Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-24

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there, and go where you will you will find NO
competition exists. They have divided up the
State as a farmer might divide up turkey: to
one is given the breast to another the side
bone and it would seem that the st. Paul 8
Pacific got that part of the bird which gets
over the fence last. The mi1lers' pool fur-
nishes one man who buys and handles all the
wheat and divides out the wheat on a scale of
SO much to each stone. The only exception to
this is the line of the Northern Pacific. where
buyers for the New York and Ohio mills com
pete to supply their mills, bid
is that prices have ranged from 10 cents
to 20 per bushel higher. It is well known
fact that at st. Cloud wheat was selling loo and
Zoe less than at the far off frontier town of
Fargo. This has been demonstrated by the
Pioneer Press-and you all know that candid
honest paper cannot lie. A few years ago it
took a smart, close business man to make
| milling pay and to make money at it, but now
any fool can be miller and make money
then a George Brackett failed: now a ". d.
/ Washburn can grow rich. I tell you. gentle.
men, they are not grinding -four but grinding
the people. The people have, by this COM
bined ring of parasites, become SO impoyer-
| ished that they are almost on the verge of in
surrectlon. In Wright county almost
one-third Of the wheat hauled was taken
| oitCh again. LII OLeaIUS county farmer
was offered by the ring agent 535c per bushel.
He was advised to take it home again, for the
| sheriff could get more than that out of it. The
result Of it all is that the wheat is not sold.
debts are not paid, trade is paralyzed, and the
State is on the verge OF collapse.
WHO Is RESPONSIBLE.
charge not this on the people of Minneap-
oils, but on the ring and W. d. Washburn.
| (Applause.) The money with which he hired
the miserable little Castle over the way was
taken out of the farmers pockets. daughter
and applause.) He replies that he is not one of
the ring and he is not miller, but he was and
ings. (Great applause.) I tell YOU,
gentlemen, it is a worse calamity than the
grasshoppers; they are said to come but once
in ten years, but this wheat ring is permanent.
The grasshopper reaches or two counties
only, but this greater evil infests and overruns
the whole State like pestilence, and is an in
cubus upon the Industries of the people. Look
at the tumble-down fences, the painless, glass
less houses; there is no energy, no thrift; the
I men have no heart to pillow, no hope to SOW, for
the wheat will not pay the cost Of
ment to break new lands, for man
does not want to work for glory alone while
| the wheat ring reaps the fruit of his labor
| (Applause.) The farmer to-day is worse off
! clothes and food enough to eat, while the farm
| Ell is happy it he can get one suit.
HELP.
| call on you, citizens of st. Paul, to stand
by the people in this emergency suffer and
you suffer; your trade is crippled for the want
of money which the farmers havs not, because
they cannot sell their wheat. send
my wheat to Hastings and am Of
fered 90 cents per bushel and if
cannot pay my petty debts I am twitted by
these wheat Shylocks.
| CAUSE OF THE DEPRESSION.
If there is a people on earth who should be
interested in reforms, it is the people Of st.
Paul. You can remember as well as I can
| when labor was valuable. In the closing years
of the war and the years Immediately follow
ing, there was in circulation 1856 for every man.
woman and child in the country, and now there
| but after the deposits of banks are deducted
there is but 50 in circulation. When
there was currency of $S6 per head
the country was the most prosperous on the
globe, and now with SO per head, it is probably
the most Impoverished. There is no country
in crowded Europe where there are SO many
persons out of employment as in America to-
day. France, with circulation of $36 per
capita, is now the most prosperous and -four
ishing country in the world. (Applause.). I
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volcano. Remember the terrible outbreak of
year ago, when railroads were seized
| by a lawless mob, cities were taken
possession of by desperate men, life was de-
stroyed and capital wasted, and we trembled
for the safety of our institutions. What has
become OF that mass of discontented, ground
down men? They have not gone back to hon
est labor. They are patiently waiting for the
relief which the ballot box give them. (Great
applause.) I met friend from Delano who
had attended large mass meetings in Chicago.
He heard there, he said, doctrines and senti-
nents promulgated which made him shudder.
The financial policy of the government has
ground the working man down so low-robbed
him of his home and hope till communism is
ready to raise its red flag and faunt its lurid
torch. Hunger has driven them to it, and
what is the remedy? Not in standing armies
plause.) It is in prosperity and restored in
dustry. Immense applause.) We cannot hold
the laboring man down with the bayonet-they
are dangerous weapons to handle and We
are not always sure to keep
the East do not say that all the Republicans
are responsible, but such men Jay Gould and
John Sherman and r. B. Hayes-they have led
us on to this quagmire. They have done it to
make money scarce, and scarce money is dear
money, and dear money depreciates all forms
equivalent for more labor. moro wheat
more pork, more land. Thus have we the poor
| growing more destitute and the rich growing
rich. My doctrine is that this country is made
for the people, and not for the money lenders.
| (Applause) Give us prosperous people, a
| happy people, progressive people, and the
financial questions will take care of themselves.
Great applause.) Give us an oppressed peo-
pie, a tax-burdened people, a shif1less people,
an idle people, and the financial
problem becomes the momentous
question of the hour. England
the ordeal commenced there were 100000 per-
sons owning real estate, and at the completion
| of the process the number was reduced to 3d.
! 600! Men were drawn off the land into aims
houses, and to America, and to suicide. When
| l visited Pope county, thought. here, at least
is free soil, with the land free from debit but
| was assured, by the register of deeds, that
most of the mortgages being in the hands of
Corbin & Co., of New York. The lands are pas
sing away frem the people to swell the wealth
of money lenders and banking companies.
RETRoGRAD1Na.
| 1t is suggested that the remedy is in a change
of ownership of the soil. That few shall be-
come great landed proprietors and the people
become their tenants. There you have it.
This is what this country is coming to. Some
| Of you came from over there where the few
own the soil, and you fed across the sea in
loathing and disgust to seek q land where
you could own the SOIL and
now you are told you are to give
j up your lands. Now what do they intend to
do with their mechanics and artisans7 Listen
| to this (here the speaker read an extract from
tho New York Is'nes.) Now think of that, my
friends. The farmer is to go back to the Eng
lish standard; the machinist is to go back to