THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



weighing methods in the grain 

 trade: report on, by committee 

 of North Dakota Bankers' Asso- 

 ciation, 72-73; testimony of Ben- 

 jamin Drake concerning, 74; dis- 

 coveries of D. T. McGrath con- 

 cerning, 319-320. 



Farm profits: popular notions 

 about, 3, 4; cost of raising wheat, 

 acre, 59; farmer's balance-sheet 

 compared with grain-buyer's, 

 57-58; less than a ditch-digger's 

 pay, 61; average of, on fifty-six 

 farms hi Clay County, Minne- 

 sota, 62; average of, on fifty- 

 two farms in Ottertail County, 

 Minnesota, 62; wheat raised 

 at a loss hi North Dakota, 31- 

 32. 



Farmers, the: their share in prices 

 paid by consumers, 1, 60, 61; 

 disproportionate odds against, 

 22; further notes on their in- 

 comes, 184-185. 



Farmers' Alliance, career of, 96. 



"Farmers' Legislature," the, of 

 1917, record of, 224-228. 



"Farmer's Round of Pleasure," 

 the, 92. 



Fowler, H. T., testimony of, con- 

 cerning Duluth Board of Trade, 

 146. 



Frazier, Lynn J.: a modern Cin- 

 cinnatus, 210; chosen as Nonpar- 

 tisan League's first candidate for 

 governor, 210; character and 

 experience, 210; carries North 

 Dakota in primaries of 1916, 

 219; first election as governor, 

 220; renominated, 1918, 249; 

 re-elected, 250. 



"Good men" and "bad men" hi 

 reform, 187. 



Grain Buyers' Combination, re- 

 port concerning, by committee 

 of North Dakota Bankers' As- 

 sociation, 82. 



Gram exchanges, profits of, 12. 



Grain futures: extent of trading 



in, 159, 160, 161; opinion of 

 committee of national House of 

 Representatives concerning evil 

 effects of, 161-162. 



Grain grades, grading and inspec- 

 tions: typical instance, 27-29; 

 explanation of, 39 n.; "No 

 Grade" explained, 30-31; sys- 

 tem of, 38-39; appeals from, in 

 Minnesota, 56; made without 

 farmers' participation or con- 

 sent, 82, 86; spurious "Feed" 

 grades, 82; demonstration at 

 North Dakota Agricultural Col- 

 lege of then- falsity and in justice, 

 83; tables of farmers' losses on 

 "Feed" grades, 84-85; wholly 

 arbitrary, 86; Doctor Ladd's 

 estimates of the total losses on 

 these grades, 86; scandalous in- 

 stance of controlled grading in 

 connection with Leiter wheat 

 deal, 154 ; reformed by legislature 

 of North Dakota in session of 

 1919, 260-263; operation of these 

 reforms, 273-275. 



Grain Growers' Company of Mani- 

 toba, 139. 



Grain-growers' convention broken 

 up by police at Fargo, 133. 



Grain trade, reforms in, demanded 

 by Minnesota farmers, 172. 



Grange, the, hi politics, 97. 



Greely, Samuel Hallett, testimony 

 of, concerning grain-dealing and 

 "phantom grain," 158-159. 



Hayes, Willett M., estimates of, 

 concerning dealings in grain fu- 

 tures, 159-161. 



Hill, James J.: power of, in the 

 Northwest, 100-101, 106; de- 

 cides against state-owned eleva- 

 tor for North Dakota, 105. 



"Home-builders' Act," passed by 

 North Dakota legislature of 

 1919, 270-271. 



Idaho, action of legislature against 

 Nonpartisan League, 305. 



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