The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 11, 1917, Page 9

et R LA o A SR L0 £ Lt e T At Sl S A ST X e i e trying to pin the tag “traitor” on the farmer. —Drawn by W.C. Morris especially for the Leader The Big Business press of the big cities and its imitators in the small cities have been pretty busy lately trying to brand the men the farmers have elected to office in North Dakota as “distoyal,” trying to make out that the great farmers’ and workingmen’s meeting at St. Paul recently was “unpatriotic” and generally They are doing it by striking at the farmers’ men in office, the farmers’ organizations and the farmers’ leaders. But Big Business will not succeed in this dirty job. The farmer who is hoeing to make the world safe for democracy and backing the government in this war, is going to turn around in a minute and kick into oblivion this individual who is sneaking up on tiptoe behind him. gether made it easier and possible to secure the final figure set as a price for the 1917 crop of wheat and the farmers as well as the people in gen- _ eral of this state owe to each of these gentlemen a debt of gratitude. “Injustice is being done, in my judg- ment, by the present system of wheat grading, in part due to ignorance and in part to unfair methods among those who are grading the wheat, but I am sure all this will be corrected another year and certain changes in the present system of grading wheat are absolute- ly essential before justice can be done the wheat grower.” % SEIZURE OF PROPERTY WITHOUT DUE PROCESS perature and moisture, the percentages inseparable weed seed and they made no denial of it WEED SEED SHOULD BE CLASSED AS DOCKAGE “That being true, hen‘a is the way the producer of wheat is penalized. If No. 1 dark northern spring, which is terial or the amount to make 2 per cent and cause the wheat to be graded No. 4. The loss to the producer of that class of wheat will run into the mil- lions and is taken from him unjustly. The weed seed is separated from the wheat when it goes into the mill and the seed has a commercial value that This is another speech made at the great St. Paul Producers’ and Consumers’ conference —the big meeting that the Big Business Press has denounced as ‘“disloyal’”’ because it erys- talized public opinion for the conscription of out mercy the kind of “treason’” promulgated seed’ as dockage in determining grades for that is what they really are in a modern equipped flour mill.” Dr. Ladd in conclusion showed the costs and profits of millers and bakers, figures given in a previous issue of the Leader and indicating clearly that with wheat at $2.20, five-cent bread ought to be the rule again. WHAT OTHER PEOPLES ARE PAYING FOR BREAD As a further proof of the extortionate prices for bread in the United States, Dr. Ladd quoted these prices in various countries, considered when the price fixing commission met: Italy—War Bread 8 ¥ e e S BT i, B Price D, Ladd auoted J. A McGovern, his wealth. The Leader prints Ladd’s remarks, | coon Toat _,‘ n inspector, as in, L . . rea ritain—War ve..32 I:Sg‘:a ynugr:‘nber of l;'a.ctors that mug:;t be .as 1t haS’ prlnted Senator Borah,s, Pl' eSIdent lgréa.ncfi—Wa.r Bread (ll;eu:.... .35 1; idered in det: ini des. H 1 1 i —War Bread &% | Confiaered 1o aetorminioe gredes. B0 | Townley’s and others, in‘orderto expose with- | G Iyens rwar Bread (.25 - 9 | “And excepting color, odor and tem- ; are determined by separating each of the mentioned objectionable matters and weighing them. Ten samples a day is considered a big day’s work at ‘the terminal markets. You can imag- ine the local elevator manager hand- ling some days over a hundred loads and about the attention he could give to each load. “This is a most discriminate and unjust seizure of property without due process of law in the case of grading ; grains for ‘Inseparable * Foreign Material,’ such as ‘king- heads, corn cockle, vetch, darnel, wild rose ‘That word ‘Insepar- able’ is the ‘'most mischievous and not representative of the facts of * any provision in the Grain Grading Act. 1t is a well known fact that the miller separates his so-called at the St. Paul meeting. Read what Ladd said in his address and learn the reason why the controlled press has been shouting ‘“treason’ : and “disloyalty.” the highest grade hard spring wheat grown, has 0.5 of one per cent of king- head weed seed, the grade is lowered one grade, a loss of three cents per bushel. Over one per cent of king- heads or cockle puts it in No. 4, a loss of ten cents per bushel. Over two per cent cockle, vetch or kingheads places it in grade 5, a loss of fifteen cents per bushel, “Examine if you will the number of kingheads it takes to make a 0.25 per cent socalled inseparable foreign ma~ more than compensates for the cost of separation. “The so-called weed seed should be classed as dockage where it belongs, and the farmers should protest against this unjust weed seed rule loud enough ‘80 that the secretary of agriculture could hear them. “It seems to me that Mr, Hoover, the food administrator, who is buying wheat for the government by grade and not by sample, should make a rule placing the so-called ‘inseparable weed PAGE NINR Washington—Wheat Bread ...14 10 (1) Composition of this war bread is 80 per cent wheat and 20 per cent rye, barley and corn. . : “It is clearly evident, therefore, that the price at which bread sells im this country -is far greater than in the European war stricken countries, even where a considerable portion of the wheat and flour is being imported from the United States.” COAL BARONS DEFY U. S. “If we can’t charge any old price for our coal that we please, then we won't dig any more coal” is the ultimatum of the coal robbers of Colorado. And yet when some of us have been advocating state coal mines about the most polite names that we have been called was “bughouse.”—ILIFF (COLO.) INDE- PENDENT.