The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 11, 1917, Page 3

'A SR . - 2 $ . ] 1 3 5‘-«_1 » , W T— T :']L__._..._-nr B onparfigan Teader R e R that dares t» print the truth Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan Leagus . VOL. 5, NO. 15 FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917 —_— e WHOLE NUMBER 108 HE'S GETTING oL ENQUGH =N T¢ TAKE CAREE S OF HMSELF l\\\\\ ) ; A \‘.’ W PN \ ,“«\\\- e . A "/ the Nonpartisan Leader means. It is a pretty husky two-year- old that Morris pictures, already able to protect the farmers’ interests from the thefts that Big Business and selfish banking interests lan. ; 7 .Two years ago, when the Leader first appeared, it was considered a good joke by the usurious bankers and other representatives of Big Business. They never thought it might be possible that inside of two years 130,000 farmers throughout the West would have banded to- gether to stop their inroads. : : : But now see the doleful noise that these critters are making! They have been ‘‘robbed’’. they say, of their accustomed meal—what they planned to steal from the farmers. Naturally they are sore and they T HIS is another cartoonist’s idea of what the second birthday of " ‘take no pains to conceal this fact. What do you suppose they are erying? Doesn’t it look as if the : /VO/?/Q Y —Drawn expfessly for the Leader by W. C. Morris sereeching cat might be yowling ‘‘Traitor’’, and ‘“‘Socialist’’? And it surely doesn’t take much imagination to see that the pup is howling “L 'W. W.”” and ‘“‘Pro-German’’, That is the way with these animals when they are caught in their thefts; they try to raise a pitiful cry to take attention away from what they have been doing. But the Leader doesn’t want to claim credit for having stopped these inroads by itself. The Leader claims only a very small part of the praise. No individual connected with the League can claim any considerable part for himself, ; The business has been done by the farmers, more than 130,000 strong, who have banded themselves together to make the good fight. The strength of the Leader is only the strength of its rcaders. And the growth of the Leader only serves to emphasize the fact that the farmers are both banding together in inereased numbers and sticking together better than ever before. PAGE THREE — AT R R ST W TS i