The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 21, 1918, Page 5

pile up tremendous war-profits. Tike copper, the cost of producing wheat is not the same in Okla- must have a price arrangement which will give us every possible bushel of wheat and. which at the sameé time will not bear down heavily on the con- sumers. \Would not sectional prices to cover local costs do the. trick? A ‘FURTHER SACRIFICE " DANGEROUS . The wheat farmers in the high-cost section of the United States continued raising wheat in enor- mous quantities at a great deal of sacrifice. Judged by the prices in April, 1918, the North Dakota ) CANT 555. S ANY THIN | ?,uT CHRISTIAN ,5mgeTNESS homa, Kansas, North Dakota and Montana, We * like 1917. | WEEP TO - THINIG ANY ONE wouLp sYSPECT ¥ou' OF BEtYNG)r 0OKE D- YOl chzug\'l RASCAL- farmer would have gotten about $17 more for an acre of rye than for an acre of wheat, yet he went ahead and planted wheat. But this kind of pa- triotic sacrifice, which may be possible without ' great evil effects for a year or two, becomes very dangerous for the nation if it is kept up. The renter has to, pay his rent, the banker has to be satisfied, and/all the various losses and costs which much higher prices would no more than cover must be met. Continuing the sacrifice will mean that many wheat farmers will have to drop out. The acreage will be smaller than it might be otherwise, and at the same time 1919 may be a bad wheat year Beyond 1919 is 1920, the wheat crop of which year will depend very largely on the suc- _NOTHING WRONG AT ALL—EXCEPT THE FARMERS! cess the wheat farmers have in keeping their heads above water in 1919. We must not only keep the wheat raisers we now have but we must add to their number. The only way to do this now is to make wheat raising profitable. . In addition to giving the whedt farmer a rea- sonable price, the government could do much to increase our wheat acreage by assuming some of the risk. Wheat is essentially a new land crop and most of our wheat is raised under conditions that cause a loss of one crop in five., If Kansas farmers, for instance, could be insured against * loss by winter killing, they would be very glad to increase their wheat acreage, and they could get bank money for the operations. YOU RE RS, PURE AS A LILY BROTHER z7 7 N Y, 1 Ul RIURIE y the big industrial ‘monopolies, including the packers, railroads, etc., decided to admit“there™" d that the League had brought “very serious” charges against monopolists, beneficiaries of as pleased to call if. ‘And so the chamber announced itwas. going to“investigate” these charges will:report in.a few months, unless the chamber sees.the joke of it and quits. Such an “investi- ‘wh - The humor. of it is pictured-by Cartoonist Morris in the above carm:n?. TSR b T