The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-29
THE BoTT1NEAU CoURANT, BoTTNEAU, NORTH DAKOTA

taiers have not reduced their prices accordingly. There can be
and vet fails to give the consumer the benefit Of that saving :
"A ! SPECIES spp i q Of da sharp practice peapetrated ae On the wheat grow.
pr aee Of s. $40 a bushei bee smSas s. iSt a pushel in the is9f iit fGn eoanaG9
shipping stations. But the wheat grower doesn't even get that.
wheat growers this year had a low yield and heavy expenses and
gave y. every penny Of prdt. To them these grading charges
No one ever had the tenerity to accuse Governor Capper Of
being disloyal or pro-German. Yet he takes the exact position of
the farmers when the price Of wheat was reduced should be passed
on to the consumer and not pocketed by a set Of selfish profteers.
kept by the railroads, the milling combines and Big Business
generally-try to make it appear that the National Nonpartissn
League is unpatriotic and pro-German. But who are the real dis
loyalsts-the men who gave up IS cents profit on each bushsl Of
own enrichment?
principal sIi speakers att at the COW convention ton held in n Buffalo BY the Amer.
lean Federation n: Of Labor: Part ct Townley's speech will be found
They were the only outsiders invited to address this con
vention: You doubtless have read about President Wilson's speech
Mr.. Townleys speech, although, in some respects, it marks a
milestone in American economic and political life
es ever has invited the strongest organization Of labor in the
world to cooperate with it for industrial and political ends
few Of them not SO much as mentioned the fact that Mr.: Townley
Big Bls Business Rnsiee : and spS1 Big Business 81 mes s1 fears this proposed dc combination
more than it fears any other one thing. For Big Business realizes
domination of Big Business is repadily approaching an eclipse and
that the industrial emancipation of the American people is close
at hand. ~
"Busted Dad sends in an article to the ST. Paul Daily News
which reads as follows:
Recently the local community and that of Minneapolis made
common cause against the high price of milk, and the Twin City
newspapers were as one in aiding to reduce the price. This, OF
course, was perfectly right and proper. The reduction granted,
or rather forced will mean a saving to the average family OF
about SIS a year, certainly not much more than this amount. The
public was indignant when the milk price went up and waxed
wroth at the threatened penny Increase. But this same public
walks calmly into a shoe store and pays not a 2 or 8 cent raise, but
a raise of from So to SIS on each pair of shoes--and this wrath is
expressed in a simple "ain't it fierce. Why, I bought the same
shoes for So less six months ago" and they pay the increase and
there the matter ends. Shoes for a family of four-two adults
and two boys-take from fathers earnings something like this:
Dad, So; mother, $3.50; son, $3.50, and son No. 2, S3.75-and the
change from $25 don't pay the car fare. And in connection with
this is a news item from Chicago stating that thousands OF hides
who are taking "~profteer" money from the CT. :,
In view of the good work in saving us pennies on milk, would
not the same newspaper publicity bring this condition to some
Denouncing as false the charges of disloyalty against the
farmers of the Northwest, C. S. Vrooman,a assistant Secretary OF
Agriculture and representative of the administration at the re-
cent loyalty meeting in the Twin Cities, also added that It the ~ Ma
tional Nonpartisan League convention held in st. Paul IN Septem-
Der was altogether right and justified in the demands voiced by
it's resolutions.
Zone hears some talk these days about the disloya atS Of farm
ers," said Mr.. Vrooman just before he returned to washington.
"This talk comes from the big city bankers and others VINO know
nothing about the farmers and their problems. The government
Of the United States is willing to risk its very life on the loyalty
of the farmers of the Northwest"