The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 23, 1916, Page 6

D |\ ——-~"able lggislatipn for their business; 18 £ Minnesota grades, as mill products for retail, he paid $325.26 for “feed” C,” and $409.27 for “feed D.” T ) ‘But this carload of “feed D” wheat when purchased in Fargo cost the pur- chaser only $653.01 on the card grades and card quotations of 79 cents per bushel. . Delivered on the tracks at Minneapolis and sold under legal grades and standard quotations there, it had a net value of $992.05, a clear gain to the buyer of $339.04 due to the card grades alone. v It must be remembered this is the value of the wheat only. The screen- ings added $70.28, making the total of $409.27. 'Thus, if this wheat were sold as wheat the profit to the manipulator of the card grades would be $409.27 on an original investment of ‘only- $653.01. - Does North Dakota farmers have proved by the recent election what they can accomplish by organiza- tion, Previously at the June primaries, they gave their first proof - that farmers could stick together on a large scale. These marvelous victories cannot be ascribed to aimless impulse, but to the fact that the farmers had something of abiding human inter- est to stick to, and that their - organizing 'was undertaken with knowledge and efficiency . Now that the Farmers’ Nonpar- tisan League has demonstrated its ability to seize the power necessary to legislate in behalf of the produe- ers. of wealth, and to curb the powers of useless parasites to take from the producers and consumers unearned profits, it becomes fitting to consider whether these benefits shall pass from them, or shall they make their organization perman- ent, to the end that the highly organized exploiters shall not take these things away from them. All organized bodies in society. that have for their .purpose the - mutual benefit. of their members are permanent and continuous in character. : The American Bankers’ associa- tion does not disband after each successful effort in obtaining favor-: RIGHT -TO ORGANIZE If we are-bankers, we are in the bank- ing busine§s; if we are merchants, we are in the mercantile business; if we are farmers, we are in the farming business, ‘and it does not matter -what business we: are.in, we are in our business and we cannot see why the farmers should not be allowed to organize and we always fayored’ farmers’ ‘organizations. In fact the ‘editor of The Graphic was secretary for the Farmers’ Equity ‘association as long as_there was such an organization - here.. But if organizations are organ- ized that are antagonistic to other busi-. ness interests and not working in the i terest of the entire commun say that they are not_ ‘organi Farmei's who sold a car of Whéat under got $653.01 for it. The s can not see where it will hurt other bu Tess, *If their ‘organization is hurting. But the : W&shbum-Croéby ,combany agrees with Dr. Ladd that the 1916 wheat is of‘_excellent flour making quality, and Dr. Ladd’s- experiments for this very wheat, showed that it made 60.4 per cent of high grade flour. - It made a “lighter” loaf of bread than any of the wheat above No.:4 grade, a loaf of bread far above the minimum commercial standard in texture, and almost as fine as the whitest No. 1 Northern in color. FARMER BUYS FLOUR. - AND AGAIN IS STUNG But the most interesting fé;mre of . this combined card grade and card quota- tion assault upon the farmer; is shown in the manufactured products as whole- saled at Fargo or retailed at Fargo: to [t Pay . the producers of the wheat. After being “Jewed down” on the price of his light weight “feed D” wheat to' 79 cents a . bushel, $653 per carload, and seeing this same wheat sold without handling, except cleaning, at a profit of over $400 per carload, the farmer who decided to buy back the flour made from this same wheat would have to pay . wholesale $1327.05 for the flour alone (leaving out bran, shorts and ‘screenings), or if he bought back: at Fargo retail prices the _ entire’ product_ from this carload: of “poor” .wheat, the flour would cost him $1665.55, the bran $156.37, the shorts, $180.67, the screemings, $114.44, or a total - “of . $2107.03. The difference between what he would get for his wheat, namely '$658.01- per carload, and what to Organize? . By Henry P. Richardson - WE SED, WE'LL STICK, | AND. WE STUCK AND NOW LETS STICK TO KEEP. WHAT WE GOT AND TO GITE //)l.---_.l!...l 7y /. i A, 73 03 o Y S A0 B A b ve e 1 o 60T S Ty ey i SSONT S SGL ganizations, ‘are .organized’ for th pose, the assistance of both The ¢ other business their organization will prove to be a detriment and disastrous to ; themsefves,—GARY (Minn.)/GRAPHIC. "Onlj flydr;flu&.zfghtrm easy ~close’ ekim- ;! Guaranteo the new, unauthorized grade of “D Feed” in Qct!?bet '1'1 ame car brought $992.06 in the Minneapolis- market under the re_gql_ar,, ‘ which do not recognize “feed” wheat. Then this same car was. wholesaled ; $1660.15, and when it was sold to the farmers as flour and stock food, at | $2107.03 for it. These inordinate profits -have cheated both producers and con- sumers out of millions of dollars this year.- : A S he would: have to' pay for the manufag- tured product would be $1454.02. - This is the result-to the farmer who - has -had no wheat better than' ‘“feed "D the lowest grade established by these unnamed -grade makers. This' is the result of buying by ome system of grad- ing and selling by another more liberal one; the result of pretending that the 1916 wheat is good for nothing: but. feed, produces excellent” bread for home: or bakery sales; results well known fo the big millers who' have accurate and com- -pletely appointed laboratories, and who are taking their profit beth* going and coming, by declaring to the farmers their 1916 wheat is no good - for flour, and declaring to the public that it makes bet-A ter flour than the wheat of 1915, the extracting of profits from con- trolling the money and -credits of the people.’ They take , their yearly dues as a matter of course and a part.of their business. Neither the merchants’ and manufacturers’ associations nor American Medical society, nor the lawyers’ American Bar association nor the local commerecial clubs ever even consider - discontinuance ‘of their ‘existence. Their members regard their annual dues as a necessary part of their business - expenditure; = : The wage workers began organ- izing 50 years ago and most of them pay higher dues than. the Nonpartisan League members. Why then, should farmers try to justify themselves in the belief that they can safeguard their busi- ness interest by disorganizing? The farmers of North Dakota in seizing the political power of a state, have only won the first phase of the great battle. ' Their chosen representatives can carry our the mandates given them only by having the assurance that those who sent them' to places of x power: wiH stg.nd united behlnd : them. ‘ ‘The League’s. first' slogan was “We'll Stick!”' Let the slogan now: We Got, and Get More!” ~ be, “We'll Stick and Keep What m: Wheat amliBu-lqr. -and Mustard’ from ¥} eves . Tass - Seed.: The si are large well “than ‘any. other-mill of its llun:n: 2 taking "~ Fi gild Oats_out' of tame Oats fi in but actually making it up into flour that the payment of -