The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 28, 1915, Page 4

v e ey ~PAGE FOUR THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Choice Specimens of Poisoned News By ‘Chanles .Edward Russell HE example of Poisoned News that we were wmmghst Allmest :all the countnies of :Ememe beat ms in n:anlmad safety week was “‘plate matter,” wemt @ut and printed in = thon-|and d‘fixcmcy santl mewspapers as a scientific and matter of Fact article: (3) The average rates ‘paid for passenger tmamsportation in about Railresdls. @n it occurredl o paragraph comtaining these(|€Very European comntry :ame lower than owrs. The wharges for asser Ginms: . |ffirst class travel are in some instances higher. }B\ntmamaely any- bedy in Burepe travels frst class. (1) “The United States has the largest mileage, (2) the best, : B @) ‘'Paking iwto comsideration the difference in the cost of service, /(8) whe-cheapest rates, (4) pays lahor the highest wages, | living, railroad employees in Tngland, France and Germany are (5) tthe most efficiently managed railways, and (6) maost wof the|as well paid as the average mailroad employee in Amenica. En- railroads in foreign countries have een built under Amenican |ginsers will come a litile .a.hwe this :average, Jut wiher railroad orders. _ | maen will met. Nurtker 1 is ceorrect, though it is merely incidental to -eur (53) The meckiessness of American railread ma.m,gementmnder pesibion and area. As o the others, these are the facts: {the menent system is the wendler-of every foreign mailnead man '( ) ; S S e i maus i i©) @ntsxde of Mexico :and seme parts of {Gentral and Bouth the worlll. For mamny years we ‘have held the worldls record | 3 of the wai : ; 3 3 for .otir weilroad accidents and our bad eminenee in that mespect is Audmm?‘m? 2 emn ailrands wf fioreign coumtnies dave feen built due mebsly o e wlipehod Anevican mailosi o PR ‘er ‘American omn - The :assertion ’flha:t *flhey have swould ot slipsh : R .. . | camse any Ewuropean mailread man ito shriek with langhter. To agement. “The canstruction and management :are slipshed because’ e 1k Riaen rogd ; ot % ithe finst.object of an American railread enterprise is 1o juggle se- e rican Tailroad is the ideal of everything a railroad hold mot “be. ities, whereas ithe first «0bj ctefsarazl‘lmadabmad o carry 2 :::(;p;:sa i ‘fl‘rrn;s. 2 o Sl "The American efficiency .and .ability that <ave usthe Panama : i | canal would undoubtedly give ws the best railreads if ‘our wail- Compare, for instance, the American railread system withthat || o oo ©ore onducted Tke the candl, forthe Common ‘Good. The 01.5 Germany. Five.—si{(ths_of'rtfhe_ A*rqerican‘l-ines ‘are single tracked.| trouble with them is that they are conducted—and rumed fov' - Sixty per-eent. of their mileage is-without-block or other adequate, private greed. signal p!f}t:ac;r::t T}};e);dha;wehwmden :;es, it Gfltrtendrgttexg that The same article most adroitly misstates the facts .about :Vf :flofengteh thatr\z:ilerz hitle I?:t?ceieifnha:nslsltcginke ;&y}?a‘l; freight rates, creating the impression that the average payments dirt ballast. The rails are merely spiked to the rotten ties. They u(;r gelghy Srasporiyasn i Europe ‘are much higher than wrfl.l have more than a million unpretected .grade crossings. They| often Jrave filthy shacks.for stations. They have wooden bridges and culverts. ‘They are not watched one-sixth as much as the ususlly in Burope by water. This, of course, seems to bring down German lines. the average American rate. With other facts concealed is also_ German railroads have double tracks, rock ballast, steel ties, this that the classification and routing swindles, utterly un- rails holted to-the ties, complete signal protection, stone or steel| xnown in Europe, often take more from the American ‘shipper bridges, stone culverts, no unprotected crossings, and they enter |-thanthe European shipper pays for the same weight and distance, This trick is done by econcealing the fact that heavy ‘freight taking by far the lowest rates, is carried in America by rail and . and leave cities on solid masonry viaducts. Conseguently--our railroads are dangerous and German rail- roads are safe. But our dangerous service is slower and less con- venient than the German safe service. By B. O. Henry -atthough on paper the American rate may look .the lower. This is the kind of dope the railroads arc feeding fo the press free of charge and ready to print. Look out for alLsuch poison. g A Sample of Co-opemtwn Those Six Doliar Rubes Farmers in older sections of the State may well take a lesson from the live «ones around Sentinel Butte. i Nine years ago the dand in that 4 wicinity was open for homesteading, dbut was mot thought to be werth the taking mp. However, a bunch of ad- ~venturous ones teok a chance at it and today are making :good in more ways than one. Three years ago tfiey organized ‘and built the largest farmers’ eleva- tor in the state. It is run on the «d so successful that a further .ex- “tension of co-cperation was -enceur- aged. 'Inis year ‘they financed and ‘built a flour mill and have it in op- eration. It is a fifty barrel mill and is turning out a high grade flour call- ed “Sentinel Butte's Best” that makes the big milling companies green with envy. They used the Midget Marvel mill. The organization of the mill and elevator are -entirely separate ul- though practically the same farmers ~ .are steck holders in :both entenprises. As soon .as the farmers decided to build a2 mill, several dlifferent milling ~ compenies offered to build a mill at that point, but their sudden inter- est and friendship made the farmers _skeptical of their promises. (Have . you noticed that as soon as the farm- ®rs reaily organize to do anyihing, ~all kinds of new found friends sud- denly. come forward .anxious to do it i'ox' them). That . other localities desi:ing ‘to go-epevete may profit by the Sen- given, . The anill was «capitalized at 815,- 000. The shares -at $25 each and 2 of shares. Pledges were taken from patronage ‘divided -plan and has prov- |- gelling flour at $2.70 per hundred dinel Buite farmers’ experienee a de-: } O% Operation iiiinel Butte. He was born in Penn-|Are the farmers a class plotting the If we are to believe the more or! less carefully veiled insinuations of a few newspapers, this state at ‘present contains some few thousand suckers who have parted with six dollars of their hard earned money in a most easy, foolish if not absolutely idiotic manner. Ridicule is hard to face and use- less to answer. But in inquiring into the cause of the ridicule perhaps we can find some excuse for the so-call- ed rubes. The six dellars went toward finane- ing a farmer’s organization. Unlike other ‘assoctations among farmers this one is openly a POLITICAL organi-: zation. 'Hence the ridicule, the of- fensive and defensive weapon-of those whose poverty of niind is -only ‘equal- Jed by ‘their want of argument. ‘Nene of the so-called “kept” -press ‘has +had ‘any fault to find with the catwns and are they not as patriotic and peace loving as the rest? The fact.is, the farmer, in agricul- tural states like North Dakota, car- ries all the others on his back and talking politics is his hope of making the other fellow get off and assist him in carrying his burden. As long as he keeps mum the other fellow will ride. The present six dollars have not been separated “from the farmer so easily and uselessly ‘as .ather dollars we wot of. And sperhaps the farmer after all, is not mlways to remain so foolish and idietic .as the has been in the past. limit of ten shares to any one indi- vidual, but only one vote to any shareholder regardless of the number the farmers for the shares until enough had been subscribed to assure the project. They then tried to raise the money at the bank, but failing in that a number of the farmers with the right kind of backbone promptly came forward ‘taking the pledges of their neighbors as security and ad- vanced the money until fall. The mill as it stands teday in op- eration «cost $9,000 but electric lights and a reservoir to complete the plant awiil put the cost finished at $10,000. Flour was selling at $4 per hun- dred with wheat at 80 cents when they started the mill. They are new OLOF RIBB. ‘LAND “@F CENTENARIANS. Serbia is the eountry .of .centena- Tians. ‘One ‘man ‘in every 2,260 ‘hds ‘seen 100 years, -and, in all, Serbia ‘boasts 5756 men -of 100 wears 'or OVer. with wheat at 90 cents, Their prin- 5 ciple business is trading flour and Heuity or -other farmers' ‘organiza- feed for wheat at the following rate: | tion so long as ‘they kept out of poli- For a bushel of wheat they exchange fties. ‘On the contrary-they were flat-|dreland ranks next with one wcenten- thirty-two pounds ~of flour, four tered and their members told wihatan | arian in every 8130 of the popula- pounds: of shorts and -eight peunds excellent “thing ‘organization »among_ “tien, or 578 in-all. ‘Qut of -every 48,- of bran. ‘Or if the customer-floes not farmers would Jbe so long as theyddid|'000 Spaniards -one s a wcentenarian. want the feed stuff he may get thir- not -lat\pu]imcs ‘gome ‘in to ‘st Whem' Norway numbers 23, ‘or ‘one in mbout ty-five pounds of flour for one bushel <quarreling. -The sterotyped by 1uws:96,000. England, Bcotlénd and Wales of wheat. ; kinfly ‘provided ‘for ‘our “farmers’:|rank next with 192, or one in ¥77;000. :|clubs-cantain a paragraph inhld&gg Framee has 218 cemems, or one yolt:]rg ]Ofl;h; :sdwzt:ze::;efr;;: i; ‘politics to -enter inio the,fl)scusmfié- in 1807750, Sweden ran-seventh with from strictly Nochh D& wheat}af the members. The: dlspbasm-eaflf 30 only; or ‘ove in 250,060, fiet‘mnny which is the best ‘hard wheat pro-' h whe! ;s s ‘P“."."’ hasfle DL 1""79'3}“0 duced anywhere in the world. It ;own g fskmers: AN 4o £ %o 4 fhat it often e 3 h;? wandeted away .fi:omfthe lady- : a premiom inthe market tomix with| iy~ 5% ;flhedtlor “:3 D ‘the- =ott Shiter ~whbat That e Dig some one sufficiently gif uring * the Q-.mem awar a colhéx' flling companies use quantities of in’ el 88 gjust. why, the; = should | svitked into a Rhondds shap and ask- Minneapolis. T |not organize politically? Having the/ed for a pound of <aniles, ; “The big beost thi [mower 4o vote, is the welfare of the| “Candles are up = penny ‘a 'pound ig ‘booster in this co-operative | community menaced if ‘they meet to today, sir,” ‘said ‘the grecer. .- work has heen J. H. Stecker of Sen- consider how best to use that vote?| “Why?” asked, the hewer of coal. “Because of the Russian war, sir.” “Then why.dow't’ ‘the -devils fight qxi sylvania 69 yéars ago, and homestead- | destruction of the state and :nation? 2-141-104. gence as their nerghbors of other vo- ——-Ca,rdlfi‘ Western ’Mml e ed in 1906 on his present. farm, Sec. Or_do they possess as much. mtélh-J the daylight? eame ithe final ,poser.' : ': L