The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 8, 1918, Page 6

e ——— | 1. League. i i [ 3 it | §f 11 § il '~ the same time they join the League. But there is . over 12,000 per month! . When a person subscribes for the Leader he knows ~enemies of the farmers.” Th TIONAL MAGAZINE, ' % Tlonpartigsin Toader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League—Every Week Entered as second-class matter September 8, 1915, at the postoffice at St. Paul, annes,ota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. OLIVER 8. MORRIS, EDITOR Advertising rates on application. months, $1.50. Please do not make checks, drafts nor money viduals. Address all letters and make all remittances to Box 576, St. Paul, Minn. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS THE S. C. BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY, Advertising - Representatives, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City. Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; . 8ix orders payable to indi- The Nonpartisan Leader, . Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. SOME FIGURES IGURES tell much. The Leader is in possession of some that tell the story of the progress of democracy and justice in the United States in a most striking manner. The Leader’s circulation books are open to advertisers. The circulation books are kept according to a system approved by advertisers’ associa- tions and are carefully scrutinized periodically by representatives of the advertisers. The figures we are going to give about the Leader’s circulation are therefore of official record, sworn to, in- spected and verified. : The Leader’s actual, paid circulation increased exactly 42,387 between December 81, 1917, and June 10, 1918. This increase took place in a period of 10 days over five months. It - Is an increase in paid subscribers of over 8,000 per month! But the big thing about it is that the rate of increase is growing constantly larger. For in- stance, for the last month of the period reported above—that is, from May 18 to June 10, really three days less than a month—the Leader’s bona fide circulation increased 12,222! Accurate figures are not available yet for the month of June 10 to July 10, but the increase is at the same rate of The bulk of the Leader’s 'in_creased circulation consists, of course, of new- members of the Non- partisan league, who subscribe for the Leader at a consistently increasing circulation outside the | — Think a moment what these figures mean! exactly what he is going to get— ; a magazine that z 3 champions the people’s cause and that is a deadly enemy of war * profiteers, monopolists, unnecessary middlemen, speculators: and gamblers in food products, crooked politicians and gang politics and the controlled and subsidized press. So the increase of the Leader’s circulation means an increase in the organized army fighting for a squarer deal for all, and for the elimination of polit- ical evils and economic abuses. Can anybody read these figures and say that democracy and jus- tice will not ultimately triumph in every state in the Union? In these figures you get the real reason for the terror and desperation of the enemies of the people. They KNOW what they are up against. They KNOW that the Leader is the only magazine of national circulation. in the country . THAT IS CHAMPION- ING THE CAUSE OF THE FARMER ON THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FIELD. The . so-called “farm papers” and the so-called “agricultural press” largely exist to forward the in- terests of the exploiters of the : farmers, although there are some : bs o brilliant exceptions. Most of these so-called “farm papers” ignore political and economic questions, or tike a stand on them favorable to the political and economic mes 'he Leader is not competing with these gape‘.rsr IT IS IN A FIELD BY ITSELF AND IT STANDS SU REME IN THAT FIELD. The ‘Leader is th ; THISS‘NN DERBY § ; 00 - 8welled to 830,000. federal operation. _ Prices are fixed by th Ty, % 7 e NN ] % 9/0,,/; vé////// % u//;la véb 7% LEAGUE SHOWS TREMENDOUS STRENGTH T VHE organized farmers of Minnesota astonished themselves' in the recent primary. They got practically all their can- didates for the legislature throughout the state on the bal- lot for the fall election. They cast a vote in the entire state three times as great as the membership in the League. They showed an organized stfi'eglgtlfi t(}ixatt with- < out question will be the determin- , NG ing factor in the fall election. ' ‘SS\\{\\&\% With the additional gains N that can be made at the regular election in November, the farm- ers will practically control the legislature which meets next Jan- uary. If, with the help of organ- ized labor in the cities, they do not get an actual majority in the legislature, they will at least have a strong minority that will be the balance of power, assuring the enactment of a large part of the program they are organized to obtain. The farmers and labor will be better represented in the legislature than ever before. But another victory this fall in legis- ¢ A lative districts, like that at the recent primary, will give the farm- ers and labor a clean majority in the law-making body, and the result in the fall ought to, and will, be more sweeping than in the primary. ; ; . . Aside from carrying some 85 counties of the state for all their ticket, and getting their legislative candidates on the ballot through- out the state for the fall election, the primary was a triumph in demonstrating the power of the organized workers of country and city. The League cast 150,000 votes in the entire state, enough to have won every office in any primary election ever held before in the state. The biggest total vote for all candidates ever before recorded in a Republican primary in Minnesota was 190,000, and the total vote has aver- aged only 170,000 in the past. Yet the organized farmers and organized labor cast 150,000 votes on June 17. That the farmers and labor failed in their fight to nominate their candidate for governor was due primarily to the fact that the Democratic bosses hex_‘ded practically the entire strength of the Democratic party into the Republican party. pri- maries in order to beat the people’s candidate, in the belief that Governor Burnquist, the most un- ' popular-governor the state ever had, would be easier than Lindbergh for the Democratic candidate to beat in the fall election. The average:vote of 170, 0 in the Republican primaries was therefore . The amazing total strength of the League in Minnesota, as displayed by the vote for Lindbergh, has accomplished important things. It means that, whether or not the League gets a majority in the leglslatur_e, the lawmakers must take heed and right the worst of the abuses that the farmers and labor complain of. They can no longer ignore the issues. They know th t thi the League is a sign'that the common pevnls L LuS Vote cast by ests of the state and nation can no longer- head off, The Nonpartisan league in Minnesota accomplished these won- ders in less than two years of organization ‘work, with the state only partially organized. Minnesota is a bi arm did marvelously well to get as iy dhed i the. short time they had. But if less than t this, what can not be accomplished by year or so? e Sl : “FOR THE WAR ONLY” - =~ . - ZSIDE] WILS(,),N by proclamation has just extended the licensing system” to stockyards for the duration of the war. This move follows the president’s rec ; ens manufacturers of farm implements. The “Ii RESIDENT censing system” means “government control of the industries affected. It means that all - that profiteering will be eliminated. = As a war measure we have entered u of government control and price-fixing, The milling and packing business is rnment on wheat and many ot fiteers put . ent action in licensing -k » ol 14 o ] e s .4 A B Ak S 5 ol 15