The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 9

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In this connection I want to warn the farmers against the so-called fed-. eral sales tax which is being urged by eastern bankers and monopolists. This is wholly a tax on business that must be shifted to the consumer, es- pecially reducing the city workman’s ability to purchase from the farmer. The farmers everywhere should see that their congressmen vote right on - this question. PROFITEERS TRY TO CONFUSE THE PEOPLE It may take a long course of educa- tion to satisfy 'the people, especially the farmers, of the practicability and wisdom of the remedies proposed; for the big toll-takers will spend much money and printer’s ink to confuse the issues, befuddle the voters and to save their unearned toll. They can hire speakers and so-called “tax experts” and ‘“‘economists,” and produce -col- umns of figures, and perhaps make black look white and white look black; but the simple elementary -truth will as last prevail, that he who receives income without returning either goods or service is a toll-taker living at the expense of society—that he is wasting the substance of the workers and is responsible for a large share of the unemployment and poor markets’ that afflict the farmers and other produc- ers of the nation. The mechanics of marketing must be improved as a matter of course, The road from producer to consumer must be shortened and made as | smooth as possible. Scientific meth- ods of production must continue and the cheapening of farm costs must be striven for. Unfairness in competi- tion must be corrected. These chang- es are essential to a better marketmg system but, contrary to the opinion of many people, will not solve the prob- lem alone. They must be accompanied by a policy that will get rid of all classes whose incomes are unearned and from whom society.receives little or nothing in return. We can’t have good markets until the wealth of the country goes to those who are re- sponsible for its production and is made use of to supply legitimate wants. Until public opinion is ready for this step any pronounced improve- ments of either the producer or the consumer can not be attained. For years we have talked about these things and expended our ener- gies in mere talk. Legislatures have come and gone; the university and farmers’ institutes have taught us how to raise better crops and stock. But the toll-taking has increased and is ever increasing. Now the time has come to act. In Wisconsin we are be- ginning the work. The farmer and the workmen are looking for results. If results are not forthcoming, if reason- able expectations are to be disappoint- ed, let us not delude ourselves with dreams of future peace and content- ment. The higher the water rises be- fore the dam gives way, the more dis- astrous will be the flood; but if the gates are opened gradually disaster , may be avoided. Kansan Exposes Senator Capper Pubhsher-Pohtlclan Tries to Play Both Ends Against . the Middle, Says Farmer DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: Inclosed find clipping taken from Capper’s Weekly telling people of Kansas to go slow on the League. There are quite a number of League members in this vicinity and I don’t know of any who have much use for Capper. As United States senator he is trying to make it appear he is the one true friend of the farmer. But he is just the reverse. The time has come when the public has beeen forced to demand legislation for the farmers and work- ers, so Capper steps up with a bhill claiming all honors for himself in presenting it, where in truth the pub- lic is demanding what he claims as an invention of his own. Capper is a writer and politician who takes a stand where the least resistance comes from the public and big business. So instead of coming out and exposing the League he just tells the people to go slow. Why don’t he come out like a man and -show up the North Dakota laws and show what a terrible drawback the League program is to the people in general? Simply because, first, he can’t'show any one law the League has passed in North Dakota that is not in accord with the people’s needs and justice for all. Second, he wants to be a popular man among big business and also of the voters so he may be re-elected United States senator or to some other desirable office. Capper knows exactly what . the League program is but is not honest enough to take a stand where big busi- ness will slander him and persecute Farmers and laborers are uniting together for the first time in the his- tory of the world, and I, for one, am not afraid to give all the help I can to the League in capturing the state of Kansas for the program of the Non- partisan league. V. M. FISHER. Burdett, Kan., NOBODY ANSWERED Editor Nonpartisan Leader: For- mer Congressman W. C. Jones of Spo- kane recently sent the following let- ter, which was published in the Spo- kane Spokesman-Review: “To the Editor of the Spokesman- Review: Statistics disclose the fol- lowing facts: “Area—North Dakota, 70,837 square miles; Washington, 69,127 square miles. s - “Population, 1919 — North Dakota, 817,554; Washington, 1,723,757. - “Per capita tax, 1919—North Da- kota, $3.56; Washington, $6.42. “Will someone please explain why, with a smaller area’ and more than twice as many people, should the per capita tax of Washington be nearly twice as great as that of North Da- kota ?” Needless to say, the editor of the Spokesman-Review, who has been at- tacking the Nonpartisan league and defending the Washington state ad- ministration, didn’t answer the ques- tion. It would have been too embar- rassing for him. F.L.T. _Ritzville, Wash. 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