The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 18, 1917, Page 18

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There were dark rumors of revolt, Cooler heads advised the people, however, to wait until the Duma met in November. Kerensky, who was to become Rusia’'s man of destiny, arose at the first session of the Duma and said: 7 “The democratization of the govern= ment is not now a theoretical demand, but an urgent political problem. The change is no . longer dictated by the mind but by the stomach.” Then came the Russian revolution and the whole world knows the rest of the story. A State Under F afm Rule (Continued from page 9) showed that the North Dakota grain travels much further to market than in some other states, so that the North Dakota farmers would have to bear 80 ‘to 90 per cent of the proposed increase in freight rates, for everyone under- stands that the farmers pay all the freight on their grain from the country elevators to the terminals, It is taken out of their returns along with com- missions and other charges before the farmers get any returns. SAVED $4,000,000 AT ONE STROKE The increase in freight rates for all the railroads in the state, would have meant an increased drain upon the farmers of $4,000,000 a year, according to the North Dakota railroad commis- sion. Another achievement is that rates on all classes of freight on the Milwaukee railway have been reduced by the farmer board of railroad commission- ers 20 to 30 per cent for the territory west of the Missouri river. It also re- duced the cream rates for all short hauls, acting in conjunction with the dairy commissioner and the attorney general’s office, so that the small creameries are given increased terri- tory and creameries within the state are put on a competitive basis with those outside. It changed the old com- plicated method of figuring cream rates to a systematic one that gives. little chance to juggle rates as the old method did. Under the rates in effect before the Nonpartisan league officials took a hand, the amounts charged for similar quantities of cream traveling over the same distance would vary at different times as different agents fig- ured it. That has been abolished. Again the present railroad commis- sion saved shippers, especially shippers of merchandise, from extensive exploi- tation, when it successfully ‘combated the proposed increase in the minimum loading weights for cars. TUnder the pretext of increasing the use of cars and thus helping to solye the alleged car shortage, the railroads proposed that shippers should be compelled to load heavier or else pay a higher rate. For instance, supposing that the rate on a given commodity was 31 per 100 pounds for a minimum load pounds; under such a rate t would have to pay for hau pounds whether he shippe, t meh or not. If it was a comm | £ whick he only required 10,000, n¢ “théless he would have to pay for 20 That is a general principle of all sihipping prac- tice and is well understofod. Dusiness has to stand for it. = R. R. COMMISSION THI{WARTS RAILROAD SCHEME But the railroads nofw proposed to raise this minimum wedight, Suppose they had been succzjsstul,in getting a ‘raise from 29,000 ft, Then the shipper wHio only wanted 10,000 pounds of al;given cesfimodity, would have had ® to. pay <for 30,000 pounds instead of 2(,000. It was well framed up to’ work cut beautifully for the railroads. It wouid not have solved the car shortage for-it would not have’ increased the amouw.it of commodities wanted, but it wouid have yielded an immensely bigger r.venue to the rail-"— roads for hauling theé same amount of; freight. ! 3 The North Dakofa railroad commis- sion put up such a fight against this outrage when the conference to decide upon it was held last summer that the’ matter was dropped. Everyons who ships machinery, flour, sroceries or other supplies is tlie gainer by this activity of the people’s ralitoad com- mission, elected by/ the Nonpartisan “league. ? Early in August/there was another hesaring on'rates In Chicago for the railroads never gpit. This time it was to increase carloid rates on farm ma- chinery — as if farmers were not already paying '¢nough for farm ma- chinery. The vm}ers’ railroad com- mission, always on the job, went be- fore the clas: n committee of western railropds With a though protest well ed up by statistics and argume d presented both the farmers’ az,fl / the machinery mer- i / 30,000 pounas: chants' side of. the question success- fully. PEOPLE’S MEN PLAN FURTHER REDUCTIONS The commission is now working on another comprehensive rate reduction schedule, hearings upon which will probably begin within the next 30 days. They propose to lower the rates on hay, brick, grain, cattle, hogs, potatoes, sand and gravel, straw, tile, grain prod- ucts of all kinds, sheep, horses and other things. Mr, Little has been for many weeks working over these pro-, posed new schedules and when they have been worked out on a fair basis to the railroads, hearings will be called to find out what the railroads have to say about them. The people will also. be represented at these hearings, and a thorough threshing out of the present rates and the proposed reductions will be made. These reductions will be made under authority of the only freight rate bill that the old gang senate allowed to pass last winter, namely Senate Bill 77, which gave the railroad commission power to establish rates within the state on a distance basis. In their fight against the oppression of the great railroads, which on one side are continually fighting to increase their rates, and on the other side con- tinually fighting to escape paying a fair-share of their taxes, the people of North Dakota during this farmers’ ad- ministration have the aid of officials whose single aim is to serve the whole people. The $4,000,000 saved in wheat rates alone, the smaller: sums saved in cream rates (which means the breath of life to many small cream- eries) the - defeat of the minimum weight increase, and the still further reductions now being prepared for, will amount to a greater saving to the peo- ple of North Dakota than the total cost of their state administration that was put in office by Nonpartisan league votes last November. It has taught the people that it pays tolook after poli- tics for themselves, instead of leav- ing these important jobs to politicians and corporation attorneys. HE HAS RIGHT IPEA Turner, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am getting the Leader habit and hate to lose an issue. You are doing an incomparable work. While we are struggling for political democracy of the sworld we must not give up the fight for industrial democracy of the {nited States. To be slaves to an in- dutrial olizarchy of Wall street is as “intofdable as to become the pawns of the piital militarism of Wilhelm- strasse. But we Hust not follow the.lead of the Socislie®.In their St. Louis con- vention tn @.Cl&T€ our treason to our 0w equwszy. L0 form an alliance with _the faiser againit our own plutocracy would be like atte:2bting to overthrow hell by the. help of ¢i2 devil. Your stand for consciiPtion of wealth as well as of men is pairiotism of the purest and fairest type.! 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