The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 4

F il 1 i e ———— RN S et | 2 ;.‘. i# AN <extomson R "PAGE FOUR . today. But it did the work. The - [FOR MANUFACTURING. < .2 ook home 60" bushels or 3600 _wator and he sells his wheat. . “for it. . How the Real Rulers Govern the World : THE NONPARTISAN LEADER I By Charles Edward Russell Poisoned News and the Power of Money Control. The newspaper and the: bank—they run the world. : Very often the bank runs the newspaper; the newspaper never runs the bank, and you might say, never is independent of it. That makes the bank the greatest earthly power. ' An immense amount of flubdub and bosh has been written in Tv HE two greatest powers in this world are the Power of . .the last. hundred: years about the power of the press for good. .Nobody has written much about the ‘enormous power of the ress for evil, or about the still greater and more appalling power of the ‘bank. ¢ b In the first of these articles, trying to warn you in North Dakota against the Kept Press and its works, I gave you an illustration from Chicago of the- ease with which poisoned news controls elections and so rules under the forms of law and free . institutions. I will now cite from the unwritten history of New York an example of the way banks can do the same thing if they choose The transportation: facilities in New York are the worst in the world and have ‘been the worst .for two generations. In all that time they have been owned by a few individuals " ‘that have made from them stupendous fortunes—out of the sufferings of the public. For the last thirty years the owners have been a few very wealthy men that are interlocked in business with the greatest financial institutions in the country. - Twenty-seven years ago the people of New York, at a pop- ular election, voted overwhelmingly to have the city build and operate underground railroads that the transportation troubles migh be relieved. - They had become intolerable. To get up town at-night or down town in the morning was as much as your life was worth. But this mandate of the people at the polls threatened the fat graft of the Traction interests, who had now become also the banks and Financial interests. z For twelve years these managed to keep the will of the people from being carried into effect. The way they did this was quite simple. They took the matter into the courts on one proposition, and then appealed from court to court up to the highest. This took three years. When a decision was reached in the highest court they began again in the lowest court on a new proposition, mean- “ time stopping everything with a few handy injunctions. Then with the string the banks have on all the newspapers, they choked off any comment .on these proceedings and the people never-knew how they were being hornswoggled. Meantime,-transportation in the city got worse and worse.| - Fifty Years Ago and Tcday (Continued from Page 1.) (O S e e e e stream. This mill was simple.” It was the simplest thing-in the world. It couldn’t produce flour as cheaply a8 do our great mills- of Minneapolis 70 bushels of wheat. Eighty-eight cents a bushel That makes $61.60. Some money. Now, Mr. Farmer needs the things his grandfather did. "He needs flour and feed. He must buy these things. He must buy them from those who have them for sale. He must pay for these things and he must pay the price asked by tho:e men. " Mr. Farmer has nothing to s about prices. ; He has nothing to say about’ the price of wheat, or flour, or feed. The other fellow fixes prices. The farmer pays them. Now, Mr. Farmer has some money. He has $61.60. He TOOK it for his wheat. It is all he got. It is what they offered. " Now he buys flour and he buys He buys 1350 pounds of flour and farmer hauled his wheat ‘to it. He ‘hauled 4200 pounds or 70 bushels; He gave one bushel of ‘each seven to the miller. ' This paid for the grind- ing. The. rest he hauled’ home. ' He hauled: home 60 bushels 'of the f70. He toek ‘home six:sevenths of: his ‘®roduct. - 4 HE ONLY' PAID ONE-SEVENTH' molinds. 2400 pounds - was ‘flour and 0200 pounds was feed. But—Things are different now. iz B _ The son of Mr. 1865 Farmer lives fin 1915. Let us look at him, ' He alse raices wheat. - He drives to town as his grand- Father did. ; R But now, in most cases he goes to the elevator. The mills have been: ‘centralized, as it were, They “are in Minneapolis. . Most of themare; #4r. Farmer cannot drive down' there; It is too far. So he goes to the ele: flour at $4 a hundred costs $54.00 and $7.40. This' makes - $61.40, exactly what he gets for his wheat., - In other words, he takes home 2025 pounds of flour and feed: s He hauled. in 4200 pounds of wheat. of thie'same size. He sells it for cash, ; : ! ‘gave 4200 pounds of wheat for 3600 He gets eighty-eight cents a bush Farmer 'gives 4260 pounds of;wheat ‘675 pounds of feed. 1350 pounds of 675 rpunds of feed at $22 a ton costs ‘pounds of ‘flour and feed for a load pounds of flour and feed and Mr. 1915 for. He has $61.60 to pay on the bill: After twelve years a combination was formed between the great Deutscher Bank of Germany, the Rothschilds and the New -| ¥ork-Traction Interests to control the project. This - brought into play the greatest and most powerfl Financial Interests in the world." ; Then tbé plan was amended so that the city should con- struct the subway but should not operate it, the subway being - of operation. 3 ; . ~ The instant this was done every obstacle vanished, the courts suddenly approved the project, the mayor amid greaf ceremonies, dug the first spadefull of earth and the subway was begun and completed at the city’s expense. : Today it is operated at an enormous profit by the combination I have referred to. . : ; o I said that the banks had & string on all the newspapers and choked off comment. How did that work? - Why, newspapers must have credit from the banks in order to do business—must have it. Banks could either. let them have it if they were good, or refuse to let them have it if they reared up. : 3 ; i That is one way. But what is more important is that the newspapers live from day to day at the pleasure of the great advertisers, and the great advertisers, where they are not direct- ly owned by the great Financial Interests live from day to day at the pleasure of the banks, which are the great Financial Interests. : An advertiser that - advertised in any paper telling the truth couldn’t get credit at any bank. A newspaper that didp’t get advertising went to smash. Hence a lot of newspapers -that continually prated about their devotion to the public never said a word about these frauds. Before the first subway was completed the people demanded others. For eight years the combination defeated every attempt to get more subways until it had backed the city into another jug- handled arrangement. Now the city is building other subways to be turned over to the same combination and operated for more profits. & : ! turned over to the combination to operate and get the profits This sort of thing goes on in every state and most cities and towns in this nation. If there is a community in the United States where the banks and the newspapers do not exert a tremendous influence in hehalf of the corporations I don’t know where it is, . j And yet we believe in free institutions, free speech, a free press and free men. > : Is it not strange? for only 2025 pounds of four and feed. Mr. 1865 Farmer gave only one- seventh for manufacture, and Mr. 1915 Farmer GIVES OVER ONE- HALF. Do you get this, Mr. Farmer of To- day? -Do you get this fact? - I know it hurts. That is, the fact: hurts. But it won’t hurt you to know the fact. It will do you good to admit it and still moere good if you will remember it, -and more good still if it will arouse you to remedy it. i 4 Let us look dt this cartoon again, Let us look at from a different angle. Mr. 1865 Farmer drove to town with | 70 bushels of wheat. He wishes to exchange it for 1200 pounds of.feed and 2400 pounds of flour. He does 80, for that is the exchange value of those products at that tim This leaves him $46.40 in debt. He has to haul in fifty- three more bush- els to pay for the flour and feed. bushels of wheat for 4200 pounds of flour and 1200 pounds of feed, and same amount. Or, to put it in still another light, if Mr. Farmer of 1915 wishes to se- cure 2400 pounds of flour and 1200 not only 70 bushels of wheat in his wagon, but $46.60 in his pocket to pay for the flour and feed. $46.60 IN DEBT? What would the man from Mars think of the way we have progressed? $46.60 IN DEBT. The Leader fights for the farmers, i FARMERS ORGANIZE " s e ‘hat the = Nonparti i I\{ow come to date. Mr. Faf’mer of d,,,?fé“}n thee pol};g‘g,a‘,?ésg r;omoil: 1915 comes to town with his load, the “Grange’ in the industrial field. 'He also has 70 bushels. He also needs By doing co-operative buying and 2400 pounds of flour and 1200 pounds |§ Sélling through your “Grange” you can 'of feed. He sells his wheat. It sells sa%ehf;om Qthfi%&MflLe 108, at "$88 a bushel. This brings Mr. ; Now Mr. Parmer buys his four and hig feed. 2400 pounds of flour at 34|} a bundred costs $96.00 and 1200|f ° of feed at $20.00 a ton costs §12.00.{§ 5tc ‘This makes $108 worth of feed and flour which Mr. Farmer has to pay In-18656 Mr. Farmer exchanged 70 today it takes 123 bushels to get the- pounds of feed he must take to town. 28 | L4 i b G o < d i \ bl v : L& b i |