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fortunately, was not adopted. Sena
tor Ladd, aided by Senators Capper
.and Norris, made a determined fight
against it but they only prevented its
adoption by compromising on other
matters.
The next amendment inserts the
words "using reasonable diligence" in
the section providing the secretary of
agriculture may suspend or revoke the
licenses of grain exchanges which do
not enforce the rules against gam
bling. "Seasonable diligence" makes
it very difficult to prove studied neg
lect and ifis impossible to anticipate
how the courts may interpret this
phrase. This amendment is typical of
the kind of legal mind which tells
great corporate interests how to evade
the law.
HOOVER ON BOARD
AIDS GRAIN MEN
The last important amendment takes
from the secretary of agriculture the
sole power to enforce the law and
places this in the hands of a commis
sion consisting of the secretary of ag
riculture, the secretary of commerce
and the attorney general. This seems
significant when it is remembered that
Herbert Hoover is secretary of com
merce. He will serve on this commis
sion, and the greatest single exporter
and grain operator in the United
States is his friend and business as
sociate, Julius Barnes. There is plenty
of
evidence to show that the grain op
erators brought great pressure to bear
upon congress, as well as on Secre
tary Wallace, to insure the adoption
of
this amendment. The commission
of
three divides responsibility and,
with Mr. Hoover on the board, the
grain dealers certainly will have a
friend in court.
All this explains why this measure
will fall far short of the enthusiastic
expectations of its designers. It will
not prevent trading in futures—pro
vided the trading is done through a
member of a "contract market"—and
it will not check the present volume of
speculation where 57 bushels of ficti­
(Continued from page 5)
occurred which might alleviate the
terrible conditions under which the
farmer and wage-worker are now
laboring.
Cheek by jowl with promises they
made threats. There was to be a gen
eral cessation of industry. Mills, mines,
smelters and railway shops were to be
dosed if the league was successful at
the polls. Banks were to foreclose
and farmers were to be driven from
the land—if the League won. The
League .did not win, but all that was
threatened has happened, and more.
The producer has been again unde
ceived and there is the devil to pay.
In the meantime the optimism gen
erated as a result of the steady June
rains did not materialize in the ex
pected crop. As a matter of fact,
crops are, generally sneaking, light
and prices are in proportion.
The state office is in receipt of hun
dreds of letters of encouragement and
expressing determination to stick un
til the last gun is fired.- The League
management, having conducted
through the summer a policy which
incurred no debt and enabled the or
ganization to pay off some 'of its cred
itors, now enters upon the fall sea
Bon"
of activity with high hopes and a
clearly defined plan of operation.
Within a few weeks these activities
will have reached the maximum point
of development. The Montana Non
partisan is to be republished on a
larger and more comprehensive scale
and- the general business of the Non
partisan league in Montana will re
sume its normal course and pursue its
Nonpartisan League News
tious grain are traded in for every
bushel of actual wheat. Neither will
it prevent market manipulation—any
possibility of this was done away with
when the proposed limitation of "open
trading" was cut out. But, to be per
fectly fair, it must be admitted that
the bill has some good features. It
probably is better than no regulation
at all.
On the other hand, the passage of
this bill in its emasculated form has
some discouraging aspects. It
strengthens the existing grain ex
changes in their monopoly of the mar
ket. They are virtually licensed by
the government and all lesser rivals
are swept away. Former President
Gates of the Chicago Board of Trade
candidly admitted this to .the senate
committee.
Senator Capper himself freely ad
mitted to me that as amended the bill
does not come up to his expectations.
"But it was the best we could do,"
he vsaid. "A few of us held out as
long as we could, but we either had to
accept the amendments or see the bill
defeated. After all, it is a step in the
right direction. It establishes the
principle of regulation and the records
will give us valuable data for new leg
islation if this act does not prove en
tirely satisfactory. I was greatly dis
appointed that we could not get rid
of the private wires and limit open
trades."
"There are some provisions of the
act that I do not approve," Senator
Ladd said, "and I favor much more
drastic regulation, but a majority of
the agricultural committee wanted
amendments and compromise was in
evitable."
Charles A. Lyman, secretary of the
National Bureau of Farm Organiza
tions, was more outspoken. "Farm
ers who study the bill will be greatly
disappointed in its provisions," he de
clared. "While it eliminates some of
the most vicious practices of the grain
gamblers, it still allows free rein to
speculation, which the organized farm
ers always have objected to."
general objective in the calm confi
dence that victory will result only'
from sustained intelligent and enthu
siastic effort.
IDAHO
BY EDITOR, IDAHO LEADER
Tlitical
HE Idaho Leader, official state
organ of the League, after four
months' suspension between po
campaigns, has resumed
publication preparatory to the big fall
membership drive and the political
campaign next year. Reorganization
work has commenced for the fall and
winter with vim.
The League in ldaho last fall secur
ed 33 per cent more votes than it did
in the election previous, a rate of
growth which has satisfied members
that a little more work will do the job.
Several large League picnics were
heTd during the last month, the events
showing League enthusiasm at a high
pitch. There were 3,000 present at
the largest of the picnics, held on the
farm of H. F. Samuels in the northern
part of the state. The visit of Gover-.
nor Frazier of North Dakota to the
Idaho Panhandle during the summer
helped the League cause and impress
ed many business men and other non
Leaguers.
ALONE IN FIELD
No other farm magazine wants to
or can give you the information that
the Leader gives you. Don't let your
subscription expire.
CUT AND DRIED
A GENTLEMAN RASCAL
(From the "Personal" column)
My wife was accosted at the ball
game yesterday. Unless she receives
an apology at once I will start some
thing, as, from her description, I know
the GENTLEMAN jvho INSULTED
her.
Those who claim that Germany
won the war are not so far off
considering the fact that the al
lies sunk the German fleet and
thereby abolished navy taxes for
the kaiser's erstwhile subjects.
HE GOT IT
"I'll feed you if you chop that
wood," said the farmer's wife.
"Lady," replied the tramp, "I'm too
tired to work. I've walked 20 miles
today begging something to eat.
Won't you please give me a bite?"
"Yes," said the lady, as she re
leased the bulldog.
CONGRESS IS TAXING EVERY
THING-WE HAVE, INCLUDING
OUR PATIENCE.
NOW WE KNOW WHAT THE
PHRASE MEANS
The National Association of Retail
Tombstone Dealers, in convention at
St. Paul, probably agrees that it is
"a monumental mistake" for friends
of the deceased not to erect suitable
memorials.
In framing a tariff bill to pro
tect monopolies and profiteers the
Republican party may think it is
doing its duty toward big busi
ness, but actually it is a case
of. big business duties doing the
rest of us.
ASSAULT AND BATTER
"Man Beats Woman Making Bread,"
««ays a newspaper headline.
FLIVVERS HEREAFTER
The Y. M. C. A. secretary at Pekin,
China, reports that besides burying
food with the dead so the spirit won
starve, the Chinese now carve on the
tomb the representation of a flivver.
This is supposed to provide hieans for
the dead Chinaman's spirit to get
around easily. But we suppose that
the real reason for the custom is to
enable the spirit to get out of the bad
place where some go. For the "tin
Liz" will go or get anywhere.
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