The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 16, 1918, Page 11

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If you want to follow history as it is beifig made in North Dakota this winter you NEED the Courier-News. The weekly summaries you will get in the Leader will be good, but for the full story, day by day as it happens, you need the daily newspaper that stands by the farmers. You who know the subserviency of the great majority of the daily press will be surprised that an independent, fear- less newspaper can at the same time be a better newspaper in every sense of the word. The Courier-News is proving that a newspaper doesn’t have to be a tool of the interests to live, that it can serve the people and that the people will stand by it. L If you are interested in North Dakota why not subscribe for the Courier-News for one year at five dollars? Or you can send $1.50 for three months, which will give you the paper daily (except Monday) all through the leglslatlve session.- USE THIS COUPON IN SENDING IN YOUR ORDER. The Courler-News, Tlg Nonpartisan Dally, Fargo, N.D. - check Enclosed find{ money o!!der send me The Couner-News (the Nonpartisan Daily) for three months one year "it in a pamphlet for distribution where ‘ers. }for {$1 50 }for which please {pAGE 'rwnnvn e o Lo e T i e e T Reason *Successful Farming”’, Turned on League LSON SECOR, editor of Successful Farming, pub- lished at Des Moines, Iowa, is still busy writ- ing “letters of explana- tion” to League farmers who have protested about the “flop” of this farm paper, which originally sup- ported the League but which now is attacking it. Before going into another of Mr. Secor’s remarkable letters we wish to call-attention to a little mat- ter that seems to throw light on the new attitude of Successful Farming. On November 11 Armour & Co., one of the Big Five Packers exposed by the federal trade commission, had a con- ference with 25 editors of American farm papers, for the thinly disguised purpose of influencing farm paper edi- tors and publishers to present the packers’ side of questions to their readers. One: of the farm paper pub- lishers willing thus to treat with one of the great industrial monopolies and enemies of farmers was Mr. Meredith, publisher of Successful Farming and employer of Alson Secor, writer of letters to,League farmers. The packers, as is well known, are carrying ads in most farm and daily papers at a cost of millions of dollars a year. These ads are not to sell any- thing, but to gain “good will” of edi- tors and the public. Perhaps this ac- counts for Mr. Meredith’s attendance at the meeting with Armour & Co. The editor of the Nonpartisan Leader was not invited, and would not have accepted if he had been. Mr. Meredith was very anxious to serve the packers, who have published a booklet telling of the conference and quoting what-Mr. Meredith said. Mr. Meredith said he wanted to know what reasons farmers had for complaining for being charged too.much for feed when they -marketed stock, because, he said, “It is largely small matters they get into their systems, rather than anything big.” Mr. Meredith, of course, did not make this statement in his paper, nor would he have made it to a convention of farmers, but he made it at this private conference with the packers and they have published it will do the most good for the pack- Then Mr. Meredith made the pack- - ers a promise on behalf of Successful Farming. This is what he said: “Now, then, if you will prepare articles studying into these mat- ters, stating how this fluctuating occurs, for instance, weé will take them and our editors will read them and see that the farmers get this information. Now, then, when you have written such an article, and it has passed the test of edi- tors, the farmers should have it, and I am sure the publishers will be glad to write it, from an edito- rial standpoint, to the farmers all ; _.over the country.” Commenting on ~Mr. . Meredith’s promise the Fargo Daily Couner— News says: : “From the above it would ap- pear that the stock raisers of the country can shortly expect-a gen- eral defense of the packers in the columns of a certain class of al- leged agricultural papers, sustain- ed principally by big business ad- vertising, which -articles will be absolutely reliable, as THE IN- FORMATION WILL BE PRE- PARED BY 'THE PACKERS THEMSELVES, but peddied by ° the papers AS THEIR OWN: OPINION. The farmer will think - he is reading the opinion of the editor, instead of the opinion of' Mr. Armour’s hired man.” * Mr." Secor, Mr. Meredxth’s hlred e T T RIS - Mention’ the Lieader When Writing Ad\}‘é;'tls.ers. 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