The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 17, 1916, Page 3

VOL. 8, NO. 7 ~ the corner: " toon as well as that of the cartoon- ' : lst ¢ .- plement "News -has a .small and " Dakota. "It .is a “class” ‘publica- . miore people to see this cartoon. - " all: busme_ss men - in North Dakota ~ sportsman in the picture is labéled “North .Dakota Business.” .Be- cartoon is its directness and - its "~ san League CGandidate.” Several of 52 them lie on - the ground presumably dead, whlle “North: Dakota “ R Busmess” is shootmg down the others, ~ . in North Dakota in November,” was the title of the carboon as* lt was ~ printed in the Farm Implement News. - In the interest. - of a square deal for the farmer Tonpartidsn Tader Olfnml Paper of the Farum Nonpartisan Political League of Narth Dakota FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916 A newspaper that dares to print the truth WHOLE NO. 48 Business Men--Attention! E REPRODUCE on this page a cartoon to which we wish to call the special and particular attention of the business men of North Dakota. It isn’t our cartoon—let us hasten to assure you of that. It was drawn- for - the Farm -Implement News of Chicago and originally published in that Journal The men who got up this drawing evidently are proud of it.. See their names in plain lettering down in The two names printed are “Lukens” and “Melvill.” Charles A. Lukens is the editor of the Farm Implement News, we learn by a glance at ‘the. heading “of the”page. Undoubtedly this bright - thought was- Mr. Lukens and ne told the cartoonist hew to draw it, "hence the two signatures. -for the ‘enterprise, so he caused He didn"t want to lose any of the credit his name to be affixed ‘to the car- THIS NEEDS PUBLICATION " ‘'We reprint. this cartoon for a definite . reason. .The Farm Im- select subscription :list in North tion. The cn'cu]atlon 6f” the Non- pa.rtlsan Leadel is' 'many -times- larger and more general.. We want We. are especially anxious to haye see if. Notice that the cartoon is es- pecially designed for the attention - of North Dakota business men. The - sides that, the publication itself is one that cxrcnlates only among busmess men. It is a trade publi- catlon for farm 1mplemeht dealers * * % - TS EASY TO UNDERSTAND ' What we admire about this foree. - Certainly there is nothing - refined or subtle about it. Here are a -bunch of dogs—or ‘are thef" wolvw"—eech labeled ‘‘Nonparti- ; “There’ll be - Good Shooting ttt»"“ A WORD ON OUR OWN ACCOUNT We regard this cartoon as excellent .campaign matenai for the' _ We may be wrong, but- we make that estimate.of - it. - That, to tell the full truth, is why we reprint-it. But, having Nonpartlsan League. - eprmfled it, we should like to a.dd a word or two on our own account, A whlch is surely, fair. " The Farm Implement News, which prints ths cartoon, has printed anumber of editorials attacking the Nonpartisan’ League.- ‘Without “ exception these edxtonals falsify the purposes and the acts of the League and mlssta.te the true issues. We believe they do it deliber- > ately Whether they do or not is all one, for they have plenty of oppor- _ tunity fo learn ‘the facts -and no excuse for giving circulation to ; falsehoods : it A ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE = ' 5 These editorial attacks are not a reflection of sentlment in North -~ “Dakota. - ‘They do not appear to be written in response to suggestions - of readers. No, the editor of the Farm Implement:News, on whose ’ - metion it does not appear, is issuing his INSTRUCTIONS or ORDERS,-. to the bysiness men of North Dakota. . editor of the Farm lmplement News a citizen. of the state of _Gertamlynot BehvesmChlcagm & (From the Farm Implement News, Clneago ) 'NOT-RULE YOUR OWN STATE.” ; P - Then what right has he to dictate to the citizens of North Dakota on a matter of state politics? .Let us leave that question for the present to the business men of North Dakota, while we take up another phase of the matter. * * * WHO ISSUES THE ORDERS" Why do you suppose the editor of the Farm Implement News is solicitous about North Dakota affairs? Why do you suppose he ‘frets - at the prospect that the people of this state are about to take control of their state government? Glance over the advertising pages of this magazine and you may get some light on the matter. It is a prosperous magazine. Its pages are full of advertising. Even the front cover is crowded with it. It hasn’t much reading it. As a matter of fact the maga- zine is almost solely an advertis- ing medium ‘and a mouthpnece for the farm implément manufactur- ers. Page after page is devoted to companies with factories and etc., and the big manufactur‘ing centers of the east. vester trust is prominently repre- sented, and so are all the other big corporations making farm machinery. editor himself would deny that this journal represents, first and last, . the interests of the farm implement = manufacturers who iy 1 - ””’" o gf// ””l CANDIDATE *.9,. 3 call his “bread and butter.” It probably boulevards. * * » thing straight. - partisan League: -of the Nonpartisan League at the fall election. "~ Who orders them to do this? _ An editor who REPRESENTS- THE BIG IMPLEMENT MANU- FACTURERS OF THE EAST, who represents SOME OF THE BIG- GEST COMBINATIONS OF CAPITAL IN THE. UNITED STATES. - THESE ARE THE ORDERS OF BIG BUSINESS TO THE MER—‘ ' -CHANTS OF NORTH DAKOTA—BOLD FLAGRANT UNDIS- GUISED. : " Big Business says to the people of North Dakota' Big Business COMMANDS the ‘merchants of North Dakota to BREAK UP AN EFFORT OF THE PEOPLE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO RULE THEIR STATE. i WILL THE MERCHANTS OBEY? - The merchants of Nerth Dakota are expected to FEAR the orders of this great and powerful combination. ° TERROR AND HUMILITY before their master. They are expected to _jump at the crack of his whip, flouushed by the petty boss who edits the -Farm Implement News. Will they do-it this time? - “We don’t believe they will. Merchants 1of North Dakota are beginning to stop and think. They are beginning to. give some attention to HOW Big Business has been ruling this state . “in’ the past. They are beginning to see how the explmtatxon of this They are begmmng to see that a SQUARE DEAL for the farmers means a state has CHEATED THEM just as it has cheated the farmers. _matter and what there is has a° : strong flavm of advertlsmg about - offices in the states of Illinois, New - ‘York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, The har- We don’t suppose even the ] pay him what Harry Carpenter of the Insurance Federation would includes - a ‘few high- power automobiles and'a mansion on one of those sha.ded Chlcago : BIG BUSINESS THE DICTATOR It . is important to get thls, North Dakota busmess men are being ORDERED to fight the Non- Fxi They. are being told to SHOOT, DOWN the candidates “YOU SHALL - They are expected to BOW IN' e g vl i I e e e e T S A R TN SRR S i? ?‘ § i i ] &