Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-04-27
NON. PARTISAN LEAGUE PoLICIE

NON PARTISAN LEAGUE POLlClE
(From Manufacturer
A an economic and industrial proposition affecting the future develop
ent Of state the political the Farmers Nom
Partisan Leaguef
Hers i. the specific program adopted officially by the NOnParan
League Idaho Satewned shelters added some cases when the
organizers speak district with many small mines:
state-owned Packing Plants Terminal Elevators and Flour
Etate-owned Storage Plants for Fruit Potatoes
Eggs and other farm products
Exemption Farm improvements from Taxation
4 Rural Credits operated at Cost
State Ownership and Distribution of the Water Powers
WHY LEAGUE DEMANDS ARE UNREASONABLE AND
UNNECESSARY
Exemption improvements and state ownership of big industries
would increase 80 per cent-a form of Single Tax .
reports show that the wheat and the farmers share
selling price loaf bread increased onehundred per-
cent In year.
Our present form Of has treated the
farmers unfairly protected their interests above all others
As matter political history nearly every proposition the Patr
program already taken under control the federal government
Elevators Touring mills operated under federal licenses and
cons against all pofteerg and Warehouses and cold
storage plants the federal control and regulation the
Food credit banks state and nation being
operated for the benefit the farmers with all private capital compe
on ownership distribution powers has been under such
strict regulation impossible for private capital get hold
properties for development for the past ten Only
power famine driving the theoretical politicians to let their
rangehod development which Mr. Towney would renew at the hands
Of There demanded by the
League already fully exercised under the
bestowed the President by Congress
handlers distributors and Manufacturers wheat products
In our country ers wholesalers retailers bakers and commission
every description alleged by Mr. Towny being the wild beasts
JUNGLE the farmers their wives and innocent children
the agents Of the government standardized dealers with profits limited
and ill speculation entirely eliminated.
Towne President of the Non Partisan League has been ecurng
careful examination his addresses shows that they based
three important statements
First says government shall be changed from political de-
industrial democracy He compares present system Of
that Of Russia before the overthrow of the Gar and the
conclusion that his idea industrial democracy the nature
similar what has taken place Russia He This
will continue be democracy will become auto
cacy the North Dakota plan adopted There grounds
for the assertion and a reply is unnecessary
Second fact Importance his statement that two North Dakota college
professors Ladd and Doctor Worst said that if the farmers would
their wheat instead selling the milling and
companies would get fve million dollars for
their wheat crop or $1,000 each average
Townly that the average normal wheat North Dakota
hundred million bushels Sometimes raise much
great deal anything else
Mr. Town Mr. Towny charges that the St Paul Chamber Of Com
what he terms the milling and trust OF that city gets the
Ayfve millions the college professors the farmers could they
had their elevators and -four mills and fed the bprOduc to live stock
in of the $550O000
would be spent in milling the wheat
Townleys statement that the could 500 600
annually North Dakota they did sell their wheat to the milling and
elevator trust but owned the mills and elevators themselves and manufao
ure the wheat into -four made the profits manufacturing
What Professor Worst did that by grinding the wheat
home and feeding all the byproucts the annual Of 100000
600 bushels Of wheat fatn stock North Dakota that possible
following savings could be affected
Screenings ---.-- .--..-- . So 1914 900
Bran 7826OOO
Shorts 100000
Profits from feeding cattle ..-.-.-.~-.-.--. 100000
Freight saved, S,2Oo,ooo
Value of manure from cattle ..-.-.-.. $4,000
$505esOOO
Admitting argument might profit