The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-04

exceptions. AS we return from this seem
ing, and only seeming DEPRESSION, we may
be pardoned. in commenting on Fridays |
occurrences in Chicago, for saying that
months ago we called the attention of the |
farmers to the fact that 1t was the produce |
brokers and middlemen who deprecated |
the price CT corn and other cereals and not |
the railroad companies; that the rates of
freight varied it very little If any; proving
our position by the price of corn in st.
Louis, Springfield, Illinois, Chicago, Mil
waukec, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buff
falo, Albany and New York, all on the
same day. The hue and cry continued,
entered into judicial and political elections
and was, even, controlling element in the
making of laws. A judge was chosen on
that issue in Illinois; governor, state
officers and legislature was elected in
Wisconsin, whose laws endeavoring to
regulate the rates of transportation of pas
sengers and freight over the several rail-
roads of the state bids fair to give rise to
more personal discomfort, more delay in
the transportation of freight, and more
litigation than all the laws ever heretofore
passed in reference to railroads by all the
states in the Union put together. If no
one hut the residents of Wisconsin were
compelled to suffer, it would not matter so
much, but every person and every pound
of freight passing through the state must
come into the same category.
1t is passing strange how n senseless cry
will. at times. stir up the American peO-
pie usually SO staid, SO thoughtful and
considerable before taking decided action
to almost frenzy, when, at other times,
the greatest of grievances will not com
maui heir attention The threats of the
south. the actual vote to scccdc on the part
of Suuth Carolina and half Il dozen other
states the preparations made throughout
the south accompanied hy the purchase of
arms and ammunition and the drilling of
men, did not convince The north that the
south intended to seccdc; it was only when
we were almost confronted by their armed
] lOIGtS lllii We Ntlt convinced Nl UIi0tI
and commenced preparations for Tie pres
/ ervAliUn OF the Union and it was saved at
Il fearful cost ui blood and treasure. But
a few years after. Il handful of Illinois
farmers raised hue and cry in reference
to a flncied grievance, and in some states,
for tune at least. overthrow the rule of
existing political parties. Now if these
same men will read, learn and inwardly
digest the operations of the board of trade
at Chicago, Friday, they may find ont
what causes low prices Of corn. We think
that they will come 10 the con
c'uslon that those awful "monopo-
lies" the railroad companies. have not
much to Go with it, but that the trouble is
nearer home-that is with the very men
they sell their corn to. We may be per-
mitted to remark, here. that we do not
think Illinois farmers will starve to death
or be clothed in rags when their corn can
be sold at from sixty-seven to eighty cents
Chicago is supposed to regulate Its price
throughout the country, and particularly
that portion which is raised in Illinois oyel
and above the amount necessary for home
consumption. Now of whom must the
farmers complain, and what price shall
they affX to their corn, taking Fridays &C
ton as a criterion, and the same thing il
liable to happen every day. According tC
the telegram, corn opened at sixty-sever
cents bushel, then rapidly fell to sixty
two cents and finally closed at eighty
cents No one knows how many bushels
were sold that day, although one firm SOLE
a quarter of million bushels, while tn,
combination, which is said to extend ''fron
Iowa to New York" had over two million
bushels in store in Chicago and control, a
different points, some seven million bush
els in all. 1t is these men who are tn
+ banc and curse of the farmer and of til
country. They manipulate the price 0
\ corr, just as the gold gamblers in Ne,
, York did that OF gold during the wal
"Simon says thumbs up; Simon say
thumbs down; Simon says wig wag"-
: and so ii is. We do not suppose that We
: tern farmers, in all instances, obtain II
t munerativc prices for their corn, but it
e these gamblers, not the railroads that max
the money. Aud if these gamblers can g
= from sixty to eighty cents bushel ft
n corn, the producer can. Moreover, II
J.. corn is transported for these gamblers nj
= for the producers If the farmers of Il
+ west want to help themselves they can
Il it better by making it impossible for the
f gamblers to deal in corn and other cerea
q than making war on lines of transportatit
" whose interests are identical with the
?. own. A fair, honorable agreement wi
IS railroad managers and, al the same tim
N keeping out Of the hands of those mt
If who produce these corners, will rectit
II most of the real grievances under whit
p western farmers labor. Surprising thu
"a try il for year or so.