The nonpartisan leader. [volume], December 21, 1916, Image 6

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^HE LEADER prints a letter on
this page from a miller. This
miller, Mr. Enright, is a, good
fellow. He writes a funny letter.
.His stuff is good. Like most anybody
{Who gets off something he thinks is keen,
Mr. Enright wants tcr-seehis letter in
In print.. The X&uW HW- tlv» Hare
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So here is your-letter, Mr. Enright.
We hope you will enjoy it. We know
the readers of the Leader will. Further
more, we are going to write you an
answer right on this page. You are a
jolly fellow, and deserve an" answer. And
Ve hope you will enjoy the answer.
.The Leader could hive more fun
•Answering if this letter had more facts
and less banter,, But then, wre will have
to answer it as we find it"-i' .'•
So it's the American housewife, is it,
Mr. Enright, who is responsible for giv
ing ..the farmers 60 to 70 cents for per
fectly good $1.75 wheat? Shame on you
for laying it on the' woigeri! We have
had it intimated /by a Minneapolis mill
ing paper that the recent primaries in
North Dakota caused the wheat rust and
hence "feed" wheat and low prices. The
farmers voted for their Own candidates
last June and nominated them* Then the
"evil one" or somebody (maybe it was
the millers) went and rusted all the
wheat, as a lesson to farmers to mind
their own business. But Mr. Enright
springs a' new one. He says it is the
American housewife who is back of the
whole thing, because she won't buy flour
made of light-weight wheat and hence
'millers won't pay anything for such
a in
So we have got to defend the American.
housewife from Mr. Enright's unpatriotic
attack. Think of saying" our mothers,
sisters and wives: are, responsible, either
directly .or indirectly,: for thebigs$eal
perpetrated on the' farmers? ii" tio-calied'
•'feed" wheat grades! ..(Beg vpiardon,/
"chicken feed" Mr. Enrightcalls it). -rJS
the joi^ly.
GETS
$1
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IN VERY
But we have Mr. Enright on the: hip!
He»wrote his letter before the last issue
of the Leader was out. He made a bad
mistake there. He probably realizes it
now. In that Issue the Leader told of
the operations of the now famous mill at
-Phelps, Minn., WHICH HAS CON%
FIRMED ALL OF DR. LADD'S FIND
INGS. And the Leader quoted several
American housewives who used flour from
that' mill made from 40- to 50-poUnd
wheat, AND THEY SAID IT MADE
FINE. BREAD. They said it equalled
the flour they had been buying. The
Leader gave names andaddresses of these
-housewives.
Just to give our jolly miller a full
-measure- we will spring this on him:
.The Leader staff representative" who
visited Phelps and got.flrst hand the dope
on the mill brought home some flour made
•solelyfrom 40-pound wheat, He had his
wife, 'Who married him, to quote Mr.
Enright, "for reasons best known to her
-self," ^bake that flour into bread. She
makes mighty, good bread, and die didn't
'fall down on that 40-pound flour. She
produced as fine a loaf from it as you
could ask, and weeompareditwithfcread
-from the best high-grade "flour purchased
in Fargo and found we couldn't tell them
apart. She said it was just &s good
.bread as she ever made.. (Name and
address of this American housewife fur
nished on request. Mr. Enright.)
But why argue along this line. Mi*
.Enright knowa -and every miller knows
that th£MMrthweBt'» crop of tight-weight?
wheat tfcis- year IS BEING MlLlJSD
AND IS' GOING INTO THE VERY
BEST, HKaH^GRADE FLOUR. It is
'bought 2or a semg trnd mixed .with other
.wheat, «nd the flour resulting is sold by
the liAlers for a price based on' the
assumption that ALL THE WHEAT'
GOING INTO THE MIXTURE IS IJO.
OR
2 WHEAT
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Editor Nonpartisan Leader,
•Dear5 Sir
IF*
taisers with cldcken feed. What else "are
they buying this "bum" wheat for
THAT LITTLE SECRET
IS OUT OF THE BAG
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^•Ahino, Mr Enright, that will not do.
The North Dakota A^ricultu^sd college
•has proved what is up. IT HAS
PROVED THIS LIGHT WHEAT
MAKES BIGGER AND" LIGHTER
LOAVES BREAD THAN
texture above standard, T^iat the mil
Jers are doin^ is this: they $£S using ^ds'
iight wheat to mut with other wheat" in
order to get a bigger loaf volufne for their
flour, and they sell the flour thus mixed
idt a
Jn other "words, tlli
"chicken f^ed". |lx. Enright speaks, so
contemptuously pt is fringing No.
prices when-sold as flour.
trade and
abnouncement-^a, phptographio
Writes" a Funny Letter to the Leader, Full of Jokes But Shy on Facts,
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and the Editor of the leader Answers Him
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•the North Dakota light crop was l$eing
milled. Such an admission /was not
needed. Thousands of carloads .of this
light wheat are sold eyery day to Minne
apolis mills. See the sales report of the
wheat market any day: If we are to
believe Mr. Enright these mills keep vast
flocks of chickens to which they feed this
wheat, or else the barnyard population
of the country has suddenly been multi
plied ly many thousand and tye mills are
acting as commission men to supply new
and daily doubling flocks of chicken
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In a recent issue of your paper you were good enough to give space to a
part of my letter of October 6, in which I objected to Mr. Ladd's statements
concerning the milling or merchantable value of wheat testing fiftyiounds and
less to the measured bushel.'
When Professor Ladd and the Nonpartisan Leader teU the millers what can
be done .with this light-weight .wbeat, the millers feel very much as the farmers
(I nieaji the REAL FARMERS) feel when. city geaQemei^ whose principal
labor consists of reading and writing, blosspm forth with th«t goo^ old story
about how to make one's farm double crops or mor& ..•••
What the Nonpartisan Leader^ Mi% Ladd and «ther wel^intentioned inved^
rtigators^ loiBe sight of or, when_ educating ^the public, mischievously neglect to
mention, |s that-tiie millers' first and most dijfficnlt .tiak, if he expects to malm
a livings out of jdk: business,'is. to SATISFY THE AMERICAN HOTJSlilWlFE.
.. The wdndeimfl .vnfe. and mothec in the great Ameri»A liome. WHO BUYS
.THE.FLOPS—God.diesis' her. One of K«r, doulitless for reasons known' only
to h«rmlf^t^^ d6^.sdiiie|ierf«^ ly:nOniUd/humatf°beajg to accept the editor
of the Lecraor perchance the-^ame -was true ip the case 6f Ifrl Ladd—Gott soil
hueten!
Against/h&r word, the word of mere man," eveii though he be physician and
chemist in one CUTS NO FIGUIQS^WHATfiVER with the miller. That is the
point and you can theorize on flour ^ind wheat until the cows come .home'and,
.•mierely waste your time 4nd that of your readers if you do nbt bear iftind
/that the displeasiue of the American housewife "Would break the richest milling
company that ever existed.
... That part, of the' housewives yrho can afford ^flodr fr^ra No. 1 Northern
wheat and better-will not accept the flour from light-weigU whegt at Iwlf
If yob.don^t.beli^re it, try it on your wif& \j|
The woman, who cap not affora t^§ -best will g^t along with the o&er w)idt
the price'is enough lower -to suit her.
If milling chicken'feed is so profitable why are.North JDaikota mills stand
ing idle? Just to close.the argument, please-tell your readerp'this:- --'.'.Open'
offer to tiie editor of the'Nonpartisan Leader or Professor/Ladd: I vnll double
your present salary or income in consideration of b^ing shown how'to grind
at capacity, light-weight or any. otber kind of wheat 9nd sell the products at 'a:
net profitr-not of 60^ cents per bushel not of 30 cents per.bushel not. of
cents per bushel, but of TEN CENTS per bushel. And I am not tiure that I
Wouldn't do aa much: for you on 5 centi.per -bushel."
Befairand truthful enough'to'print this. In conclusiionlwant to assure
the farmers that would gladly bid on chicken feed wheat biit my flour -trade is
largely.. with farmers whose gopd,wives.would u^e^their rolling pins on them
if they brought home chicken feed flour ...
Yours very truly,
erting
The Leader last week printed (and oiff- made better Sour than the 1915 crop?^?! Then too, yrhstgood are mills in North 5f,rVSi.We will w»i
lly milkjtimdn't seen this, either, when They announced -this privately to the Dakota when they charge the people for—*
ie wrote his letter) a statement from a trade' and the Leader printed thelr jrflour tbe-saihe price that IKimetipotis:
Minneapolis miller's paper admitting that
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duction of it± Are millers in the habit
of lying ""SVould they announce
privacy .to the trade that the light-.
weight crop/of 1916 wheat made better
flout than/.the heavy wheat of 1915, if
it was not true?
.. It's a shame to do it, but we are going,
to take another fall out of you, Mr.
Enright. You ask: "If milling chicken
feed is:/so profitable, why -are North
Dakota mills standing idle
You ought to have been more careful.
Mr. Enright.^ .The farmers of North
^.C.C«l«CMT
Detember.7, 191ft
Dakota have always jsaid that the bifc4*
North Dalcota mills out of business
You ought to have been more cz&tx£':
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..Tiiiv IflnnaonAlia yUJTTu'
the Leader you Ww therailroads have
grossly discrimmated against "Pfftrth
Dakota
rmills
rates, and in favor
Minneapolis mills. If you don't believe S membera.
it, ask the Fargo Commercial, club, cents.
itH WUUUM MVU,
price based en $2. wheat, not 80-: £jrfcfc is bringing suit to' compd "lower to have thftACcount of this«rgani|^
cent wheat .^railroad rates in Nortfa Dakota.' The
..' Stand up and answer this, jolly miller:Leader has already printed the styitling JAMES MARTO*..
Why did onfe of the biggest mills In Min- facts in.regard to railroad di$criminattm-J|^ VAm-or.n.™. -Mi,
heapolis announce that the 1918 crop^ jagahurt North Dakota. YOUR WATCH SICKt
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get a large patronage because theu: nour
prices aire made by. charging freight oii
wheat to: -Minneapolis and on .flour back,
:though.the{wheat and flou.r do not go to'
end from Minneapolis. They £0 not com
pete in price with' the. outside mills. In
Fargo it costs'just as much for a sack of
flour i&ade liere as one shipped in from
Minneapolis, though the Minneapolis
mills had to pay freight from Nortti
Dakota on tible wheat, and the freight
had to be paid' back to tbec!*State
on the flour. These freight charge^ the
North Dakota mills did not hiaver to pay,
but they get the same price ^or,-their
flour. Why is^^ t?ua?//Are there ''g^tle
men's agreeikents" between mills on
this point? Tell us, Mr. Enright, -you
are a miller and know." -Why do. you ask
us?
SOME QUESTIONS
FOR MR: MILLER
Milling has not failed in North Dakota
because of the class of North Dakota
wheat, and you know that, Mr. Miller. .'
Never was a more outrageous statement pK
made. You. know that the: mills fight to ..
get North. Dakota wheat—THAT IT IS
THE BEST WHEAT IN THE WORLP, fi
WITHOUT EXCEPTION. Your qros
tion is a silly one. Come again. We like .g:
your jokes, butthey iare not half as funny "l.?
3mxr "fe
You sneer at scientists and ^experts,
Mr. Enright. We do not like you for
that You hefojr the issue,-and we do
not like yoqfor that,.even'with all your
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cultural college milled several hundred. J®?.
samples of' sorcalled 16w grade, light
weight wheat?
Do you deny that he baked bread out of
the Sour from these samples? fT
Dor you deny that the bread he bak6d
was what he said it
wm
in texture,'color
tfhd loaf volume?
Do you deny it was not bread a^ gpod
and in some instances: better than bread SiW1
made from No. 1 and 2 wheat, by all
known standaixls, including.the standard ,,
of the America housewife?
That is tlle^ issue, Mri Enright. You 1^'
are trying to sweep back the.ocean. Dr.
ad id he he in in a
have discovered/ your decret mnd it
•nettles you Your fight is not with the
Leader, or with-the ftemers of'the north- -f 2
west for stfutding up for their rights as
is it is if
and -^heat experts whb have ascertained W
the" Acts. The Leader accepts the facts
as. scientists "and disinterested experts
have .discovered them You do not, and' %,
you resort to- subterfuge and jokes -t»
kick up dust ._
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Minneapolis millstcould succeed in put-- OKGANiZE FARMERS CLUB
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NonparSsan Leader:
any time they wanted to, and that th^y A very successful oweiingvwas held at
have done it, leaving the North Dakota school, or school No. 3,. River
milling industry almost negligible. so^ool district No. 11/ Steel ^unty,
Mr. Enright You admit by your ques- Cooperative club was
tion the North Dakota mills are idle, and jr 1
that we miost import flour, paying freight
tin, president A. E. EricksonV
«nuce Aandr treasurer hoard of direct-*.-
at tIle
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Face the issue, Mr. Enright Shall we
take t|ie word of disinterested scientists
and experts and the disinterested mill at
Phelps, Minnesota, or shall .we take the
word of an interested miller? Go on
with your- war on science .and expert
opinion. It is amusing. "We laugh, but
we really are.sorry for you.
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