The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 3

IN THE INTEREST OF A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE FARMERS TNonpartissn Teader A MAGAZINE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE TRUTH vertis thy i { Circul 8. C. Entered as _second-class matter at the postoffice at C , $1.50, H %flgfien;{;flls, al]lnn., X‘P'Idesrl ttr!\lo act of shi!l;“d‘l 3, 18]1lo. other:el?‘" sllngontfgag:nm:gp{l*‘ogl.‘ cill:l’nlg:g R\.xfie'. ublication address, 427 Sixth avenue S., Minneapolls, o B 5 . C. Minn. Address ail remittances to The Nonpartisan Published at Minneapolis, Minn., Every Two Weeks Agency, ndverfl:lcnuzu:a!g?gsentames, va:dl‘ffi% c‘fix?cefl:} Leader, Box 2072, Minneapolis, Minn, OLIVER S. MORRIS, Editor. St. Louis, Kansas City. _— ' VOL. 13, NO. 2 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, JULY 25, 192 WHOLE NUMBER 277 ers, Inc., has in its pathway is the support of newspapers and interests that have viciously opposed the Nonpartisan league, the farmers’ Equity and every other fundamental, genuine reform movement. These interests naturally felt that, for the time being at least, it was to their advantage to support any kind of a farmers’ movement not connected with the League. There was always the chance of their support resulting in their being taken ‘“on the in- side” and controlling the movement, and anything THE greatest stumbling block the United States Grain Grow- Knocks by looked better to them than the League. And, too, Cidin Tiad the United States Grain Growers, Imc., resulted rain irade fr,; the work and recommendations of the “Com- Good Sign mittee of 17,” in organizing which the American Farm Bureau federation had a hand. The Bureau federation was created through the activity of business interests and still is the special pet of interests that have opposed the Non- partisan league and similar fundamental reform movements. This applies to the American Federation and to most of the state federa- tions, though some of the state bodies are breaking away from non- - farmer influences. - _It is easy to understand, therefore, why many farmers continue to be suspicious of the United States Grain Growers, Inc. Recent incidents, however, have tended to allay this suspicion, and will, we think, result in the grain growers’ corporation abandoning any ideas it may have had (and we @o ngt say they had such ideas) of getting support from interests concerning whom the farmers are justly suspicious. The United States Grain Growers have been attacked recently from several different directions by the ‘“grain trade”’—the grain exchange interests. The Tri-State Grain Shippers’ association, with grain exchange sympathies, at a recent Minneapolis meeting' denounced the grain growers’ plan of marketing 'as The “‘Grain Trade’’ and the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc. moting a grain pool. The “Northwestern” is an older organization and, we are informed by many good Nonpartisan leaguers who went into it, is managed by the farmers for the farmers. It is signing up farmers for a compulsory.pool, while the United States Grain Growers’ plan is for a voluntary pool. The Northwestern is the older organization, but the newer organization has got the start of it in several states. In some states there is a con- Should Get flict which is not doing the pool idea any good. Together We have read some of the “literature” of the gether on «y, thwestern.” It is out openly fightipg the U. S. Plan Soon . corporation. That will do it no more good than a lofty and ¢ontemptuous attitude toward the “North- western” will do the U. S. Grain Growers. There should be some sort of an agreement or co-operation—perhaps a division of terri- tory. It is not the function of the Leader to say what the agree- ment should be, nor will we take sides as to the relative merits of a compulsory and a voluntary plan. As Sir Roger of “Spectator” fame used to say, “Much can be said on both sides.” = But any one can see that a fight between these two organiza- tions will do neither any good and will injure the pool idea. If one should be eliminated in the competition it would leave hard feelings, unless there is an agreement. Both organizations should be broad- min@gii enough to see this and arrange a conference as soon as possible. Justice.” The book indicated that improvements in political and economic conditions would wipe out poverty, misery, vice. The upper crusts of society in those days, as now, disliked a book which held that their pleasures, comforts and security were pur- chased at such a terrible cost. They were satisfied with conditions ~ which brought them benefits and ’.IN 1873 William "Godwin wrote “An Inquiry Concerning Political “the same plan as sponsored by = profits, and objected to Godwin’s the Nonpartisan league.” Secre- | THE PHRENOLOGIST theories. tary Adams of the association . - _ even charged that the grain growers’ corporation was merely a “stock jobbing plan.”” Joseph P. Griffin, pregident of the Chi- cago Board of Trade, in a pam- phlet, calls'the new marketing plan one to “farm the farmers.” A recent meeting of grain men at Cincinnati appointed a com- mittee to draw up plans to fight the United States Grain Grow- ers, Inc. John C. McHugh, sec- retary of the Minneapolis Cham- ber 'of Commerce, was named on the committee. All this is evidence that the new marketing plan really has a chance of benefiting the farmer, for it can not help the farmer without hurting the interests which have now come out in the open against it. The next few months will demonstrate wheth- _ er the leaders of the new mar- keting movement will steer it entirely clear of suppoirt and in- fluence of an insidious and sinis- ter kind. The Leader wishes the plan success, and so will not hes- itate to speak out when and if, in our judgment, the.movement is going astray. 8 3 ! HILE we are speaking A of the United States . : Grain Growers, Inc., it will not be amiss to suggest that some agreement ought to be - made by that body with the Northwestern Grain Growers’ association, which is also pro- . - NOPE , THERE DON'T SEEM TO BE ANY BUMP OF KINDNESS FOR ME! Four or five years later there arose a champion of these privileged classes, to restore them to mental Mlllta.l‘lStS e it e Consciences the result of 7 God’s laws, or at . least matural laws which could not be changed. This champion was Thomas Malthus, author of the famous Malthusian theory. This holds that population tends to outstrip means of subsistence. War, disease, vice and misery are necessary to keep population within limits and prevent the overpopulation of the earth. Malthus became immensely popular. He was an 18th cen- tury Seligman or Butler, to name two-of our contemporary ‘pro- fessors” whose “scientific” ob- jections to reform are soothing present-day parasites. ; Malthus’ theory that vice and misery virtually were divine ordinances was not successfully refuted until 1880, when Henry George published his “Progress and Poverty.” Since then the theory hasn’t a leg to stand up- on. George showed that popula- tion could not overtake subsist- ence until every idle acre was -cultivated, and not even then, be- cause the greater the population ~ the more efficient productive —::__-jb 7y processes - become. He proved ~B= “=. that the world’s population had —Drawn expressly for the Leader by John M. Baer. never overtaken subsistence and 7 e ; , TEa 10 d -7 ' PAGE THREE : ey 5 &