The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 23, 1916, Page 3

VOL. 8, NO, 21 --National Organ of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1916 WHOLE NO. 62 A Cartoon That Was Not Lomplete Now Finished * HISTORY HAS A WAY OF REPEATING ITSELF 3916—The North Davo:a Farmer Burdened by. Unjust Taxatioa— (Editor's Note—The Abeve o e Filled In Later With g The ab(we urtoon appeared in the Leader Apnl 6, 1916. ON THE COVER ‘of thls week’s lssue the. Leader artlst has plesented er g thought appropnate to the season of the year when the crops are all : sl \ £ . in and the year's main labor is accomplished. - ' - When'heroes came back from :the war. in A Wreath olden times, when knights were victorious in the i f;')l'flle' tournament ‘and even when a strong young man . Farmer; had won a footrace it used to be the custom to & Why Not-?-. . crown \them with wreaths. and garlands. Itisa: : custom that they still preserve in some countries. Why -should not the- farmer, in symbol at : least have some such a reward" True, he hasn’t slatightered’ any G "‘enexmes he has merely fed and clothed fnend and foe ahke, but in 9 doing this he has fought a hard battle gnttlly, ‘manfully, courageously, i 5 patlently. He has had far more dlscouragements and hardships than mapy soldlers meet even. ‘He 15 a good fighter, None ‘can questlon s 78 This is. the picture missing from the old Leader cartoen shown on the left. We -have had many requests to finish this mysterious cartoon, but now that it is finished you knew how it was going to come out all the time, didn’t you? The politicians in North Dakota in 1916 got ]usl: what old John Bull did back in 1776 in the American Colomes Apprematlon---and Somethlng Else Narrow,: sp1tefu1 stealthy political craftiness ‘is still at work. It is : trying now to undermine your foundations, to prevent your success and to discredit you. ‘ Th& Enemy An opportunity—an invitation even—was i Is Smoked offered to your enemies just two, weeks ago in : - Qut = these editorial columns. - “The League s legislative program is not its ‘ane' More real purpose,” we said; and we added, “Let the League’s enemies take these wbrds and make the * most of them.” The Leagues enemies d1d They snatched at these words like a swolf snatching at a bait of raw meat in a trap.. These words were .incorporated into a wierdly distorted story about the League.that was sent broadcast through the whole United States. It ‘went_out under a Grand Forks dateline to the prmclpal newspapers of the country. The story said that “now that the League had won its leaders announce that'. the plogram of the League is-to be abandoned.” - * * * : ITWAS THE old tnck of snatching a sentence.out of its context and usmg itasa peg on which to hang a false interpretation. We expected ; them to do-that, The sentence was put there for - (that purpose. ‘We wanted the wolf to stick its ‘The . W lf _ ugly head out once.more so that we could know Sna(tches that' it was not dead yet and could: govern our-. ~at the i selves accordingly. : Balt ‘Now: of oourse the League’s program 1s not nts real purpose merely a means to an end. That is what the Leag'ues program is. The Leag'ues program is a specific' statement Eeonormo‘ of certam steps toward economic justice for the farmer. May xt never dlshonor the nam is eummf er and amfgllqad otb:. ef y: of our paper of November ‘North Dakota A specific program is always