The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 9

ol PRORRGN L S e L ~TWE NONPARTISAN LEADER Market Control Always Means Mastery By Orange Wright. HOEVER controls the wheat of the northwest eontrolsjacre:: One dellar and fifteen cents per bushel on the farm-is- the G WA the people of the northwest. - Whoever controls “the|lowest price the farmer can accept for his wheat without actual % ¥ . .wheat.market controls the wheat. “Today seven firms|loss. The 1914 wheat crop cost the. producer $1.55 per bushel possess -this control of the market, and with it the. hopes and|on the farm. But taking $1.15 as the maximum price nes degires.of those who dlrectly or indirectly produce the wheat for cessary. which is not a cent too, high, the problem which the this market. North Dakota farmer faces today is one that wxll have to be : In face of a sxtuatlonhke this WORKING to get ahead issolved soon if he expects to remain in the state. next to useless. Every year we.work.harder yet at the end of So tong as a small group of manipulators have absolute con-- each year we find ourselves exactly where we were before. Theltrol of the market the price is going to be: what they want to higger the yield the lower the price. . No yield no price. Yet the{make it and not what we should like to have it. Cussing won'E wrice of flour, of lumber and machinery, and all- those ‘necessities | help us, nor hinder their operations. Neither will laws made by, swhich the farmer.is compelled to purchase,.remains at the same | their special representatives in our legislature. They OWN this ‘high mark—held there by the same. autocratic power that keeps market and as:long as they own it they are going to RUN it. wheat at eighty when 'we want to sell and boosts it to one-fifty If we stood-in their shoes we would do the same thing. 'Thé when our. granaries-are’empty. . - .- «.“I'thing to do, therefore, is to GET into their shoes. ., It is this power tofix prices that holds us back and not the To do this it is not necessary to speculate in wheat or te ,sme of ithe crops we raise. - It is. this ;power that manages our g.j to aneapohs ‘and “buy elevators. Nor is it necessary t> “ifatms and pockets the -proceeds. ' It tells us when to’get up. in|secure a seat in the Chamber of Commerce. : i " ) 4 B the morning, when to work, and when to go to bed agan; We do not want to control the gambling.” We want to con- \ where to live and how. It dictates the number of hours we must trol our MARKETS. +oil, the days Nettie must-drive the.rake, and the weeks Dick Ouco we. succeed in this’ the pambling Wlll dl sappear. with must st_ax out of school to plovxf. It mUZZIeS Qur press, throttles the power of the gamblers. ' In order to control our own mar- our oerators, paralyzes our leglslators and d_ommates our mer-{y o o must OWN them. . cantile "houses. - . B 9 Its sinister influences are everywhere, at all times, in-a " tAmi. why no’;il 1t one h;ngreld fazirggrs can o?:i?qfl el:alvator, thousand forms, and affects everyone. ~Tts strength is irresistable, SOUL DUV one Iracioman and! *_’c are per-cont. AIVIGENGS, onG - L. ! hundred- thousand farmers can own one thousand elevators, and . 4 1 s 3 It has but one purpose.. It.is after every dollar we can spare Uit out G Thoneand middlomen. and above a meager living and so far it has got it. As long as 2 No one of us alone .can do this but all of us together CAN. we are willing to stand for it it is going to keep on gettmg it. : That is what it acquired its power for. We can use our power as a people to break any monoply in the : £ state or operating here. ¢ But whenever the farmers of North Dakota decide to put a % L : ¢ stop to this injustice they can do so. The grain market monoply This done, there will be no one to receive a profit WhICh [ g derives its power from-the farmers and this power can be taken will give us the full value for our grain per bushel instead of e ~- an artificial price dictated by the ring now in control. The ring -away by the farmers. Working together we, can do almost any- -,-~-:bhmg ‘Separated .and. quarreling -among ourselves we are de-|will have nothing to feed on and will go.to pieces of its own weight. . ¥eated before we so much as begin. . : Authorities agree .that ‘it costs close to $17 29 to raise an At present our state 'govemment is in the hands of a bunch acre of wheat. of politicians owned body and boots by big money. Big Business . "This.-includes cost of labor, seed loss of fertility, interest,| has 73 men in the legislature to our 30 men. This position must - and depreciatien. It floes snot’ mclude the cost of haulmg o the{be reversed: We must league together the -way we make our ~omagnarket. |living—as farmers—and put in a majority. Then we can do i ondn order teaneet thxs ixxed charge mth heat at_eighty cents|something. Until we do we are bound hand-and foot-by the very, v ‘a bushel ‘the average :yield:should. be: twenty-bw&bushels As a|laws our ewn legislature enacts. - And Wwhile flns srtuafion lasts : amafiter o£ «fact the -average yield is only fifteen ‘bushels.to the‘ we will NEVER control our own markets. pth “The Farmer’s - Da flas Arrived-—-He matter and g-lve it a fnr and !ull 5 That is the reason me iarmers have i banded together. They are going %o get together, even at the mnfice of .industrial organmhons before. They together. not as Repubhcans or Dem- i ocrats but as farmers. They will = are -good,-~indeed indispensible, but/ g ots 2k : T _ | stand together ‘wote together. . their “effectiveness -is ‘curbed by ‘the The farmer ia going o have his fact that the State is against them.| g, Other interests control the State.| They make the laws which du';‘ct the machinery of the State. 'These laws are made in ‘the interest of those{ : : : who -make, them, . That is the reason, ‘1 went ‘to the races wnth my wife the farmer is going to make laws | yesterday,” said the man in the Palm . while, He’lnsseentbe;ms‘“t “Never again for me. = = value of lawmaking. He has seen the She insisted that I bet $50 for her = . o impossibility of prevailing upon oth-|on 2 handred-to-one shot just beeeuse e ers to make laws in his interest. Shf‘:,flwd the .lclol:rs the :o:key w,gre_ o "That is. the resson b has decided . Momen will da thuse. things,” 7 ¢ » | %o try this thing upon the political turned the other. “I always put the® = == = field “The_political. field must be a n,loney in my pocket and tell my wife‘ i pretty good place to operate St I've placed vlt accordmg to. her m- ‘many- lngh‘ly suceessful, prosperous structions.” - and respectable gentlemen operate “That's enetly 'rhat 1 dld bnt the there. & If there is nothing gained by confonnSed ~horse . won by three xg.ttackmg the thtng on: the political lengths —N. ¥, World S ‘field why do so ‘many successful men ‘do it and how is it that they are 50 guccessful? If & few laws ‘amount to nothmg, as we are told why is it that certain mterests simply move ‘heaven ‘and earth to. get such laws and to prevent other laws that might out any definite. instructions the new, Soaa be lmxm.ca.l Ao "theu' interests bemg, itk as Forhy ooni %: h eci fi!‘fl! amasi] anifest by the fimry v z : - | This is' the report he rendered l.’b ) : : - | the end of the firs ‘week: © ' These new ‘achievements of the farmer will not be the M»ofi-a amew.method: of farming nor ef thel mysterious - worldngs of certain in- dustrial ou,lamzatlons He has tried solation - to $is ‘problems the farmer Wfiofitdfie ‘advice and humped 4o-his work.- The raults were that {the -“more the farmer pmduoed——-tlw he other ‘got. ; “'1¢ .took-the farmer 2 long time to - Wil Bema:nd square Deal find -this.. out; ¢But he ‘has arrived Jnow. He. sees the picture.and under-: ¥4 ; ‘Aaew»dnyplms dawned m_:Nm:th wtands the .game. -And so he has.de- o - - Daketa: -4t -is-the Farmers' Bay. Mivided to take n hnd in the gamie : was, pretty Iate.in coming. but-heghimself.! ~ - - hasxarrived-at: -hst And “wasn’t it Not:pnly)hs he.decided to take a -aboflt time ‘that .he -had 4 day? ihand but he has decided that he will has been rambling-about:in the.night{deal the cards.’ He will demando kS long: enongh; -:He has been Histening{new: 00 ito +the -enchanting svoice "of .a multi-: scards. : tude of .mystérious songsters, scat-1 ‘The Fatndr vyiu, s to it tbat 'he tered in -every direction throughout]gets a chance to keep what he pro- - the ‘political swoods ‘and he did ‘not{guces. He will not “attempt it by know ‘which way to go——-wr < he swent i yanting ‘and raving ' and every way. Pinally. he declded to eut his .OW!L . sway through' the jungle. - It was then i that his:day <dawned. - - It ‘was ‘the that he saw. posmbxhty of ; commg mto his own, ... . It is entn'ely Afitting . that N‘orth Dakota take the lead in this great -move, She is one of the great s of the great Northwest. - She pro-| duces many millions - ‘of .- dollars in ~wealth each year. 'This wealth is the: product of the farmer’s toil. “But up to the present the farmer ‘has not: been able to enjoy but a small share 6! wbat ‘e produced. : A wmm-:n. a0 o go. down .to.the. fundamental cause of the “injustices and mequaht;es from ~which he’ has suffered.- OF/ course ‘he will not remedy al[ the many wrongs: that exist, the first ‘day.. They .are too deep-seated -and well-grounded, : But ~he will ~make seme changes for the better. He will put.a stop to:a part of the game of ‘graft, played by a large collection of -parasites. - He will put a stop to it ‘by taking the means out of their |- ‘hands by which théy work the graft. That the 'power«which certain in- A NEAT AND monoueu .lon. : A St. Louis pohtidan imported hil 75 cousin from the country and had him - -appointed ‘& smoke inspector.