The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 7, 1921, Page 9

| commission house was controlled by one or.another of the line elevator companies. .~ How _the -commission houses tried to conceal their affilia- tions is shown by the following letter from the files of the Van Dusen-Har- rington company: Fessenden, N. D., 11-6-17. Mr. H. A. Fietus, Minneapolis, Minn. Dear Mr, Fietus: I want to ask you as’'a special favor not to use letter- heads, as per the enclosed, in writing . to any of my farmer elevator accounts, as it has the same effect on them as shaking a red cloth at a bull, as there is an awful strong sentiment among the . ‘average farmer elevator' com- panies against commission houses who own a large line of old-line elevators, and letterheads like this certainly ad- - ;ertises us in good shape along this ine. - Just to show you how a great many farmers’ organizations feel about do- ing business with what they call old- line firms, the farmers organized at Armourdale, N. D. I did not waste any time foing to see them at all as they owned the Atlantic Elevator com- pany, and made arrangements with the Brown Grain: ‘campany. only -to | -learn later on that they were the St. Anthony & Dakota and finally landed. with McCarthy Brothers, a strictly commission house. G This crowd at Wimbledon aYe some-- what Equity inclined and the- man- ager asked me today if Van Dusen- Harrington owned all these line of ele- vators. I put him off by telling him- you were joint traffic manager for all ~ the above companies but I could see he did not seem satisfied and I know such +letterheads as this should not be used in correspondence with our local ship- pers and I hope your stenographer will be instructed thoroughly so that they will not use it, especially when writing to Farmers’ Elev. Co. Yours truly, : (Signed) E. O. DILLING. Farmers came to legrn that to meet the line elevator companies at"the ‘Minneapolis market they would have to have their own terminal elevators and flour mills, either under co-oper- - ative ownership -or state ownership. s ‘ ADVERTISEMENTS reel BESLDES giving you green feed the year ’round, the Guaranteed Unadilla Silo saves 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the beef-build- ing and milk-producing- value of the corn crop 1 that is ordjnarily wasted when stalks are allow- &, ‘{hg?srr:::(lie filgarr;%fl;eg}tl:ye;?;e,wl;&g How the grain gamblers met fhese ed to'dfid freeze in tl.le field. 3 ; Kellog Commission - company, and €fforts of the farmers will be téld in [ Turning your stock out in the barnyard in the . threw them over when they learned the next installment of this story. dead of winter and feeding frozen shock fodder ~ Carlson Against Nolan Bill Farm Bureau Leader Takes Issue With Lieutenant Gov- b4 . ernor Comings e DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: I see in your issue of February 7 that you carry an article by the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin in favor of the Nolan land tax bill. I request space in your paper to show how it would affect the corn belt farmers of the Central West. For example: I have an equity in 240 acres of land that is probably worth $200 per. acre. Improvements are worth perhaps $8,000, leaving, after the $10,000 exemption is deducted, a land value of $30,000 to pay tax on, or $300 per annum. I am already paying $1 per acre in general taxes, so I would have a tax burden of $550 a year to pay. Our township has approximately 100 farms that are, conservatively, worth $150 per acre, or $3,456,000 for the town- ship. Exempting $1,000,000 non- taxab'e and $800,000 for improve- ments would leave $1,656,000 to pay tax on to’ the amount of $16,560 a year, which tax burden would have to be carried by the actual farmers, as the landlords would pass it on to their tenants. % : The well-to-do. farmer might be able to carry the burden, but it cer- tainly would be hard on us fellows who have bought land expecting to pay for it with what we produce on the land. On the more valuable land in Iowa a man owning 160 acres would have to pay $300 to $600 a2 year for the privilege of owning land. “* It may be that the farmers on the cheap cutover land in the North favor this land tax on their more fortunate and wealthier brother farmers of the price that is cited as market value. We would be interested in knowing the assessed value of the lands that Mr. Carlson writes about. Also we would like to hear from other farm- ers, in various parts of the country, as to their opinions of the Nolan bill. 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