THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



THE FARMER'S ROUND OF PLEASURE 



One dollar and thirty cents a bushel for wheat, and 

 $17 a barrel for flour. 



Nine cents a pound for live hogs, and 35 cents a 

 pound for bacon. 



Nothing at all for screenings, and $20 a ton for feed 

 made of screenings. 



Twelve per cent, interest on loans (with little extra 

 bonuses to boot) and no alternative but to take the 

 gaff. 



A cheap cigar a day before election and a stony stare 

 the day after. 



Freight rates that prevent farmers from building up 

 industries at home. 



Six hundred and fifty-three dollars for a car-load of 

 "Feed D" wheat that brings $1,058 two days later 

 without a kernel touched or changed. 



Credit for 15,500,000 bushels of No. 2 Northern 

 that is converted into 20,000,000 bushels of No. 1 after 

 the grain sharks get it. 



Having 3,700,000 bushels of wheat graded to him as 

 No Grade turned into Nos. 2, 3, and 4 after the grain 

 combine gets it. 



Free speech galore during political campaigns, and 

 taxes to pay for legislation he didn't want the next 

 spring. 



It seemed even so to men of disinterested 

 minds that could appraise the situation im- 

 partially. The farmer raised the wheat and 

 other men took the profit; other men that 

 never turned a sod nor held a plow nor for- 

 warded a bushel of the wheat, but stood in 



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