The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 17

ADVERTISEMENTS - WESTERN CATTLE Will sell high this fall compared with other years. Demand for/fat cattle, stock cattle and feeders will be greater than ever before. Ship- ments billed to EQUITY CO-OPERATIVE EXCHANGE Union Stock Yards, South St. Paul Will bring you “@reatest net results.” To obtain the best prices for your grain bill all cars to us at St. Paul, Minnesota, or Superior, Wisconsin. The Equity vo-Operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota—Superior, Wisconsin Livestock Department South St. Paul, Minn. ————— cececccccccccecees MR. LIVESTOCK GROWER! You Are Surely Entitled to the Full Market Value for the Livestock You Raise IF YOU DO NOT GET IT, scmebody else gets the bene- fit you should have. The day is passed when business is done on sentiment, and cnly results in dollars and cents count. We want you to compare the results in dollars and cents we get for you with those received elsewhere. A comparison will convince you that “KIRK SERVICE” gets you the most money for your livestock. J. R. Kirk Commission Co., Inc. South St. Paul, Minn. Authorized Sales Agency of the American Society of Equity P o oEnN D R D IS AN Y N N A O R G ) e First Class Cafeteria in Connection. POWERS HOTEL FARGO’S ONLY MODERN FIRE PROOF HOTEL Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot - FARGO, N. D. e e ———— S | | O D ) |2 (B (e RN O e e ) O e s Een e pew) ——eeee w B o e B G e S #— FARMERS AS BANKERS FARM LOANS AND CITY LOANS 5 per cent paid on savings accounts. 6 per cent paid on time certificates, Does gen- eral banking business by mail. THE SAVINGS LOAN & TRUST CO.: 1The Minot Farmers Central Bank* Farmers’ rest room. MINOT, N. D. Mention Leader when writing advertisers D TSRS T——— THE GARDNER European Plan. FARGO, N. D 25_combination sample rooms with bath: a $2-$2.50. 5 i 2 0 rooms with running water, $1 t 5 80 rooms with bath, $1.50 to §3.00. $1.50. Finest cafe in the Northwest. Cuisine unequalled. Restful, quiet—only hotel in the city not on a car line. A. H. Leimbacher, Mgr. | This Plan ot Hoover’s is O. K. League Upholds Food Administration in Attempt : to Curb Brokers’ Charges RAIN speculators of the Minne- apolis Chamber of Commerce and Chicago Board of Trade, who recently doubled their commissions on grain hand- ling, are fighting the food administra- tion. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover expressed the opinion that the old charge of one cent per bushel, was sufficient, and indicated that he in- tended to put in an order restoring the old rate. The brokers, who called the farmers ‘“unpatriotic” because they pointed out that $2.20 would not cover the cost of growing wheat this year, have raised the loudest kind of a protest against the food administration since it was proposed to restore their charges to the old level. As a result of their protest Julius Barnes, head of the government grain corporation and member of the Duluth Board of Trade, arranged a hearing for the brokers, being held at Chicago this week. The National Nonpartisan league be- lieves Mr. Hoover is right in his con- tention that the original charge, of ORTH DAKOTA elevator managers at a meeting on August 25 in Fargo drew up the following joint letter to J. W. Shorthill of the wheat price-fixing commission, setting forth the fact that farmers should have not less than $2.50 per bushel for wheat; and that the revolutionary government grades, which require almost absolute purity of grain on penalty of-degrad- ing it, should be eased up until farm- ing practice can be brought around to producing grain free from wéed seed. They point out that the mixtures of varieties (which by the way have been greatly promoted by the mixing houses at terminals and not by the :farmers) should have time to be weeded out be- { fore such stringent grades are en- forced on the farming population.. The letter is as follows: J.-W. Shorthill, Wheat Price Commission, Washington, D. C. At a special meeting of the North Dakota Managers’ association, held in Fargo, August 25, to consider various matters confronting the managers of farmers’ elevators, such as govern- ment grades and the price to be fixed by the . government, the managers, realizing the neccessity of the farmers receiving a fair price for their grain, and especially in view of the fact that the government as yet has made only a slight provision to control and lower one cent a bushel for handling grain, is sufficient. The brokers have no ex- cuse whatever for raising their charges, The excuse for their charges used to be that they were devoting all of their energies to running around and trying to get the shipper a higher price. for his wheat. Now that the government has established a fixed price all the broker has to do is to take the wheat and turn it over to the government. In line with its announced intention to support the food administration to help eliminate excess speculators’ charges, the Nonpartisan league sent former Congressman Charles Lind- bergh of Minnesota to represent the League farmers at the hearing that Barnes gave to the grain brokers. Lindbergh wurged the reduction of brokers’ charges to the old level and carried an invitation from the farmers to Mr. Barnes to attend the producers’ and consumers’ convention at St. Paul, in an effort to reach a better under- standing between the food administra- tion and the farmers. Ask for Reasonable Grades Elevator Managers Write Letter of Protest to Price-Fixing Committee at Washington, D. C. the prices of material and supplies that the farmer has to buy. We therefore wish .to be put on rec- ord and take a stand to the effect that we believe the farmers are entitled to at least a minimum price of $2.50 per bushel at interior ferminals. When we consider, the price from the standpoint of supply. and demand we believe that the farmer is entitled to more than $2.50 per bushel, but when we consider that. all loyal and truly patriotic Americans should sacrifice something for the good of their coun- try we believe they.are doing so when they cheerfully accept the above price as being fair under present conditions. We contend further that the govern- ment in fixing the. admixtures of in- separable seeds in the No. 1 and No. 2 grades is unfair at this time. We do not believe that 60 to 62 pound wheat, complying strictly: with the rules for No. 1 dark northern spring, should be graded No. 3 or No. 4 because it prob- ably contains one per cent or more in- separable seeds than the government grade permits. It is patent to all that the farmers can not revolutionize the mixtures in grain during the course of one season. We therefore recommend that if the government fixes the prices for the various grain, this matter be taken into .consideration, J. H. S. THOMSON, Chairman of Committee. Farmers Will Pick Candidates Enemies of League in South Dakota Trying to Fix Up a Slate (From the Mitchell, S. D., Republican) A worthy movement like that of the National Nonpartisan league can not be fought frankly and openly, and therefore its enemies attempt to ac- complish its defeat by indirection. ' One of the favorite schemes is to -publish false and deceitful reports of the cause. Thus we find newspapers’ in this - state following the. example of those that have fought the Nonpartisan league in North. Dakota and Minne- sota.. They are giving publicity to ab- solute falsehoods, thereby endeavoring to create prejudice against the League and its work. One of the misrepresentations al- ready found in some of the newspapers undertakes to say that a slate of can- didates for various offices has already been made up. Individuals are named as being those selected for governor, or senator or congressman. This is done solely for the purpose of injuring the League. Any one knowing the manner of indorsements as made by the League's members for any candi- dates for public office, knows that any statements at this time that any: one has been picked out for any position whatsoever, are necessarily untrue.’ MEMBERS ALONE TO PICK CANDIDATES The League, as organized and con- ducted, is a pure democracy. Not only is it impossible for its own officials ta. obtain the indorsement of the League for public office, but they are not per- mitted to participate in the selection of candidates. Not even the state offi- PAGE EIGHTEEN i ——— i cials can attend more than one meet< ing of League members, and that is the .meeting of the county in which the ‘state official may reside. For example, the Davison county League members -will in due time: hold a meeting to consider the indorsement of candi- dates for office. No one can attend that meeting unless he ‘is: a Davison county member. A state official may call the meeting to order,: but he must im= mediately retire. That means that, in the case of the League, the farmers themselves makes up the slates, which is in marked contrast with probably any other political organization ever in éxistence. For usually the leaders do the selecting, and the members merely ratify. Not so with the League, It is impossible for any one to control its members or determine in advance what they may do. Again, it is not in the practice of the League to give consideration to-pro- fessional politicians or office-seekers. The draft plan is the one employed by the League to select its candidates. Its members are in the habit of selecting men who have never been in politics, who are not seeking any office, and who usually must be prevailed upon to become candidates. Thus it can readily be seen how foolish it is to say now that any individual, or any set of individuals, have been slated by the League for any state or federal offices. Let it be repeated that all re- ports of anything of the sort are sent out for the one and only purpose of embarrassing the League and of chal= lenging its successful operation.