The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
(SecOnd Installment)


Is this not evident, that if your Or
ganization will attempt to misinform
and mislead the consumer, is it not
far to presume that You would and
are now misleading the producer?
"D' feed, wheat is now nation
wide topic: l'E'four speakers have talk
ed "D'"fGed Wheat to our farmers,
yet our farmers have sold no such
thing as 30" feed wheat. You well
know the feed grades are "A", "B',
&C" and "D". "a" grade is wheat
weighing Al pounds, SOP AZ to A
pounds, sd" }5 to ~ pounds the pre-
! sent price of which is $2.O2, $3.50, $1.76
and $3.50. respectively, per bushel F..
o. Il. here. Your speakers tell the
people these grades will make flour
that will make just as good bread as
No. 2 Northern wheat will make Yet,
you know that any miller in our state,
or anywhere else would lose his repu-
tntion forever if he attempted to foist
| flour upon his customers made wholly
from these grades. Our millers are
now using ~ mixture containing 20 per
cent from those grades; however, they
fear the results that may come from
any material increase over this per-
centagc
Our livestock is a mixed breed, poor.
medium and fair grade. Very few of
our farmers have any idea of what i'll
tensive or diversified farming is. Did
you ever hear the league speakers; talk
on these things?
CREAMERIES NOT RUNNING
DO you know that out of some two
hundred crealnericS in North Dakota
some 116 were closed in 1916? DO yr,l
know that cream buyers in the cities
bid above market in the early spring
to get cream coming their way, after
which they settle back to the mar
ket. feeling assured the Cream will
keep coming, and 1id you ever hear
the league speakers tell our people of
this outrage, or make any attempt to
restore confidence in their own coop
eratiye creamery! .'-'8
Has it occurred to you that the
present price Of flour is due to our
own peoples demand for boarding
purposes? Putting cash wheat at a
premium of about $1.OO per bushel, do
you know that if the boarded flour
now in farmers hands were put on
the market, the price would drop out
of cash wheat? This same thing ap
plies to sugar; everybody wants SUI
gar, they seem to feel there will be no
sugar or flour to buy. One of my Gus
toners sent in for 800 pounds of -four
and afterward l found he had 1000
pounds in his attic. Is this supply and
demand! Your speakers say it is the
stock gamblers and millers. Why. my
dear governor. don't you know that
if you take the farmer SPECTATORS.
millers and cooperative elevators away
from the Minneapolis charmber of COM
merce there would be no such institu-
ton? Did it ever occur to you that
the elevator or miller who does not
patrOnize grain brokers through a
chamber of commerce is the only
gambler in the deal! The miller pro
tects himself OH every car of wheat
bought. and again. on every car of
! -four sold. He may have 100000 bush
els of wheat in his elevator, yet it may
be owned by dozen different people
on buy for future. Did you ever hear
the league speakers tell the facts in
regard to these truths? No. l say, the
league speakers encircle the truth and
tell about some mysterious being or
organization that is trying to choke
the farmer. Just now, it is PROPOSE
ton of the increased cost Of merchan-
disc, through the extra expense of
travelling statesmen. Do you know the
consumer does not pay this expense!
If you were at the head Of whole
sale or manufacturing concern, you
would no doubt figure on a. minimum
cost for the selling Of your goods,
would you not? And after thorough
investigation and experimentation, if
you found the cheapest possible meth
cd Of selling your output was by hir-
ing statesmen, you would employ them,
would you not? Then you would want
real statesmen, and naturally your
salaries paid, would vary with the
ability to sell. Does the consumer pay
these salaries, when, il you employed
smother method, it would be neces