liars as reck- - less as those that are doing the dirty work in some of the newspapers of North Dakota. It is a weapon the Interests know perfectly and use continually. ‘Wher- ‘ever there is a newspaper that is too independent or too decent to take or- ders from such bosses they put this’ lariat on it and it usually comes to - time. It is like this: A’ newspaper lives on its advertis- starve to death. There is no profit on its subscriptions. . : The - Interests, working you are, . HOW THE INTERESTS . - CLUB THE NEWSPAPERS, One' of ‘the most independent and ~ fearless mewspapers in the United ing. ' But for its advertising it would R < “toy ethei, : 7 control a lot of advertising. An .thgre ame That Farmers Can Pl - How the Big Business Club is Used : N 4§ OSS S S S RN fl‘\z»..l;:m'«f:g}@ \ R " HARVESTER /, © TRUST " /. To Force the Newspapers Into Line States is the San Francisco Bulletin. Some time ago it started on a cam- paign for certain reforms that the Interests did not happen to like. They were reforms' that would interfere with the profits and: graft of Big Business. So the Interests send word to the Bulletin to let up on that campaign and the Bulletin told the Interests to - go t1;0 perdition, or words to that ef- fect. ¢ Then the Interests pulled out of the Bulletin pages of advertising and threatened it with -uin. But the Bul- letin was game and held on. There was one department store that continued to advertise in it.. The rest, being controlled: by the ‘Inter- ests, obeyed orders. This department store had for twenty years done business at one bank 'and ‘every Saturday had’ been - accommodated there with a large sum of money to make up its payroll. The E&itor Nonpartisan:Leader; 900000 men ‘advised th - They came back from th ..‘Q..................‘.’O.,‘......Q....‘...‘....:..’_..... ; THE LADY AND THE TIGER . "Last summer when the organizers were at work here the business e farmers not to join the League.” But th the same and from 90 to 100 per cent: of the farmers were in the League when the work of organization was completed. et Now these same business men have organized a “Booster’ Club,” one of the express purposes of which is to bring about a closer cooperation between the farmers and business: men in town. Al of which seems very good, but strongly reminds us that-= P . Mo S B .= .“There was a young lady from Niger . .'Who smiled as 'she rode on a:tiger; e And the smile on the face of the tiger.” 0000000000800 next Saturday the manager went as usual to get his payroll money and was astounded to find that he couldn’t get it. A MERCHANT PUNISHED FOR HIS ADVERTISING. At this he got mad and sought the president with a.protest. The presi- dent said: . “Well, you advertise in the Bulle- tin, don’t you?” “Yes.” . “Well, the Bulletin is fighting the best interests of this city and we have made a rule that we will not advance any money to any firm that advertises in such a sheet. Take your advertise- ment out and you can have the money. therwise, not a cent.”: G The manager went to other banks and found that all had made the same agreement. Not a cent to any house that advertised in the Bulletin. So he ey joined just 0 e ride with the lady n\mde e - F. M. MADISON. e000000000000000000 "ooooopooofioob._o‘oo_joobooo / /! was obliged to go foftl;e Bulletin of- ce_and cancel his contract and with-' ' draw his advertisement. Then he got the money. . SR But this is a weapon that will work . both ways : : " What's the matter with usi it? Take_ one of these lying, n%il:hy sheets'.in North Dakota that in the service of their masters are trying to bury the Nonpartisan League under . . B f:gsehoods, rid?cule and nu?sgrle?presehebf : e ation, ., Every one of tfiem lives uj n xfis advertisers.: Every advertisegg lives upon the farmers. o 5 SUPPOSE THE FARMERS ACTED:IN THIS WAY: Suppose .the farmers advertli)sers:, fRy e t-he“"* “So long as you advertise in a . - hewspaper that is: trying to strangle the farmers’ movement for freedom : ::o ggfl;fnot bu}i'}gne cent’s worth of 2N ods of you. is is a st p gvrmcxple in which w. fuggle for : e are fightin; t.-alo i _selves but for, with secret enemies. Eve dollar ¢ advertising yon give ‘to r{heo‘::wg‘ e papers: that ‘are lying about us is g ¢ hands of the Intes will