The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 3

_ VOL. 3, NO. 8 “FARGO, to hold this year. The pxcture was taken by the Leader for No. 3 wheat-as the price farmers ought to get tlns f show the farmers did not misplace the confidence in him they dis- played by nominating him for governor of North Dakota. “The program of the Nonpartisan League is still my platform,” he said. “T have not changed my views or made any concesslons to get . votes and I do not intend to change.” This is worth considering just at this tlme ) 5 - The enemy has changed-his tactics. " Honeyed words are beginning to take the place of mnults sneers and slanders. ; A few weeks ago the farmer was a “sucker” and an lmbeclle, accord- ing to the Gang newspapers. - He was a person who was filled w1th a consuming “class hatred.” He was a “menace to the state.” ) Now he has become, among some of these same ~Gang sheets, an ks “honest yeoman;” rather stupid,-it is true, and in need of fatherly : ‘advice (from‘the Old Gang) but still a well-meamng sort of a-cuss: = - A few- weeks ago the Gang papers were industriously clamoring that “North ‘Dakota will harvest’ a- good.wheat crop” and the words_ of =" those’ who knew the facts were diligently suppressed. They - Scalamity. howlers"—also they helped by their foolish blabbing ol truth to “bull” the market. The one reliable motto of the Gang news- papers is this: Keep the public in the dark as long as posslble.’_’ ; a Tk A : I ‘YNN. FRAZIER said a few words at Hoople. ~the other day that ‘Ju 32 : ¢ But now your gang sheet is as doleful as a.nybody. X S “TPsa terrible situatwn," says the Gangster. “North Dakota isin a bad way. The. farmers must have help.or-they’ll never get through . the winter and live on till the next harvest. The banks and the. mer= chants wfll have' to give it to them. We mustn’t do anything to frighten capltai Trust ‘ta the ‘ba.nkers ‘and’ they’ll help us out.” * %ok = g .' e e L SWES MUST PULL TOGETHER”‘ e What’s the bxg 1dea" What's the reason for thxs mlg'hty change ‘of front" : : - “We must all- pull together we must a.ll cc-operate,” says the. gang * ’ paper- ) - Do you remember ‘that old old gag" Well here lt 1s. S pullmg it again.’ ' They wa.nt you ‘to “co-operate. it - But isn’t that .just what you want to do? : Ha,ven't the farmers of They re ~and the merchants to co—operate ‘with them. : The State needs co-oper- »atlon. Tt needed it badly in the past’ It has eéded 1t desperately, bt it couldn’t get it . net : Wha Was. the reason" We hope most 3? 1t wa.s_;u:str plam xgnor-' e AT L5545 e - e A O 1 B0 S A 73 AL L S S L B D BT 3 ™ 2 Official P.ayer of the Farmm Nnnpnrman Political Leagut of North Dakota NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1916 happy and contented individual on earth. ; exactly what they’re trying to do. this state been pleadmg with ‘the business men and the professional men” _.worked in two ways. : YOUR PA’I‘H This 1§ the fix:,st menace. The second is hls plan’ to A newspapef that dares to print the truth WHOLE NO. 49 Northwest Grain Growers in Conference at Fargo ‘A group of the grain growers of the northwest who gathered at Fargo last week to estimate the cost of growing grain and fix a price for which farmers will be urged stafl' photographer. in front cf the Gardner hotel, Fargo. The conference fixed $1.60 per bushel at the terminals The White F lag —-What’s Behind It? and that a gang of crooks withih the state was in league with the out- side crooks to help with the exploitation. The farmers have been asking for co-operation and they couldn’t get it. . They - wanted co-operation to prevent usury, to solve the credit problém; they wanted it to stop the outrageous burden of exhorbitant freight rates; they wanted it to break up the high-handed robbery of the wheat combine—all to the end that there might be more wealth for the citizens of this state, more money to be spent here for the use and enjoyment of all the state’s citizens. Is that what the Gang papers have meant in the past by “pulling together,” by “co- -operation?”’ We are forced to admit that it wasn’t. The Gang papers meant: ‘“‘Co-operate with us by letting us run your government for you. Let the wheat thieves and the usurers and the rate fixers stay on the job. Don’t do anythmg to frighten capltal or . the banks won’t let you hqve any money to grow crops with.” * * * - THE SAME OLD STORY AGAIN . And here we have the same old story again. = " 'Two menths ago they told the farmer he was the most prosperous, - Now they tell him he’s on the verge of ruin.. - Trying to “throw a scare into him,” aren't they? That'’s Just i “He’s had a hard season. He ought = | & to be a little less chiesty now. -Now we can influence him. Now we ecan ‘ make him drop all these foolish ideas of getting a square deal and a fair § price. He ought to listen to reason now. Scare him some more. Talk [ panic to him. - Make him drop hls program of reform, Make him lxsten [l ‘to safe and’'sane advice.” ! And so they’re talking friendship now. Willing to for give the fool- Lo ish farmer, misled by the “agitator.” They will forgive him if he will : just’be good and drop all his plans for getting justice. ~ Did you ever see anything like that before? = Of course you have. { You’ve met the oily stranger with the axe to grind or something to sell. i .The enemy has dropped the direct attack on ‘you. He realizes lt z was .a mistake. .. Now he is. trying strategy, wh;ch makes him more i dangerous than ever: There is real danger in this line of attack— i serious danger unless the farmers realize what is- bemg done and seek to ! counteract it. - o S ; L * % % : : A DOUBLE MENACE TO THE FARMERS * The danger to the farmers’ cause is a double menace. It is being The enemy is professing friendship to lull you o i sleep WHILE HE" MAKES PLANS TO BUILD A GREAT WALL IN