The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 9, 1918, Page 14

R Ry R . A bt b A -l Ak ADVERTISEMENTS HoreeSHERMAN ==ST. PAUL MINNz=s - -FuLL VALUE Courtesy and Comfort have combined to make the New Sherman the = most popular Hotel in St. Paul. “ More one dollar rooms than any other first class hotel in St. Paul. Cafe and Cafeteria. Fourth and Sibley Streets " One block from Union Depot and Nonpartisan League Headquarters. L] ] ] ] Angus J. Cameron ! ] [ ] | i | [ | | [ | B [ | i | [ ] B B You Are Surely Entltled to the Full Market Value for Your Livestock If you do not get it, somebody else gets the benefit you should have. The day is passed when business is donme on sentis ment, and only results in dollars and cents” count. We want you to compare the re- sults in dollars and cents we get for you with those received else- where. A comparison wnll convince you that “Kirk Service” gets you the most money for your livestock. J. R. Kirk Commission Co., Inc. South 8t. Paul, Minn. Authorized Sales Agency of the American Society of Equity (ASH-0LD FALSE TEETH Bt gilver, platinum. C; 3 gold jewelry by ref Goods he to 16 days subject to your approval of ur U 8. Smelting Works, 370 Goldsmith Bldu. nllw-ukee, Wis. EADER advertisements reach nearly a million readers. We _will gladly furnish you our rates. . organized, so that their views may find effective expression and their rights recognition. = Such an alliance between organized industrial and farm labor can not come about in a day, but it is coming rapidly and surely, if I read the signs of the times aright, and those who seek to oppose it with falsehood and misrepresentation and abuse will find that they have sown the.wind, only to reap the whirlwind. Purely as a war measure, the thor- ough organization of the farmers of the state is needed. It has been the greatest handicap to the most effec- tive promotion of such governmental war activities as the Liberty loan and War Savings stamp sales, the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. campaigns, that the farmers of Iowa .could not be reached through the machinery of thorough organization. North Da- kota, although suffering from two se- rious crop setbacks, was able to over- subscribe its second Liberty loan quota by 73 per cent, THE LARGEST OVERSUBSCRIPTION OF ANY STATE IN THE UNION, and this was largely due to the orgamzed ac-~ tivity of the Nonpartisan league How much better could we do here in pros- perous agricultural Iowa if it were possible to reach its farmers through their organized machinery. And how much more readily would their views be listened to at Washington if their chosen representatives could speak with the authont;{v of over 1,000,000 people lxvmg on Iowa farms behind them. : In the reorganization- of society which will follow the war, when the real test of civilization will come—in those days when the war-torn fields of Europe must be replanted and its cities rebuilt—when our soldiers must return to the ways of peace, and when justice and righteousness and equality must be re-established upon the face of the earth—in that day of reckon- ing I believe that the- real producers of wealth, who create by the labor of their hands and brains all thdt we enjoy, will come into their own, and that they will join hands in a world- wide federation. A MONTANA WOMAN SPEAKS Superior, Mont.' Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The League is organized here. My father is a member of the League and we sure do enjoy the Leader. I be- lieve it is one of the best papers for the benefit of the people ever printed. But its “absence makes the heart grow fonder.” - I would like to say a few words to the people of Montana, laborers and farmers. Jeanette Rankin is a can- didate for United States senator. I would like to see every American citi- zen get out and make himself heard. We'll stick and keep-on sticking. MRS. E R. VANDERGRAFT ' The Hmdenburg Llne of the Packers (Contmued from page 11) these relations are contrary to law, but what their effect is. upon food production and the. general prosperity of: the country. The evidence of pres- ent-day activities is. illuminated by a brief history of these companies and their relationships. In the first place, these five cor- porations began as individual enter- prises with small capital and, with the exception of Wilson & Co., Inc., have been, for two or more genera- ‘tions, under the management of the same families which established them. Two of these concerns—Armour and Morris—are and always have been close corporations, with stocks almost entirely in the hands of the families. The Cudahy Packing com- pany was a close corporation until recently. Its stock is now listed for sale to the public, but is still domi- nated by the Cudahy family. The fourth, Swift & Co., although havmg a large number of stockholders, is now and has always been completely under the control of the Swift fam- ily. The 20,000 stockholders, widely advertised by Swift & Co., have never had even an approximately complete list of its fsubsxdxanes and afiihated companies. Sulzberger & Sons Co., the predecessor of Wilson & Co., Inc., was also a close corporation, family- ‘controlled. Today, as Wilson & Co., it has a large number of stockholders, but the absolute control of the cor- poration is vested in a votlng “trust, consisting of Thomas E.'Wilson and four New York bankers—Charles H. Sabin, Harry Bronner, A. Barton Hep- burn and Elisha Walker. Such concentration of ownership and control of these five companies in a small number of individuals made - combination and conspiracy easy. Furthermore, the Big Five are bound together by joint ownership of a large number of companies. In many cases these joint ownerships are not carried in the names of the principals, but, on the contrary, are concealed by all manner of devices. Thus, for example, Armour’s and Morris’ stoek in the Union Meat company stands in .the names of H. A. Cheatham and H. J. Nelson, Swift employes, so that even the most care- ful scrutiny of the stockholders’ list would leave the impression that the Union Meat company was merely af- filiated with Swift & Co. Cattle Growers Own Salesmen in Chicago The Equity Society, After Its Success in the South St. Paul ~ Stockyards, Opens an Office in Ilhn01s Py SH l P GRAI N PRO-RATlNG Two choxce beeves sold by the Equity Co-Operatwe salesmn, Jes Barrett. These cattle were fed and shipped by R. G. and Robert Trohms of Janesville,“ an who are strong in their support of the National Nonparhsan league. . We Offer all Shippers our Tmm’ Comm| u.pa » on a Co-operative P Secure your pro-rate from us. rate Dividend Blsb. Not cumol,d by bl. lutm We are successful, be- ing the only Farmers’ Terminal Agency ever having ; reached a full dividend and co-oPerahve pro-rate basis. Shl nllyonrmnto nnd mnn ur pmneu d on every car Fach $1000. 00 Tnvested Farned th us no sure of your pro-rate M or unoertainty. "§"i)0 .00 Net Crop 1917 But we do not ask for your money, we have plenty, and we can make yon mne{l-‘-llord of it, by :dlmply glv. signments. We promptly. No dra LIGENSED AND _____.._——————— FLOUR AND FEED {nst :*—_ eral and State Laws. - For sa lMpmn'l, for resulte that are lnn, safe and satisfactory. the drafis ft ever returned BOMDED Wo huve oomplied with tho Sp nnh. Gnmnmd e on con- for lack of money. Prompt returns always. to Laws og Minnesota rati on Oommissio! ivered qumwmn ly furnished. W- d'registered to meet all Fed- mlnn offers yon its service, GRAIN GROWERS GRAIN CO., Minneapolis. gy ALL THESE Locket and: Neck Chain Secret and Neck Chain, imitation Wrist W adju: Pcndant, PAGE rommmi ; ESS than two years ago the Equity Co-Operative the South -St. Paul mar- ket the only co-operative selling agency , for live- stock on the terminal markets in the “United ‘States which is:owned by the farmers. The Equity is a farmers’ organization with a membership of - over 12,000 and with a paid-up capi- tal of over $350,000. - Its principal concern in the past has been with the Fo-operatwe mar- keting of grain, but a livestock de- partment was started with a view of ehminai;ing the speculator on ter- “minal market and selling the stocker -and feeder cattle produced by the exchange - established on’ ‘has: succeeded it is only necess North Dakota farmer d;;ect to ‘the: Towa, Wisconsin and southern: Min- nesota farmer without ahy specula- tor’s profit between the two farmers. “The manager of this department, F. B. Wood, has long been an advocate of co-operative marketing of all farm produce. Mr. Wood was one of: the: early mémbers of the American So- ciety of Equity in North Dakota; has been a member of the board’ of 0 rectors of the Equlty Co-Operative ex- - change ever since its organization’and was the first North Dakota farmer to join the Nonpartisan league, He has - in his possession today receipt No. for dues paid in the organization.: = - To show how well. this- der 'artment