The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 4, 1918, Page 14

> § i could get, and “dependent” upon everything in sighf. z _ (Applause.) In North Dakota that is largely true, but I don’t know how it is in Idaho. I say since everybody has attended to the most important-part of his business, tHe fixing of the price that he gets and the ‘prices that he pays, I am sure you farmers have attended to that part of your business. I am going to take you one at a time, and I will invite someone to tell how much the farmers have to say about the price of anything that he sells, or anything that he buys? One at a time. Is there anybody? . A VOICE: “He takes what he géts.” "I guess he is right. You bring a load of-potatoes o town, you ask how much do you pay? You go sget a pair of overalls, you say “How much do I Ay?” Always asking questions. That is what makes “the farmer look like a question mark. (Applause.) Do you mean to tell me that you haven’t started in on this job yet? Have you left the most important part.of your business to someone else to attend to? §° Well, if you were like the North Dakota farmer, - SUNSET AND EVERYBODY HAPPY 1 EON CaRT (SN EAGUE } ACTIVITIES § MINN -~ NEB- KKaN. F WASH- S DAR. 1pn. wts - MONT. :Cc o0, - OKLA- TEX. 7 and left this fmportant part of the business fbr someone else to attend to, don’t worry about ‘it, be- cause it is well attended to. . 4 While you have neglected the matter, it has not been neglected altogether. You have admitted here that you don’t have anything to say about the most ‘important part of. your business. I never saw but one man that dared to say that he had anything to say about the price he got for what he raised. One time a great tall Scandinavian got up and said, “I _ had something to say about the price that I sold a steer for.” - I said: “Brother, by golly, you are the first man that T ever saw that said that he had anything to say.about the price .he sold a steer for.” I said: “What did you say about the price of this steer.” He got up, towering above the audience, ‘and he looked- over them; and said: ‘“There are so many ladies and children here that I don’t like to repeat . the price of that steer.” (Laugh- - what I said about ter.) ] He was like the féll_ow that kept,booka,_ and after St PAGBFOURTREN G- oo ~ be.” His friend says: .get my dinner. I am . that I can make both ends meet.” organized, ' . —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. he sold his beef, he sat down and commenced to figure. He found out that it cost more to raise the beef than he got for it, and he sat there and kept getting madder.and madder., Finally he got up, jammed the figures into his pocket and started down the street, looking straight ahead. He met a friend, who said: “Hello Bill, what is the matter? Are you crazy?” “No, I am not crazy, yet, but I guess I will, “Where are you going?’ Ha says: “I am going down to the end of the street to going down to-that little res. - get oxtail soup and tongue.” : _ His friend says: “What do you want with oxtail soup and tongue? You can get plenty to ‘eat up here.” He says: “I want to get some oxtail soup. and tongue today, because that is the only ‘way (Applause.) Morris taurant where I can .. The pn]y way for'the farmers t ‘to say about prices, Mr, Townley pointed out, was to organize to be able to deal on something like even terms with the other lines of business, already. 0 have anything -