Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

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Price of Eggs.
Omaha, Dec. 23.-To tho Editor
of The Bee: see that the annual
fight over the cost of eggs is begin
ming. It seems that the ones who
make this annual fight would rather
strike at the small home-owners
who produce q few fresh eggs In this
wintry climate, than to strike at the
big concerns that control millions
Of pounds of sugar, Of the concerns
that have millions of pounds of
hides stored away so as to keep up
the price Of leather, Of the concerns
that have millions of pounds of
butter stored away for the benefit
of the rich, of the concerns that have
millions of pounds of meats stored
away SO as to keep the prices Of
meats Of all kinds as high as possi-
BILE, Of all the various concerns that
are holding back all the necessaries
of life to keep the prices high.
I will dare these women to pro-
duce eggs for 55 cents q dozen or
$1.00 dozen or even $3.50 dozen
the way things of all kinds cost this
winter. 1t simply can't be done at
the present cost Of feeds of all kinds.
I have had experience with poultry
for more than 80 years and know
the business from A to z, and I
know that 1t is hard work to get
hens to lay eggs even when we have
mild winters as the one a year ago.
II hens get to laying before winter
sets in, they will lay fairly we'll dur
ing the months of December and
January, but winter set in so early
this year that few hens had started
to laying and 1t is hard work to get
them to laying until there is letup
of the cold weather.
When you women want to strike
at the big culprits, Is time enough
to talk about striking at the small
egg producers. Better get after the
people who charge you SO and SIS
for your high heel shoes. Don't
make the poor, innocent egg pro-
ducers the goat and let the big cul-
prits 60. FRANK A. AGNEW.
Defense Of Nonpartisan League.
Crofton. Neb., Dec. 22.-To the
Der 11th issue of The Bee, is pub
partisan League Test" reprinted
from the not too reliable Minneapolis
Tribune. This article tries to make
it appear that tho Nonpartisan
league leaders want to bring wrong
teaching into the South Dakota |
schools. The article says, "Repre-
sentative Burtness of Grand Forks
happened in the state circulating |
library department upon an assem-
bly, Of books which, he said, were
ready to be forwarded to one Of the
country schools under the direction !
of socialistic librarian. It is as
serted that these books included |
works on free love, socialism, an
archy and bolshevism-works that |
assail sanctity of home and family"
Now, the casual reader would think |
that the Nonpartisan leaders sent, !
or ordered these books to be sent !
to that South Dakota country school. |
But read the article again, and you |
will notice that these books were !
ready to be forwarded to one Of the |
country schools under the direction |
Of a socialistic librarian" Does that |
say that the Nonpartisan league |
leaders had anything to do with the |
aforesaid books?
The Minneapolis Tribune. The Bee
and other newspapers know. or
ought to know, that the leaders and |
membes of the Nonpartisan league |
will not tolerate such books nor |
similar literature. Neither will the |
Nonpartisan league leaders and
members tolerate any red radicals, |
I. w. WIS, pro-Germans, socialists, |
etc. Therefore, the very fact that
the librarian was socialisttc. further
proves that said librarian and books
had no connection with the leaders
or members of the Nonpartisan
league.
The Nonpartisan league Is for the
protection and strengthening OF
farmers and laborers. That Is Just
what the millionaire profiteers DO
not want, for they wish to keep on
gouging both the farmers. who are
the chief producers, and the city
people, who are the chief consumers.
These big profiteers realize that they
won't have such easy pick1ngs When
the farmers band together and set
their own prices on the products
they raise (same as the Nmanufac-
turer sets his own prices on the ar
ticles he manufactures) and send
their own men, real farmers, to the
senate and congress, to help make
laws favoring the people, not the
few millionaire profteers. / do not
mean that all millionaires are prof.
teers 1t Is all right for a man to
be a millionaire provided he has ac-
cumulated his wealth honestly.
But I feel that it Is wrong for
man to make 200 per cent or 800
per cent profit on the necessities OF
life. -.
At the beginning Of our war with
Germany, the millionaires put up
terrific howl, calling the Nonpartisan
league all sorts Of names, such as
I. w. W.'s and pro-Germans. be-
cause the Nonpartisan league said
that wealth should be conscripted to !
help the United States government |
fight against Germany, when the |
boys were conscripted.
The millionaire prohteers are I
fighting the Nonpartisan league bit
terly, using all the nefarious and |
underhanded methods they can |
think of, bribing the big city dailies
to fight the Nonpartisan league IN |
all the sly ways that crooked pub
fishers can devise.
As heretofore stated, during the
war, the Nonpartisan league was
labeled and libeled as I. w. W.,
bolsheviks and pro-Germans. These
accusations were false, for none
were more loyal to the United States
government than the Nonpartisan
league leaders and members. The
Nonpartisan Leader, a weekly Nom