The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 4

as well as mlllers. ‘By concerted bldding in great gambhng operatlons on the exchanges they raise or lower the price of grain 1 at will. . The system between producer and consumer sustains an army of profit takers who add nothmg to the value of 4 bushel ‘of wheat or a sack of flour, The. system and 1ts various @uts are a monopolistic com- bination. . Thedflarké't is a closed- corporation. Through interlocking dxrectorates and business relationships the system impresses mto its service banks; - rallroads ‘and allied: industries, It makes and: breaks pohtlclans ‘and it frames the laws wh.lch allow 1t to exist under favor-' 3 able condltrons. e s . What shall be done w1th 1t" G R ONLY ONE REMEDY has been offered Only one plan has be /en pro: posed that is, not merely 1neffect1ve tmkermg Look again at the draw- : : ing in color's on this, week’s cover of ‘the Leader; We are Thls drawmg is. more than ‘a work of ‘art.: A. . ‘great idea Jeaps out of ‘it and grabs you: The’ Going to - Have a . State' Mill of the blg mills “and made it a slogan for the . editorial. now ?” . Why not now' The farmers of the nor thwest have not\been' hasty in proposing this remedy The Leader has not backed\t and is not: now. T 8w AUy MO £AR é'ro. SrAFf cqpa ewgov ov -."Q'vnnm % f&Lb i 'l‘.7 ’4‘ 8 ¢ o‘ ZNEETR NOJTHZRN ,‘_‘ l/uggu / 2 3 ,4' 43 ! @500 cartoonist has taken an advertising phrase of one * farmers - of - the northwest a.nd a trtle for this : B tney marketmg methods; “State—ow;ned mllls' Eventually, Why not~ “of the gamblers and the useless “handlers,” The urgmg 1t w1thout first Ia , altematlve. The. tlme has. con_le fi where the farmers me now i We Wlll " not Falter —v—the. Way s Pl.ain - A - ests of and for thezpr_ the prm‘it of any army.of paras;tes. pie “Through these state-owned institutions of the" present system. : ¢ They propose to take foodstuffs system have been exposed. A remedy has-been: pro Minnesota farmers and the: Phelps mill have shown'th ‘be obtamed on a: small scalekx Shall we falter’ Neve Fflfiflffi ) J‘ mmnqm : 1 t.he mlller and mlddleman’s profit increses with the lowenng o Stark. County Grain . Growers’ “Assdciation 'a ‘seri ally the steal in feed wheat. “The Leader prints The ehart on the left indicates the loafvo}ume col made from wheat graded from 1 to 4 Northern ] “the new unofficial, illegal grades under whi JOHN ‘C. THYSELL of the expenm tal farm at Dxck.ms‘ n hxs mad fo ‘tiarket crops. this year, The upper part. of the \column of figures'on the lefi is a scale in 2 pendlcular heavy black lines show how: ades of wheat' come. The: “thin, ‘enormous. If the miller. makes ‘a fair profit.on NV, ike the present one; when theve is little of the higher g d the lower grades: e profits; wrung from - pmir anfioggumet alik eat;, wheat, and it must be’ rconsidered he is or he wouldn’t be buymg and nnllmg it,then he is makmg fabulous returns on ‘all’ the other gr: what‘ordinarily ‘goes ‘as “re;ected” “no gnde or eat; ear is unfalrl ted' ;