The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 14, 1916, Page 3

R e : % : i Official Paper of the Farmers' Nanparlisan Political League of North Dakota R A q/// are fortunate. They get industrious; honest Well, it must be confessed he uses the property even worse than before. and knock plaster off.the walls and carve their names on the doorposts. Y tenant, too.. He takes a vindictive pleasure in doing damage to both. & . s resources were being wasted for the benefit of idlers. FP\HERE wa¢ good food for thought furnished those who listened to 4: R “the Labor Day speeches delivered in Fargo by President E. F. - s - Ladd.of the State Agricultural college, J. N. Hagan, candidate It . for commissioner of agriculture and labor, and Lynn J. Frazier; the 2« mnext governor of North Dakota. ! R : " “We do not complain at prices-for our manufactured goods based - upon ‘good wages and good working conditions for those by whose labor the-goods are produced,” said Mr. Frazier, and he added: . “But we do value of the product.”: * whatwe sell, paid o those who do not by their labor add anything to the t question when he quoted to the audience the findings of a writer 5 ,mdga'zine"tfo"thg'efiect that costs of speculation, a light thing? Professor Ladd gave the answer "FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916 - He dirties up the house; his children are permitted to break the windows year ‘it decided to make a change. S Great damege was being done to the equipment. given the old tenants began to do what they could to make it unpleasant for the new tenant. In 50 doing they did:permanent injury to the land- i - lord’s property. .They have been putting things in such shape that it will be very difficult for the new tenant to put things in running order {4t i 1 again. They have used such means as a big deficit and a 10 per cent cut in assessments to cripple the usefulness of the property. . i . e landlord—the people of North Dakota—is helpless against this outrage, but is likely to remember it for a long time to come. . a i The Trough of Special Privilege >3 ‘They are producing “at wholesale” and they are selling “at retail.” _ object to carrying a’heavy burden of big profits on what we buy and Is this burden of the costs and profits of “distribution,” including the the MANUFACTURER’S COST : ; : : s - President Ladd pointed to one of the causes so far as the farmers . ; ~ are concerned when he branded the system of gambling in food products. - :. of . as an indefensible and. u ) ' ’ . A ney spaper i - that aares to - print the truth . WHOLE NO. 52 THE DESTRUCTIVE RENTER ABOUT TO LEAVE - fors — e / A2\ (U L7700\ 2 / //////b, / =111/ A S5yl Gy or UWAIEH @ LOULE OI1AET Thay YOU i€y CUL W 4 weuult you may Kiow something about the troubles of a landlord. Some landlords i tenants who are just as careful of the property as if it were their own, and when they move out they are careful to leave the house cleaned and everything in as good repair £s they found it -But there are other tenants who are sadly different. - bl They are always clamoring to the landlord for money to repair a fence, to put in a new pump, to re-roof the barn. The landlord visits the place it and finds everything neglected and out of repair; the fields grown up with weeds, shade trees cut for firewood and all sorts of vandalism commit- ted. <He decides the tenant is injuring his place and he decides to turn him out after giving him proper notice. Then what -does this tenant do? Such a tenant has a grudge against the landlord and against the new G The state of North Dakota is a landlord. It has a place out at Bismarck which it lets out every two years to'a family which comes well = : 2y ' recommended. Sometimes it is badly disappointed in. its tenant. . This The place was not being run right. After notice of the change was “We farmers sell at wholesale and we buy and retail,” said Mr. Frazier. He might have said “we producers,” for all who work for their living are in much the same predicament. : All who work for their living are bo/th producers and consumers; . Machinery of distribution is necessary, but is it necessary that it - should TREBLE THE COST OF THE PRODUCT TO THE CONSUMER? - "' There are real and necessary ‘costs ‘of distribution, legitimate services performed in transportation and trade, which bring the value of the product as delivered to the consumer far above the value in large quantity at the factory door. But there are other costs and profits that = are not necessary and still others that are no better than robbery. Some are the results of bad organization and bad system. ' Others are the results of speculation and monopoly., - seless burden on both producer. and consum