The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 21, 1917, Page 16

&, P 7 ® i 1 i { A\ ‘1~ Give Service Every owner of a Glide is a satisfied one, because he is_pleased with the mechanism and sturdy, honest eon- struction of his car. A Glide Car is not a source of trouble, but whether used as a town car or over rough country roads, under all condi- tions its continuous steady performance pleases. It is a beautiful car, handsomely up- holstered, and the body lines are ex- ceptionally pleasing. You will be pleased with a Glide—a car economical in gasoline and tires. We guarantee it fully. $1295 F. O. B. DETROIT. Some Good Territory Open to Agents. Call and See Us or Write Us Glide Auto Co. FARGO, N. D. Where You Get Value Received For Your Money Hotel Metropole —and— The Cole Hotel European Plan REP. E. E. COLE, Proprietor Rates 50c and $1.50 BOTH ON N. P. AVENUE FARGO, N. D. FOUND— Farmers Best Market for Poultry—Cattle Hides—Horse Hides—Furs—Veal—Cream— l?e‘tans. Postal brings price st. CHANEY-EVER- THE ‘R, ..E .COBB_COMPANY ¢ 13 E. 3rd St.. St. Paul, Minn. HART " CHOCOLATES They Are Good Chaney-Everhart Candy Co. TR I A P T O i Bigmn-RsllCo B—— w«mmmuv{m The Nonpartisan Leader PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY THURSDAY - Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League Entered as second-class matter September 3, 1915, at the post. office at Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. EEPe OLIVER S. MORRIS, EDITOR - Advertising rates on application. Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; slx months, $1.50. g Communications intended for the paper should be addressed to the Nonpar- flsan Leader, Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, and not to any individual. ““The Leader is the supreme advertising medium through which to reach the rural population of the Northwest, MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. THE S. C. BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY Advertising Representatives St. Louis New York Chicago Detroit Kansas City The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by farmers, Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns, Copy for advertisements must reach the Leader office by Saturday previous to publication inorder to insure insertion in current issue. Uncle Sam Must Act- Millionaire Food Merchant Joins List of “Agita- tors” and Exposes Enormous Profits of Speculators BY JOHN R. NEWBERRY (Owner of one of the most successful chains of retail grocery stores in the OVERNMENT control of the G food supply of the nation i must come. Only with gov- _‘».,« _(Q ernment control can the EamoS enormous profits of specula- tors be eliminated. Only with such control can producers, transportation companies, jobbers and retailers be as- sured of a fair return and nothing more. The people of the United States pay 81 cents for the distribution of every dollar’'s worth of goods. The Japa- nese do it for 17 cents. Packing houses and the producers of beet sugar are reaping untold millions today. The packing houses are quoting ham and bacon on the theory that hogs cost them about 17 cents a pound, live weight. The truth is that the packing houses bought most of the meat that they are now selling at exorbitant prices when hogs were worth around 7 cents a pound. The public imagines that the man who raises hogs is get- ting most of the money; the truth is that he sold most of his stock at the lower prices. On the comparatively few hogs now being sold at high prices, the packers are basing their price lists ~for everything they sell. JUST ONE REMEDY Sugar costs are outrageous. Some- where between the man who raises the- beets and the man who buys the sugar at retail a profit of several hundred per cent is being made. 3 There is only one remedy. It is for the government to take the seven great staples of the country in hand, if noth- ing else, and see that justice is done to the man who produces and the man who eats. Let us look at the sxtuatlon affecting the pork products. The season for selling for the hog raisers of the middle west is in October, November and Decembér of Correct Test | Correct Weight Prompt Payments Finest Premiums Ship to Grand Forks, N.D. Duluth, Minn. ¢ Crookston, Minn REMEMBER THIS Legal blanks that are not printed as the law demands are not legal. They are simply blanks,"and are worth nothing. Legal blanks, to be LEGAL, must be changtd to meet existing laws. Our legal blanks are legal because we have an attorney that keeps them so. Buy your legal blanks and supplies from us and when your man puts his name on the dotted line, you've got him, ‘We also publish a complete line of Elevator forms as adopted by the Railroad Commissioners. Walker Bros. & Hardy v5% Mention Leader when writing advertisers United States) each year. Remember that the middle west is the great hog producing district of the United States. The pigs arrive early in the spring; they are carried through the summer and fatten in the fall, going at once to the market. It s0 happened that last year, in the fall, there was an exceptignally good op- portunity for the farmers to sell their corn as such, rather than feed it to hogs. The result was that hogs were rushed to the packing houses and sold for from $7 to $8 a hundred pounds. / BUY LOW; SELL HIGH It is the ham and bacon and lard from such priced hogs that the pack- ing houses are selling at fancy figures, and not the products of 15 to 17-cent hogs. There was more pork and beef in cold storage on January 1 of the pres- ‘ent year by 150,000,000 pounds than there was on January 1, 1916. That means that the primary products, hogs and cattle, were pretty well out of the hands of the original producers by that time. This curtailed the usual amount of late delivery of hogs and cattle to the packers. With enormous quantities of goods in storage and sweet pickle at. comparatively low prices, the packers can look with equanimity on higher prices for the relatively smaller amounts of hogs and cattle now being bought. They are making prices of pork products as though they had bought their entire stock at present high prices for livestock and the press is re- porting a famine in sight. For instance, bacon made out of hogs at $17 a hundred pounds could easily be made to figure as worth from 38 to 42 cents a pound, retailing from 45 to 50 cents. Even so, the retailer would stand a loss, as he must meet the shrinkage. But what about the right price for bacon made from hogs that cost $7 and $8 a hundred pounds, the material go- ing into sweet pickle until finally be- ing made into bacon? That is the sort of operation that profits the packers so enormously. That is where the shoe pinches. is where 'government regulation should intervene to give the packing houses- fair returns for their capital and ener- gy—but no more than a fair return. I sympathize with the campaign that is being made by the government to stimulate production; but at the same time, if present trade conditions are allowed to continue, the net of it will be to give more money to the few who are now taking the big profits out of what is now produced. Simultaneously the government, while increasing production, must re- duce that margin in between what the producer gets and what the consumer pays. As it I8 the actual producer is not getting his fair share, but he will it the government acts. The consumer is paying too much, but he will not if the government as-. sumes command. INFORMATION ON BREAD MAKING From flour and yeast to bread with & discussion of the different steps, is given in bulletin 7 just issued by the Agricultural Extension Department of the North Dakota Agricultural college, PAGE SIXTEEN That | ' ADVERTISEMENTS Double Work Hamess. sees $28=? A fabric harness equal to strength of leather, waterproof, pliable, no stretch. Combination bridles and halters; wood hames; traces 6 foot long, 2 inches wide, with 18-inch heel chains; 20 foot lines; pole straps and martingales. A set of double work harness (no collars included) $28.50. Every trace guaranteed, Fabric Harness Co. 750 N. 3rd St., Minneapolis, Minn, Delco-Light is every man’s electric filant and provides electric current for ght and power for anyone anywhere. Electric light—clean, cool, safe—for your home and your barns. Agents everywhere B. F. ASHELMAN Distributor Cor Broadway and Front Street. 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