Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-04-27
A QUESTION OF the BEST "a

Gle is Mr.. John 3. Kelly, register
of the T.. S. land Office at Pierre.
who evidently has made a deep
study of the subject, and doubt
less is a good authority. as
compared with the "Promulgator
of Forest City Politics" The
Press is not in a position to be able
to follow MI. Kelly in the argu-
ments supporting his position,
which doubtless are but one angle
or ray on a many-sided subject.
Governments owned elevators
and terminals L hardly a suffl-
Gent solution of the marketing
problem, if such terminals are to
be built only on a line from Duluth
or Chicago to New York City.
The Press theory is that a gov
eminent built or subsidized rail
road from Duluth or Chicago to
the Pacific coast, and railroad and
crnal to New Orleans, and govern.
ment elevators at said coast points.
is what is needed, more than for
the government to become q enid
dleman."
Cost? Yes, but if Your Uncle
Sam is going to build Panama Can
ais, a $40, OO0, 600 railroad in Alas
ka. &C., we don't know what is
wrong with his doing some active
canal and railroad building at home.
If it was right and proper for
Your Uncle Sam to substitute the
building of the Union Pacific Rail
way to the coast in the sixties, it
is certainly right and proper, now.
for him to substitute some more
roads that will do the American
Farmer more benefit than-.a cam
paign to kill off Ssmiddlemen." .
We think they have their uses.
Then there is Mexico? What's
the matter with a Railroad that
will give us of the West her pro-
T, ducts at cost, and demonstrate to
Mr.. Carranza that we are all ready
for a scrap with him if he don't
finish up Villaa. Would that be an
act of war?
Well, Mr.. Kelly and others are
inAugurating a War on Middlemen
aren't they?
"All wealth comes from the
ground or the waters Of the ground.
Accordingly the farmers take from
the soil the great bulk of all wealth
produced. Yet, take away from
the farmers today the unearned
portion in the value of their land
and theirpersonal property, which
is the only part of, their property
they actually produced, and it
would not begin to equal. their in
debtedaess, Why is this the case?
Because other and diverse parties.
known as middlemen, have taken
upon themselves the distribution
of the wealth the land gives up in
response to the efforts of the far
mers. mother words, the farmers
up to this time have been going it
blindly-production and increased
productiOn-while the other fellow
attended-entirely to the marketing
of what they produced. Conse-
quently, the wealth producer, the
farmer, is too often left holding
an empty bag, while the middle
man, who attends to his marketing
and who is . wealth gatherer,
counts his accnmulations by the
millions and hundreds Of millions.
s THE figures published BY this
writer covering the marketing 81
the crop produced during 1915.
commencing with August IL and
closing March 90, 1915, show that
through thesattsa OF the speculative
grsin interests ID price fixing alone.
on the basissof prices ia Duluth 81
Chicago and in liverpool, above
eosts of handling, 684O, COO, GOO
were taken. During the 6rst 1OO
dnY6 after the market OroAned that