The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-10-21
sEeuNN.Ne TO SEE THE LIGHT


Several ranchmen have called the two
weeks and the cattle market has in for
Gradually the idea is dawning of them that
not far off when declared that the
always manipulated against the grower With prices
pressed 500 per head, local growers
aster staring them the face The of pro-
ducing the stock exceeds what they will the
worst part that many compelled pay in
terest. taxes and other fixed charges
Those who have sneered at the farmers of North Da
kota might still valuable them The
wheat market is fully bad, recently for the
wheat but owing to his splendid organization and
knowledge of what his due he able to somewhat
abrdge the effort of the grain gambler him
stantly the word passed out to hold the wheat,
North Dakota with its owned operated bank
able to help erialy to do this The crusade and
slogan Hold your WI eat" passed from North Dakota
all the wheat states and the result practical
stoppage OF shipments This in no wise suited the men
who had bet that they could deliver wheat a given
date below the price of production wild appeal was
made to the banks the President the big fellows stop
the farmers from "hoarding" wheat Mr. Harding comes
with denuncation of the farmers and charges them
with deliberately standing in the road of price reductions
in all lines The wheat gamblers wall that everything is
going again. because forsooth they not permitted
gobble the grain crop cheap and later boost prices
the They declare themselves absolutely
essary the marketing of the and that
the face of the fact that during the their was
summarily stopped by government the moved
jpst the same. And, wheat is GOING UP. Not as
much the farmers wish but the market shows very
marked advance since the slogan Hold wheat was
Now let say to you cattemen there is remedy
extent your hands Let each limit
his sales the smallest possible number of head of
stock Save literally for home consumption. If you
hold of feed hold all that you The few
head each of you hold will make very appreci-
able the market for scanty offerings always
make for higher prices. You will get enough but
you get by working your heads. Many thous-
ans of head of stock be held off the market if you
each do your best and those do sell will bring you
money Also the spring will find stocks of dressed
stuff lower, the export demand will be unsatsfed and
the meat trust will have to pay Again.
the rule that in numbers you have the best OF 1t,
plies There very few of the meat trust fellows.
There thousands upon thousands of you Work unit
edy and you in a degree, beat the game.
Incidentally open your eyes and study what the farm
of North Dakota have accomplished for themselves
They far situated than and they in
plan that makes them comparatively prosperous
Above ALL they got together a program that makes
continued improvement. They wiser than you
they from false advisers You will have to
quit taking from those who rob you If to
yourselves The meat trust and their satellites
not going to advise rightly when such advice would
defeat their ends.
without consideration. You make mistake For the
last four years you have felt like capitalists because
you getting very high prices yet calculated close
you have discovered that at these prices
you were not getting anywhere your share.
1t will not hurt heads half as much as you think
stretch them around Of the arguments we
are producing weekly these economic qpestons and
their remedies Every little while we print some
facts written by who know more about the food
gamblers than most of could learn in life time
Better read them and try to improve your condition
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