The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 7, 1920, Page 3

S - LA ,y».*i’ thmknot i m “THE INTEREST OF A squm ~ DEAL FOR.THE FARMERS 3 nn red ‘8§ seeond clm mmer at mo posmmca CRBL L ¥ mn polls, under the ‘act of March '3, 1879, £ ‘ Pubuceuon “address; 427 th ayenue. 8., Minneapolis, . Minn: Address. all remittances to Tho Nouparuaan uwu Box 2075 Mlnneapom Minn, 5 Omeiul Magazine of tlle Nlflmul Nonpartisan Lengue—-Every Week : &“ 'W“cmo" Member ACte e VER 8. MORRIS, Editor. ; A MAGAZINE ‘THAT - DARES TO PB NT THE TRUTH _One year ln ndvnnce 2, 50 six months, $1.50. Clas- sifled rates on page: other advertising rated of - €irculdtions; Beckwith Special Agency, advertising represen= mtlves New, York, Chicago, 8t. Louts, Kansas' City, A NO Al s U TORD THEY'LL . G BlLow You ONE efiz;?e the ople all of the tlme, and all of the Y people some of the time, but : you can’t fool all of the people all . A of the time,” runs an old saying, popularly attributed to Abra- ham Lincoln. “We _suggest that- A ‘Mitchsll Palmer, attorney e he took office. He must be well convinced of its. truth now. Mr. Palmer’s policy, since taking public office, has been to turn = every Ht:ay into April Fool’s Day, insofar as it lay in his power to do - has told the public about one “radical plot” after another ® - . 80..- ‘ -{ < (in intervals between his-statements that he was reducing the high S cost of living) ; and undismayed when these “plots” were discov- - ered he set May 1 as the date of a revolution of American Bolshe- vists. - When the “revolution” failed to occur he blandly assured “the American people that it was his activity that prevented it. - He - ‘has used these plots and revolutions; hatched out in his own mind, ‘to demand that the Amencan ‘people give ‘his secret: pohce further powers under peace-time espionage and sedition acts." ably had a considerable portion of the American people fooled. How f, i<y . Not only was Mr. Palmer signally defeated for the presidential nom- ination, but the Democratic state convention adopted resolutions advocating free speech,. free press and assemblage and demanding durmg the war. ™ On top of this comes the exposure of the fact that the manager. $9,000,000 in taxes, and still is allowed to. 20 unpnmshed although it is Mr; Palmer’s business to prosecute. Can Mr Palmer hope to fool the people much longer" We .,,a(’," Tepo: solution requesting all facts in artmenb relattve to profiteermg t - -bemg printed he 000 per- \There is no denying the fact that for a time Mr. Palmer prob--‘ the repeal of all esplonage, sedltlon and conscnptlon bllls passed-' of Mr. Palmer’s' campaign for the presidency is attorney for a cor- s poration whlch has: admxtted defrauding the government out of ' PAGE THREE come of $14 549 952 To call the owners of this’ company 1 000 _percenters” is 00 mlld—-aafter paying its excess profits. tax the com- ‘ pany still ' had net mcome amounting ‘to 212,584 per cent on. its -capltal stock. eral of the Umted States, might well have studied this adage before 2y -Here are a few other g & 000 percenters” : * Dry goods store, net profit 9,826 per cent. Coal company, net profit 7, 856 per cent. Meat packer, net profit 4, 244 per cent. : - Flour mill, net profit 2, 628 per cent. Fruit and vegetable canners, net profit- 2 032 per cent. Woolen mill, net profit 1,770 per cent. Building contractor, net profit’ 1,390 per cent ‘Of course these are exceptional profits. Out of 45 woolen mills - hsted in the report only one reported 1,770 per cent profit. But ' 17 others reported more than 100 per cent apiece! . And all of these profits were made whxle soldiers were dymg, at $30 2 month, and farmers and workers were producing their utmost, ,mthout *hought of profit, “to make the world safe for democracy. ” _thoroughly they are awakened now is’ shown by the action of Mr. ; Palmer’s own party in the state of Georgia, in which state Palmer “was an active candidate for the Democratic nomination for presi- " dent, supported by the entire strength of' the Wilson administration. - LET’S HAVE ACTION ON THE BAER BILL EPRESENTATIVE JOHN M. BAER. introduced, some - months ago, in the lower house of congréss, a bill for the . control of the packers. 'This bill has the united support of _progressxve farmers and of organized labor. It provides a national food commission, authorized to license ‘packers and to prevent them . from engaging in lines of busmess not authorized by the license. It requires the railroads to acquire stockyards and refrigerator cars so_that all packers, members of the “Big' Five” and independents = "ahke, may have equal competltlve condltlons _ The Baer bill contains nothing “radical”’ Tt does not even go - as far as the recommendations of the federal trade commission, which were for government monopoly ownership of the stockyards. - The trade commission report was made, however, ‘while the rail- - roads were in the government’s'hands. At present the railroads are - being operated (after a very poor fashion) by their owners. - railroads operate the stockyards it will be one step better than to have them operated by the private packers. . comes soon when the people of the United States become thoroughly n . disgusted with private railroad management, and government own- ership of railroads is adopted as a permanent policy, the stockyards tv - will become. the property. of all the people, a8 the federal trade coni~ 8 i mlssmn recommends, - the' secretary of the . If the And when the time The Baer bill represents s1mply a plam, busmesshke method of 'dealmg with a perplexing immediate problem... But no action has yet been taken upon it. Is it simply because congressmen are 0o busy playing politics? Or:is it because the Big Five packers are e stxll strong enough to defy any form of government regulatlon? : ‘Why not find out? Let’s get some action on the * Baer bill! Write to your senator - - and representative, and find out “‘which has the more influence in ‘congress—the side of the or- * ganized farmers and organized - workers, or the side of the Blg Flve packers S : : WHOLE NUMBER 244