The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 29, 1916, Page 3

_Ewo:. 2, Yo 26 ; # N e e o Y S e e m oy " v = —g~HE TIDE IS COMING IN! . e , ; I .- Did you ever live on the seashore? If you did, you are used i to seeing the tide come'in.. There is a “short tide” and a “long tide.” Once a day, once every twenty-four hours, comes the big flood AR tide. 2 A ' | The tide is a great cleanser—the greatest in the world. When this big flood tide comes in it sweeps up along the sands and it gathers up all the rubbish and the impurities upon its waves. When it goes out it takes them with it and the currents wash them far out into the bpsom of the ocean, where they are absorbed and finally lost in the depths. - fancied himself so powerful that everything must obey him, "even the elements. He ‘tried his: theory out on the tide. It didn’t work. He planted: his throne on-the seashore:and as. the tide came-in toward him he ordered: it to halt. But the tide didn’t pay any attention.' It came calmly on until at last it licked away the sand around the foot of the _robe about him and in a very undigrified and unkingly way he scampered | sweep back the tide. She tried-action instead of words, but that didn’t - work any better. The tide kept coming along and the old' woman only No"wkllet';ns give attention to the cartoon. Mr. Baer has conceived: that there is"a certain with the o 1t is sweeping in as a mighty wave dly run before it fast enough to The Farmers’ Tide Is Coming In is ugly and useless and corrupting. rIA‘he tide is irresistible. It can’t be stopped: ~ Anything in its path: must float or be immersed. It ‘is ‘Telated of ‘a foelish king that he throne and splashed on the king’s garments. . Finally he gathered his Tt is relatad also that there was an old woman onte who tried 1o _ : ' _away the waves.- You can’t halt the tide. relation between these historic stories connected T election: It should be 'in the-hands of the most of the readers’ ‘on Wednesday, primary election day, or before. argument. It is a time for action. - % ey : . -There is one great thing to be done. - It is this—get out the vo _the Bay of Fundy, where the tide and their work the greatest political organization the state has ever seen' WHOLE NO. 41 and you will discover. It is the tide of public sentiment-—the flood of votes of a determined people rising in their might to sweep away what It is the citizenship of a state aroused to action by many abuses. It is the great body of the farmers of the state, rising up and coming forward to take from the hands of unfaithful servants the affairs that have been entrusted to them. * * * -Now look what’s in front of this tide. ; T 2 Old King Big Business, convinced at last that he has made a mis- take and running for his life. & Also someone else, the old woman who tried to sweep back the tide, in the shape of a representative of the Gang Press, stubbornly asserting that black is white, or nearly so, foolishly and patiently stirring up mud among the wavelets—and all the time accomplishing-nothing but get- ting her feet wet. ; .. Oh, foolish old woman! Do you.not. know that every time the truth is brushed back with a lie it comes rolling on again with greater force? Do you not know.that all the muss you stir up will only muddy: your-own' skirts?- A- whole ocean of humanity, an ocean of ‘justice, g. sea of common sense, is behind these waves you are fighting with silly o . frenzy. - s ;- Hurry up, old woman, and‘ Scamper away while no worse fate has befallen you than wet feet and bedraggled skirts. You can’t sweep * . % * - Roll on; oh: waves that beat -upon the sand, ever advancing w:th single ‘purpose and unchanged will. Roll on and forward until you: < have swept away what lies' in your path, until corruption is battered: = ~down and drowned-out and the shore once more-is smooth and clean. = ' THE BIG DUTY—GET OUT THE VOTE ¢ py: of the Leader is published on the eve of the primary " It is mot a time for ‘The farmers of the state have victory within their reach. The “six-dollar suckers” have built with their money, their br: