The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 10, 1916, Page 3

e ey e S o T S VOL. 3, NO. 6 NSNS N N N > ////))/1///,////11 e e AARRRRW W S ST A N SN ORRRLARY AT e e T T W Aeied - S N S Lt b VRN, O N ok “ o R R Aaman S R s e o Things are in a terrible state in North Dakota this year, from the peint of view of Big Business. A fearful calamity impends. Big Biz has apple-pie order.. He knew :the mystery always had the whole state nicely lined up—in e FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916 Trying to Put It Together Again STy A newspaper that dares to print the truth WHOLE NO. 47 2 '||"",. 3 ; AT ) e gl il of putting together a state government that would be a_ unit, working together as one—for the interests of Big Biz. It was a mystery to others how the thing was done, but Big Biz }mew'. He held: - the key to the puzzle. Big Biz started in this year with great confidence to do the same thing, but all of a sudden he found himself stumped. : - The game looked the same as ever, but somehow it was different. The parts wouldn’t go-together. Important pieces seemed to be missing. So here is Big Biz sitting up burning the midnight oil long after he should have had the thing all :worked out.. Somebody has got up out of bed to: have a laugh. won’t work for Big Biz this year. e \HE Nonpartisan League from ifs beginhirig has had two aims and I objects. These are: 7 > the people of the state; ; ’.To use the power of the state government to aid in developing the state for the benefit of its citizens and to prevent its exploitation for 'thg,fbénefit of outsiders and to the injury of the people of the state. which the farmers of the state united and for which they have achieved one great and notable victory at the polls. : : _PROSPERITY FOR ALL WANTED It was often said by the Leader and by the League’s spéakers in .. the courses of" their organization work and of the campaign before the . primaries that the realization of these objects would mean prosperity a3, ———— It may be this person in the background knows something about the mystery of the missing pieces, or why the political puzzlev' ~ The Farmers Welcome a New Ally 'class in the state. .~ To restore the government of the state of North Dakota to _ These two objects constituted the essence of the program upon .nesota cities and to haul back the goods North Dakota consumes, so the * for every citizen of the state; thaf t}}e"Leagixe was fighting not only for - ‘ o - state is almost in every particular the same as when the ¢ pioneered their way into this state. As business built up, as traffic... L the farms of North Dakota, the least transient and temporary of any It is a movement, first and last, to “keep the\money in the state.” It was truly said that the League has common interests with all - those who want to build up the state and its industries. ; . A striking illustration of the truth of this statement is seen in the. account in this issue of the fight of the manufacturers of Fargo to get a new adjustment of rates from the railroads in the state. ; 5 * k% ; FREIGHT RATES A BAR TO PROGRESS ‘North Dakota’s system of freight rates is designed to yield the utmost profit to the railroads, without regard to the cost of the service and without regard to the rates enjoyed by other states. The rail- roads find it more profitable to haul North Dakota’s products to the Min- v rates are framed to make business for the Twin Cities. o - The general schedule of rates charged by the railroads within the : railroads first - increased, other states and communities got concession after concession o from the railroads while the people of North Dakota were forced to go %