The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 26, 1917, Page 16

Another Paper Sees Light HE following editorial appear- ed, since the election of John M. Baer to ‘congress, in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a paper which heretofore has always been classed as against the Nonpartisan league. The vote in the First North Dakota district showed the St. Paul papers that the producers and consumers are sticking together in their fight against the middleman. In the following edi- torial, headed “The Common Enemy,” the St. Paul paper admits what the farmers have been contending all along, that the farmer and the city consumer have similar interests: “It is rather remarkable and peculi- arly fortunate that in the farmers’ war for fair prices of their products and in the consumers’ war for food at reason- able prices there has been no clash of interests. Such a clash might have been expected in the nature of things. If producer sold directly to the con- sumer the gain of one would be the loss of the other. There could be no com- munity of interest, but a community of difference. g “Yet, in the activities and utterances of the Nonpartisan league, there is no intimation of complaint against the consumer, nor are any proposals made which would mean a loss to the con- (Continued from page 5) to eggs, that ‘the middlemen were charging consumers in Honolulu 60 cents a dozen for eggs, for which they paid the producers only 13 to 15 cents per dozen. It was found that pine- apple growers, who had been induced to go into that branch of industry by big canneries were forced to sell their product at $5 to $10 a ton, which cost them $12 to $14 a ton to produce, and which should have brought a price of $18 to $21 a ton. HOW THE HANDLERS EXPLOITED THE FARMERS It was high time something was be- ing done to relieve the producers of the millstone of Hawaiian marketing con- ditions, and the legislature’s liberdlity grew with the development of the market and the agriculture that it was building up. The marketing division extended its influence and its business. It not only furnished daily bulletins of supplies at different markets to all organized pro- ducers and the newspapers, but it gave instruction in packing fruits and vege- tables, developed a system of informa- tion as to days produce would be ship- ped, and above all it sold the things received. At first it sold principally to wholesale grocery stores, hospitals, hotels, army posts and other large con- sumers, but the small public of Hono- lulu was so anxious to get the bene- fits of this publicly owned market, that _ a retail division had to be established. PUBLIC MARKET GROWS BY POPULAR DEMAND Instead of being able to confine it- self to marketing only vegetables and fruits, it had to take in butter, eggs, live poultry, and finally livestock, such as sheep and cattle. Until the govern- ment established its’ own market there was no market for the sale of the sheep and cattle. Agriculture thrived so well under this governmental aid that a big demand for reliable seeds ~ St. Paul Pioneer Press Finds Farmer Has a Griev- ance and That Consumer Has Also sumer. The wrath of both producer and consumer is turned against the profiteer who presides in the middle of the transaction, dictates prices to both and carries ‘away huge profits without having contributed a service to either side. ¢ £ Mr. Hoover understands this situa« tion and analyzes it in his recent let- ter to the president urging immediate passage of the Lever food control bill Already his expression has been form- ally indorsed by the official represent- ative of the Equity Co-operative ex- change, and it goes without saying that the unorganized consumers of the country indorse it as a unit. “The fact that this relation is possi- ble, the fact that the consumer has nothing against the farmer and the farmer nothing against the consumer is strong enough testimony in itself of the existence of an entirely illegitimate element between them which, appar- ently, nothing but the government can reackh. The government will reach it during the war as a war measure. And it will reach it afterwards. The public, once knowing the alleviation of the wrongs suffered at the hands of arbi- trary profiteers, will not go back to the old regime of ‘devil take the hind- most'.” Hawaiian Public Market Wins grew up, and the territorial market had to supply these, buying them under competitive bids in large quantities and selling them to the farmers at cost. The market came to the rescue of the pineapple growers who were fleeced by the canneries and put their product on the San Francisco market at a profit to the growers. Before this time there had been a belief that Hawaiian pineapples could not be marketed on the mainland with profit, and so the canneries had been able to get the crop, put it up and make their own profits. The venture to save the pineapple growers was the first step outside the islands. The branch established in San Francisco to handle' this crop, suc- ceeded so well that sweet potatoes be- gan to be handled also, and finally it became recognized that the island gov- ernment should maintain permanently a mainland market for its produce. That the taxpayers and lawmakers of the Hawaiian islands are more than satisfied with the territorially owned and managed market was shown by the liberal appropriations of the 1915 legislature to extend its work and make it a fixed part of the government. A building was erected at a cost of $14,- 400 in Honolulu, $24,000 was appropri- ated for maintenance, this amounting to $1000 a month, and a revolving fund of $7500 was appropriated to handle the produce. = When the market first started it had to sell the produce received before it could remit to the growers, but the revolving fund enables prompt pay- ments to be made, and will, it is be- lieved, help to increase diversified ag- riculture. Summing up the benefits that have come to all concerned by the establishment of a government owned and managed market, Mr, Wilcox says: “Beginning with a farming popula- tion which had been originally labor- ers and totally without information as to market requirements for farm prod- ucts, it has brought about a striking improvement in the grading and pack- ing of tropical fruits and products TO THE BENEFIT OF THE FARMER AND OF THE CONSUMER IN HON- OLULU AND ON THE MAINLAND.” \ His Experience St. Anthony, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I wish to bring before the readers of the Leader the matter of the nec- essity of state, or farmer owned flour mills, which ought to set them a thinking as it did me. Just re- cently I was in need of some flour, so I took 10 bushels of my 47-pound wheat to the mill at Mandan, and this is the kind of deal I got: I was “docked” 10 pounds, leaving to my credit 9 bushels and 50 pounds net. I received two sacks of flour, and paid in cash to balance, $1.39. Thig, on the face of it, appeared quite square. The price of two sacks of flour was $12.80. I received for my wheat $1.16 per bushel, which netted $11.41, therefore I owed $1.39 to square up. But to look at it from the farmer's and miller's standpoint, it looked to me like a real rotten deal. I hauled in 590 pounds of wheat, received in re- turn 196 pounds of flour and paid $1.39 on top of it; did the mill make any profit on this deal? Well, I guess yes; yet some of the men that are op- erating the farmers’ elevator here, which was put up solely to protect the farmer, are afraid to talk a flour mill for fear that it would not pay. In their minds the old way is the best; you bring in your wheat, we will pay you what we feel like, and if you want any flour we will sell it to you for Minneapolis prices with freight char- ges from Minneapolis to Mandan add- ed to it. 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