The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 16

i e At P OO R ST NESET T S B R O ST oy T T T Will You Bet That There CAN BE Such a Thing as a FREE NEWSPAPER? It has begun of recent years to look as if THERE COULDN’T BE any such a t}_ling as a free newspaper. It has begun to appear impossible that a newspaper should remain free. When the business office controls, newspapers soon sell themselves out. In Minneapolis, for instance, there is no newspaper which will stand up for the cause of the people. There appears to be none which CAN stand up for the right and speak honestly, truthfully and forcefully for the common good. Little coteries of financiers dictate. They order the newspapers to print this and not to print that. At least one of the bigger newspapers is directly controlled through the offices of a bank, which is itself controlled by other big interests. Can anything approaching the truth about thé Nonpartisan league, organized labor or any subject of vital interest in the world today, get into this paper? You know it can not. The men who eontrol such a newspaper are as narrow as they are selfish. They . don’t seem to realize that their polluted, stultified, enchained press is their own most dangerous enemy; that it is aiding in the policy of lying and repression that is ~ breeding the thing they call “Bolshevism,” which is merely the rising tide of protest. ; % CAN THERE BE A FREE NEWSPAPER? The incorporators of the Northwest Publishing Company think there can be. They propose a newspaper on a NEW plan, one owned by the WORKING PEOPLE. They are asking the farmers and the working people to join them, to buy preferred stock of the com- pany, and to help to establish a newspaper OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE PEOPLE. If you believe that the men who dominate the controlled press of America are our natural and proper masters and rulers—they believe that themselves—and that we ought to be lied to and cheated of our right to express ourselves; if you believe that the people themselves are too feeble and witless to own and control their own newspapers—in other words— : if you believe that democracy is a failure, and that we must have masters to tell us what to think— if this is your position, don’t subscribe for any stock in the Northwest Publishing 'Company, because you are not properly one of us. But— if you are willing to bet something on democracy, then, brother, come on! , Write your name right down here below and send us your check or your Liberty bonq. Note: “Liberty bonds for liberty; that’s a good enough idea, isn’t it?” said one of the first farmers to buy stock in the new paper. What do you think about it? Preferred stock in the Northwest Publishing Company is offered for sale at par value ($100) pér share. Liberty bonds taken at par in pay- ment. If you must have a deferred payment plan, write us; but the faster the cash comes in the sooner the paper can start. ‘ NORTHWEST PUBLISHING COMPANY, Security Building, Minneapolis. I believe the people CAN have a free press if they have the courage and the spirit of brotherhood to go after it. So for the purpose of - establishing a fair and free newspaper in the city of Minneapolis T am enclosing $.......eeeceecemssesessees 1, G PRIt SMMPREA 0.0 SISy 7 pay for .................. shares of the capital stock of the Northwest Publishing Company. g ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 500717y L NS, SN0 YR, I RN BT g RICR .~ L T A R. . Dror street i oo it T e e sl £ T (If you want more facts send us your name and address and we'll supply them.) THE NORTHWEST PUBLISHING COMPANY Security Building, Minneapolis, Minn. OFFICERS AND INCORPORATORS: HERBERT E. GASTON, Pres.; THOMAS VAN LEAR, Vice Pres.; THOMAS V. SULLIVAN, Sec’y.; JOHN A. URNESS of Brandon; W. W. WILCOX of White Bear. Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers : : ) PAGE SIXTEEN ; i Mentign the Leader When Writing Advertisers