The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 16

ADVERTISEMENTS ' 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. OLIVER S. MORRIS, EDITOR Advertising rates on application. Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; six months, $1.50. Communications intended for the paper should be addressed to the Nonpar- tisan 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 New York Chicago St. Louis Detroit Kansas City — e R N S U d 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 in order to insure insertion in current issue. Where You Get Value Received For Your Money Hotel Metropole The C—oaide—Hotel European Plan REP. E. E. COLE, Proprietor Rates 50c and $1.50 BOTH ON N. P. AVENUE FARGO, N. D. Wanted--Fair Treatment Is Patriotism to be Paid For in Dollars Worth RADIATORS ADVERTISEMENTS PayLessInterest and Get Out of Debt Borrow on the amortized plan. Pay interest and principal in twen- ty “equal annual installments of $87.184 per Thousand Dollars per annum or $1743.68, and “when the twenty notes are paid, the debt and interest is paid in full. If you bor- row $1,000 and pay 4 per cent for twenty years you pay $800 in in- terest and $1,000 in principal, mak- ing $1800.00 or $56.32 more than'on the amortized plan. Write us for full particulars. M. F. Murphy & Son Financial Correspondents. GRAND FORKS, N. DAK. A GOOD SCHOOL Experienced Teachers. Thorough Courses: Business, Shorthand, Steno- typy, Civil Service and English. FREE TUITION for one month to any student who enrolls. Write for information. INTERSTATE BUSINESS COLLEGE 309 Broadway Fargo, N. D, A H. Bergherm Props. O. C. Hellman . Write me today. RICES MipLAND ProDUCE (0. 5 FARGO. N.D. t The Best Businessmen J tSen Come = From the Farms SELLING LIFE INSURANCE IS THE BEST BUSINESS We teach you how, no investment necessary. TOM HUGHES, Vice "President Pioneer Life Insurance Co. FARGO, N. D. We Want Hard Jobs Send in your difficult parts that you want welded which your local plant cannot handle. We are prepared to do this work. CYLINDERS REBORED AND GENER- AL MACHINE WORK DONE PROMPTLY. Dakota Welding & Mfs. Co. 203-5th St. North, FARGO N. D. BETWEEN Seeding Time and Harvest Have your gas tractors, steam engines and other farm machin- ery put in good working condi- tion. Cylinders rebored and fitted with oversize pistohs and rings — valves reseated, . shafts straightened, etc.—broken parts welded or new parts cast. All kinds of boiler, fire box and flue work. Mechanics sent to any part of the state. We have an expert welder and weld anything worth while. REPAIRED Only Thirty-Five Cents? VULCANIZING AND RETREADING BY JOHN J. DILLON federal governments through their %‘E‘:‘I‘l‘ Jonx m‘kfit&."" AT ok New York State Food and Market market departments guarantee to the guaranteed. 3 Commissioner. farmer that the cost of dist}l;ibution 1 IR ' will not exceed 35 cents of the con- WAngRx.c;ULREY?OProp. HE whole official and com- gymer's dollar, and that whether the # 419 N. P. Ave., Fargo, N. D, mercial population of this price be high or low, the farmer will country is now frantically ap- get 65 cents of the dollar paid by the b pealing to the American ity family. This will be a fair divi- farmers, for patriotic reasons, gjon. If this proportion is not consid- — — ——— _\ | to increase the supply of food to feed ereq fair let us fix a proportion that WESTERN HIDE & FUR CO., the people of the world. We may well g fair, but let us know definitely what 301-303 Front St., Fargo, N. D. feel alarm for our food bins. Our pres- percentage of the consumer’s dollar the Pays the highest prices for wool, hides, ent supply is short, and, according to farmer can depend on. pelts, fur and tallow. Write for price | | Jatest estimates, our next crop of With this equitable division of the list. winter wheat will be fifty million consumer's dollar, we would have an bushels short of the last crop. Seed ahundgant supply of food. While the and fertilizers are scarce and high in government protects the speculator price. Farm machinery is-expensive. anq gambler in food in an unfair share Farm labor is not to be had. Farmers ,f the rewards, appeals to farmers in have had two bad years. TWwoO Years the name of patriotism have a hollow bdck crops were large and prices were sound. low. Producers in many cases did not The time for the government to get the cost of production. Last year speak is now. Not a day should be the crop was a failure in many sections jogt. Come, gentlemen, speak up. If and the season was a total loss. Not the farmers make the investment, do a few growers are obliged to ask re- the work, and take the chances, will newal of last year's credits in addition you guarantee them that they will not to new accommodations for this sea- e cheated and swindled in the division son’s needs. of the ultimate selling price? Tht The country never appealed in vain government that neglects or refuses to the patriotic service of its farms. In this assurance. has no right to appeal time of need, the farmer has always to farmers to feed the world in the responded to the duty call of the coun- pame of patriotism. Delco-Light is everytman's electric try. He will do so now. It is not difficult to ascertain the FEht A power Tor Snsome. Snyorners FARMER TAKES ALL RISKS approximate cost of distribution. Let Llectric light—clean, cool, safe—for But the country has vet to realize _the efficiency and economy committees your home and your barns, that production is an economic prob- find .what it is, state it, and give us Agents everywhere lem. When production is made profit- de_fimt_e assurances that .the. cost of. dlls- B. F. ASHELMAN able, food will be produced in abund- , tribution will be kept within the limits Distributor ance. While distribution is maintained ~ SO fixed; and that whether the price be Cor. Broadway and Front Street. as a hazard, the food supply must be large or small the producer will get his FARGO, N. D. limited. Farmers have found that they allotted share. Evgn then he takes all fare better with average production the chancgs. but with sur{h assurances than with large acreage and humper the American farmer will feed the crops. Under the present conditions, World. the .initial investment will be heavy. S R The culture and harvest will be unusu- ME'ZCHA.NTS AGAINST GAMBLING ally expensive in case the labor can be . Resolved, that we favor govern- secured at any price. The farmer will ment control of all food products, take his hazard on weather and insect thereby eliminating speculation - enemies as usual. He will take the risk and gambling in these commodi- on capital and labor. He will take ties, leaving the price to be ;gove chances on cost price to the consumer. erned by supply and demand: 5 The sentence quoted above is NOT He asks protection only from the part of a resolution adopted by a Non- 3 speculator and manipulator. He partisan league convention. It was You can do thisby owning and oporating' wants to know now what part of NOT adopted at an Equity meeting, oneof these wonderful self-contained flour the consumer’s dollar will be re- 5 s 2 . mills, and s¥11 most g T at a farmers’ union meeting, or at any of tho flour used in turned to ‘him. Is 35 cents yet to meeting of farmers whatsoever. yo;;?::?:fi;nn be‘gls_ pggtlon?t c:s"partr;otxsm to be It was a@opted by the North Dakota (Midget) arvel ja D e SO AN ; Retail Dealers association at the re- g flour mills, and 1LY The statesmen and captains of in- = cent state convention at New Rock- Iiplationizing dustry who now demand in the name ford. The resolution was adopted after latest Improved of patriotism that waste pasture fields the merchants had heard Dr. E, F. ::?Ll\{;%l;b?&;r.'p:g}- be cultivated. at the farmer’s risk in Ladd, president of the North Dakota i‘;‘}‘zé‘é&i‘é":&:& order to insure a full supply of fOl?d. Agricultural college, comment on prices you greater profits, Ly insist that vested interests in food dis- of flour and feed as boosted by Minne- g&%l?&wm‘?meflmemmm tribution must be protected and that apolis Chamber of Commerce speculat- g AM R idget) speculation in food must not bg dis- ors. : w0 E ICAN Self-Contained | turbed. The banker will take his full That the retail merchants of North MARVEL MILL discount. - The merchant will exact his Dakota are not to be led into opposi- P ’ Whon yoa purchase an dmerican (Midget) Marvel Millyon | full profit. The manufacturer will Pro- tion to the Nonpartisan league by the O g of the Community Marvol Willars Aio; | gect himself by setting a price for hiS anti-farmers union, Jerry Bacon’s Yonnlly advertised brand “Flavo ssshownbelow. | goods high enough to cover all costs papers or any other influence, was R:Qfi:fiig‘a;‘;‘;&npzfinnq.SWe’mrtyzuofl and his profit. The railroad will exac_t further shown in adoption of the fol- : ) ticcoms it "0 ¥ | a guarantee for the freight before it lowing resolution: . . Bell Grain Co., .Crowell, | Will move a car. The freight tariff will “Resolved, that this association fully T ot e omaES | be high enough to cover all expenses, realizes that the success of the retailer Many others liko this. interests and profits. Every man who j1arglly depends upon the success of the manont mono it | touches the food from the time it farmer and the raising of grain and ::;-ggp%r::'nifi: tfd‘:y;flg leaves the farm until it arrives a.t the 1jive stock, thus making our interests ' new bullding and power, i | consumer’s door, gets more out of it for mutual.” 2 3 Smare ny much 28 $2.000 | the time and labor devoted to it than £ S A !_5‘-1«'. blg- ’lhnd:iwe:n;rel- the farmer who produced it. Every HOOVER IS RIGHT 6 hp. up. Bold on cah of | one of them knows just what he is to Hoover exposes food gamblers and owoypayment. S0daystrial. | pgot The farmer alone takes all the gsayg among other things that $14 flour s W e Sty of8 | chances. should have been $9 a barrel and that riencos of owners, and our roposition about the oppor- unity of making FLavo FLour on the American Marvel Mill MAKE FAIR DIVISION The appeals to the patriotic instincts the American people have been mulcted $250,000,000 in the past five Your patronage Solicited. ! 1o your community, FREE. should be addressed to the middlemen months. And now flour drops in price Anglo-American Mill Co., and not to farmers. Everybody knows $1 a barrel while natural conditions + Slrertissd EvOryWhe™® lnc., 338-340Trust Bldg., that it costs more to produce food than are the same as before the drop. Evi- by millions Owensboro, Ky. to deliver it. Let the proportion of re- dently Hoover is right—DOGDEN wards be reversed. Let the state or (N. D.) NEWS. Mention Leader when writing advertisers PAGE SIXTEEN Fargo Foundry | Company P. O. Box 881. FARGO, N. D. 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