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About The Northman. (Portland, Or.) 1920-192? | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1920)
THE NORTHMAN was the yegend: “A long-distnace the date when the government pays you in full for it, you do not need to kitchen shortens life.” worry if, in the meantime, the price is low one day or high the next. You and Uncle Sam are living up to your Ordinances authorizing the pur with each other, and neither chase or condemnation of five play agreement lose by it. ground sites was placed before the will On the other hand if you sell your city council Wednesday morning. One Liberty now, you will find that ordinance providing for the purchase the man Bonds you sell it to will not give of a tract of land in North Portland you a dollar for every dollar you paid was withdrawn by City Commissioner for The price has been brought Pier, because members of the city down it. because many people are council have not yet viewed the prop offering to sei so their If the erty. The districts in which sites are market is flooded with bonds. tomatoes, you to be considered are: Woodstock, 15 can buy them cheap, but if everyone acres; Montavilla, 11 acres; Rich is clamoring for tomatoes, and there mond, two blocks; Clinton Kelly, ten are few to be had, the price goes up. acres, and Mount Scott, nine acres. The same is true of Liberty Bonds. Short-sighted people are dumping them on the market, and wise ones are buying them. The best advice that can be given Beautiful designs in wreaths to the owenr of a Liberty Bond is this: Hold the bond you bought dur ing the war; it is as safe and sound as the United States Government it Flower Store 311 Morrison St. Portland, Ore. self. Buy as many more at the present UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllU low rate as you can afford. 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It was failure of the old guard legislature in North Dakota to obey the popular mandate of a con stitutional amendment twice passed, by an eighty per cent vote of the people, which gave the Non-Partisan League its chance to break the old guard’s grip. “The farmers, today, are still wait ing for their mills and elevators. There is no state-owned elevator operating in North Dakota. There is but one state-owned mill (at Drake). The League’s publications claim that this mill has paid farmers an average of 12 cents a bushel more for their grain than privately owned elevators in the same neighborhood, and has sold mill feeds at a price $5, a ton below that of the private mills. I did not visit Drake, and I am not able to check these figures. Theoretically the Drake mill can afford to buy at Minneapolis rates plus the cost of freight haul from Drake to Minne apolis; to sell at Minneapolis figures, "minus the cost of that haul. But the mill at Drake, regardless of the ac curacy of these quotations, is too small a venture to go far toward proving any theory. Its capacity is not more than 250 barrels a day, at most. What has blocked the more ambitious plans of the League has been the difficulty of placing mill and elevator bonds until the constitu tionality of the legislation has been passed upon by the federal Supreme A CEMETERY—AND A SERMON Court. Several thousand dollars worth of bonds have been sold for the It was a neat little country ceme erection 'of mills and elevators at tery, much like most little country Grand Forks. But the program, as a cemeteries, yet there was something whole, awaits the action of the queer about it. There was the rached Court. The Non-Partisan administra gateway and the customary weeping tion has put its promises into law. willows by it. The clipped hedge was Litigation ties its hands. like most cemetery hedges. The “Above all else the Non-Partisan tombstones were about the average League remains the instrument of a run of tombstones. But, withal, there living faith for many of the hundreds was something queer—even shocking. of thousands of farmers who are its Then you discovered what it was. members. These men and women These were truthful tombstones. Con have seen enough anti-League litera soling platitudes—“Too pure for ture, been warned by enough anti earth,” and that like—found no League speakers, to suspect that the place. Instead, there were such epi organization to which they belong is taphs as these: “Mother—walked to neither entirely efficient nor ideally death in her kitchen;” “Sacred to the Democratic. Their faith has been memory of Jane—she scrubbed her severely tested. Doubtless they are self into eternity;” “Grandma — convinced that the League has made washed herself away;” “Susie—swept mistakes. If they are still loyal it out of life with too heavy a broom.” is because they believe it also has The people who saw that cemetery progress. That is something, —and there were thousands of them— made in their eyes, which the Democratic may have been shocked for the instant, and Republican parties failed to do. but they came away with the thought For years those parties had their op that one might be better for seeing portunity, in North Dakota, to sup such a cemetery. For, you see, it the radical program which a ref was a miniature cemetery, 3 feet port erendum twice adopted showed the square, and it was part of an exhibit farmers to he waiting for. Consist at the Montana State Fair. Such ently they scorned that opportunity. levity with the most solemn thing The Nonpartisan accepted it. that mankind knows, could not be The League was League party of revolt justified merely on the theory that the against existing a conditions. things said were true—but those who sands of men and women were Thou saw it came away with the belief that to accept it indiscriminatingly ready on it was pustified by way of keeping single score.” just those things from being true. And that matter what may be the result that was the purpose of the exhibit, of No the present campaign in North Da placed there by the agricultural ex and other states where the non tension department of the State Agri kota partisan movement is active, good will cultural College of Montana. It was come from it just as good came from meant to emphasize the need for home the Farmers ’ Alliance, the Populist conveniences, for lack of which many and other revolts. a farm woman has gone to her grave before her time. YOUR LIBERTY BOND. There were other exhibits designed to drive home the same hard truth. The United States government bor One was a model showing a bleak rowed money from you to finance the farinhouse on a bare hill. At the war. You hold the government’s bottom of the hill ran a little stream, promise to pay you back. This prom and by the stream were barns and ise is called a Liberty Bond or Victory cattle. Struggling up the hill to Note. On this bond is stated the con ward the house with two heavy pails ditions under which the government of water was a bent old woman. And borrowed the money from you. the legend was: “Convenient for the For instance: If you hold a bond cattle—but not for mother.” Then of the third Liberty loan, it states that there was a farm house with the water on April 15th and October 15 of each supply as it should be, the woman in year until maturity, you will receive the yard sprinkling her flower beds interest on the amount you paid for with a hose. And the inscription read: the bond. Other issues bear other “Convenient for mother—and the cat rates of interest and other maturity tle, too.” Another model showed a dates, all of which are clearly stated kitchen as it should be, and another a on the bond. kitchen as it should not be. And there Now, if you keep your bond until 15 managers, are making claims, of course, but no one knows any better than a newsboy who will be nomi nated in Chicago. “As for the democratic nomination, it looks as if McAdoo has the best chance. “As to the condition of the country it simply looks too good to be true. There is no unemployment^ no hun ger, no want, and yet people are dis satisfied in all walks of life. The curtailment of credit by the federal reserve bank will prick a few buoy ant bubbles in the next few months; the people themselves are not buying now with their former riotous ex travagance. In a little while things will begin to return to normal. How ever, I see no hope of any permanent lowering of prices, simply because the retailers are cutting. The man ufacturers’ cost must first be re duced. “Restricted production was partial ly responsible for the high cost of liv ing, and this does not mean merely that the workers restricted their ef forts. In the south a strong propa ganda was spread to restrict the acreage of cotton. Of course, re stricted production means compulsory and premeditated poverty and bank ruptcy. “I look for the farmers to reap a golden harvest for the next few years at least. We are a great industrial and manufacturing nation and folks must be fed and clothed and lessened acreage means higher prices for those who remain and work the land. It will not be long before the city fellow will realize that he had better be on the farm. “No, I have no political plans of any kind. I will always take part in polities, first because I like it and second because it is every citizen’s duty. I shall return to Seattle to my family and be glad to get back.” Probably the most interesting as well as the most intense struggle of the present campaign, will be between the forces directed by Senator Gr0nna on the one side and the Non- Partisan League on the other in the state of North Dakota. The relations between Senator Gr0nna and the league have been supposed to be friendly heretofore. But in the re cent convention in North Dakota, A. C. Townley, head of the league, read Gr0nna out of the organization, and Senator Gr0nna, in a telegram to his political followers, reported in kind. Senator Gr0nna announced he will not follow the leadership of Townley, and says: “I feel it my duty to do my bit to help restore a just and safe government for North Dakota.” The league organization has selected Dr. E. F. Ladd of the North Dakota Agricultural college to oppose Senator Gr0nna. This war to the knife between Senator Gr0nna and the league is expected to have far reaching political effect in the states of North and South Dakota, Minneso ta, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Wash ington and possibly Wisconsin, where the league is reported to be strong. Charles Merz, in a survey of the Non-Partisan League published in the New Republic says: “Probably, in the eyes of the farmers who put the Non-Partisan League into power, state-owned grain elevators and grain mills were the most important items on the pro gram. The North Dakota farmer was confident that an interloper—-“Big Business”—had stepped between him and his market. “Big Business,’’ specifically, was the Minneapolis mil ler. The farmer believed that the great men who purchased his wheat did not grade it fairly, did not give fair credit for “dockage” (screenings, etc.), and managed, through their control of elevator facilities, to buy when the market was glutted and sell at their own high pleasure. The farmer wanted state-owned mills and