Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-23

membership, nc arbitrary hiking OIL
prices by a. "millers' combine" 1t
means that, through their own agents
the farmers may sell their own grain,
thus doing away with an army OF
commission men-Often the paid
agents Of the miliers, who thus
make both sides Of the bargain
and retaining for the farmers them
selves, the many millions Of dollars in
profits 10Y distributed among middle
men, ut means also the wiping out
OF "Option trading" through which q
hundreu million bushels more grain
than is ever produced are annually
brought into competition with every
million coming from the farmers
fields. 1t means that the thousands
Of gamblers now supported by the
farmers, through this form OF trading,
will he forced to earn an honest liv-
ing. This statement assuredly covers,
for. the Equity, the first of the essen.
tials named above.
An Inspiring Leadership.
Grandly fortunate is the Equity
movement in this, the second essen
tial of success. Born of the farm, q
man of the people, George 8. LOTUS
has fought his way from the humblest
beginning, to a position where his
finest credentials for leadership are
found in great things already record
ed in the annals of achievement.
ST. enteen years of active service In
various, branches of railroad work,
nnAS ~ y - H1nnS1 vno SO Fnf % 0cNn}Qf{nn In
the grain business with experts like
Ex-Governor Hubbard and others,
familiarized him with every detail Of
the rmultifarious agencies concerned.
in the marketing of grain. He was
made to feel, in his own business, the
weight of M0n0poly's heel. and the In
justice Of intrenched Privilege. Thus
he was fairly stung into the actlv-
tiles which made HIM, in the hands OF
Providence the foremost agent In
bringing about the following reforms.
The passage OF what are known
as Reciprocal Demurrage" laws, I'M
der which, in about a dozen states,
railroads are. penalized for delay in
just as shippers are penal-
lied for delay in unloading cars.
4 The reduction OF Pullman
sleeping car rates, not only in Min
nesota, but all owe the United States.
This was the result Of a personal suit
brought tDy Mr.. Lofts, with James
as his attorney. 1t is saw
ing to the people OF the United States
probably 1900, 900 a year..
1t will be- seen then, that our lead
er although now only 40 years old.
to. the battle for Cooperative
Marketing such, an equipment, gained
from actual business experience, and
from 1 succession Of. victorious com
bats with Monopoly and Privilege In
other FORMS as would seem to make
his success a practical certainty: He,
his field. In. the sphere OF
grain transportation and marketing,
he may well exclaim,
"My foot is on my native heath,
My name, MacGreg0r!!
A SUFFICIENT Organization.
Already, the Equity Exchange has q
splendid~memhership Of about 400
all farmers, and including among
them mapY.,of the wealthiest and most
succe4sfdix SfaM growers of the Dp.Y
kotas, Montana and Minnesota. 1t ID
doing "a prosperous and ever-increas-
Ing business IN the marketing Of grain
at Minneapolis, Chicago and Duluth.
Eut the larger the capital invested,
The greater will be the results achiev-
ed, and it must be considered that
The. grand. result sought is not merely
The increase Of the. business Of this
one particular agency, but the break.
Ing down of all barriers to the oper.
alton Of similar agencies in all the
market s offAmerica and the world.
Hence the call forSSmDreS subscriptions
to the capital st96s the amount Of
any indiyidpal subscription being linn
ted to $1,0ON.
Thus 94rssthe membership in the
Equity ot,frjliRl1liiation has, with almost
no excepd0h, proved splendidly en-
Observation-Disclosures. And again, by
This, sign We conquer