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Big League Vote Gain Shown | (Continued from page 6) date, was one of the strongest men the opposition to the farmers could possibly have picked. He had a generally good record as state’s at- torney in Grand Forks county, was an eloquent speaker and had hosts of personal friends. The anti-farmer gang hoped to capitalize Burt- ness’ popularity and then use him after they had elected him. In gsome districts Norwegian voters were appealed to in behalf of Burt- ness, because he is of Norwegian parentage, and in a few cases League members appear to have been won over by such arguments. But in the main the League farmers said ‘‘“We’ll stick.”’ stuck.and they won. GANG CONCENTRATES ON ONE They CANDIDATE TO BEAT FARMERS There is one point of danger to the League movement indicated in the clection. This is the tendency of all the anti-League forces to com- bine on one candidate. The gang Republicans sent out the word that all their forces were to be concentrated on Burtness. So well did their machinery work that four other Republicans who were on the ballot received between them only about 500 votes in the entire distriet. The election also proved in forceful fashion that the interests that are opposed to the farmers’ movement know no party lines. In the last few days it was seen that Bangs, Democrat, had no chance. So word went out for anti-League Democrats to vote for Burtness. As a result Bangs, although he received 13,236 last November when he ran for congress, received only a few more than 3000 votes this year, In future elections the farmers can depend upon it that the oppo- sition to their movement will throw party lines away altogether and will give practically all their votes to one man, whether he is Repub- lican or Democrat, who appears to be most likely to be a strong candi- date against the farmers. New Y ork Masses Hungry But Farm Products are Going to Waste Because Price to Farmers Below Production Cost BY PEOPLE’S NEWS SERVICE EW YORK. — Although the farmers of New York and New Jersey have answered the call for increased produc- tion, and perishable food products are arriving at the docks and freight houses in greater quantities than ever before, New York's five million are still paying exorbitant prices for food and thousands of working-class children are actually suffering from lack of nourishment. Investigation by Commissioner John J. Dillon of the New York state depart- ment of foods and markets has shown that retail prices are anywhere from 100 per cent to 500 per cent greater than wholesale prices, which are so low that -in many instances they do not cover the cost of production, and many farmers are still letting part of their products rot on the ground. In a letter to Comptroller Prender- gast, Mayor Mitchel's right hand man in the government of New York, Com- missioner Dillon recites these condi- tions and then says: MUST REDUCE COST OF HANDLING FOOD “There can be but one reason for these conditions. The cost of bringing food from the farm to the homes of the people of the city is too great. We must find a way to reduce it. As a temporary measure to secure a prompt distribution of this surplus food to the consumers at a cost commensurate with the price paid the producer, would you, as a city official, approve a plin to permit the sale of these perishable foods direct to consumers on the streets and squares and vacant prop- erty owned or controlled by the city?” 1f the Mitchel administration gives Commissioner Dillon a favorable answer, it must reverse its policy of prohibiting the use of public spaces for food distribution except on the pay- ment of a stiff rental by dealers and venders who wish to use city-owned space. In defending this policy, Comp- troller Prendergast has frankly stated that the dealers who pay rents for private property must be protected against the competition of venders who pay ne rent. Commissioner Dillon’s investigations have proved that the retail and whole- sale food dealers of New York are not the victims of the landlords so much as their partners in maintaining food prices at an unreasonable level and exacting unfair tribute from the peo- ple. They would rather pay high rents and thus keep down competition than divide the field with dealers who ‘would be willing to-sell at a fair prof- it and no more. It is this conspiracy between land- lord and food dealer to keep up the price of food that Commissioner Dil- lon wishes to attack by throwing open publicly-owned spaces for the use of independent dealers. In refusing to take this action, the Mitchel adminis- tration confesses that it has more re- gard for the landlords and the food monopolists than for the great indus- trial population that is suffering keenly from lack of nourishing food. HOLDING OUT LAND PARTLY THE CAUSE No more striking illustration coula be found of the evil of permitting land- owners to hold out of use land urgent- ly needed for the distribution of food and other necessary community serv- ices. In the crowded districts of New York they do not hold it out of use, but through their power to do so they compel the food distributers to pay them huge sums in rents. These rents not only add directly to the cost of every pound of food, but keep down competition and permit the food dealer to add a monopoly price of his own, over and above a fair profit. As a result of the food situation in New York, one of the important issues of the coming municipal campaign will be the proposal to wipe out land monopoly and all its attendant evils by taxing land at its full rental value. WHERE WAS THE TREASON? By all odds the most attentive and enthusiastic audience ever addressed by any speaker at Tacoma Park (and there’s been some good ones) was the one that assembled Monday to listen to the Nonpartisans discuss their ob- fects and principles. The first speaker was L. J. Duncan, secretary and man- ager of the South Dakota League. He was followed by Ex-Senator Gaylord of Milwaukee. | Next a verdant looking stripling from the wilds of North Dakota was introduced. He proved to be a very interesting talker with a fund of stories that kept the audience in an uproar. His name is A. E. Bowen, and was working on the section when dis- covered by the management of the new movement. A. C, Townley, presi- dent of the League, was the last speak- er. He made the same speech he did in North Dakota alleged to be seditious by the Fargo Forum. The audience failed to see anything objectionable in it, however, judging by the applause given it—CLAREMONT (S. D.) NEW ERA. 2 Farmers are advised by the depart- ment of agriculture to eat up the Eng- lish sparrows, thus securing a quantity of cheap meat food and saving the wheat crop. The department estimates that 50 sparrows eat a quart of wheat a day. ¢ PAGE SEVENTEEN ADVERTISEMENTS Nuxated Iron Makes Strong, Vigorous,Iron Men and Beautiful Healthy Rosy Cheeked Women Dr. Howard James, late of the Manhattan State Hospital of New York and formerly Assistant Phy- sician Brooklyn State Hospital, says: “Iron is absolutely mnecessary to en- able your blood to change food into living tissue. Without it, mno matter how much or what you eat, your food merely passes through you without do- ing you any good. 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