The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 16, 1916, Page 2

S - 3 AR TR e A L o P S S o S D AT § Shall We Go Ahead? It Depends UponYou November Tth, 1916, is the greatest day in the history of North Dakota. A hundred yedrs from now your children’s children may be telhng what you did this day. ‘ You have done more this day for good govern- ment for the greatest number than any other people at any time in any state in the Union. You have accomplished the impossible. You, the great majority, have actually taken possession of your state government. Special privilege has been thoroughly routed. Now the eyes of all the nation are riveted upon you, North Dakota mem- bers of the League. You have shown that you could stick and win for once. From now on,the responsibility of gov- ernment is upon your shoulders. Can you continue to stand together while you work out your great problems? Will you be patient, earnest, intelligent, unselfish, looking always for the greatest good to the greatest num- ber? Or will you permit your enemies to bring about dissension among you, split you into a thousand factions and so fail to carry out your program? This is what the whole people of the nation wait to learn. We have kept our promises to you. None of you expected, and none dared hope, the League would win half the victory it has won. Through your conventions, you selected the men you wanted to run the state and you elected very nearly all of those men. We did everything in our power to make that election an absolute success. Even your enemles admit that we did fairly well. But we didn’t select these men and we didn’t elect them—you did the voting. - We only did all we could to help you elect: the men you, in your conventions, selected. Now, .whether your program is carried out depends partly on how wisely you have chosen your office holddrs. But it depends more upon how well you stick together AND HOW WELL YOU SUP- PORT THE MEN YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO CARRY 'OUT THAT PROGRAM. The officers of the League and the Leader. have done their part. We have enabled you to place in ecomplete control of the state the men you selected, to run the state. The success or failure of your program depends upon you and the men you have placed in power." These mén have not made, nor have they been . asked to make, any pledge or promise to officers of the League. But they were elected pledged to the League program—to you—to work for the greatest good to the greatest number. -We have won a very great victory. Let us forget any differences that there may be - between us and go ahead. Let us all stand back of the men we have elected. They will need all our sup- p}cl)rt in the tremendous task we have set before them. . 7 ' ‘Straight Talk About That Daily Paper Some of the most persistent enemies of the League have been made bold by the fact that the Dakota Daily Leader has not yet put in its appearance. The Old Gang newspapers have been printing the state- ment that “the League has abandoned its idea of a daily newspaper” and they have also announced that “it has been found the farmers will not support the new daily.” The plan to start a daily newspaper has been branded as “a League failure.” These are the words of your enemies, the enemies of the farmers’ movement. These are the words of the men who hope you will fail in you1 plans to give the state a better government and to give the pro- ducers a fair chance in the markets. . The statements of your enemies ARE NOT TRUE. The plan to start a daily newspaper which shall TELL, THE TRUTH about North Dakota affairs HAS NOT BEEN ABANDONED. The opportunity is still before the farmers of the state to establish a daily newspaper which - will be fair to them and fair to their interests. The original intention was to launch the new daily newspaper about October 1, one month before the general election. It was found that the time was too short to make all the necessary arrangements for starting the Daily Leader on the right basis and that the dally was not a necess- ity for this campaign. Accordingly the plans were changed so as to provide for first pub- lication about January 1, 1917. Why YOU NEED a Daily Newsi)aper Success in the primaries and in the election without the aid of any daily newspaper of general circulation may have caused some of the members of the League to be blind to the real state of affairs. The League has come inte power afte1 a g'leat burst of indignation ° against the manner i which the law makers and public officers have abused the power given thém by the people. . The people of the state had been exploited for MANY YEARS because THEY DIDN’T KNOW THE FACTS. The people finally arose in wrath only because the GRAFI‘ERS HAD GROWN TOO BOLD. Now they are planning to soothe you to sleep again. How are you going to keep AWAKE? How are you going to KNOW THE FACTS? - How are you going to let the people of the cities and of the outside world " KNOW THE TRUTH about what you are fighting for? .Are you going fo leave it to a CORRUPT PRESS to tell what your legislature is doing? You have>a longer and tougher job ahead of you than you have accomplished by getting into power. If you dor’t have an honest " stakes than fifty cents or a dollar a name, newspaper—with its immense .power for moldmg pubhc sentiment— behmd you how can you hope to succeed? : Not “Workmg for Nothing” The assault upon you will begin the very day your ad:mmstratxon' takes office, the very day your leglslature opens its session, the very day the judges you have chosen mount the bench. ~Are you going to go into the battle with a blindfold over yom eyes ? Are you going to fight with your hands tied? For the sake of honest government in North Dakota the farmers need to establish a new dmly newspaper, one that can and will be falr to them. The way is open. The chance is still held out. To ‘enable the Dakota Daily Leader to start the subscription price has been set at three dollars for six months. That is more than is being charged by the small daily papers now published in this state. It costs more to start a new paper than to mamtam an old one—and the new paper is going to be worth more. Which is the cheapest—a swindle at half price or fair value for a fair price? Which would you rather buy—the truth f01 thlee dollars or a lie for a dollar and a half? Is the truth worth anything to you? Would you pay somethmg to get it? Is three dollars too much? If the truth means life and a square deal and the lie means death for good government and death to * your hopes for reform—will you buy truth? Would You Pay for the Truth? . The Daily Leader has no paid solicitors. It’s future is up to you. A hundred-or moreof the best:and wisest and most far-seeing of the members of the Nonpartisan League have gone out and become volunteer solicitors for the Daily Leader; sending in 10, 20 or as high as fifty names. Hundreds more have sent in their own names and checks. They haven’t done it ‘“for nothing.” They are working for higher They are workmg to build something that will do the state and every citizen in it a real good. There will have to be a lot more names. There are plenty to be -the country. {is bigger even than the League-—the cause of truth and fair play and had. It’s easy to get subscnptlons in the towns—-easy 1o get them in How about your list? W1]1 ‘you do somethmg today for a cause that" R