The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 8

B ——— v e e s i T e e ety i AND . CHECK IS BEING PUT ON PROFITEERS, POLITICAL AND The most powerful influences for democracy today are the or- ganized farmers and the organized workers of the cities. Together they have a clean majority of the votes in America, and together they are working out industrial democracy. Up to the present time state governments have been notoriously bad and inefficient. This has been partly due to the fact that it has been to the interest of private business enterprise to corrupt government, and thus render it inefficient. It has also been due to the fact that the ablest, most honest men devoted their whole attention to their private affairs and left ppblic affairs in the hands of self-seeking politicians, THROUGH THE POWER AND INFLUENCE. OF THE AWAKENED - PRODUCERS OF TOWN . COUNTRY A BUSINESS. : ; ; ~ There never was such a demonstration of sticking as in the re- | cent Minnesota election. Nothing shook the morale of the organiz- 0 “he came in the days when the people were easy and had not learned Monu; - —Drawn especially for the Leader by 'W. C. Morris. ed farmers. And this was equally true of the organized workers, Every workingmen’s ward in the big cities went for the League. In North Dakota’s recent primary, the producers again stuck. In all the other western states where the National Nonpartisan ; league has entered, the producers also will stick and put their men - b in office. Look at the cartoon again. Another Liberty bell is ringing. The farmer alone could not pull the rope. Labor couldn’t do it with. = out help. But by co-operating, the producers have swung the brazen tongue into impassioned speech—“VICTORY FOR LIBER- The peals of freedom have struck terror into the heart of the = man. Big Biz is moving his trunk. He’s headed east, whence : fat the lesson of solidarity. The kept press, lean and trembling, is help- i rry the tri the railroad station. - i