The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 1

St : . 5918%8 by e ‘h N ;o.oog,$SXh 8? m ..0.......0........0.0........‘. 00000000000000000000000000000000 FOR JUNE 1, 1916 Do YOUR Part? North Dakota farmers are right now in the midst of the greatest battle of their lives---with the welfare of the whole people of the state at stake. phdel ! » If the farmers and their friends lose, North Dakota will continue to be ruled by the Grain - Trusts, Insurance Companies, Usurious Bankers, and all the hosts of Big Business. And North -Dakota people will be forced, as in the past, to pour tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of eastern business coneerns already rolling in riches. : We will have to pay these millions year after year---if we lose---because Big Business will - make and enforce the laws. These corporation laws will not permit our people to do the things - hecessary-to keep their earnings at home. ; - North Dakota will be drained to the limit of her ability to pay. - Homesteads will be mort- gaged and lost. As in the past, horses, machinery and household goods will be sold under the hammer and the tillers of the soil will be turned out of their homes. Merchants will go broke . because the farmers can not pay their store bills. ‘Heavy mortgages, high interest, low prices, ~ will foree long hours of toil. Wives, mothers and sisters will work in the field. Children will ~ be kept out of school summers to plow, seed and harvest, and kept at home winters for lack of - Inoney to pay the way through high school or college. Al will be debt and drudgery. Mothers and fathers will die from overwork and worry while yet they should be young. . - Meanwhile we will yield up tens of millions of the earnings of our wives and daughters and - mothers and fathers and brothers to the greedy masters of trade and finance in the East—mil- - lions that they do not need and can not use—millions that should be spent in North Dakota to - make happy and prosperous a great people in a great state---millions that should be spent by North Dakota farmers with North Dakota business men to the greater advantage of both. All this---as in the past---IF WE LOSE. : But we are not going to lose. et Sl WE MUST NOT! WE WILL NOT! Why should we? Farmers produce the wealth--- feed all the people. Directly or indirectly they pay all the taxes. THEY ARE THE FOUN- DATION, THE PROTECTORS, THE GUARDIANS, THE PROVIDERS OF THE 'STAfl‘E. - Who but the enemies of justice would say that if the farmers control they would ruin the state they builded and have and must provide for and feed? Would they destroy their own ‘homes? Would a mother starve her babe or a father wilfully wreck his own. son? Neither ' - would the farmers and progressive business men of the cities and villages wreck the state, but rather would they make it the greatest state in the Union. : . LOSE? NO! We should WIN because we have right and justice on our side. We WILL win. We will win because we have on our side the numbers to back up right and justice. s .- At the primaries we’'are forty thousand strong. Forty thousand signed and paid members. ~ Thisisnotall. Of farm helpers and hired men, fathérs and sons and brothers and friends of - members there are at least fifteen thousand more votes for the farmers’ ticket. Then there are a host of progressive laboring men and friends of farmers in the cities -and villages who will = vote with the farmers. In all fifty or sixty thousand votes for the people’s ticket. - - ‘Sowe have justice and right on our side, and the numbers to make justice and right the vic- _ tors. Howthencanwelose? =~ .~ ° ‘ it : : If every member does his part it is impossible to lose. = = . L . Ninety-five out of every one hundred members are at work to win. From every voting pre- cinct come messages of cheer and sure evidence of victory. , mis : -disappointed politicians and paid ‘agents of Big i 10006000000660000000000000000000660600000000000000000 obo@idépoooqboqoooogo-onbbo'Qoooboqiopooooooobo-oooo;doooodddio ] (11 éfigpngiiooopooooooooq.qo(ooooooooooooqooooooooooooooooooobgbdooooooboooo.ogd.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.opdqroooooooooooc