The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 12

F l , R Coats, Scarfs and Muffs of the Highest Quafity_an_lm.weét Prices CLOAKS, SUITS AND DRESSES The garments that have style, fit and quality.. JOSEPH & HOENCK SR Mail Orders Solicited FURS REPAIRED, RELINED AND REMODELED. T J. R. Kirk Commission Co. Inc. BALES AGENCY AN%“F.U*Hsgi“PZ‘E‘IJ)LI‘IEPRES.ENTAflVB OF THB American Society of Equity CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO US AND GET A SQUARE DEAL ANOTHER ASSOCIATION SEES BENEFIT IN SHIPPING TO THEIR OWN SELLING AGENCY LIVE DT0CK N. D., Feb. 3, 1910 J. R. Kirk Commission Co., So. St. Paul, Mian, Gentlemen: g Drafts received for car of hogs shipped you Jan. 21st. through Dunn County Equity Shipping Association. All members that had bogs in the -hlpmcntnacm awfully well pleased with the good ref and the way you have handled the goods. Will have several wmore cars to start from Dunn Center next week. With such good returns as you secured us, will wean more cooperation among the farmers at this end. ; 4 Yours for more cooperative business, AJ.BRETZLAFF, Shipping Manages. EQUITABLE AUDIT CO., Inc. 7%, 2ume Farmers Elevator Companies’ Home of Auditing and Systems for Accounting. Write for References. FARGO COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC The Standard Musical Institution of the Northwest. All branches of a . Musical Education Taught by Faculty of Artist Teachers. - For catalog and Information Address \ Stone Building. ALBERT J. STEPHENS, Director. FARGO, N. D. | A J.-O'SHEA ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA - - The Plow-Boy 10-20 all standard tractor:is the only light ' [B8 < farm tractor that gives entire satis- .- faction in. all kind: of farm work. This is due to the manner in which it is designed, constructed, etc., which our complete new illustrated catalog tells you about. Write for it today. Price $775.00 £. o. b. Waterloo, Towa. PALDA-MORSE MOTORS, Inc. Distributors NORTH DAKOTA MINOT ° 3 | League Organizers Wanted If you want to work for the League and can furnish a team and covered rig here is your chance. You can earn a good winter sa]ary § kelping build this great farmers’ organization. If you develop into a good organizer and want steady employment the League will fur- nish a car and you can continue through the summer. This oppor- tunity is open to League members in Minnesota, South Dakqta, - Montana and North Pakota. Write at once for particulars. -Give address, section, township and range, and five references. Address, Farmers’ Nonpartisdn League, Fargo, N D. ] ‘ Somebody Wants Something You Have Blooded Stock—Farm Machinery—Used Autos—Farm or City Property—Can all be turned into cash quickly and at small e expense, : o . Use Leader Want Ads. See Classified Page for Rates = ) 2 ~ Leader Clagsified Ads Pay Equity Exchange. The rules forbid any - firm a membership unless one at least - "D. C. COATES, Manager Advertising rates on application. Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, of North Dakota, fraug if any bility of any firm which patronizes in order to insure insertion in current issue. The Nonpartisan Le +National Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League. Entered as ‘second-class matter Septemiter 3, 1915, at the postoffice at Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 8, 1879, : s fi@' Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; eix months, $1.50. : 'cgmmulx,llcauom iyncended for the paper should be addressed to the Nonpartisan Leader, and not to any individual. : The Leader is the supreme advertising medium through which to reach the rural population as it goes into practically every farm home in the state. The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by Farmers. Quack, dulent. and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt c= question the relia- our advertising columns. 1 Copy for advertisements must reach the Leader office by Saturday previous to publication Guaranteed Weekly Circulation in excess of 55,000 Copies ader OLIVER S. MORRIS, Editor and we will take it as a favor The Live Stock Ring at Work (Continued from page b5) " bership to a certain speculator refuse to let him have cattle? How dare he call someone else to compete ‘with his bene- factor? Or if he does not owe his mem- bership, but owes-him something else; - how dare he rebel? On the other hand if there are certain wealthy commission firms who in friendly fashion throw the cattle and sheep of their farmer &lients to certain speculators time after time, why do they do it unless they are getting part of the bonuses, or getting another commission from the speculator? 4 No one else can break in. It is all in the ring. Charlie Fitch was kicked off the exchange.three weeks ago, because he refused to take his farmer clients to a certain powerful speculating firm and its string of allied speculators. He was expelled under the mile that . forbids members to solicit, but afterward, it was quietly noised around the yards by those who _ did it, that the real reason was because he had “quit the old guard.” “In plain language, he had found among the speculators some one who would deal with his clients on a better basis, some /§. of the newer dealers, and took his clients . to them. The “old guard” refused to let out of ‘every three of its members i §.active on the yards. For farmers’ U operative associations of any kind this = - .would mean 1000 members out of every 8000 wounld have to tramp around the ‘yards selling or buying cattle, sheep or hogs. Of course it was framed long ago to prevent any farmers’ organization get- ting on the inside. When the farmers declined to be kept out merely because they could not .get a seat on the Exchange, the ring sent out solicitors (again contrary to their own rules) to prejudice shippers against the Equity. When the first carload of ttle came -consigned to the Equity, an Exchange firm through a subterfuge got control of it and refused to turn it over to the people to whom it had been sent, even after the shipper had been found and declared he wanted it to go to the * Equity. BREAK COMPETITORS . BY BIDDING TOO HIGH When the Equity had a ‘carload of . heifers. that had to be tested for tuber- culosis and'desired the services of the yard veterinarian, Dr. Dade, the “old guard” went to Dr. Dade and told him if he tested a single animal for the Equity he would lose all the business of all the other firms in the yards. - Of course he could not sacrifice his business built up after years. The same “old guard” also sent word to two outside veterinarians whom it thought might be: called upon. If they did any work for the Equity they would be boycotted. ! i Thus, when they are not able by cun- ning or shrewdness to rob the farmers, they try the clubbing method. Anything > this week. i to keep the yards a close corporation, a private hunting preserve for the elect. When other methods fail, they resort to the Standard Oil trick of destroying competitors. The difference is this; where the Standard Oil will sell its pro- ducts at 10 cents a gallon less than they are worth to starve'out a new firm, the “old guard” combination' of commission men and yard dealers at ‘South St. Paul will offer 10 cents per 100 pounds more for livestock than it is worth. An instance occurred just.the other day that illustrates it. The Equity had received on consignment one carload of hogs from a certain farmer of Minnesota, and on the same day this farmer sent a similar load to a well known commission firm. The Equity hogs were disposed of at $9.50, a high price for the lot that day, and then the commission man came around to the farmer and asked what he got for his Equity load. The farmer told him. “We -did a little better for you,” said the commission .man, rubbing his hands and smiling kindly upon. him. “We got you $9.60-for the-lot consigned to us.” This farmer was: not as simple as the commission firm thought. He told the YES, WE READIT = Oahe, Hughes county, S. D, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: = I hope you read in the Outlook (New York City) of October 11 the article by Frederick M. Davenport on “The Farmers’ Revolution in North Dakota” in which he says.that the Leader is one of the most ably edited papers in the country, As both the Outlook and ‘Mr. JDavenport are impartial, this article will be most effective and influential in educating people about the most welcome Nonpar- tisan League movement in South Dakota. L J. B. IRVINE, THE POWER OF FARMERS (From the Itasca (Minn.). News) That the agriculturists of the United States, who.for political purposes as one ° class may include every branch of the farming industry, the grain and hay pro-~ ducer, the -vegetable and: truck grower, horticulturist and fruit gardener, dairy, stock .or poultryman—even the ‘apiarist,’ could by{ simple unity control the gov- ernment and -destiny of this Union, is exemplified in the enormous victory of the farmers, organized ‘as the Nonpar- tisan League in North Dakota in the last election. - ¢ ; Every League candidate except the one . - for state treasurer, was elected by the greatest plurality ever mccorded in that ' state, an;l the [;eague's candidate for treasurer lost out Y- a very small margin, The Nonpartisan Lader, the farmers’ oqlcial;organ, published weekly at Fargo, gives the total state wote by counties - S Flood Menace in the R’edl‘Va.lle\y ‘ 5 /(Continued: from page 7) . . men and ’legié}ators‘empowered to draft :bills‘(a) for simultaneous passage in the three states, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, toendble them to cooperate in ‘prosecuting such “public ‘works as reser- three states to cooperate in said manmer A subsequent article will’ take. up in t_letail various flood control prain:ts LR