The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 6

ertes a Funny Letter to the Leader,:"' ) HE LEADER prints ‘a letter on this page from a miller. This miller, Mr. Enright, is a, good fellow. He writes a funny letter. His stuff is ‘good. Like most anybody who gets off something he thinks is keen, Mr. Enright wants to~see his letter in in print. The Jeader #ikor the dare - So here is your-letter, Mr. Enright. We hope you will enjoy it.” We know the readers of the Leader will. " Further- ‘more, we are going to write you -an ‘answer right on this page. You are a jolly fellow and-deserve an answer. And ‘we hope you will enjoy the answer. ; ~ _The ' Leader . could - have ' more fun answering if this letter had more facts and less banter, But then, we will have to answer it as we find it. *So it’s the American housewife, is 1t Mr. Enright, who is responsible for giv- ing the farmers 60 to 70 cents: for per- Shame on you - fectly good $1.75 wheat? - for laying it on the women! We have- - had it intimated by a aneapohs mill- ing paper: that the recent pnmaneg in North Dakota caused the wheat rust and hence “feed” wheat and low prices. ' The farmers voted for their own candidates last June and nominated them.: . Then the “evil' one® or somebody (maybe it was the millers) went and rusted all ‘the - wheat, as a lesson to farmers to' mind Enright: their own’ business. ' But ‘Mr: : springs a’new one. He says it is: the American hougewife ‘who is back of the whole thing. because she won’t buy flour made of light-weight wheat and hence tmillers weon’t. pay anything for such grain. So we have got to defend the Amenean housewxfe from Mr. Ennght's unpatnohc attack: Thngj: of - saying™ our mothers, sisters: and wives’ directly .or indirec .perpetrated on the “feed” 'wheat . gradesl “cbxcken feed” Mr Ennght THE JOLLY MILLER GETS IN VERY BAD : ‘ “But we have Mr. Ennght ‘on the: lnpl He~wrote hig letter before the'last issue of the Leader was out. - He made a bad - mistake there. -He probably realizes it | In that issue the Leader told of the operations of the now famous mill at ~ now. -Phelps, “Minn., - WHICH< HAS.. CON- FIRMED ALL OF DR. LADD'S FIND- : 4the North Dakota light crop was l;emg 5 milled.: Such’ an : admission swas “not: o needed. Thousands of _carloads of this light wheat ‘are sold eyery day to-Minne= apolis mills. See the sales report of the wheat” market 'any ‘day: ¥ we are to: believe Mr. Enright these mills keep vast - flocks of: chickens to which: they feed this: wheat, or else the barnyard populatxon : of the country has suddenly been multi- plied by many thousand-and the mills are acting as commission men to supply new and " daily . doubling flocks .of chicken frl SCHULZE ik FRESIDENY: concerning the milling or memhantable “less to the measured bushel = What the Nonparhsan Leeder, My 'g'abors lose sight of or, when educa menti‘on, is thfnt -the millers’ first and _his business, is: Ty W, SAUER - U skcmETamy. - Ina recent issue of your paper you part of _my letter of October 6, in which I ¢ ‘and the Editor of the, Leader AnSwer§ Hlm ’ ductlon of it Are rmllers in the hablt lying? Would they it was not-true? > .. - feed ' is' so‘profitable, - why care North Dakota mills standing idle?” . #You ought to have been more careful ‘Mr..- Enright.. The . farmers‘ of ' North S MANACED. - “good enon h to g ected to fiwdds statements.“ Against her word. ) 1 chemlst in ‘one CUTS:NO FIGURE,WHATE\’ERW& the mill - point ‘and: you can-theorize on flour and-wheat until the' ~merely waste your time and that of your readers’ “that the displeasure of the Amencan ‘hous company that ever e That. part, of the housewives who you don’t believe it, try it: % the ngce is enough lower-to suit her. milling chicken feed is so profi ~ing idle? " Just-to:close the ‘argum ean ord . wheat and better. will not accep the flour, fmm light-we! ht wh > The woman who can‘not afiord th_e ‘best wxll,get ‘afor : get a large patronage because tneu: nom- ‘announce’ prices are made by chgrgmg freight on -prxvately «to the trade that the light-.' d on fl “back; ‘weight crop .of 1916 wheat made befter flour: than“the heavy wheat of 1915 if: ‘though-the ‘wheat: and flour 0 “and from aneapolxs. They do ¢ t’s 4 shame to do it, lmt we are gomg, 5 to ‘take ‘another fall out of you, Mr.: Ennght. You ask;: “If milling chicken “mills . had “to_ pay freight from:North . North Dakota mills did ‘not have' to pay, - ~but they get the same price fors their - ; - flour. ,Why is ‘this?’ Are there “gentle- s 7 men’s agreements”'between “mills on & (i e : are a mxlle, -and kinow. Why do you: ask b 1 e - " SOME QUESTIONS el - FORMR.-MILLER - [ . ‘because of the:class: of North Dakota * made. You know that-the mills fight to “THE BEST WHEAT IN THE WORLD, ~ WITHOUT _ EXCEPTION. “.tion is a silly one.- “Come : ‘again. - We hke your jokes, but they are not hab‘.‘ ‘as funny a8 your “facts.”’ ng. Exright. *We do not like you for ‘wheat to- aneapohs an pete in price with the: outsid mills. Fargo it costs just as much fora ‘sack of - flour thade here.as one shipped in from Minneapolis, . though' the' aneapolis Dakota ‘on the wheat, and ‘the freight iR had to be paid back' to. thec state & on the flour. ' These freight charges the ' .’ it b this point?" Tell" us, Mr. Enright, you i Millmg has not falled in North Dakota ‘wheat, ‘and ‘you' l:now ‘that, Mr. " Mlller. 53 Never was: a more outrageous statement - > get North Dakota wheat—THAT TT. IS . Your “quess ~You-sneer at’ sexentnsts -and’ exp rts,'r. i » pleas ‘offer to the editor of the‘Nonpa.rhsan Toeader. your present salary ‘or income: in'conside at capacity, light-weight or any. other kind o .-net profit—not of 60 cents pet b'ushel° not. of 0 cents cents per bushel, butof TEN: CENTS ~wouldn't 'do as “miuch for you on 5 ents \ Be fair’and truthful enough: to ‘print this; .the farmers that I would gladly ‘chicken ‘f - largely - with farmers whose good ¢ lf. they brought ho e clnc en feed flo JINGS. ‘And the Leader quoted several | American housewives who used flour from that “mill ‘made from 40- to 50-potind - «wheat, 'AND- THEY. SAID IT MADE .FINE.BREAD. They said it equalled ‘the. flour they had been buying. The: ‘Leader gave names and addresses of these i ‘housewives.’ : Just ‘to give our Jolly miller a full ; -measure ‘we Wwill spring ‘' this on’ him: 'The: Leader staff representative who ‘visited Phelps and got first hand the dope on the mill brought home some flour made ‘| ‘golely.from 40-pound wheat. ' He had: his ‘wife, -who married -him, to quote Mr. ‘Enright, “for reasons best known' to her- -gelf,” ‘bake ‘that flour into ‘bread. She : makes mighty: good bread, and she'didn’t. | fall down on that 40-pound’flour. ‘She = Taisers thh chicken feg'd~ ‘produced: as fine a loaf fro a;r Z:x; they. buymz this “bum” w at for -could ask, and we eompared it with ‘from ‘the best high-grade flour purchased - THAT I‘ITH‘E SECBET in Fargo and found we couldn’t tell them - 15_ OUT OF TBE BA “apart. She & just-4s good .© - 3 ‘bread” as. xhe ev _‘assumption that, GOI'NG INTO e MIX