The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 21, 1918, Page 14

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Get your bottle today—eosm little, mm&'xeegn iy foe soc i€ or the w! family., The big bottleyxa eoonomy. ' Birth Control, Single Tax, Ideals of Political Parties ] -(From official sources) | A different subject of social, moral or re- ligious significance debated by experts each month. 10 cents a eopy; 25 cents for three Llnlmenf Kills Pain 30c, 60c and $1.20 KILL QUACK Kovar Quack Grass Kille and Alfalfa Cultivator Thoroughly - tested on my ANllown and other farms, t°Endorsed by agricultural experts and thousands of satisfied users. Keepsz alfalfa fields. clean and does not injure plants. I positvely guarantee sat- isfaction or money re- months; $1 a year. THE ARBITRATOR, P: O. Box 42, Wall 8t. Sta., N. Y. C. GALLOWAY POWEII SAVES LABOR e R S R il circular, “Bow Two-Tooth View Quack Grass.” JOS8. J. KOVAR, Mfr. “Owatonna, Minn, e HIDES-FURS shi to us than selling at homs. B on . WD S 8t home. ,llides Tanned Into Robes your - HIDES, 1) AL :l;:& R mm& ’ We :-m of the world's .P...;Efi»‘:fi% w:uws'romm g e e o | Anpensck BRos. Minosapolis, Mins. STOVES | funded.” Write for fKree approximntely ‘equal - appropriate legislation to carry into effect constructive policies and remedies of the char- acter recommended by the commission. The misrepresentation of the recommenda- tions, which has been given widespread pub- licity, must not be permitted to mislead either congress or the people. The commission did not recommend that the packing plants of the five large packers should be taken over by the government. It did recommend that these packers should be deprived of the means by which they have acquired and maintained their monopolistic control of the livestock markets and of meats and a constantly increasing list of other food products. It did recommend that the transportation, terminal and distribution facilities of the country should be taken out of the hands of the monopolists and be made available on equal terms to open competition. We have also carefully considered the report of the committee of five, and thoroughly in- dorse the idea of & posmve national livestock policy. It must be borne in mind, however, that the report of the committee of five is essentially 8 war measure, while the report ol the federal trade commission relates more the permanent conditions that shonld prevail after the close of hostilities. While we deeply regret that the report of the committee of five did not touch on the great question of production, we especially commend that portion of it which dealt with the meces- sity for a uniform system of accounting in the packers’ industry, the regulation of stock- yards and commission men by the department of agriculture, the advisability of greater pub- licity regarding wholesale prices of meats, and the need of an investigation into the con- ditions of the retail trade; and we strongly urge the early appointment of a commission clothed with -ample power to investigate thoroughly this situation and present a defi- nite plan for a simplification of retail dis- tribution which will assure the consumer a wholesale meat supply under a system free from waste and needless expense; and, most important of all, we indorse the need of a revision of the packers’ license, being thor- oughly convinced that the welfare of the live- stock industry and the consuming public de- mands ' effective regnlafion of the packers’ entire business instead of only a portion. We therefore respectfully, - but - earnestly, urge the prompt and favorable consideration by con of the remedies recommended by the federal trade commission. W. R. Memben of Market Committee of Amencan National Livestock Association IKE T. PRYOR, President. - T, W. TOMLINSON,. Secretary. WALTER L. .Counsel. Adopted Septéember 17, 1918. One by one, the great forces in the political and ‘economic life ‘of the United States that are aroused in every crisis to defend the interests of the masses of the people, are mak- ing themselves felt on the side of the federal trade commission and against the packers. - The farmers have spoken Organized labor has spoken. The livestock commission men have lined up with the farmers. Now the bona fide cattlemen and sheepmen have spoken. President Wilson has spoken, too. He has just reappointed Victor Mur- dock to the federal trade commission —Murdock, denounced by the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States and by the political and press lobby of the packers as a “bolshevik.” 'How Australia Runs Its State Railways (Continued from page 8) between the average cost per pas- senger mile in Australia and the Unit- ed States is shown in the following table: RECEIPTS PER PASSENGER MILE FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1914 Australia United States State Receipts Division Receipts Cents Cents New South Wales. . l 10 Easeern ..... 1.792: South Australia..... 1.28 estern ..... .148 'asmania .......... 1.82 Sonthern 1ee.2.176 Total for three - states ........ 14 'Total .ev.1,982 The average cost per passenger mile in Australia is thus seen to be less than three-fifths of that in the United States. P A difficulty in comparing the freight rates in the United States and Aus- tralia arises due to the fact that the average length of haul is so much greater in the United States than in Australia. There are no long hauls i in Australia to compare” with those in America. Australia has over 90 per cent of its population within 100 miles of the sea and each state has ports from which its produce is exported. The average receipts per ton-mile- of the railroads of the state of New South Wales are about twice as great as the receipts per ton-mile of “the railroads of the United -States. This | great disparity is due to the fact that ‘the average length of haul in New South Wales is only 80 miles, while in the United States the average length of haul is 260 miles. It is a well known fact that the greater the dis- tance freight is shipped the less ‘is the charge per ton-mile, A further difficulty in comparing the freight rates in the two countries arises due to” the fact that the commodities shipped in the two countries are dlf- ferent. However, if the rates for a certam ‘! - commodity for varying ‘distances are tabulated a fairly valid comparison can be made. ‘An average of the intrastate rates on wheat in the north- western states of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Wash- ington is taken, while for Australia the average of the rates on wheat for five out of the six Australian states \is. taken, the rates for the Australian state of Tasmania not being included - in-the average due-to the fact that this state is a small island off the “southern coast of the Australian main- land.. The population' of the norfih-‘_ western helt' of Anierican’ states 'is that of Aus- tralia. A comparison of the rates on ~ wheat is shown in the following table: FREIGHT RATES ON_ WHEAT Australia United States Northwestern States \ Per . - Per Miles Per Ton Ton-Mile Per Ton. Ton-Mile Cents - Cents 50 $1.19 2.87 $1.59 8.18 ¥ | - 1.82 1.82 2.21 2.21 1200 2.40 1.20 ~'8.40 1.70 300. v 2,97 .99 3.81 " - .27 400 . 8.52 .88 4.32¢ 1.08* 60~ 3.90 .78 4.70* .94¢ *For Mfintuna only.. From this table it is seen that the freight rates on wheat in the north- western states averages about 28 per cent higher than in Australia. It may be objected that the Australian rates are lower due to the fact that the railroads are narrow ‘gauge, but the objection is nullified by the fact that the cheapest rates on wheat are in the Australian state of New South Wales, which state has railroads of ghe same gange as. those of the"l“!mted‘ tates. The statements made in this ‘firhcle apply to conditions in 1914 before the war. Since the outbreak of the war the railroads of Australia, like those of other countries, have felt the ‘ef- fect of the world catastrophe with the result that ‘since 1914 the Aus- tralian railroads have been running at a loss financlally. - However, in the year previous to the war, that is the year ended June 80, 1914, the rail- roads of Australia - md ‘a net profit of $3,088,000 into: ~various state treasunes after paying interest and maintenance charges, wages, étc., and the rallroads of the state ‘of New South Wales in this same year paid a net profit of $1,167,000 mto the treas-_ ury of- that state. THE FARMERS ARE NOT FOOLED Goodrich, N..D. Edltor Nonpartisan Leader: = 7 I can. not keep quiet after readmg “Rev.” S. R. Maxwell on “The League From the Inside” in the Dispatch and the comment on it by the press. ‘at large “Rev.” Maxwell surely is not ~on the inside, but would like to be. - Who put Mr. Townley to the fore?: - The League, of course, and not any little group inside ‘or outside. He surely would not be'the man for the '-‘ place if 16, or even 100 m¢ z:: Leaghue, eould ‘persuade’ nge the program, I! the kepgrlgreda thinka “him - to lead the people by misrepresentations; i it is badly misled itself. © Our eyes are open and we have learned to “stick