The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-11-12
Dope Is Right

Dope Is Right
Editor Pioneer:-I have just read the
"Real Market Dope" addressed to the
farmers in your last weeks paper. |
love dope, but there are times when
even farmer gets tired of being
doped. The day and age is fast pass
ing by when every small town business
man from the eye oculist to the banker
can hand out dope to the farmer.
Writers of dope nowadays should be
very careful with their dope lest the
educated country boy might think they
had been taking dope.
Now, we will see who is right, the
Mr., Grain Dealer or the dope mixer in
the busy store on the new postoffce
street. About the $50 million bushels,
we farmers don't know anything about
what they are going to do with it be-
fore they buy our wheat. Might get
the Kaiser to sink it, Now, the dope
says we are short on A No. l wheat,
a tip that Mr.. Grain Dealer would not
cough up (short on good, long on bad,
that is always the case with the farm
ers.) Now, what difference does it
make whether one Mr.. Grain Dealer or
the other Mr.. Grain Dealer coughs up?
They all look alike on the price Of
wheat. If there had been any such
good news as the shortage of A No. l
wheat to hand out to the people, why
didn't our banks hand it out? 1t meant
dollars to them and dollars to us, and
God knows we need it.
Now, don't think for a second that
Mr.. Grain Dealer or the dope mixer on
the new postoffice street has any inside
on the bankers when it comes to get
ting dope. But, No! Our bankers
didn IT say ''Here, old top, the country
is going to be short on A No. and
that class of wheat is going to be worth
good money and we need the money, so
we will put up little at II per cent
to help you hold it," No! No! But
when the man came along loaded with
hot air, an automobile and a bulldog
and says. 81 am organizing Farmers
Elevator Co. A few Of them belong to
the Farmers, Equity, the balance are
just common old farmers, any old
farmer, just so he can sign note and
dig up 20 per cent Of the note in cash,
and 20 per cent is what get for catch
,r, Tho Nou, tho cobo,,,o &c
to get as many as possible that can dig
up the 20 per cent, then we are going
to start buying grain, we are going tc
give the farmers the best of it, we are
going to buy on the Minneapolis mar
ket and some days we will be a little
above the market. The next day we
; will be little below, at any rate we
are going to make enough money tc
pay the man with the hot air, the auto
mobile and the bulldog his 20 per cen1
and then we are going to make a nice
: piece Of change for our stockholders. ,
What did our banker say? Was it 1:
, per cent in big letters? No! 81 will
let you have the money at seven to buy
the farmers grain that is better thar
for them to hold it.
, Yes, we sometimes stop and wipe thu
perspiration from our careworn brow
and wonder if we are really getting
square deal, On the dope mixers shee
he refers to the sad statement givel
by local dealer where he lost severa
Chats good many thousand dollar
on an advance of 6 cents per bushe OF
account of the wires being down, no
crossed. Such dope as that is mislead
ing and no farmer would have beel
7 hurt any more by this transaction thar
, they are by the thousands of deals tina
! are pulled off on the stock exchange
every day. 1t is wrong, we know it j
wrong, for them to take our goo
7 wheat that we have worked hard to ge
and gamble with it, but what are w
going to do about it? We can elec
men who can regulate the long an
short haul but we haven't found on
with head enough to stop gamblin
with our good wheat.
r "Pull together, farmers" What
j. splendid motto! l wonder if many eve
e stopped to think just what that woul
y really mean, pull together farmers, no
# few farmers but all the farmers
O This is what it would mean. Their
il would be no place in town for MI
Grain Dealer, no place for Mr.. Dop