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= ,;t'hrou’gh. Anybody can see the game is practically over. =« ... - But this player in the picture hates to admit defeat. - See him-sweat - OL. 2, NO. 21 ¥ < JFE\AKE a good look at Mr. Baer's cartoon above. We invite your - I ~ particular attention to it today. There’s a reason. Well thought £ - A -out'and well drawn, isn’t it? The player entitled Big :Biz is'in._ a bad hole; isn’t he? Worse than that, he’s stuck. -He’s all - “and scratch his head. = So cleverly has Mr. Baer depicted him that you “can almost see him wriggling in his chair.. What’s the reason for all this'sweat and worry over a little game of checkers? *= -~ . . Here’s an idea: maybe he had SOMETHING BIG AT STAKE: Maybe he stands to lose a great deal if he loses this game. - Bet his'last dollar on the game perhaps—and so he just can’t stand it to acknowl- edge defeat. : : : i . “ The mostinteresting thing about this cartoon is not that it's funny - . and well drawn, but that it is THE TRUTH, ag all good cartoons should .“be, ; That’s the reason it’s worth dwelling upon. - =~ L8 = 2o = i ght place right now in North Dakota.: He sees the - from him. It’s practically over. He's defi , A KES ARE HEAVY. That's what makes him sy “The costly machine he has spent years in building up is going to sm - it the exploitation of the farmer, which has made riches for him “ the farmers poor- No wonder he 'is frantic. No wonder he is ' foolish'things. No wonder he will not admit defeaf. S " The cartoon expresses graphically the fact that THE FARMERS’ CAUSE IS WINNING. News of that glorious fact is' coming in frem every corner of the state. The farmers, whether members of the Eeague or not, are SOLIDLY BEHIND LYNN J. FRAZIER, THE FARMER NDID TE’FOR"G&OIYE&NOR : le list of state ang kept CANDIDA lonpartiSin Offiéial Paper of the Farmers’ N_oupad_ilsan Political League of North Dakota FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, MAY 25, 1916 YOUR MOVE . [TRORTH BAKOTA BigBizlsa He is' about to lose political control of the state, which has earried ‘with ' p WHOLE NO. 86 AN .\\\‘.n-‘.. \ 0 K\ ‘i NN N\ \/ \§\\\\\\\\\\\ \ \ 5\ Q\ A « N N A >3 3 e ———— Poor Loser FI\HE'SURE signs of VICTORY FOR THE FARMERS’ CAUSE natur- < f “ally explain’ the increasing venom and subtlety of the attacks -+~ being made upon the League. They explain the reason for that crafty: effort-of the newspaper agents of Big Business to " FOOL AND -SCARE-THE FARMERS by ‘the false story that they are individually liable for, any debts that may be contracted by the League officers and organizers. -This fake has been well shot to pieces by the opinions of prominent attorneys, printed in this and the previous issue of the Lieader, which shows plainly, over these attorneys’ own signatures, that the story had not a-vestige of truth to it. The Leader has challenged . the editor who gave currency to this canard to offer-some proof that it was* not-.a-deliberate falsehood, devised with the intent to injure the ‘League, but there has been no response. ' No reputable attorney has been willing-to-stand sponsor for the story. Every attorney who has given declares it to be ridiculous. S -attack.is only one of the many sneaking, indirect assaults upon gue. It follows personal attacks upon the officers, charges that iventions were “bossed,” cowardly insinuations against the 1apacter of the men indorsed and a whole long rigmarole of “charges” tended to prove that the farmers of the state are too ignorant and too upid:-to know what they want or what they are trying to do. Every these attacks can be traced to the outside business interests who é)x;g dominated North Dakota and theix corrupt political agents in “But the members of the League are not daunted and its officers are ot.a bit discouraged. -The reason is that THESE ATTACKS HAVE ZFIZZLED OUT. The League is a mighty army that grows stronger éVeg dgy. It is stronger today than it was yesterday; it was stronger Let the enemy rage. Wg should worry, ‘ FAILED-—EVERY ONE 'OF THEM, FROM FIRST TO LAST, HAS \ rday than the day or the weask or a month before AND IT WILL Sy STILL STRONGER TOMORROW. Every knock is a boost; in every