The nonpartisan leader. [volume], August 16, 1917, Image 17

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BY E. B. FUSSELL
FARMERS STAND
~TO HEAR SPEECH
"Well, the farmers of North Dakota
were paid for wheat that went into the
flour, from.80 cents to $1.20 per bush
el," said Townley. "It takes four and
a half bushels of wheat to make a
barrel. The manufacturing cost is 85
cents and the bran, shorts-and other
by-products that the millers get from
E
seventeen BILLIONS.
There are, roughly speaking, perhaps
17,000,000 soldiers engaged in active
warfare on the various fronts4 The
turn that the United States must pro
vide would be sufficient to pay every
soldier, ally or German, $1000 apiece
Seventeen billion dollars is such a
gigantic sum that it is difficult for any
human mind to picture it. Think of it
In this way: A dollar bill is approxi
mately seven and one-half inches In
length. Eight thousand, five hundred
of them placed end to end, would reach
a mile.
If the $17,000,000,000 were in dollar
bills and they were placed end to end,
they would stretch for two million
miles. This string of bills could be
wound 80 times around the earth at
Its greatest circumference. The string
of dollar bills would be long enough to
stretch from the earth to the moon,
which is 250,000 miles away, to take
Bix or seven turns around the earth
and a couple around the moon be
sides.
In addition to the work of John M. Baer, the farmers' new con
gressman who has made the Nonpartisan Leader famous for its
cartoons, and who will continue to draw for the Leader, the
Leader henceforth will feature each week a cartoon by "W. C.
Morris, one of the leading cartoonists pf the country. The first of
Morris' work appears on another page. TTia work in the Leader
will be expressly for this paper and will not be duplicated else
where. Morris' work has been appearing in the New York Mail,
the Independent and other big eastern publications. Since the war
started he has won new laurels with his cartoons advocating a
heavy excess war profits tax. He has always been in the fight
for the people. This new feature will appeal to every reader of
the Leader. Watch for the Baer and Morris cartoons!
Montana Will Co-Operate
President Townley of the Nonpartisan League
Speaks to Great Farmers' Meeting at Stevens
yille—Many Thousand Present
TEVENSYILLE, Mont., Aug.
9.—The message of the wheat
growers of Minnesota and the
Dakotas was carried to the
iruit growers of the Bitter
Root valley by President A. C. Townley
of the National Nonpartisan league
lor the first time today at an annual
picnic at this place attended by 3,000
farmers, orchardists and members of
their families.
While Townley was telling the fruit
men of the determination of Dakota
wheat raisers to cooperate politically
and obtain for themselves full value of
their product, a man in the crowd
asked, "What do you pay in North
Dakota for a box of Mcintosh Red
apples
"I am not sure," said Townley.
"Most of us only have money to buy a
nickel's worth at a time, but I don't
think they can be bought at less than
$1.50 or $2. What do you get for
them?"
"Fifty cents," said the fruit grower.
"I am going to ask you a question,"
eaid Townley. "What do you pay here
for flour?"
"Seventeen dollars a barrel," said the
orchardist.
WHAT IT MAKES
FOR EACH FAMILY
There are approximately 20,000,000
families in the United States, so If the
present program Is carried out, the
average family will pay $850 this year
toward support of the government.
The largest part of the proposed ex
penditures, of course, are caused by the
war. Congress has passed army bflla
appropriating $2,684,531,887 and has
army bills for $5,000,000,000 pending.
These amounts,- added together make
What it Costs to W^r
How Much for Each Family in United States is
Figured Out by Statistician
STIMATES for the expendi
tures of the United States
during the first year of the
war are $17,000,000,000. This
is not seventeen millions but
the wheat are worth more than the
cost of manufacture of the flour.
"Now this is what the farmers of
North Dakota have to propose: If you.
will join us in an effort to see that the
wheat growers get what you pay for
flour above the cost of manufacture
and transportation we will join with
you to see that you get the full price
that we pay for your apples above the
cost of transportation. If you get all
you are entitled to for your apples you
will have more money to buy our flour
and we will have more money to buy
your apples."
Although Townl'ey began his speech
only a few minutes before noon, a large
crowd of farmers remained standing
around the speaker's stand throughout
the entire noon hour, listening to his
advice and greeting every telling point
with applause.
Townley was surrounded by a large
throng of farmers when he concluded
his speech. Although original work has
only recently been started in the Bit
ter Root valley, farmers are flocking
to the League standard and a big mem
bership in the orchard section of the
state is assured.
C. P. Frost, of Corvallis, has the dis
tinction of being the first orchardist to
sign as a League member. He is a
prominent Equity leader and came to
the Stevensville meeting to greet
Townley. Farmers reported that they
saw in the Nonpartisan league the
first chance to break away from the
bipartisan political machine under the
control of the Amalgamated mining in
terests that has dominated the life of
this state for years, using Republicans
when it desired and Democrats when
it desired, but controlling the ma
chinery of both parties.
an average of $285 for the average
family to pay for the army.
Loans of $3,000,000,000 to ,the allies
have been authorized and ajiother
$2,000,000,000 is pending. While the
allies are expected to repay these loans
in future, the moniey has to be provid
ed now. It amounts to $250 from the
average family.
Navy appropriations, passed and
pending, call for $61.76 from the aver
age family, aviation appropriations for
$34.25 while the item of merchant ships,
distributed among 20,000,000 families,
calls for $45.25 from each one. War
risk insurance amounts to $2.25 per
family, a special $100,000,000 fund In
the hands of the president amounts to
$5 per family. Ordinary departmental
appropriations amount to about $1,000,
000,000 or $50 per family and pensions
of $160,000,000 average $8 per family.
COST WILL GROW
AS WAR,GOES"ON
Interest on the Liberty Loan bonds
already issued will amount this year
to $70,000,000, or $3.50 per family.
Officials at Washington believe that
the cost of the war is apt to grow
greater, Instead of less, as the war
goes on. That has been the experience
of the European countries.
It is possible that our country's ex
penditures during the first year may
exceed $17,000,000,000. The official
bulletin, Issued by the government,
states that the total for the first year
may reach $19,000,000,000.
SOME TIME, MAYBE
Ttiere Is to be a real reduction In
the price at coal, alter everybody geta
their bins full, and nobody wants an
other pound. XJDce tomorrow, how
tie time will never come.—
3THOFB (N. T\) SENTINEL.
PAGE SEVENTEEN
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