The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 14

‘of Wisconsin made-in net profits that ,year. Talk about lean - years—the :farmers of this country have never -had anything but lean years. | “Not long ago a farmer shipped a " carload of lambs to Chicago. After selling them and deducting the freight .and other charges they netted him 38 cents per head. Yet you can not go “into a first class restaurant in the city of Washington and get a lamb chop for less than 80 cents. What becomes of the pelt and the rest of the carcass? Who gets them? Have there been some ‘lean years’ somewhere for the restaurant keepers that.they now are taking it out of the farmers and the consuming public to make up for those ‘lean years,” and taking it at a time when the Esch-Cummins bill is largely responsible for the deflation of farm resources nearly $10,000,000,000 in this country last year?” A Townley Speech of 48 Years Ago ; (Continued from page 5) costs $2,600. Did- you ever stop to think that it takes the product of a whole township to feed a judge? Our circuit judge eats up all we earn in a township in a year. Is not he a monstrous eater? Is it not time we tried to look into this matter and see - if we could not get some man who would eat less? It costs too much to board that kind of cattle. Think of what you are getting for your prod- ucts, and of what you are paying for his service. Is there any reason, Jjustice or right in all this? No reform is possible within the existing parties. History has proven that no reform was ever yet worked" inside the party or sect in which origi- nated the corruptions complained of. From Martin Luther down all the great social, political and religious re- forms that have ever been accomplish- ed began clear down among the com- mon people and worked upwards, while all oppressions, wrongs and cor- ruptions began up yonder and work- ed downward. When I began this movement I said I would seek to ac- complish these reforms inside of the Republican party if I can, outside of it if I must. But that salary grab, the action of our legislature last win- ter, of the Republican legislature of Indiana upon this matter last winter, and that of the Iowa legislature, which snubbed the Grangers, have convinced me that there is no redress for us in- side any party organization except our own. I have been voted—that is the word —ever since I was 21, and now I am going to vote; that is the difference. - I have been led up to the polls all these years like cattle, and kave been voted. Now, in God’s name, let us go to voting. When you do that you will make the “fur fly.” When you decide that you will do that, you will see more than one fellow around with hayseed in his hair and in his clothes. My advice is simply this; to vote as farmers. Did you ever stop to think that you had three-fifths and a frac- . tion over of all the votes in this state? Yet, with all that numerical superior- ity, what have you done in electing men to office to protect your inter- ests? - FARMERS HAVE POWER TO USE Tizink what power you have. Is it any wonder that these fellows are - ready to bow right down to us when they think of the power we hold as voters? Is it any wonder that they are willing to concede to us a great many things and a great many rights —rights that they have always denied us heretofore? As for myself, so help me heaven, no man who has once betrayed my trust, no man who took that salary steal, from the president down to the lowest of them, will ever get my vote for any office whatever, not even for postmaster; and I say, as I did on the Fourth of July, that if any one of these men is ever elected again outside of certain large cities, it will be agricultural votes that will elect him. And I said, and repeat the ex- - pression, that if they are thus elected you deserve to go right in and work 30 months. to pay them for one in the public service. If you are wronged in the future do not complain, for you have it in your power to remedy the evil by these combinations; but let them be ‘for good, mind you, and not for evil. Let us combine. I saw a man at our na- tional congress who said: “When I left southwestern Georgia I paid a dollar a bushel for your prairie corn. I come out here and I find that you are getting 20 cents a bushel for it, and that therefore some- body got 80 cents for fetching it to me. You ought to have half a dollar for that corn, and I ought to get it for 75 cents; and then the fellows who fetch it to us would get 25 cents in- stead of 80, and that would equalize the thing. I would rather pay 75 cents than one dollar, and you never ought to raise a bushel of corn for less than half a dollar.” CAN FIX OWN PRICES IF WANT And so say I. You never should sell a bushel short of half a dollar, and you can have it the moment you say you will. If your poor neighbors must: sell, furnish them the money; make up a purse for them, lend them the money on their cribs and enable them to hold on until the price is up. People can not eat dry goods and nails; but we can be self-supporting on a farm; and there is where we have got the ad- vantage, for we can make our farms support us, as we did when I was a boy, when we spun linen and muslin, and made everything we used. They must have our products, and the power to fix a price upon them is in our hands the moment we get ready for it, and that within a year, if we are wise in this matter. First begin by organizing everywhere; not for ex- tortion, not for robbery, but to execute the first law of nature, that of self- protection. Organize, that we may be strong against the many. While seg- regated we are weak; aggregated we are a power which will be irresistible foi good to ourselves. FARMER IS EASY 3 Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The subject of close organization of pro- ducers of foodstuffs is one of vital in- terest to all. If a carpenter.or other tradesman goes to do a piece of work for a farmer he never asks what the farmer will pay him. He simply tells the farmer what he has to pay. The same thing happens if the farmer goes to buy a suit of clothes, a bag of sugar or a piece of rhachinery. Of course he has a chance for re- taliation when the stock buyers, wool buyers and other buyers come around or when he takes his wheat to the ele- vator. Does he embrace the oppor- tunity? No! To his shame he asks the buyer to place a price on his own produce. He takes what is offered and pays what is asked. All the while he is fervently cursing farm organiza- tions. And here I must leave theé problem to others. It is absolutely beyond my comprehension. G. C. DAVISON. Gilman, Mont. 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