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SI'N'DAY, FEI"tI'AIlY 23, 1913.
I will walk abroad; old griefs
shall be forgotten today; for the
air i- cool and still, and the hills
are high and stretch away to
heaven; and with the dew I can
wash the fever from my forehead;
and then I shall be unhappy no
longer. -Thomas De Quincey.
PASSING EVENTS
ThI week brought much, outside the
reIl-,ih of politics, which was interest
inti and encouraging. Locally, there
are two events of the seven days
xhiiich stand out clearly and which af
fIrd subjects for brief mention this
Sunday morning. The state university
l,,hehratl ,l,. Frida:y, its eignteenth
birthiiay under c.nilitions which were
auspiciollus and happy. There was in
forrmi:l discussion, during the week,
of some plans which have imlportant
Icaring upon thil development of the
gr iater university for which we all
hipe andl for which some of us have
.\,rked faithfully for a long time.
T'rhere is a strong movement back of
these plans atnd there are indications
\hiich lenld t tilhe hope for their suc
cessfulll issue. There was good spirit
lIttending the Itbservance iof Charter
:Da1y; there, were many friends pres
it; there we\ire encouraging vlords
llspoken. The second of tihe week's en
co"urng ing incidents to which we lhave
rfeirre.d ai::o c llne to pass on Friday.
F"rmniIr Senato.I r (lark mliade MiIssoula
,at, of his periodicalll visits of inspect
iiin. lie took, occasion, while here, to
reit, rate his statement, made ellarlier
in the week to a IMissoullian relresen
t1iiv, in IuittI, that lie had had no
ii111,tl ht of disposing of hts extenlsive'
int''r,'sts there and that his faith in
lit.r ll ll is stronger tlian ever, firmler
a:l I llore oiptimllistic. This was a mes
:,g, c which may well recelive thought
ful a lppreriation from the people of
W\\, t MI lontana.
EVEN JUSTICE-The, opening of
the weok brought new's wh!ch was
grIt:if' ilng to all lovers of justice, the
enlntlry o(dr. Twenty-eight of the
offi.ers of the National Cash Regis
ter 1compan1Iy were se.ntenced to im
pri. nnSint in jail for violating the
anti- trust law. Their offense was
fl':lr:lnt, Iheir disregard of the law
w\\:s Idtfiant. The sentence of a year's
ilspirisonmI,.nt in jail is none too light
for lthem. The imposition of fines in
suIch csas is all inadequate. These
imonopolists laugh at fines. The ac
tiin of the federal judge who imposed
this sentence, is a new landmark in
thi cI.urse of justice in this country.
in a:issing sentence, Judge Hollister
scoýr,"d the convicted men in unmeas
urell terms. He. called attention to
the unusual boldness of their viola
iion of the law. He held them up as
criminals. Closing his talk to the
pirisoners before him, the judge said:
'Tile government is strong enough to
protect its people whether this pro
tec'tion extends to the transportation
If dynamite across the land for the
purpose of blowing up bridges or the
:layilng of the hands upon men who
seek to stifle competition by illegal
ibusiness methods." Here Is a judge
wh, possesses the cure for popular
distrust of the courts. Too often have
the courts. themselves, furnished
ground for the charge that there is
one penalty for the rich man and an
THE HIKE TO WASHINGTON
Through mud and storm the band of suffragists, com
manded by General Rosalie Jones, is making its way toward
Washington. There have been a good many marches to
Waashington since the city was founded which bears the
name of the father of his country, but never such another
as this. These women expect to capture the capital, but not
by force of arms; they expect capitulation before their
resistless force of argument. And they expect the some
what spectacular cross-country march which they are mak
ing will attract attention sufficient to make easy their way
when they reach the nation's lawmakers.
The march is a part of the advertising campaign which
the American suffragists have planned. Perhaps it is do
ing their cause some good; they believe it is and they are
closer to the scene of action than we are. They are study
ing the situation more carefully than is possible at long
range. If they say it is accomplishing good, we are willing
to let them march through the mud. But we are glad that
there are none of our women-folk in the little band of
trampers, so persistent in their purpose but-we cannot
help feeling so-mistaken in their method.
However, we prefer the American style of publicity to
the British fashion. This march is not so strenuous as to in
jure the health of the campaigners; they wear out their
shoes, they may even blister their heels; but they acquire
good appetites and, as far as we have been able to learn,
they are subjected to no hostile demonstration. It is the
publicity of it all that causes the Average Citizen to hes
itate when he is asked if he approves of this style of cam
paigning by women. We don't like to think of our wives,
our daughters or our sisters as engaged in this sort of par
ade. Not that there is anything really wrong about-
0. no, not that-but just because they are women. It's
the old reason.
But, as we said, this is better than the British method.
Not even passively could we countenance the smashing of
windows, the dynamiting of houses, the destruction of mail
and even rowdy rioting on ,the part of our women. In a
current magazine, we read the other night an extended
defense of the course of the British women and an expla
nation of their purpose in this riotous campaign of theirs.
We read it, but the explanation did not explain and the de
fense did not defend. We were not convinced and we are
so old-fashioned that we do not believe we could ever be
convinced that there is any extenuation for the course of
the London suffragists.
So we are content to let the American campaigners
march on. We are glad their notion of advertising does
not take more radical form than this. General Jones de
livered a message to Governor Sulzer and now she is going
to hand one to President Wilson. She is a great little de
liverer and, if her pictures are correct likenesses, the new
president will have a lot worse-looking visitors than this
little New York woman with a message from home. And
Dr. Wilson would better receive the message when it is
handed to him by this little lady. If he declines, he may
start something and the next message which comes to him
may be attached to a brickbat.
There will be opposition to the Jones army. The con
quest of Washington will not come without a struggle. But
we do not anticipate that the strongest opposition will come
from the White House. The dispatches last week told of
the establishment of opposition headquarters in the capital
by women who are opposed to the extension of suffrage.
The Remonstrance has reached Washington from Bos
ton, ahead of the conquering army.
The Remonstrance is the persistent foe of equal-suf
frage. It is a publication issued in Boston; it is edited by
women and circulated by women. They are the bitterest
foes of the suffragists. And they have camped in Wash
ington. Evidently they didn't march; they must have gone
by train. Their system of advertising does not agree with
that of General Jones. But they have moved their type
writers to Washington; they are pounding the keys right
merrily and when the keys strike, they make sparks.
So there will be a battle at the end of the hike to Wash
ington. It will be literally a war of women. Plucky Gen
eral Jones should be in fine form by the time she has
marched through the hills of Maryland. That winter mud
on those red-clay hills is great practice. And she will need
to be in her best fettle. For she is not going up against
mere man; she will encounter foes of her own sex. And
that's what makes it bad.
So, while we are glad that the American form of publicity
is no worse than it is, we are gladder that there are none
of our folk in the hike to Washinton.
other for the poor man. tere is at
judge who metes out the same brand
of justice to the. mualefactor who is
rich as Is measured to the criminal
who is poor. The hope of the country
now Is that his sentence will be suts
tained by the higher court to which It
has been appealed.
ANCIENT CHURCH-The coming
week Is Inteworthy by reason of the
celebttration of the four-hundredthi an
niversary of the oldest diocese in
Amerlca, the Roman Catholic diocese
of Porto IRico. Princes of the chtiurch,
archbishops, potentates and dignita
raries have gathered for the coremon
ies which begin today and which will
continue through the week. The dio
cese was established by the, pope in
1511; its first bishop-the first of his
rank to reach the new world-arrived
in San Juan in 1513. 1ie died there
in 1539 and his hody was buried in
the cathedral. This cathedral marks
the, site of the mother church in the
Americas. The present building dates
from the seventeenth century. Some
of the church's most noted men will
participate in the we.ek's ceremonies.
There will be special services and
tribute will be paid to the pioneers of
the Cross who came first to this con
tinent. Tomorrow will take place, one
of the specially interesting services
of the week. The remains of Ponce
de Leon will be placed in a crypt
which has been erected in thb cathe
Iral. Ponce de Leon was the first
governor of Porto Rico; he is known
o ev\ry scoolbolly for his reputed
quest of the fountain of youth, which
led to the discovery of Florida and to
the acquis tiln of the southern terri
tory of what is now the United States
by the Spanish crown.
SIMPLE ENOUGH-The disturbanco
in municipal circles ove:r the Commit
tee of Ten and its report regarding
-ity finance.s seems to us to be wholly
unwarranted. The report was cer
tainly favorable to the administration
and it was encouraging to those who
wish to see Missoula economically
goiver'ned. It was a friendly report
friendly in tone and in suggestion.
The city commissioners received it
formally and voted to ask the. com
mittee to remain in service as a per
nanent advisory board. So far, so
good. But when it came to acting
iupon the recommendations of the com
nittee, there was a disturbance at the
city hall. Mayor Rhoades is quoted
as having denounced the committee
and its action. Later, the mayor de
to every schoolboy for his requted
dlared he had been misquote.d and, In
a letter published in The Missoulian,
asserted his desire to co-operate with
the committee in every way possible
whenever important matters are un
der consideration. This is but a re
newal of the ante-election pledges
vwhich were made by the mayor. It
he lives up to these pledges, he will
be fulfilling the expectations of his
friends; if he does not, he will disap
point a good many people who voteA
for him. The only thing in the situa
tion which seems to ruffle the mayor
Is that he regards it as a reflection
upon his ability to have an advisory
board like the Committee, of Ten.
Therein he is mistaken, as it looks
to us. To accept the advice of oth
ers when that advice is good, that Is
a sign of marked ability and an in
dication of fitness to govern. The.
situation is simple enough. The com
mittee, we think,, has come to stay.
its advice would better be heeded. It
will do the. city good and will
strength the administration.
GOOD WORK-The union revival
services, conducted by Dr. Smith and
his associates, continue to attract
large audiences and to waken increas
ing interest. The hall where these
meetings are held has been filled all
the week; there is a degree of sincer
ity and conviction about the meetings
which is appeal!ng. Dr. Smith is an
unusual sort of evangelist, as we have
seen evangelical workers here in the
past. He is unusual because of the
absence of the spectacular in his
work; he, is straightforward and win
ning In his way. He finds here a
field ripe for the harvest, but he does
not proclaim Missoula as the worst
town on earth and he does not point
to our record as one which would
shame Sodom. That attracts our at
tention right away, for we have be
come accustomed to hearing that talk
when revivals are going on. We know
that Missoula is a long way from be
ing as good as it should be, but we
don't believe it is as bad as it might
be. So, having attracted our atten
tion, Dr. Smith wakens our interest.
That is the first requisite for success
in the work in which he is engaged.
He is following this advantage with
as earnest a presentation of the. Word
as was ever made. His preaching'
seems inspired-but not by a desire
to make money, as has been intimated
in some correspondence which has
been published in The Missoullan dur
ing the week. We are strong for Dr.
Smith and for the work he is doing.
A Harvard professor has discovered
a substitute for sleep whioh he calls
"the twilight state." We know now
what is the matter with the Thirteenth
assembly.
Mr. Taft also will find a difference
between a $5,000 salary at New Haven
and one of $75,000 at Washington. But
he has the friendly offices of Brother
Charles.
It has 'been an expensive experience
for the city of Mexico, but she will
make it up 'by showing her scars to
the tourists who will flock to her now.
It is learned that the revolution
seriously interfered with bull fights
in Mexico, which accounts for the
strong desire for peace.
Mexico has wisely reached the, con
clusion that the Diaz system was best
and that no other will successfully
govern her people.
Sir Hiram ,Maxim is working on a
silencer which will stop all city noises.
In Mexico Diaz has proved an effect
ive silencer.
The weeks reports of bluebirds and
meadow larks should furnish strong
argument for the adoption of a local
option law.
Even Mr. Underwood realizes that
he is up against the real thing. And
there is more of that same thing
ahead.
Anyway. we are. not getting any less
benefit from the legislature of ten
than we did from the full assembly.
It is too early, however, to plan
your garden. When planting time
cmnes, it will come with a rush.
The Washington parent with four
dancing dau .lt trs is delighted with
the Wilson ball Ipolicy.
The reactionary alliance has a choice
lot of Ethiopians for concealment in
the senate woodpile.
The Mexican situation is not bother
ing Dr. Wilson halt as much as the
Underwood situation,.
The opinion of the' weather man de
pends uon \vwhethller or not the new
gown has arrived.
"The more haste, the less speed"
appears to be the motto of the Thir
teenth assembly.
The IQEster lily is beginning to size
iup the market to see how strongly it
can go.
Mexico wants anl iron hand. Mon
tana has a "mailed fist" that she can
spare.
Meanwhile, Enver Hey insists that
he has not been assassinated-yet.
Profirio Diaz is coming back to see
how Madero likes his own medicine.
The legislature has put off till Mon
day what It could do Saturday.
This is the wrong end of winter to
arrest a coal man for fraud.
The preparations for inauguration
are another sign of spring.
Dr. Vilson has a worse puzzle than
Pigs in Clover to solve.
The pull-together should be. in the
right direction.
Lemmon and Jordan got into print,
all right.
The open season for jokers is on at
Helena.
THE SPIRIT OF 1913
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Co-operative
Marketing
i.-The New Division of
Markets.
By Frederic J. Haskin.
The agricultural appropriation bill
as it passed the house of representa
tives this year, contains a provision
appropriating $50,000 for the establish
ment of a division of markets in the
department of agriculture. This little
item may prove to be the forerunner
of a great national effort to reduce the
cost of living in the United States. It
is often asserted that the high cost of
living springs, in large measure, from
the tolls levied by the middlemen,
through whose hands pass the com
modities from the farm and the fac
tory where they are produced, on their
way to the consumer. With reference
to the -products of the farm it 'is found
wherever an investigation is made
that if the producer gets the price the
consumer pays 'he is well satisfied.
Secretary Wilson estimates that the
products of the farm are worth $6,000,
000,000 to the farmer. The consumer,
he thinks, pays about $13,000,000,000 for
them. In other words, distribution
represents $7,000,000,000 and production
$66,000,000,000. The man who furnishes!
the land buys the fertilizer, plants,
tends and harvests the crop gets $6 forj
his work and for his capital invested,
where the man who markets it gets $7.
There are those who feel that the
price the farmer gets is enough. Wlfat
they would like to see is a consumer's
price that would add only a reason
able percentage to the farmer's price.
There are others who think that if the
niddleman could be eliminated and the
intermediary of exchange, whereby the
consumer gives him money and the
farmer his ,products, could be two co
operative organizations, one to buy and
one to sell-one representing the con
sumer and the other the producer
the cost of living might be materially
reduced.
A picture of what reductions might
be made is to be gathered from a
statement with reference to market
conditions in New York. Farmers sold
$17,000,000 worth of eggs in that city
last year. When they reached the con
sumer he paid $28,000,000 for them.
The farmers received $1,825,000 for the
cabbage they sold in Gotham; the con
sumers bought it for $9,125,000. The
price of milk was magnified until the
$23,000,000 the farmers got for it
amounted to $49,000,000 when the con
sumers paid for it. Potatoes 'which
netted the farmers $8,000,000 cost the
consumer $60,000.00,, and onions jump
ed from less than $1,000,000 to more
than $8,000,000 while going from pro
ducer to consumer.
The estimate of the actual saving to
the producers and consumers of the
United States by the institution of a
proper system of marketing and the
elimination of unnecessary charges by
middlemen, is estimated at $2,000,000,
000 a year. Assuming that this would
be divided equally between the pro
ducer and consumer, the farmers of
the country would average $200 a year
each in added profits, while the con
sumer would get, not as much per
capita and savings, but as much in the
aggregate. It is the purpose of con
gress, 'in providing for a division of
markets in the department of agricul
ture, to make this saving, or at least
as much of it as possible, an accom
plished fact.
The work of the division will be In
a measure along new lines. While in
part there will be incorporated into
its activities some pf the duties that
have been performed by other divi
sions of the department of agriculture,
its investigations into systems of
marketing will be nation-wide, and
even the systems of foreign countries
will be studied carefully with a view
to bringing their lessons to America
and applying them here. The infor
mation and data collected will be dis
trtbuted to farmers, Farmers' organiza
tions and societies of consumers,
through bulletins, telegrams and per
sonal information. Investigations as
to the demands oar farm products in
various trade centers will be made,
and specific data will be given as to
the supply, normal demand, and prices
of the several kinds of farm produce
in these 'trade centers.
It Is provided in the amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill es
tablishing the division of 'markets, that
the bureau of statistics is 'to collect
for the division of markets all kinds
of data that 'will enable farmers, far
mers' organizations and societies of
consumers to adopt plans of marketing
that will facilitate the handling of
farm products at a minimum cost. If
the information is desired by tele
graph or telephone 'it 'may be had by
depositing the cost of the messages
with the chief of 'the division of mar
kets.
While it is expected that the divi
sion of markets will, in the course of
years, find many opportunities of
bringing the producer and the con
sumer into closer touch with one an
other, a't the same time the depart
ntent of agriculture realizes. that there
are many limitations to the services
that may be performed. Secretary
Wilson remarked that if the depart
ment were to undertake any feature
of the marketing of farm produce, to
find consumer or market, to investi
gate market conditions and prices
every day, and to report the results to
all farmers desiring the service, the
cost would be prohibitive. To keep in
telegraphic touch with all the trade
centers and there to maintain repre
sentatives, would cost an enormous
amount. Attention is called to the fact
that one farmers' co-operative asso
clation on the eastern shore of Vir
'ginta, covering only two counties. of
ordinary size, spends $25,000 a year for
telegraphing alone, and that the Cali
fornia citrus fruit growers spend $75,
000 a year on telegrams in connection
with the marketing of their oranges
and lemons.
The danger that would always con
front the 'division of markets under
such conditions would be tiat the mo
ment a lot of farmers got word that
eggs were selling at a very high ;ate
in a given city, they would rush their
eggs there, and a glut of the marlket
would follow that would make the last
condition worse than the first. The
farmer Iwho had acted on thls informa
tion, only to find that before his eggs
got there the bottom had dropped out,
would probably for ever after "cuss
out" the division of markets.
Buit there are healthful activities
that may be followed without the dan
ger of such unfavorable reactions.
One of these is the encouraging of
farmers 'to band themselves together
into mutual marketing organisztions
which can ship in carload lots, getting
appropriate market news, and, taking
advantage of any opening that may
arise. Another is the gathering of
information as to crop yields and mar
ket indications that would enable the
farmer to know whether it' wo.td be
wise to sell early or to wait for bet
ter prices. Still another activity of
the division would be to teach farmers
the art of grading and packing their
'products so that .they may make the
most of them.
The division probably will under
take to study 'transportation facilities
and to make them conform to the
needs of the farmer; to study storage
conditions and rates, and the gains or
losses that are usual from marketing
a crop as soon as gathered or from
holding it for later sale. Another, and
a most illuminating line of Investiga
tion, will be that of tracing the cost
of the distribution of all farm prod
ucts from the producer to the con
sumer, and an ascertainment of how
much every step adds to the ultimate
cost. When the division gets down
to work commission merchants will
probably have to toe the mark. It is
well known that many a farmer is
cheated out of practically everything a
consignment is worth by a dishonest
commission merchant. Ists of relia
ble ones probably will be published,
and the farmers warned to steer clear
of the ones whose names are not on
these lists. A list of market assocla-I
tions and consumers' associatlons also
will be maintained and studies of for
eign markets will be made.
Practically all of these activities
have in mind the reduction of market
ing costs at the fartperp' end of. the
chain of distribution. 'They will, If
they succeed, serve only to add to the
farmers' profit. At the other end of
the chain stands the consumer anxious
to save on his grocery bill. It is re
marked that if he wants to save' he
must get into closer touch with the
farmer. Here are a hundred house
holders. They might go together and
form a buying organization that will
get into touch with a co-operative
farmers' selling organization, and be
tween them th'ey can eliminate the
middleman entirely. The division of
markets will try to help out the con
sumer as well as the producer. It will
tell him where there is an association
of farmers ready to sell to him direct,
will give him directions for organiz
ing a consumers' league, and in many
other ways 'will try to bridge the gap
between the producer and the con
sumer, and to save to them the living
that a half dozen men between them
must extract from the things the pro
ducer has to sell and the consumer
must buy.
When one brother lives in the city
and another lives on a farm, and the
one in the city pays 60 cents a peck
for indifferent apples, while his
brother on the farm has trouble to dis
pose of splendid ones at a dollar a
barrel, they both know that somebody
is making as the apples pass along
from the producer to the consumer.
The division of markets will aim to
bring closer to the consumer and the
consumer closer 'tp the farmer.,
(Tomorrow - Co-operative' Market
ing. II-Existing Market 89'tems.)
Rockefeller
Foundation
JEROME D.' QEENE.
Washington, Feb. 22.-(Special.)--In
John D. Rockefeller's heroic fight to
give away $100,000,000 of his hard
earned money, there has figured prom
inently as the Standard Oil man's chief
lieutenant Jerome D. Greene, Sf New
York' city. Green has .been 'here in
Washngton as a lobblest for the bill
to incorporate the Rockefeller Fdun
dation with a hundred million, dollar
endowment. He is a trustee in many
of Mr. Rockefeller's philanthropic en
terprises.
"Mr. Rockefeller," explained Mr.
Greene, in speaking for the passage
of the bill, "desires a federal 'thcor
poration for this foundation partly as
a matter of sentiment, for he made his
money by doing business on a liational
scale, and he wants his biggeit gift
to the people to take on a riatiopal
character. He also believes that con
trol by the people of the whole eoun
try is safer and better than conttol
in the Interests of any one section.
"The object of the foundation is to
promote the well-being and to ad
canve the civilization of 'the world in
the acquisition and dessemination ,of
knowledge; in the prevention and re
lief of suftering; and in the promotion.
by eleemosynary and philanthropic
means, of all the elements of human
progress,"