The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 17, 1921, Page 16

- YOU Are the Farmer in This Problem of Addition I i i3 SR TR R A opecosre e RSN PO LA ple of this country, save a favored I want the Leader one year and inclose $1.50 in payment of subscription. Name . Ldoanase st e da e o a st s ol A R SR Street address or R. F. D. (el O LlAs AR B OB L 4 Postoffice .......... Tla s R R S R P B e /7 These are times when all the peo- few, are practicing a most rigid economy. Farmers are spending no money which they can avoid spending and this enforced or willful thrift on the part of the farmer has affected all other business. G It has affected the Nonpartisan league. The League organizers are not signing up members as they _§ used to sign them. The League’s enemies say this is a positive sign that the League is dying—that the farmers are through with it. But the League organizers who meet farmers face to face tell a dif- " We Put Our Cards on the Table IMPORTANT! If you want Russell’s “Story of the Nonparti- san League” with your subscription, ADD ONE DOLLAR to your remittance, making $2.50 for the book and ONE year’s subscrip- il tion, and $4 for the book and TWO year’s |i subscription. The book is cloth bound, large |j clear type, illustrated. The regular retail | price of the book is $2. We first sold it for $1.25, then offered it for ONE DOLLAR, if |f order was accompanied by TWO YEARS’ | subscription. Now we offer it for ONE DOL- |} LAR with either a one or two-year subscrip- || tion. But this bedrock offer can not last "long. Add a DOLLAR and get the book! IDENTICAL FARMERS who need the Leader and the organization MOST OF ALL. ' What shall be done for these farmers? There is just one answer to this question. If these farmers: i can not pay $18 to join the League, " then they can not. : No amount of argument or persuasion will get $18 from a man who has not the $18 and can not get it. ' We are not going to ask any one to TRY .to pay what can not be paid. But we are going to ask YOU to do what we know you can do. If you can’t rejoin the League NOW you CAN renew your subscription to the Leader. The Leader will keep you ferent story. These organizers say that the League was never so strong ’ with the farmers as it is right now. The organizers say that the reason they are taking less memberships is because only a part of the farmers have any money. 3 The renter is up against it. The farmer who must meet a mortgage or renew one is also up against it. R The farm owner, free of debt, or whose debts are not press- ing, is the only one among the farmers who has cash. .Sub- tract all the renters and all the mortgaged farmers and how many farmers have you left? Just about one farmer in four. That one farmer in four is all the organizer has to work on. That makes the work of the organizer hard and the Non- partisan Leader’s problem difficult. For only $4 of each $18 membership goes to the national office and only $2 of that comes to the Leader for two years’ subscription. Moreover, a part of this comes in postdated checks, which can not be col- lected until due. We can not publish the Leader with post- dated checks. S : But to return to the renters and the mortgaged farmers, who number three fourths of all the farmers. These are the NONPARTISAN LEADER Box 2072, Minneapolis, Minn. - Nonpartisan Leader ‘Box 2072 i ‘in touch with the League—keep you : : informed — and then when better times come, as they will come if you STICK and FIGHT—you can come back into the League and pay your membership fee. The most important thing while the hard times last is to take care of the Nonpartisan Leader. The most valuable asset the farmers have built in the six years of the life of the Nonpartisan league is this paper. As long as the Leader lives, our fight will go on. But let this paper be killed and the farmers-of this great Northwest will be right back in the hopeless place they were in 1914. You can not afford to have that happen. We know that not one of you are so hard pressed that you can not raise $1.50 to renew your subscription to the Leader. . . ' . : We have done everything possible to help you stay in this movement. We have reduced the subscription price of the Leader. We have made it Eossjble for .you to subscribe for the Leader without paying the full eague membership dues. : 7 C NOW, WE WANT YOU TO DO YOUR PART. Within a month 10,000 more Leader subscriptions expire and the subscribers’ names must be taken from the lists, unless they are renewed. 3 To find out when your subscription ends, read carefully the announce- ment on the front“coyver of this issue! RENEW AT CE! Cut out one of the subscription blanks below, fiilili in your name and address and mail your subscription direct to this office. P Subscribe for two years if you can. Subscribe for one year if you MUST. Minneapolis, Minn. NONPARTISAN LEADER Box 2072, Minneapolis, Minn. Postoffice i . L L e Check which: - Renewal........................ ~I'want the Leader two years and inclose $3 in payment of subscription. Ay 4 }‘.‘ 4 2 B