The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 11, 1921, Page 14

S Who Does Speculation Benefit ? BY UNITED STATES SENATOR E. F. LADD Does speculation in grain benefit the farmer or the consumer? If we are to judge from the experience during the World war and as stated . by Dr. Kellogg in discussing Herbert Hoover, “The Man and His Work,” we shall .discover that in 1917, before the food administration came into" -~being, flour rose to-$17.50 .per barrel to the consumer, while the wheat . from which this flour was made was sold by the farmers, according to the department of agriculture, at about an average of $1.42. Then, if four and one-half bushels of wheat are required for a barrel of flour, or $6.40 for the wheat, the spread was $11 per barrel. In other words, the transformation of four and one-half bushels 6f wheat into flour *and placing the flour into the hands of the consumer cost $11. After the food administration took charge, the farmer received on an average of $2 per bushel for his wheat, or $9 for the four and one-half bushels of wheat contained in the barrel of flour. The consumer paid - $12.50 for the barrel of flour and the spread was only $3.50. Who got the difference of $7.50 before the food administration took -charge? If grain speculation is such a stabilizer of prices, it must be in the interests of the speculator and not of the farmer or the consumer. . FOR THE NEW DAY Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Is not this the hardest time the farmer ever had since he has been in the farming ‘business? -It takes about 200 bushels of corn to buy a suit of clothes or two bushels to buy a pound of coffee and so on with everything else the farmer has to buy. Such times have never before been recorded in history. But the big majority voted for them last fall. - They had their first chance in their lives to vote their own ticket. I wish to impress on all our numbers that the farmers who oppose the Non- firtlsan league are our worst enemies. ank God lots of them are getting their eyes opened by the big business robbery going on now worse than ever before. One farmer here says, “This League paper and other like papers cause dis- content; they should be stopped.” I told him that a system had been in force under the czar of Russia to keep the people ignorant. I told him also there ‘was great contentment in read- ing the Nonpartisan league papers and the Minnesota Daily Star and other labor papers to see a “New Day” ahead. I also told him I hoped the time would come when a publisher of a book or paper would ‘be fined for publishing lies." It is the truth people want, and they should have it. " 1 wish our paper could get into the hands of every man and woman in the United States. Every member of the Nonpartisan ‘league should work, at least do as much as he or she can, to.~ increase our membership. Meetings should be held for the people to come together at least once a month ahd keep the moyement alive and make. it more vital and stronger so we can get that New Day for ourselves and all the people of the United States. - WILLIAM KOESTER. Mfllboro, S. D. SAYS “STICK” Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I see by the papers that there is a move to recall three of the best men of North Dakota. All that I can say to the members of the League is to STICK. In North Dakota you have started" something and if you stick to it it will spread to every state in the Union in a few years. Your laws have been tested and found.to be sound. I see some are complaining that taxes are $3 per acre. So they are here and probably in every other state. Our politicians act in millions where .they would balk at thousands before / the war. But what is' the use of kicking. We have to pay the bills. All the way out that'I can see is for the farmer and laborer to get together and STICK. C. E. LUDDEN. Arletta, Wash. ~your flesh like fire. " Sabaoth. * North Dakota officials. WHY PRICES ARE HIGH Editor Nonpartisan Leader: In- closed is an express receipt for ex- press charges on a shipment of onion sets shipped by Northrop, King & €o., | seed house, and also an invoicee This shipment of seeds was received by Nick Lenertz, a merchant of Wibaux. Mr. Lenertz is friendly to the farmers and requested me to try to get this published in one of the League papers. Wibaux, Mont. J. A. HAWKS. The bill for the two bushels of onion sets was $1.80. The express bill, Min- neapolis to Wibaux, including war tax, was $5.66. The express charges, therefore, amounted to more than three-fourths of the cost of the onion sets to this merchant: It is an in- stance of how extortionate freight rates (the express companies are own- ed by the railroad companies) are re- sponsible for the cost of everything we buy.—THE EDITOR. RICH, BEWARE! R Editor Nonpartisan Leader: As a member of the Nonpartisan league I | desire to call your attention to the word of God foreteHing the serious economic condition of the farmer caus- ed by the wicked rich of today. “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries which shall come upon you. Your riches are cor- rupted, and your garments are moth- eaten. Your gold®and silver is can- kered and the rust of them shall be for .a testimony against you and shall eat You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. “Behold the hire of the labourers. who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of “You have feasted upon earth and in riotousness you have nqgrished your hearts in the day of Slaughter (the World war).” James 5, 1-5. By the foregding I plead for inde- pendent political action by this trinity of interests, the farmer, the wage- earner and honest business, for a true interdependence. - H. C. PATZWALD. " El Reno, Okla. DIRTY WORK Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am inclosing a clipping from the Youth’s Companion in which they assail the We are mnot paying the price we do for that paper to have such misleading statements put before our children. Our best wishes are with you in your struggle for the right. Ma God give you strength and foresight in the conflict ahead of you. Hardin, Mont. G. L. KENT. LEADER 'CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT This is the pldte to advertise your stock, farm machinery, chickens, eggs, producg for sale and auction sales; to make results come from Leader Classified Ads. Rates are 15 cents per word per issue, your wants known and have them supplied. To members of the National Nonpartisan league when-advertising to sell their. own products or supplying their own needs, a rate . of 10 cents per word is made. League members must give the number of their member- ship receipt when claiming the 10-cent rate. All advertising for sale of lands carries the full rate. Ads must reach us two weeks before date of publication. ALL CLASSIFIED ADS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE Farms - BILLINGS COUNTY, N. D., 560-ACRE FARM; good buildings, good soil; mall telephone ; elglxt miles fencing; well-settled nelghborhond coal and water on, farm, also school;e 300 acres crop; 12 miles Belfield. Price, $28,000, including 85 000 worth Tarm_machinery and threshing rig. Govern- ment loan $6,000, 5% per cen t 35 years. Will ex- change, for city property or Minnesota wild land. M. H. Evans, 1620 Pioneer Building, St. Paul. SHALL SELL — 158-ACRE MARSHALL COUNTY land, one mile from state road; no swamp, prairie; fi.ooo, on easy terms. Write Nordstrom, Gatzke, nn. I HAVE CASH. BUYERS FOR SALABLE FARMS, Will deal with owners only. Give description and cash price. Morris M. Perkins, Columbia, Mo. JIMPROVED 120 IN OTTERTAIL COUNTY, MINN.; good buildings; $60 per acre, $800 down. owner, Theo. Kanne, Grantsburg, Wis. FOR stock farm, 1,012 acres. Fred Eckert, Owner, Wll- liston, N. D. FARMS CHEAP TO CLOSE ESTATE. Ray, N. A Charlson, Livestock HOLSTEIN CALVES, SEVEN WEEKS OLD; BOTH sexes; practically nure blood; $25 each, crated for shipment anywhe: Registered bull . calves, $50. Edgewood Farms, Whlwwnmr, ‘Wis. ‘CHESTER WHITE BOARS FOR SALE. SIRED BY Alfalfa O. x.. w ildwood, Defender and . others. Will ship C. D. or on approval. H. F. August, Montgomery, lunn. —_— FOR SALE—REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS elght to 22 months; Fairfax and Anxiety strains. Priced to.sell. John Tweten, Rolette, N. D. PUREBRED DUROC PIGS, 100 POUNDS EACH; $15 each; papers furnished. J. E. Cesak, St. An’ thony, N. D. FOR SALE—REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COWS AND heifers at farmers’ prices. Herbert Kietzer, Ver- non Center, Minn. REGISTERED CHESTER WHITE SPRING PIGS for sale. Stephen Tokach, St. Anthony, N. D. Professional Schools U. 8. GOVERNMENT WANTS HUNDREDS RAIL- way mail clerks, Men—women over. 17. $1,600 first year; yearly raise to $2,300. Vacation with full pay. Women given office work. Permanent, life positions. No strikes or layoffs. Common edu- cation sufficient. Pull unnecessary. Write imme- diately for list government positions open. Frank- _Jin Institute, Dept. N48, Rochester, N. Y. 100 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WANTED_ LEARN telegrap! Salary $120 to $200 month. Earn ex- penses w| l]a learning. Free catalog. United Rail- ways Telegraph School, Bremer Arcade, St. Paul. LEARN TELEGRAPHY, SHORTHAND OR BUSI- ness. Salaries $100 to $300. Write for free de- mlpdve catalog. Barry’s College, 903 Mlnnelpollu. Tobacco KENTUCKY TOBACCO—DIRECT FROM ers. Save 7. r eent on your tobacco bill. mellow leaf, bulk. Chewing and smoklng. three pounds, -ge postpaid. Kentucky Tobacco As- sociation, D306, Hawesville, Ky. EKENTUCKY NATURAL LEAF . SMOKING OR GROW- Rich, chewing tobacco, 10 pounds, $2.30;‘ 20 pounds, $3.60. Collect on delivery. Walter Veal, Jones- - boro, Ark. Real Estate BAYFIELD COUNTY, WIS, land near station. Clay loam; grain, clover, vege- tables; sure crops; $15 per acre; five years to pay. No interest. George Besser, L-805 Plymouth Bldg., Minneapolis. SELL YOUR PROPERTY QUICKLY FOR CAS! no matter where located. * Particulars free. Re: Estate Salesman Co., Dept. 535, Lincoln, Neb. Help Wanted WANTED—AN ENERGECTIC YOUNG PAE N‘ml who understands care of stock and has $1,500 invest in cattle. Will lease my 1,280-acre nnch for three or five years, including 40 head -cattle, CHOICE TILLABLB horses, etc., reasonable to right man. Reference requged Write Wm. T. Griffith, Newton Grove, n Lumber ‘LUMBER AND SHINGLES AT REDUCED PRICES. Farmers’ trade our specialty. Best quality. Robert Emerson Company, Box 1156N, Tacoma, Wash, CEDAR POSTS AND POLES DIRECT FROM PRO- ducer to you. Pay when unloaded. C. R. Weare, Noxon, Mont. Corn Harvester CORN HARVESTER CUTS AND PILES ON HAR- vester or windrows. Man and horse cuts and shocks equal corn binder. Sold in every state. Only $28, with fodder-tying attachment. Testimonials and catalog free showing picture of harvester, Process Harvester Company, Salina, Kan. i Harness FIFTY DOZEN 100-LASH BRAIDED BAR &'EAM nets, $7 pair; 180-lash, ditto, $8.50 pair; burlap “fly »covers, 100 inch, 90 cents each; largest stock of harness and saddles west of Chicago. Catalog free. Midway Harness Co., 1953 University Avenue, St. Paul. Seed e e e N\ EARLY AMBER CANE, 95. PER CENT GERMINA- u«in, 8 cents per pound. Lewis Larson, Glencoe, Minn. ° - Business Chances FBEE—FOBMUL\ CATALO(} 27" LABORATORIES. Boylston Bulilding, Chiea, PAGE FIFTEEN T S BT R R N A W T ok PV A Y \ @70 Write - SALE OR RENT—VERY CHOICE GRAIN, g Beehives and Supplies —eeeo e BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES FROM A RELIABLB house Quality first; accurately made. Best service; d#flays on orders from my factory. Send for free catalog. Charles Mondeng, Minneapolis, Minn, Agents Wanted AGENTS — SELL MILBURN PUNCTUREPROOF tubes. Demonstrate by driving nail in tire. Every ewner wants them. Ford, $3.20. Milburn Punc- tureproo{ Tube Co., 5209 Prairie Ave. » Chicago. Farm Machinery ONE COMPLETE REEVES THRESHING OUTFIT; one eight-roll Advance corn-shredder; two saw- mills; all good. Cheap for cash. Wm. Hankinson, Harris, Minn. Honey and Cheese A ———N———————. PURE WHITE -CLOVER HONEY, $2 PER 10- pound pail; $10.50 per 60-pound can. Satisfaction guaranteed. Herbert Kietzer, Vernon Center, Minn, Coffee COFFEE — EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY, FIVE pounds, prepaid, $1.40. N. A. Charlson, Ray, N. D. Poultry . ADVERTISEMENTS CHICKS, 8 CENTS UP. ALL KINDS; POSTTAID, Book free. Superior Bouse, ‘Windsor, GALL CURE ES Used by the Family Used extensively to relieve bed sores, itching piles, cracke hands, etc. If a white ointment is desired ask for our XYZ Skin Ointment. : e Bickmore Co. Box 717 922 N, 5th 1. Salina, Kan. LEARN Avzro and TRACIOR BUSINESS IN 6 TO 8 WEEKS™H Earn up to $500 a month Also acetylene welding and vulcan- izing in same school that trained wldxers for U, 8. Day and Evening Classes. FREE: Send for 100-page catalog. | 2512 Bniversity Ave. "S5%. St Pa, Minn 13 \NGER TIRE & RUEN RUBBER c:. n'l"ior& Oak 8t,, Kansas City, Mo, .Menuon the Leader When Writing Advertisers e i R s e i e