The Ordway new era., 1922-04-28


wealth it produces?
There than sixty million people in the country
against than fifty the cities and towns of more
than ten thousand population.
All wealth is produced from the earth. Country Amer
does the producing Yet it only gets very small part
what it produces
last year made net profit of sixteen million dollars
They paid country America few pound produce
tobacco added few cents pound for labor
the product for several dollars pound and reaped harvest
of sixteen million dollars profit.
How many tobacco growers would you have to stand
shoulder to shoulder whose combined profits equa
sixteen million dollars All the tobacco growers
last didn't make profit of onehalf of what the R.
Reynolds Tobacco Company alone made.
Or take the American Telephone and Telegraph com
pany. They took fftyfour million dollars $4,000 000)
profit from the American public How many billions of wealth
would Country America have to produce make fftyou
million dollars net profit.
The unfair and disproporonate distribution OF
the live stock growers when compared to the
profits the Packers The growers get
wool that goes the $40 sut-The system
profits true to the cotton of the South
grain growers of the East and Westthe producers OF
Country America everywhere.
The United States has total wealth OF two hundred and
fifty billions Country America gets less than 25 per cent
should get than SO cent of the wealth created
annually
A hullabaloo made about placing 'dirt farmer
in the cabinet Some big city raved at the
idea of putting farmer the Federal Reserve Board
Country America only member the Cab
met less than onehalf of all the Cabinet members
The country to the cys ve Yet the country
has peeI
needed considerable extent The farm BLOC IN
with only members has been able to make both pol
itca parties and take heed chiefly because OF the sleep
ing power of Country America ,.
Country America will awaken ana demand her reh
irrespective parties it will obtain what justly belongs to II
politically, ncustraly, economically socially ana con
mercially. u .. :
IF the country publishers of America will unity into
Newspaper Bloc and demand what belongs to Country AM
erica no power on earth will stop them from getting It,
right Country America to combine to do cooperative
mo This is only one step in the right direction
Country America produces the wealth Oh tAheica' se -
when If sells its product about the price Tor whc
it's product shall SELL =, r, .o an
when Mr. CITY Man sells product to Country Amer
lea Country has to the price IL sha pay "
what it buys. e
Mr. Citv Man also obligngy fixes that price for YOU
Country America, through its publishers can i M =, Wv. Wv,
of the country producer have something TO say
the price for he sells his product and the cost Oh e
duct he buys. It,: 10 e tho bnv;no and
selling nces in Country and for many years nave
combined and nothing seriously mas ever f,
stop it except some political wind-lamrhhg ro - ~
mer Attomey-C General Pamers broadcastea s''ei,
ot of tbe Packers Trust and his intention to seha e
ups pententiay Such statements having served 'he
political the procedure was ended H.
Federal Trade Commission and the United states % fe IA nr
acy What happens to these ndngs Nothing ever mas nap
will happen until Country and It's snp
posed servants in Washington that they VIII no longer
h large city daies Of America year made es
mated profit Of hundred million dollars II dhey
thousand country year yea
than five million Soo me J prom an s hps
and dollars each total Of fifty to sixty I mn aab #
IF Country gets its far snare OF tn weal ~
produces the Country would share in prosperity
undreamed Of +s f we will form solid front and ine
gently eh for it. to in the country dn %
Spa Di1 and d ss Country
erica SO that the fix the price OF IT'S OWL the