The nonpartisan leader. [volume], June 30, 1919, Image 5

About The nonpartisan leader. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1915-1921

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of the existing system consist not merely in
the grading of grain, its weighing, its dockage,
the price paid and the disparity between the
price of different grades and the flour-produc
ing capacity of the grain. They believe that
the evil goes deeper that the whole system of
shipping the raw materials of North Dakota
to these foreign, terminals is wasteful and hos
tile to the best interests of the state. They
say in substance:
"1. The raw materials of the state ought to be
manufactured into commercial products within the
state. In no other way can its industrial life be
sufficiently diversified to attain a healthy economic
development.
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"2. The present system prevents diversified
farming. The only way that it can be built up is
to grind the grain in the state which the state pro
duces—keep the by-products of bran and shorts
here and feed them to livestock upon the farms
of the state. In1 no other way can a prosper
ous livestock, dairy and poultry -industry be
built up.
"3. The existing marketing system tends di
rectly to the exhaustion of soil fertility. In no
way can soil depletion be prevented except to feed
out to livestock at least as much of the by-prod
ucts of the grain raised upon the state's farms
as that grain produces when ground and thus put
back into the soil, in the form of enriched manure,
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Theodore Roosevelt. But the American farmer is after bigger Dakota, and like Theodore R6osevelt his best weapon is the bier
game. He is out after what Roosevelt once called the "predatory "stick"
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the elements which the raising of small grains
takes from it.'
"The present movement began at least as far
back as 1911. In that year an amendment of the
state constitution was initiated authorizing the
state to acquire one or more terminal grain ele
vators and maintain and operate the same in such
manner as the legislative assembly should pre
scribe. That amendment was adopted in 1913.
From that time forward the discussion of the sub
ject of marketing the products of the state has
been the main theme of public thought. The move
ment has gone straight forward, the constitution
has been repeatedly amended, including the
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