The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 16, 1916, Page 4

I BATE TEN BUCKS THal LAGE TICKET IS BATEN! I'M NOT A BETTIN’MAN BUT T'LL BETCHA! - I'LL JUS' WRITE A CHECK FOR YA WON'T Your old friend Hiram Rube had a visitor election da enthusiasm got the better of his caution. Finally he waved a bill in Hiram what happened. ; you could hear them talk among themselves you would find: right now that they are expressing contempt for the Nonpartisan League. ; “What does it amount to?” they are saying. “Nothing at all. It’s only a temporary demonstration. The whole thing will blow up. = The farmers think they have captured the world just by winning one élection. They’'ll lose interest now.. They’ll forget what they started to do. Their organization will go to pieces—and then they will be our meat. ace and shouted “T'll jist bet ye ten bucks the Lage ticket is baten’.” T THE LEAGUE CANDlDATES GOT TA HUNDERD AN'LEVEN THE omwsnsnut\l GOT THREE| THARE'S THE TILAPHONE. | | A RINGIN' Now, BEGORRYY y and they fell to diseussmg the prospeets for the League ticket in Happy Hollow, Hiram’s home precmet The visitor, A. Jay O’Kicker, could see.nathing but hard luck for a bunch of Ru?s who have the foolish idea ‘that they can win by political action. f In arguing this idea his ;?8 artist shows League could not think for themselves and that they could not see the - appeal of the party booster without being misled by it. It was thought = better to permit this advertising to be published so that the members of the League might know just exactly what was being done. issue of the Leader the League’s true posmon was explained. The League ‘absolutely kept its promises. It kept its pledges to'its. own members and to the candidates running for offices for which the They’ll never stick together permanently.. The expense of one cam- - 2 = a0 paign. will be enough ‘' for them. They'll not try to continue and strengthen their organization. -All we have to do is just to. discredit their administration and then jump in and capture the next election,” A REAL NONPARTISAN ELECTION This is-your danger. The vote on Casey shows it plainly. It shows what you are up against. -It shows what you will have to do. There’s another danger, too. It also is shown by this Casey VOte The other danger is the old one of partisanship within your own ranks. : This has been a splendid nonpartisan election. The results show - that the people of North Dakota, as never before, were voting according to THEIR OWN ,K BEST INTERESTS; according to their own THOUGHTS, and not as they were ordered to vote. We explained to you constantly during the course of the campaign that the Old Gang would try to divert you from your purpose and from the real issues that are of importance to you by the cry of the partisan, That very thing happened. The party boosters made their appeal to you. They even used the columns of the Leader to try to prove to you that one candidate or the other was the only true friend of the farmer and that in this party or that party lay hope for the farmers cause. THE LEAGUE KEPT ITS PLEDGES The Leader could have excluded all political advertising from its columns, That would have been to assume that the members of the Soak the Farmer ‘A man takes up a piece of Minnesota- would have to“ pay. They are. wiser now. League had not made indorsements. Enemies of the League were con- stantly spreading the story that the League was going to “indorse” Burke or “indorse” MecCumber or come out in favor of one candidate or the other for president at the last minute. - - The League'had promised that it ‘w.ould remain neutral on these offices for which no indorsements had been made in your conventions and that promise was scrupulously kept. ‘The Leader did not lean a hair’s breadth toward any candidate for natxonal ofiice or toward any candidate not mdorsed by the League. VICTORY OVER PARTISAN SHIP The way in which the League members disregarded partisanship is the splendid thing about this election. Their candidates made no appeal for partisan votes. They did not run on party platforms. And, they ‘were magnificently indorsed. Look at the results in some of the sample counties and districts told dbout in this issue of the Leader, where Leaguers stood solidly together and gave almost the same 1dent1ca1 vote for two or more candidates on opposing party- tlckets : . Partisanship has been shot to pieces in this election. - will stay shot to pieces. The farmers are united for the good of the state and united ‘against the common enemy. Don’t doubt that’ the enemy is still in the ring and still to be reckoned with. The returns on the office of stabe treasurer show that. $ : X " ASKE-D-and‘ ANSWERED ( In every They stood together like brothers._ Let’s hope it : /better house, Double « Ifl?” land and starts to develop a farm. He needs a.home for his wife and children and he must earn his daily living. . He 'begins to use this land and we . begin to tax him. He gets a team of horses and some “ tools.” Tax him. He grubs out the stumps and puts in 8 crop. Tax him. He builds a cabin to shelter lnmself and family, Tax him. He buys a cow to fumish milk for the babxes. Tax him. “He builds a fence to protect lus crops, ° to keep his cattle and horses in and to keep other animals out. Tax him again. He needs’ more room and builds a %xes and more. M He: gets a new stove and table. In- { crease his taxes., He cleans up his' front yard, plnnts 5 'flowera and shrubs and gives his house “and know that the money lender never pays any taxes except such as he has first taken out-of the borrower; and then only a small part of what the borrower has pald him, S For every good and useful thmg that this ‘man has tried to do to get a home, to develop his farm and earn an honest living, we tax him, fine him, penalize - him, as if he were a criminal, and then wonder why he- can’t get on in the world. There are some men who are strong enough to stand all this and still make a living’ but many mniore could do far better if they could be free from the crushing burden of unjnst taxation. % . And how the land grabbers and lators enjoy this system. They get ahead of the ‘homemaker, in -country and city, get hold of as m land as posaible ‘and put up th pn every time the us‘etu - The Leader will be gla Wlldrose,’ N D-—-Dd( you know how a /person can obtam a farm loan and get it from the government or state? If- they are ready to make loans, please tell mehowtogetxt,a.slamgomgtobor— row money on my farm this fall and I will’ do- it for 6 ner cent.-NELs WALEN The\new fedeml‘ arm loan act is now effective. A loan can be obtained by a . farmer under this ‘act in three ways. - The best way is by the formation of (\ to answer the questlons of any of its readers seeking information within its\ability to give. It is especially glad to a.nswer the qnutiou on tho legislatlve record of undid : have heard that the govérnment or state the Farm Loan Board: at Wash- ington, D. C., for parhculars forms, etc., to: be: followed in the organization of " your association. The secretary”of the e . treasury will turn your request over to = .the farm loan board, which: wxlleon'es-‘ pond with you.. You will be ' given details of the provisions of the loan act. - 2 and told how to go-about gemng our: Jdoans, - ! o arm loan association under the terms: ot;r-, (Edi the act. To form an a.ssodetxon ‘other .$2000 each. Some may ‘ent & to borrow less and some more | - the .10 : a new coat of pamt. He is abad 7 cmzen, tax him | agaiu