The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-19
PRESENTS deal Plan
70 MARKET PRODUCE
Seattle Man Explains Details
to Farmers at St. Paul
Convention.
sOclALIzING NEEDED
Advocates Public Owned
Warehouses, Elevators
and Cold Storage.

st. Paul. Sept. 1s.--The ideal plan
for marketing and distribution Of food
products was explained to nearly 1000
farmers from Minnesota and North
Dakota at the night session Of the
convention of producers and con-
sumers holding three days session
here under the auspices Of the Nation
al Non Partisan league by Robert
Bridges. president Of the Port District
Of the port Of Seattle. In outlining
the ideal conditions for marketing, Mr..
Bridges said:
Must Soeialixe Processes.
In the last quarter of a century.
the United States has ceased to be
primarily an agricultural country and
has become as well an industrial
country. No solution can be made of
the problem of marketing and distri-
button until we follow the example of
eastern states and cities by socializing
the primary functions that have to do
with marketing and distribution. such
as railways, street railways and ter
minal facilities Of great seaports.
I'VE must develop trolley freight
and motor trucks and eliminate the
wasteful horse. l believe the ideal
plan for marketing and distribution Of
food products would be:
The Ideal Arrangement.
Publicly owned terminal ware
houses, elevators and cold storage
plants, these connected with a public
terminal railway;
These brought into direct contact
with the producers in adjacent terri
tory by publicly owned and operated
auto-freight trucks. taking the prod
ucts directly from the farm to the
terminal elevators and warehouses;
"A publicly operated wholesale ter
minal market under the same author
ity as that operating the terminal
warehouse and the auto freight sys-
tem-the public institution would thus
sell produce either at auction or pri-
waite sale for ~ producer:
1.-THE establishment of great CO.
operative consumers association:
whose agents would buy directly from
the public terminal market or ware
house. If we will add to this, gov
eminent ownership and operation o
steam railway system and govern
ment ownership of and operation 0
the water front of our great natura
seaports, which are the gateWays Q
ocean bound commerce we will flint
that we have tied the string to tn
soaring kite Of the ever raising price
Of basic national supplies"
"Wea,th Must Pay"
John NJ. Baer, nom Partisan leagu
congressman from North Dakota, on
of the speakers at the night session
contended that wealth must pay to
the war.
while / do want to protest agains
the price of $500 fixed for wheat
he said, Il believe that it is unjus
and unfair while we let these pirate
take excess profits out of the pocket
OF the people and the boys who go
France Wealth must pay for tn
war, or we will know the reason why
Baer, before his election to cor
gress, was a newspaper cartoonist an
he punctuated his remarks with cal
toons chalked on a drawing board.
If a mother should come down
congress-" Mr.. Baer continued, ito as
that her boy not be sent to Franc
congress would consider 1t an illeg
act.
Il Makes Difference.
But these big fat interests con
down to Washington to protest again'
the CONSUMPTION of their wealth an
they are given plush chairs and i
them rap at the door OF the senate.
Why, I'd rather be called a PR
German or an !. w. w. than to be II
sort of patriots they are. We are &
ing to get rid of this sort, if the Poop
have to rise up and do it by force
He closed by picturing an army
voters moving on the trenches
wealth irresistible as a prairie fl
and as formidable as a front Of ba,
Onets."