The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 30, 1916, Page 4

5% e and the Insurance; Man H amA Rub THANKS FOR Tr-;ls HERE. POL!CY wefu.. MAKE ‘EM WE'LL BOTH GET A G000 PROFIT OUT OF THIS! W'HEN US FARMERS ce' HOVE A STATE INSURA ‘M(o ALL BE. PEOTECTE ’fifll //Z"). 5 'l/’//" w/ iy, 1Y S Here we see the insurance combine and .insurance. agent dmdmg up the profiton'a ‘hail & insurance wliey. Thueought to be some pmfit in at, too,’ . ance premiums collectéd from the farmers pay. all hail losses nearly twice ovet. ‘Then we see Mr. Rube as he has heen in the pasty lnmenting the: fo be protected from hail. Finally we see Mr. Rube and the insurance agent when they meet after the farmers’ legislature has been elected. "Mr. & the state is going to establish a state fund to pay hail losses, all agncultural land paying a slight, annual tax to sustain the fund. The insurance” 3| gent. resorts - | : usurtl argument: “It’s unconstitutional.” However, he .is wrong, because’ the farmers are going to make the hul insurance fnnd prmmns a part ot fixe mstitn inn milling and the mldd]eman S and miller’s profits are what have soaked wlm:h there is httle~or none thxs year He sees mordmate profits tal the consumer. The farmer. hasn’t ; ; . by divers mlddlemen and millers out of the products f"h.l “toil. And : : he sees the children in the big cities crying for bread. BUT WHERE does this astomshmg spread between the farmer .and the : And’ so‘the farmer i is at grips with tids monstrous, blood-;suclnng consumer go" Dr Ladd indicates where it goes. The car of wheat . “system. Tt is'a fight to the death. The farmer is fighting for lnmself ‘that the farmer sold for $653 01, was resold, under * and for the consumer—for all ihe people. Shall he foreve Prd fit the system, at Minneapolis for $992.06. There’s %o b ‘ ... one nice little profit the farmer didn’t get, due - . - ! Profit, Who - this year, as Dr. Ladd shows, to the new “feed” QOUT OF ALL Lthia: c1amor about the lugh of H‘ ~Has the grades the wheat buyers have inyoked in violation' nothmg has éome“as: yet except;italk, The_ggvemment, : 9 of the legal Minnesota grades.” Then this car of , f oL S : Profit? - heatis milled, and wholesaled as milled products; & for $1660.15. There’s another profit the farmer © . didn’t get.* Finally the car is retailed as mill products'to the consumer. " at the final figure, $210’Z 03.:.:Again the profit was not the farmer’s.. & Instead, he himself is a consumer of flour and brea.d and s bllked twrce, i once as a producer and once as a consumer. ? * ) ] o) | | b g \ Edrtor Nonpartxsan Leader- % i 2 % by 7 Let us farmers of North Dakota rejoic i // ‘over ‘our best ¢rop. ever harves! n i : November 7 we gathered together the . firle oy best crop ever threshed:: Nearly all will : pass the inspection and. grade No. 1, with : the exception of a few minor kernels ] e - For this crop let us first of all thank the polls to make the laws of - the land . our president, Hon. A.-C. Townley, for unit that will forever bind our mutu enforced. s ~ his. great ability 'anddetermination to benefits togathér: for the ‘good’ TS organize the farmers.. ‘Let us thank the mankmd. 5 : : editorial staff of the Nonpartisan Leader ' . for so.ably teachmg the farmers, not . 3 not that the farmers! duty .is to " “milk" cows: and slop -the pigs—but the - trustworthy. editor' of ader has’ <~ tanght us the one