Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-13
CLUB DISCUSSES
DAKOTALEACUE

The Catholic Woman's club met
at the parochial school on Wednes-
day afternoon. The subject discussed
was "The Non-Partisan League"
Mrs. Jay Hubbard read very able
paper on this question. She said in
part: "a new power is rising IN the
west viz The Non-partisan League OF
North Dakota. This revolutionary
movement calls for state owned
grain elevators. flour mills packing
houses state hail insurance, and state
operated rural credit system. The
views of these tillers of the soil
are spreading into other states and
the league now has a membership of
100000. 1t has it's enemies as all
organized labor has. To some any
thing with the name non-partisan at
tached, needs no other evidence than
! that it was made in Heaven. To
others anything bearing this brand
comes from the other place.
The man they elected for COVER
nor of North Dakota. L. J. Frazer.
was formally farmer and a gradu-
ate Of the state university. For two
years parts of North Dakota ex-
perienced crop failure. 1t became
evident that the farmers had to have
help to get feed for their stock and
seed for planting. With the urgent
| war necessities this situation was
important not only to the state, but
to the nation. They introduced a bill
| in congress for government aid to
/ the drouth stricken farmers, and all
farmers who needed help. The anti
farmer members of congress opposed
this bill and it was too late to give
relief, SO they called a special ses-
sion of the legislature in January,
1918, and passed an act allowing the
counties Of the state needing help,
to issue bonds to buy seed-grain and
feed Nearly one half of the coun-
ties took advantage of this act They
responded freely to all work but
they have been termed American Boil
sheyikis and socialists by their en-
| emies. The farmers had nothing to
say about the grading of their wheat,
| which was done by grain buyers,
sent by the chamber of commerce at
Minneapolis. The farmers have
lost millions of dollars by this kind
of grading. They protested but in
vain. The test of the different grades
of grain taken at the agricultural
college in Fargo, showed how, what
they called low grade test, made as
good bread i as high grade test.
Thousands of bushels of wheat which
had been graded as feed grades, and
ia very low price paid for them, were
mixed, by the miller, with soft
grades from other sections and made
into A No. / flour.
The millers and grain buyers were
/; highly indignant when caught but
t the farmers said nothing will squeal
like a hog when caught in tight
place" The league has passed sew.
eral good laws for the people, and is
dealing with all sorts of problems in
a sensible and business like way.
They are not protecting special
privileges in any form. 1t was alb
solutely necessary for the North
Dakota farmer to get protection from
this grain grading steal. Their hope
now is that these state owned utili-
ties, industries and enterprises will
be successful. Their dairying in
terests are not so great but one
farmer puts forth conditions nicely
when he says'If Old Brindle doesn't
get the big head this winter, eating
forty-five dollar per ton shorts and
eighteen dollar per ton hay being
MIXED by a forty dollar per month
hired man, with a three dollar milk
pail, and having her twelve cents per
quart milk strained into dollar a
piece pans by ten dollar per week
hired girls if she doesn't get the big
head this winter it is Simply because