The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-28

fellow who is organized to- control the
prices of his grain, hogs or cattle
where that $4,000. goes.
Bankers who are members of the
Minnesota Bankers Association pay
mere each year as dues in their or
ganizatiOn than the farmer pays for
membership in Nonpartisan League,
but l never heard farmer question
ing the right of the Banker to Orga-
niZe ii he wants to-, and l never heard
farmer questiOn-"What becomes of
the money!" Lawyers have their Bar
Association, doctors have their Medi-
cal Societies, merchants have their
Commercial Clubs and nobody has
questioned their right to have them as
long as they use their own money to
pay their membership fees. But when
the farmer wants to organize, o Lord,
can't somebody take him to one side
and tell him how dangerous it is to
listen to these agitatOrs who come
along telling them how over 10000
farmers of sister state organized.
Listen, brother, if you are so solicit.
tOus of the farmers real welfare as
you pretend to be, you would get down
to brass tacks and help him find the
leaks and, having found them, do all
that lies in your power to help stop
them.
Did you ever tell the Farmer the
reason why he sold his hogs at
price less than it costs to raise them
and when you and l buy that far
mer's hog out of the market, we pay
about 200 per cent above the price
the farmer got? There is reason for
this. Tell him the reason, won't you?
That's all l am dOing-just pointing
out the reason things happen to hap
pen.
And then tell him also why it is that
a farmer can ship carload of grain
to the Twin Cities, and get on the
train himself and go down to the CT
ties, and try to sell his own grain, and
when he gets there he finds that no one
will buy of him and that he must con-
sign his OWN grain to some member
of the Chamber of Commerce and pay
them one cent per bushel to sell his
grain for him. Tell them why. That
is all I am doing.
Tell them also why it is that the
great State of Minnesota has State
constitution that permits the. state
money to be invested only in National,
State or School District Bonds. And if
the great farmer class want the use
of money to add to or improve their
farms, they are compelled to pay sew
en- per cent and sometimes more while
their own money, the States, is only
drawing per cent on the average.
Tell the farmer the reason, won't you?
That's what l am telling him.
Tell your farmer friend that you
think it is too bad that he should be
compelled to pay fine every year
because he is obliged to own few
tools with which to make living. l
refer to the horses, harrows, hay rakes
binders, moving machines, plows, har-
ness and, in fact, even the chickens
have to have fine paid on them ev-
cry year. If you think that this is all
right, don't say word about it to
him but ! think it is ell wrong and I
am telling the farmers how they can
provide sufficient revenue for the
State and not compel the producers
at
cry year on the necessary tools they
must own if they are to work their
land and make living.
l suppose l am a bad man because
l tell the farmers how they can do
away with this long array of abuses
that have grown up, and how the peO-
pie can provide any and all service of
a public nature without paying tribute