The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 7, 1919, Page 11

Now isn’t that a shame! The nice little pet of the profiteer that was able to do all the tricks, such as I its mistress ordered it to do so, has disappeared. There hasn’t been hide nor hair of it seen in North partisan league farmer what had happened to the cute little feller, maybe they’d learn something about it. called G. O. P. out there, has been swallowed up by that healthy youngster they know as the N. P. League. No wonder the lady is aghast! necessary charges for transportation need be borne. Finally came the period when all of the big packers were making ship- ments of live cattle from smaller to larger stockyards, thereby increasing the dressed meat cost. ; Mr. Heney, questioned by Senator Norris on this inefficient procedure, explained that the big packers knew exactly what they were doing. “The packers make Chicago the market where they fix the price for cattle, sheep and hogs,” he said, “and they try to keep the other markets in line, as they call it. That is to say, that. the price in the other market shall be the Chicago price, taking into consideration the difference in freight. So .the big packers are interested in having a congested market in Chicago, because with a congested market, and where there is an oversupply beyond their capacity even, it is an easy mat- ter for them to depress the price, and in depressing the price in Chicago they are depressing it for the entire country, on the buying end of it.” PRESS CAMPAIGN LULLS CONGRESS TO SLEEP *Under the influence of the revela- tions of the Big Five packers’ far- reaching control of the food supply of the nation, the last congress became almost sincerely interested in break- ing their oppressive grip upon the farmers on the one hand and the con- sumers upon the other. But a press campdign in which many millions of dollars of excess profits were used, and are still being used, has lulled the senate and house to sleep again. It appears utterly futile to place any hope in voluntary legislative efforts "in Washington to restore efficiency in the livestock slaughtering industry. The new congress will not dissolve the packing trust. Creation of new stock- yards in the smaller cities in the West must come from the favor of the power controlling the railroads, which thus far under private control has been a part of the big packers’ sys- tem of unfair advantages. - That is why the railroad .quesfiqn becomes every day more directly im- portant to the producer and the con- sumer of meats. If the roads go back to ‘private control, freight rates will soar up again, and the packers can squeeze still more profits. But if the government takes the roads, there will be another .story. The railroad system will take over the stockyards as a part of its freight yard business. New and independent packing plants will be located in these yards without discrimination. New yards will be opened in the stock- raising regions, close to the points of shipment. Rigging of the market from Chicago will be at an end. GRADING OF GRAIN Federal grain supervisors, whenever conditions permit, visit mills and ele- vators in their districts. It should be remembered, however, that the actual inspection and grading of grain is per- formed in-the first instance by the li- censéd grain inspector. It is without the jurisdiction of the officers of the United States department of agricul- ture to place an original grade or in- spection upon any grain until it has first been inspected and graded by a licensed inspector, or unless it in- volves a dispute on uninspected grain shipped between noninspection points which has been properly referred to the secretary of agriculture for the determination of the true grade. Therefore, samples for original grad- ing should not be sent to a federal grain supervisor, but to a licensed grain inspector. THE SPIRIT OF THE LEAGUE Culbertson, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I will drop you a few lines con- cerning my dues. It has taken every cent to get seed and feed but I will hustle and get money in the next 80 days. We surely need the League here in Montana, and we mean to stick if we have to work on the. sec- tion to get money to pay our dues with.. . RS | 'OSCAR QLSON. AND HIS NAME WAS G. O. P.! T T T o R D PR ey ST o™ TN Letters From A 1920 PROPHECY ' Burley, Idaho. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I have been reading the Nonparti- san Leader for six months, and along with it the controlled press of the in- terests, and I must say that on a po- litical issue it can more than hold its own. But let the kept press howl. Do you know that it’s making more friends than enemies? If a parent de- nies a child something, the child be- comes the more determined to investi- gate. That is true also with the farm- ers. The kept press has knocked the Nonpartisan league so long and so hard that the farmers have begun to investigate. That is' how I came to be lined up with the Nonpartisan league, and I'm glad to be with an or- ganization that advocates a square deal for the worker. Unless I miss my guess, in 1920 there will be a po- litical quake in the Northwest that will jar the corporation thieves and money-grabbing politicians into the realization that they are conquered. 0. P. GOLAY. THE MONTANA SITUATION e Winifred, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: This is the third year of bad crops here, and the worst of all. Most of the farmers have given up all hope of making even seed in this part of the country. There is no hay here. It is quoted at $50 a ton, and there is noge to be had at that price. Everybody is sticking to his post. If this is a hard winter, I am afraid it will clean out the farmers in this section of Mon- tana. A great many of the farmers were carried over by local merchants -and by the Equity Hail Insurance company. Many of these did not pay for last year’s seed and feed. Stay with them, dear brother, they will need you. I am doing all in my pow-. er to make it better for these people. Dakota for years. R A R R R N U L N AT et e et 2 —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris. | ying down, playing dead.and rolling over whenever || But if anybody asked the Non- || Anyway, that fuzzy little puppy they Our Readers HERE’S LEAGUE BOCSTER Shell Lake, Wis. | Editor Nonpartisan Leader: : I am greatly interested in the North Dakota movement and hope : Wisconsin will follow suit. I am not | 2 SRR T a member of the League but I am a | booster for it. I have been reading | the article in the Country Gentleman, | the “North Dakota Experiment.” Of course, the Country Gentleman isn’t | a gentleman, but only a mouthpiece | for big business. I was provoked at | this article and wrote the editor as follows: | Barton W. Currier, Editor Country Gentleman. Dear -Sir: I have read the “North Dakota Experiment.” I have lived in North Dakota 12 years. I was in the general merchandise business five years and was a salesman for a Minne- sota firm for seven years. Although I never farmed in North Dakota, I was in a position to know the condition of the North Dakota farmers. If any farmer in that state has made money, it is no credit to any one but himself. The banks, with their 12 per cent in- terest and 15 to 25 per cent bonus; the machine trust, the grain thieves, and the railroads with their interstate rates all took a jab at the North Da- kota farmer. Show me one farmer in North Dakota up to five years ago who became‘wealthy and I will show you a hundred who lost what little they had. Why shouldn’t North Da- kota hate big business? North Da- kota farmers have been under the iron heel of big business for. so many years, and now that they are free and can compare conditions, they will never again go back to the old order. I hope to see Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and all the other farming states wake up and demand their rights as North Dakota has. 4 G J. SAUER. |