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3»«C 3 iK'f: ^•a»* Mssam vi ••"'^^rtisi^i'/ite:,'^.^:sfV^KItv^.-« V,'--'feifc-* V, J- "ft .jr*" Baer, now congressman from North Dakota, elected by the farm ers. It was one of the best Baer ever drew. It was reprinted on our second birthday and also included in a.composite edition of the Leader gotten out a little over a year ago for use in educational work by the Nonpartisan league. It has been widely copied all over the country. The cover cartoon of the first issue of the Nonpartisan Leader explained at a glance the whole purpose of the League—governors, judges and lawmakers made and elected by the people, and not by special interests. With the first issue of the Nonpartisan Leader the farmers declared that they would have a hand in shaping pub he measures and electing men to office. Since then, organized labor has joined with the farmers in this purpose. The cartoon that ap A TESTIMONIAL FROM ONE WHO HAS TRIED IT 45KV5 YOU CfiNT MAKE IT TOO STRONG-* MOTH EF2. olute proof to the world that the program of the National Nonpartisan league is workable is afforded by the state t»f North Dakota. One byone tl»e parasites andpests that infest every farming state are being exterminatedfay the Leaguers. How do the people lifce it? Well, they voted overwhelmingly in the primaries to return the Nonpartisan governor, LynnJ Fraxier, to office. That looks as if they liked the medicine, doesnt it? PAGE SKVSN swmsammsm. peared on our first cover three years ago makes a good cover for us today. The purpose of the League is the same. The League has never faltered in that purpose, and neither has the Leader. The battle has been hard. There have been great victories and a few. incidents that THE ENEMY has called defeats, but not US. We can not be defeated! The League was eight months old when the first Leader ap peared, and our first issue went to more subscribers than the initial issue of any other publication ever started in North Dakota. But that list was not over 16,000. This issue of the Leader, three years later, goes to over 200,000 subscribers, and will be read by over a million farmers. Many of these will mail their copy to friends in the city. fl 5, r'i 1 5"- fc-srjj fj£Vi4* sataggSS&lH