The Montana nonpartisan. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1918-192?, 1919-01-25

Great Falls he will be shown the state
elevator.
"See that" the visitor will be told.
state elevator. Cost quarter Of a
million dollars. Farmers wanted it
and we gave it to them. Absolute
failure. Guess that proves that pub
lie ownership won't work."
If the farmers of Montana are to
avoid any such occurrence they must
have real TERMINAL elevator
they are working for. A joint sub
committee of farmers is now at work
at Helena, trying to do what can be
ment to put up an elevator that will
ers of Montana some benefit. w.
Farmers of the Nonpartisan league
in North Dakota learned three years
ago that they would be at the mercy
of the mNers even if they had a
state owned elevator. Their program
and that of the Montana Nonpartisan
league, has been Estate owned term
inal elevators and flour mills"
If an elevator is established at
Great Falls which must turn over it's
wheat at the prices fixed by Mime
apolis millers, farmers of Montana
will have received little or no bene-
fit.
Properly speaking, such an eleva-
tor would not be TERMINAL Gle
vator. "Terminal' means the place
at which shipment ends. If the wheat
OF Montana farmers, after being ship
ped to an elevator at Great Falls, has
to be shipped another 1000 miles east
to Minneapolis to be milled, the Great
Falls elevator will not be "TER~
MlNAL" at all. It will be nothing
but small way station.
10 make the Great Falls elevator
a TERMINAL elevator, within the
language of the constitutional amend
ment, state owned flour min must
De established in connection with it.
Then the farmers Of Montana will
get fair price for their wheat, the
price that it's flour making qualities
are worth, and what they intended to
get when they voted for the constitu-
tlonal amendment. Then it will be a
real TERMINAL elevator.
A committee of farmers is WORK.
ing on the constitutional amendment,
trying to draw some kind of a bill
that will fulfill the provisions of the
amendment and at the same time PRO.
VIDE a means of handling the grain
OF the farmers Of Montana that will
be successful.
| Enemies Of the farmers, WORKING.
sotar under cover, are ready to at-
tempt, by any means i'm their power.
70 have provisions put into the Bill
That will make the elevator failure
from the start.
Nonpartisan league LEGISLATORS
nave representatives on the farm
ers' committee that is working on the
terminal elevator bill. The League
representatives will all be artiv.
when the bill comes on the floors
Oh the two houses. to do their best Il,
have q real TERMINAL elevator.
Th" Montana Nonpartisan Will tell.
rom week to week. what il, bel.u-
done about the terminal elevator bin.
Ihcre are 4 number Of farmers and
labor men in the legislature, ready
20 work with the Nonpartisan ieasei.
members, IN an attempt to make the
terminal elevator Il success. Then.
are other members WHO are unceridct,
what to do. And there are plenty
iof memherS who are willing arsD$
ready TO do anything in their powet
10 make the terminal elevator "a fail
are, spending S2250, 600 of the states
money. collected from the farmers
for that purpose.
Montana farmers can count upor
it that their representatives and sep
ators. if they are elected by TN.
League, will be looking after thei,
interests. If their representatives
and senators are not League men. it
would be we'll for them to hear freu.
their constituents on the matter.