The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 16, 1916, Page 4

i W { i ! THE NONPARTISAN LEADER The Leader Promises Its Readers for Next Week a Sensation That Will Shake the State---It Relates to the Most Astonishing Deals in Politics and High Finance Ever Uncovered in North Dakota---It Will Show How Big Business Rushes to Cover When Financial Storms of Its Own Making Impend and Leaves the Farmer to Hold the Sack and Bear the Loss---The Story Is Exclusive-—-It Deals Solely With the Facts Outside Milling Robs the Land Food Commissioner Ladd Shows Effect on Soil of Constant Export of Wheat and Loss of Byproducts The milling industry in North Da- kota in comparison with the amount of grain produced for milling is neg- ligible. Therefore the great bulk of the average 100,000,000-bushel wheat crop of the state is shipped out and the farmers pay tke freight on it. Then the consumers of the state must pay the freight back to North Dakota on the flour, bran, shorts and other stock food used. ° Most of the by-nroducts from the manufacture of flour—bran and shorts —and the stock foods made from screenings of course never come back to the state, for the live stock indus- try, which consumes these products, is also negligiblé in North Dakota. Soil Being Exhausted One important result of this is the fact that millions of dollars worth of fertility is removed from North Da- kota soil annually never to return. Some_idea of the amonnt of fertility contained in the wheat by-products from a 100,000,000-bushel - crop is given by Food Commissioner Ladd in the current bulletin of the Agricultur- ?IuExperiment station. The figures ollow: Pounds Nitrogen .. 16,018,440 Fliospnoric'acid"” " 44,648,760 Potash 10,700,220 Lime 1,787,280 In other words over one hundred million pounds of soil fertility in by- products alenz is shipped out of the state each year, the farmers paying the freight. This nitrogen, potash, etc., could not be replaced in the soil, if commercial rates had to be paid for it, withcat the expenditure of millions of dollars a year. Keep it in State Commiss;oner Ladd says: i “All this fertilizing material should KIND WORDS FROM EDITORS SAYS LEAGUE DID IT Credit is given the Nonpartisan - League by the Pierce County Tribune for the expected withdrawal of Gov. L. B. Hanna from the senatorial race. According to the rumors current Gov. Hanna’s friends will urge his withdrawal. A dispatch from Devils Lake to the Tribune says: “It is said the Nonpartisan League has had much to do with the decisions which have been reached by friends of the governor who will urge him to re- tire. With both McCumber and Han- na in the contest for the - senate, friends of the governor say, defeat will be meted out to both. “With the rumor that Hanna will be pressed to retire, comes another that such action by him will be the signal for bringing out a progressive repub- lican ‘darkhorse’.” "BOUT LONG ENUFF! I'M GOIN’ TA JOIN THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE ! " be retained in the state and returned to the land.” How can it be done? Former President Worst of the State Agri- cultural collegze has pointed out the way. In the first place conditions must be made such in North Dakota that the buix ot the wheat can be milled here and the by-products kept at home. Second, he says these by- roducts must be kept in North Da- Eo‘ta and fed {o live stock here. Thus the millions of dollars worth of fertil-. izing material lost to the state for- ever each .year would be returned to the land in the form of manure. It has heen estimated that the total value of the by-products sent out of the state annually with the wheat crop is over $20,000,000. Besides keeping this great amount of stock food in the state to feed to stock at a good profit, and besides saving to the state the millions of dollars worth of fertility, this plan would save the farmers over $8,000,000 a- year in . freight charges on the by-products now sent out to other states. Ladd’s View of It “The stat: can only become great - agriculturally and continue its -devel- opment”, says Commissioner Ladd, “by promoting such a system as will enable the return of at least a con- siderable share of the fertility to the soil, and the marketing of products in the form of beef, pork, mutton, flour and the finished bread products. “To insure this end means the devel- opment of the manufacturing agri- cultural industries to the fullest pos- sible utilization of 2] these products on the farm, in the dairy, in the mill and in tke bakeries, and these indus- tries should ‘be encouraged, fostered and developed by the state through every reasonable mesns so as to in- sure continued »roeperity to all our people and to future generations.” NO CHAFF OR CHARITY North Dakota Farmer: “There seems to be a deliberate and wide-spread propaganda at work to forestall really cooperative efforts on the part of farmers by substituting the merest semblance of farmers’ o ganizations together with a sop in the orm of charity. - Farmers will not long be cajoled with such chaff. They propose to get their share of the consumer’s dollar simply because they have the best right to it. “Charity returned to farmers by certain big interests in the way of lec- tures that advertise their goods, and donations which return two dollars for every one donated, may ‘ease their consciences, but -such things do not cure the main evil. ' 'The evil referred to consists in perpetuating an econom- ic system which compels one class of men to do:the ‘work in order that an- other and minority class may pocket the profits.” : ) 5 ) 4 LAKE ECHO. YOU'LL HAVE TO STAND}§1°LL DRAW The above fizures and opinions show the possibilities for the farmers of North Dakota through cooperative or state-owned flour niills and the devel- opment. of the live stock industry. Under conditions that have ' pre- vailed "a "ong-sided development “has been the state’s lot. Conditions must be changed so that the manufacturing and live stock indgustries will develop. Angd the principal things necessary are Jlaws that will aid and ‘encourage co- ‘operative manufacturing efforts and tha, will solve the marketing prob- lems, returning to the farmer his fair -share of the wealth he produces, thus making the live stock industry profitable. Remarkable unanimity is shown by the papers of the state in interpreting the attitude of George J. Smith of Plaza, who from a strong supporter of the Nonpartisan League was in one week converted to a rabid opponent, following the exposure by the Nonpar- " tisan Leader, of his effort to get the League’s endorsement for governor., Mr. Smith’s sudden change of front, which he carried out in all the news- papers controlled by him, has brought forth a flood of comment of which the following excerpts are a sample: He Writes Too Much George J. Smith is not the first office seeker in this country whose as- pirations have been blighted by a too free writing of letters to other poli- ticians. That Walton letter puts George out of the race—POWERS Green-Eyed Monster As near as we can make out from George Smith’s complaint against the . man who is at the head of the Non- partisan League, the only trouble with Plaza Smith and the League ' as Seen by Editors offState _ SURPRISE FOR THE EDITOR Last Tuesday was township meet- ing day for the Nonpartisan League. Crystal township caucus was held in Doran’s gymnasium. The writer ap- plied for admission, but was informed that the meeting was for members only, and consequently knows nothing of the proceedings, but this one fact - was very apparent from the number of farmers assembled in the room: ' There were enough votes there to turn any election ever held in Crystal town- ship. Any candidate for office who is approved by the League will carry the precinct. Crystal township is on- ly a small factor in an election, but we didn’t know there was a League in Crystal township, and if other parts of the state are as well organized, can- didates who are “on the list” might as -well save their time and expense.— CRYSTAL CALL. George is a severe attack from the green-eyed monster, jealousy. In the dealing of hands, by his overweaning desire for office, George was left with a bob-tailed straight with a deuce in the hole, in an absolutely straight game. And he isn’t enough of a sport to grin over the unfortunate—for him —fall of the cards—NEW ROCK- FORD TRANSCRIPT, . Pushed off the Limb Froggy Smith of Plaza has been pushed off the limb by the Nonpar- tisans. Froggy is like a great many ° other people in this world—give-them enough rope and they will hang them- selves.—KENSAL JOURNAL. How It Happened George J. Smith of Plaza, editor of half a dozen newspapers,- who has been boosting in all of them for Equity and the Nonpartisan League during the past many months, lately asked a -member of that body to get the support of the League for his candidacy for governor. Bing! They turned him down. d now George says the League is controlled by bosses and socialists—ENDERLIN INDEX. % “PADDLE OUR OWN CANOE” Editor Nonpartisan Leader: As a member of the Nonpartisan Political League and reader of the Nonpartisan Leader, a firm believer in coopera- tion, and farm unions, and for special privileges for none, I have heretofore kept mum, but have not been asleep to all the slander and efforts to quash this organization. £ . But I have just read in our home paper this remark: “The Farmers: Nonpartisan League will hold a town- ship' convention in every township in the state on Washington’s birthday. We don’t know much about thais new arty but they tell us that nobody ut farmers can belonfi to it, and no- body but' farmers shall be elected to any office. In other words the farm- ers are to be the whole cheese”, and Only One Remedy for Extended -Legé-'-lt’S the Nonpartisan League H|'AM_ A RUBE BUT THE? HAVE PULLED MY LEG ; \lf’(oN"r HAVE ANY PULL' AFTER ELECTION! WE G0T A DOWN 'HILL more to the same effect. : That is true. We are limiting mem- -bership to farmers only, but I ask our edi\tpr, Mr., Johnson, where is the or- ganization that does not have a limit to the membership. I am prone to say that the publishers have their or- ganizations, and if I am not badly mistaken the farmers are- not asked- to become members. Furthermore the 3 farmers see that your organization would be of no value to you with their i participation. - 4 . We farmers are alert to the ques- tion. We are able to paddle our own canoe. 8 We have no fault to find with the business men, and are-willing to be sociable with them, providing they are getting only their: just: portion. and are leaving our portion untouched. Fraternally yours, i ‘C. 0. NIPSTAD, Schafer, N. D, I ALWAYS CLAMED, *( THIS WAS A LONG. PULL FROM WAY OUTIN, N. DAKOTA