The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 18

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The Ori, S LA AL RCACR O CT OO RE O BILLOFLADING It is about time to commence to ship in the new crop. In order to be sure that your grain will reach us, and in order to insure as much help to us as possible in financing the crop USE ORDER BILL OF LADING ON 'ALL GRAIN SHIPMENTS. THIS IS THE YELLOW KIND. We honor drafts for 75 per cent of - shipment on all consignments. TRY EQUITfY EXCHANGE or GRAIN AND LIVE STOCK Be sure to pay your stock note NOW, The Equity Co-Operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota Superior, Wisconsin Livestock Department South St. Paul, Minn. Mention Leader when writing ddvertisers Disaster Threatens Farmers! (Continued from page 3) the local elevators, will have been due to the hard fight made by the farmers and by their friends, 5 The latest information from Washington, as the Leader goes to press, is that a price slightly above $2 may be expected, this price to be effective at one terminal point, probably Chicago. The price at the local elevators will be the Chicago price, less the freight from the local shipping point to Chicago. But this is not official; it is tco early, yet, to either condemn or commend. : TRYING TO ATTACK THE FARMERS’ POTRIOTISM There has been some attempt made already, and more efforts of this kind probably will be made later—to try to prove that the North- western farmer, in asking a fair price for his produet, is in the same class with the multimillioraire profiteers of steel, ships, flour and meats, who since 1914 have been making blood money out of the war. But everybody who has taken the trouble to inform himself knows that the situation is entirely different., After a near-crop failure in - 1916, Northwestern farmers, in response to Uncle Sam’s request for more food, strained every resource to put in more acreage this year. They were promised fair prices. > Northwestern farmers have been unfortunate. Through no fault of theirs, for a second time, unfavorable crops conditions have brought a near-failure. : Up to the day, almost to the hour, that the food control bill was - passed, the price of wheat advanced on the open market to a cash price of $3.06 at Duluth. At these prices the wheat growers of the South and of the Pacific coast were able to sell their product. In many states, weather had also favored them, and their crops were bountiful. But when the wheat of the Northwest was ready for market, the market was closed. Faced by the- certain prospect of government control, prices faded away. And then came from Washington, D. C., the threat of $1.65 wheat. NEXT CROP DEPENDS UPON FAIR PRICE Letter after letter, telegram after telegram, that has come into the Leader office, has told the same story. Wheat can not be produced this year at $1.65 per bushel. The average bare cost of production, as testified to by hundreds of farmers, ranged from $2.50 upward. The farmers are not unpatriotic. They want to help the United States to feed the world. But if $1.65 for wheat, or any price ap- proaching this, is fixed, it will not be a case of what the farmers want to do or what they do not want to do. They simply will not have monéy enough to put in their 1918 crop. The government has guaranteed other producers certain profits. This applies to the coal men, the steel magnates, the lumber manu- facturers and others whose supplies the government buys. The con- tractors who are building contonments for troops, for ingtance, are guaranteed a 10 per cent profit on all ‘expenditures. But in the case of the farmer the government is simply fixing a price, and the farmer has to look out for himself, in each individual case, to see whether this price represents a profit, barely breaking even or an absolute loss. . TAKE NOTICE! (From the Washington (D. C.) Times) Mr. Baer’s election and the formal announcement by the farmers of the West that they mean to take two hundred men out of congress and put in better men will interest every thinking American. After the war, with its spending of billions, and its killing of millions, we are going to see a great deal of real radicalism. Wise men—especially those that have been accustomed to govern this country by the use of money, controlling public officials, some judges, and a good many congressmen—TAKE NOTICE. b The farmers are in earnest and government fears the farmers. TOWNLEY'’S: STATMENTS TRUE Taylor, Texas, Aug. 14 1917, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I received a copy of the special com- posite edition of the Leader, and will say it is surely a humdinger. Paid close attention to Townley's speech, which according to .the congressional record, is true in every respect, as to enorn.ous war profits and I (or we) indorse his sentiments about conscrip- tion of wedlth for those who have wealth will not go to war, while our boys, of whom I have two, will have to sacrifice their lives probably in the defense of Morgan’s and others’ wealth, But as long as we have a capitalist congress we cannot expect anything else. Your movement is good, and I hope that it will take in every" farming community in the United States, so that America may have a government of the people, by the people and for the people instead of for the capital- istic class. T, R. PHYTHAN. AGAINST WAR PRINCIPLE Snyder, Tex., Aug. 16, 1917." Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I enclose a letter from a preacher, and as you will see he is one of the finest men in Texas. You will see-he is'interested in the League. We think the Leader a great paper. I see our subscription has run out, but our crop is no good, as we have had no rain in this part of the country, So I guess I will have to tell you to stop the Leader, but not because we don't like PAGE EIGHTEEN it. We hate to miss a copy. Here is part of Rev. Lamberth’s letter: “I sympathize with you in your trou- ble—big family, no crop, high cost of living, and boy being taken away -for the army. I know it is a trying time with you. It hasn’t reached my family yet, but it will reach us sooner or later, yet I try to be optimistic. “I have been preaching against the principle of war just as I have always done; but there is quite a difference between opposing the principle upon which wars are based, and in doing something that would assist the enemy by advising anybody not to enlist, a thing’I have never done and am not going to do. 5 “I hope that Germany will get whip« ped and that soon, and that good will be the final outcome, yet in my hume ble judgment it would have been better for us to have stayed out of it, though I may not be able to see what would be best.” 5 (MRS.) F. M. BLAIR. ' FOUND LEADER—NOW BOOSTS ‘Wray, Colo., August 1917, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I found a part of one of your Leaders on the road the other day. I have heard of the Nonpartisan league for some months but did not know where to get information from. ; ‘We want a Nonpartisan organizer in this county. We can win as Non« partisans. Nonpartisan Leader and put me In touch with the state organizer, Yours for success, W. J. WALSH, | Send me a sample of the