Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-09

it confined to fife wheat alone?" No. said
he, 1T is fife and tea wheat, and mentioned
6ne or two other varieties, and then said he,
What are called soft wheats, after they are
cultivated one or two years on the prairie be-
come hard, even the Lost Nation does" and he
SAID the only wheat that was an exception to
this rule was the White Hamburg.
Now, my friends look at that table, mo. /
hard, S1.05 to s1.06; No. spring wheat, S1.OO
to Sl.O2." 1spoke last night to very large
audience in Long Lake. aud asked one of the
gentlemen there to get me the prices that they
had been paying there, and these were the
figures, on the same day that they were paving
these prices at Duluth: 'sNo. 1, 81 cents" No.
l in Duluth, 81. 05 to SlO6, and for soft wheat.
81. 90 to $1.02.
The freight on a carload of wheat from Long
Lake to st. Paul was about four cents per
bushel; from Duluth to st. Paul about seven,
SO that the price paid in Duluth for wheat is
at least eleve.; cents per bushel higher than the
price paid at Long Lake. No. 2 wheat at Long
Lake was 70 cents; at Duluth SO cents So you
can see how this thing has gone, and that there
is no question at all that this system of depriv-
ing you Of competition has taken not less than
ten cents per bushel off of every line on this
road. Men have estimated that amount at
8 .0G0, 000, O00 bushels. Ten cents a bushel on
this amount would be $500, 600; 100000 for
ten years is 50 600, 600; SO, 600 900 would pretty
much pay the debts of all the farmers along
the whole line of this road, and leave every
farm clear of mortgages and membranes.
A QUARREL WHICH DEVELOPED THE covEN FOOT.
Now, see how this thing works. 1t seems
that the Millers' association of Minneapolis
got into a quarrel with the Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad, because they were not sending
enough of their -four over that road; they were
| sending it to Duluth or over the st. Louis road
quote from the st. Paul GLOBE of October
4th:
"But 10! a Daniel come to judgment-But 10 and
behold, Daniel come to Judgment. The Milwaukee
Il st. Paul road concluded it wanted some of that
cheap wheat and accordingly buyers were put in the
heid on the line of the st. Paul Pacific this week.
Perhaps the movement was to force q concession
from the ring upon other point but that is i'm
material The outside buyers entered the field and
| Washburns ring took the alarm. The old game of
running on was resorted to- and during the past two
Gays the Minneapolis Millers' association has ad-
Vanced the price of wheat along the ST. Paul /. Pa
| enc sac cents. During the same period it has de-
chned SIX cents in Milwaukee, so that, judged by the
! Milwaukee standard, they have really advanced
| twelve cents over last weeks prices.''
Now, my friends, if you could always keep
that Milwaukee set of buyers here stirring
these fellows up, why you might get good
price Tor your wheat Waen Mr.. Lincoln was
President, and Salmon P. Chase was secretary
of the treasury, Mr.. Chase was very anxious to
be President and MIR. Lincoln's friends came
| to him and told him that Chase was conniving
and working in all kinds of ways to succeed
him at the end of his four years, and they
wanted MIR. Lincoln to dismiss him from the
cabinet or to interfere with him in some way.
but that great and wise man laughed. Said
he, Boys, will tell you a story" Said he,
Another chap and were blowing when l was
young man, and we were blowing with an old
OK in stumpy feld:' and said he, sit was
warm weather and that OK moved slower than
the ID" and, said he I'VE couldn't stir him
| up. One of us held the pillow and the other
beat him with long whip, still the OK would
go along at the same old gait Suddenly we
discovered there was change came over the
old OK; he stuck up his tail and started
off at a good, lively gait and we were agree
ably surprised and wondered what was
the matter. We looked and examined, and We
found that one of these big blue-bottle flies had
settled itself on his flank and was giving it tc
him; and the young man that was with me-
was about to brush it off. Oh, no, said L, lei
him alone-it will keep the OK going. And,
said President Lincoln, 'boys, it is SO with Mr.
| Chase, his aspirations for the Presidency ar,
old OK, and are making remarkably good sec
rotary out of him, and it is better to let hin
alone.' [Laughter.]
My friends, if we could have blue-bottlt
fly, in the shape of competition, to settle dow
| on the flank of this Millers association to sti
L ~
1T would be a very good thing for this country
| but it can't be done. This movement was onl,
lnaugurated by the Milwaukee railroad to fetcl
them to terms and it seems that they hav,
already brought them to terms. Mr.. Donrelly
here read from the Pionee,-E,eSs.I cit il nov
reported that the Milwaukee wheat buyers viii
Withdraw from the main line of the St. Paul !
Pacific railroad, and that all differences between
the Minneapolis millers and the st. Paul &
Milwaukee railroad company have been salts
factorily compromised" And SO you find thai
the price of wheat will tumble again.
| wAsHBURN's RESPONSIBILITY.
Now, my friends, during the canvass have
said nothing unkind of my competitor, Mr.
Washburn, and I don't seek to make this {
point against him, but it has been denied that
| he had any connection with this ring, simpI,
because his name did not appear on the book.
of the incorporation as member, as a stock
holder. But the fact of the thing is Just this
| MIR. Washburn is interested in mill the
Washburn B mill of Minneapolis that fac
has been stated by the Minneapolis I1.i5un,
itself within q few days, and he is joint
owner there. His mill is represented by one
Of his partners on the board of trade oil
this association. Mr.. Washburn shares his
profits of this uni ust steal; he gets his share OF
wheat at the low figures obtained by the associ
alton. If be Is not responsible. no man is re-
sponsible. Moreover, he is the owner of
large -four mill at the city of Anoka, which h,
purchased not long since and which also bene
fits by this system, because this same ring ex
tends over the branch line. and the prices arr
kept down accordingly. And hence say, with
all respect to MIR. Washburn. that he is not ;
| lit man for the farmers Of this country to sent
to Washington to legislate for them. His in.
| terests are not identical with theirs in any way
he has been growing rich at their expense fol