The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 7

: _ LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY g HIS is the fifth time that the Leader and its readers have I - celebrated Lincoln’s birthday together. In the midst of a - M- political campaign there is especial reason for remembering the great emancipator this year. Abraham Lincoln was pre-eminent- “ ly a people’s president. It was no mere accident that Lincoln was - the ‘president selected by the events of history to free the slaves. With him there was no question which should prevailiwhen human rights and property rights conflicted. If Lincoln were alive today ~ he would be a peerless leader for the organized farmers and or- ganized workingmen. He came from the common people and to their cause he was always true. : - ON OUR OWN PRESS in the size of the page will be noticeable. It is also possible that the issue may be delayed slightly “in reaching sub- scribers. The reason is that with this issue the Leader is printed on its own press, recently installed in the Mjnnesota Daily Star building in Minneapoljs. Heretéfore we have 2 to depend upon getting the Leader presswork.done by centracting printers; ncw the Leader owns its own plant entire. WITH this issue of the Nonpartisan-Leader a slight change The Leader editorial and business offices are still in St. Paul; when the Star building is complfted in the near future we will move all our offices to Min- neapolis. ! ] o , SHARPEN YOUR OWN AXE! ' [ —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris. As time goes by it 1s increasingly evident that the scheme of politiclans and improper business influences to use the returned soldier vote to further their selfish > interests is failing. The American soldier is going to vete independently and everwhelmingly in the interests of the common peopte. PAGE SEVEN