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IN THE INTEREST OF A SQUARE
DEAL FOR THE FARMERS
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Did Your
Congressman
Betray You?
Another
State Gets
the Facts
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your senator or congressman vote for the repeal of the
excess profits tax or to lower the tax on millionaire incomes
The Leader published the rollcall on these issues at the time
the revenue bill was passed, and we expect to publish it again be
fore the election this year. In the meantime readers should study
carefully the figures on the income and excess profits tax presented
by Mr. Townley in his article in this issue. If you
want to know how your representative voted send
us his name and we will tell you. This is one
of the things on which farmers should be well
posted during the coming political campaigns.
Mr. Townley touches on the fact that over
half the income reported by individuals to the government is not
EARNED income, but is returns from investments, stock, land and
bond deals, dividends, interest, rents and royalties. He did not
have space to bring out all the interesting details of this part of
the recent government income tax report. One such detail is that
from three-quarters to nine-tenths of the larger incomes are not
EARNED—that is, not paid in salaries or wages for hand or brain
work. The great bulk of such incomes are from interest, dividends,
financial and land deals, rents, royalties—that is, from the ability
of great wealth to accumulate more wealth without its possessor
producing anything or performing any useful service to humanity.
It was the tax on such incomes that congress reduced the most in
the recent revenue bill.
For instance, the small incomes of $2,000 or less reported to
the government were derived 77.25 per cent from salaries and
wages. Not until you get to incomes above $5,000 a year do you
find more of them coming from interest, dividends, etc., than from
actual productive work. About three-quarters of the incomes of
from $5,000 to $10,000 are not earned. When you get to incomes
of from $200,000 to $300,000 a year, about 90 per cent of them are
unearned. Incomes from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 are less than 2
per cent earned, and incomes of $2,000,000 or over are less than one
third of 1 per cent earned! This latter group of incomes derives
over 61 per cent of its total from divi
dends, over 10 per cent from interest
and over 22 per cent from profits from
sale of real estate, stocks and bonds. It
is such incomes that congress voted to
encourage and foster. No wonder Mr.
Townley calls it a "crime!"
A MONQ.t other "bolshevistic" and
L\' "anarchistic" deeds of North
Dakota was its exposure of the
grossly unfair grain grading system
and its attempt, recently declared un
constitutional, to mitigate the evils of
the system. The North
Dakota experimental flour
mill years ago demon
strated that the milling
value of wheat is much
higher than the value put
upon it by the grading system. Dr.
(now Senator) Ladd long ago proved
that wheat graded down by state or fed
eral graders for minor so-called imper
fections, made as good, or nearly as
good flour and bread, and as much of
it, as the so-called higher grades. This
was branded as "radical agitation" by
the grain trade and its press. It was
virtually an "attempt to tear down the
government," they said.
But now Minnesota, years later, as
certains the same facts and publishes
them. The Minnesota legislature pro
vided recently for a state experimental
mill, and that mill has made its first re
port, confirming in every detail the
previous North Dakota findings. Here
are the facts:
Wheat graded as No. 1 dark northern
and purchased on January 15 last at
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Published at Minneapolis, Minn., Every Two Weeks
OLIVER S. MORRIS, Editor.
VOL. 14, NO. 8 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, APRIL 17, 1922 WHOLE NUMBER 296
Comment by the Editor on Current Events
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WHEAT—the
Spoiling
the Grain
in Milling
HIS OWN AFFAIR
I DON'T SEE
WH«T JOSTlCe
HAS TO DO
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MAGAZINE THAT DARES TO
PRINT THE TRUTH
from $1.33 to $1.39 per bushel, was actually worth on that date,
according to the price of flour and by-products on that day, and
allowing for all milling costs and legitimate profits, $1.69 cents per
bushel. The farmers were beaten out of from 30 to 36 cents a
bushel. The discrepancy is even greater on lower grades. Thus,
while the market put No. 4 dark northern at from 11 to 13 cents
less per bushel than No. 1, there was an actual difference in milling
value of only 8 cents—more robbery of the farmer.
The Minnesota state mill did not make these experiments on a
handful or a sack of wheat, but on carloads, actually milling the
wheat under commercial mill conditions. Five cars of No. 1 were
milled, six of Not 2, 11 of No. 3, etc. Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace, like his predecessors, has refused to readjust the federal grades
on a basis fair to the producer. He ought to study the result of
Minnesota's experiments, if he considers North Dakota's too "bol
shevistic", to dignify by official attention. And the supreme justices
who ruled North Dakota's grading law unconstitutional should cast
their eyes over the Minnesota report.
machine—is nature's perfect food for man. Man can live
indefinitely on it, retaining his strength, health and
weight, without other food. In fact, such a diet would restore to
health a lot of people who are weak and ailing and whose sole trouble
is over-eating and consumption of too much highly
seasoned and concentrated food.
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whole grain as it comes from the threshing
But if you take the bran from the wheat kernel
you destroy it as a perfect food. The bran is needed
to furnish the proper bulk for the efficient working
of the digestive apparatus. Also, when the bran is
taken off, the vitamines and mineral salts necessary to sustain
life are likewise removed. Experiments show that animals which
prosper and grow fat on an exclusive diet of whole wheat, soon
pine and die on an exclusive diet of white bread, made from flour
from which the bran has been removed, or when fed the raw grain
minus the bran. Persons eating white instead of whole-wheat
bread, or breakfast foods made from the
"heart" or so-called "cream" of the wheat,
in order to keep healthy must get their vita
mines and mineral salts from some other
foods, like green vegetables, fruits, milk and
butter. Otherwise they would get siek and
eventually die.
Those who used to demiand wl^^wfieat
bread were called "food fadists." Today
science backs them up with indisputable
facts gathered from thousands of actual ex
periments. This knowledge is particularly
of interest to farmers. If acted upon it would
throw into the discard the entire complicat
ed, refined, useless and expensive process bf
milling at present so profitable to the mills,
but which endangers the health and makes
the cost of living higher for the people who
consume wheat.
One of the biggest bakery companies in
New York the other day announced it had
baked its last loaf of white bread. It is now
exclusively selling bread made from whole
grain flour. The president of the company
said that in doing this he was risking bank
ruptcy, as most people were still fooled by
millers who found it more profitable to en
courage the use of white flour than to help
educate the public to the
facts. But he said that,
profitable as the business
had been, he would no
longer aid in the poison
ing of the public with de
natured bread, from
which the life-giving ele
ments had been taken.
The company will spend
a lot of money in educat-
ing the public about the