St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-23

Inc year WnlSlleu down Jne wind,
while the horde of their unfor-
unate creditors will howl in vain for that
which the farmer has not; and the merchants
viii go to the wall, and the laboring man go
into the winter with empty pockets and
mortgages viii he foreclosed, and farms and
horses and wagons and COWS and machinery
will be seized on, and men will be forced
out OF the state; and the growth of Mime
sofa viii be still further arrested, and all this
10 enable few men to build more mills and
elevators and indulge in $1,000 diamonds
and Italian bronzes. (Applause.)
HOPE,
1t may be that this campaign which you
nave inaugurated may alarm the robbers and
make them stay their hands: if it does 1t Will
save you millions of dollars, and be worth
more to you than all the legislatures that
have met in st. Paul during the last twenty
years, (Applause.)
WHAT ARE THE REMEDIES!
l. Law to provide for a uniform sys-
term of grading wheat.
Now if the elevator owner buys wheat at
Its true grade it is graded back on him from
Minneapolis; and he has either to turn in
and become the unpaid agent of the ring to
rob the farmers for the rings profit, or he is
ruined man, and his elevator is for sale,
and bought by the ring, who then run it to
suit themselves. We want law and a sys-
TEN whereby No. wheat at Browns Valley,
or Crookston, or Rochester. or Faribault, or
anywhere else, will be No. wheat at Min
neapolis, ST. Paul and Duluth. Applause
introduced such a bill, year after year,
while member of the state senate, but it
was Knocked at and denounced, and ridculed
and killed, session after session, to the infin-
tie injury of the whole state. Applause.
HONEST WICHITA
ii. on we want system that will secure
the IaTers honest weights Now, if the
9eator man gives the farmer the true
weight of his wheat it is weighed back on
him in Minneapolis and the elevator scales
have to be adjusted to the standard in Min
neapols. system of inspection in each
county, by paid inspectors appointed by the
county commissioners, with power to act in
any other county, and with rewards Of hun
dreds OF dollars, and for repeated offences
thousands of dollars given to the informers
and levied by fine on the men who use false
scales, would soon cure that evil I intro
duced such bill year after year, but it was
goted down. LApplause.I
FREE MARKET.
III. But these things viii be of no avail
Without we have free markets. 1t will be Of
little use to have your wheat correctly
1 o.t1- cierf,a1 is M
competition, and the purchaser can pay you
whathe peases.
We must fall back on the old common law
principles of England, against ''forestallers"
and ''monopolizers" of the market, and men
who interfere with the freedom of trade.
people of a state are supreme masters
of themselves, and can adopt any constitu-
tion they please, which does not conflict with
the constitution Of the United States; and
those who do not like their laws can pack
their trunks and go elsewhere. The people
of this state have full power to put into their
constitution provision, that all combina-
lions of men to interfere with freedom of
trade or market shall be regarded as criminal
conspiracies, punishable by Imprisonment in
the state penitentiary; the question Of the
existence of such a conspiracy to be de-
termned, like any other question Of fact by
jury of the people of any county in which
prosecution is commenced. (Applause).
Give Us such a constitutional amendment
and proper laws under it, and the farmers of
Minnesota will take contract 10 finish the
education Of these gentlemen, if they perse-
we're in their iniqulty, by having them taught
the beautiful and graceful art Of paint
ing pals at Saltwater. Great laughter
and applause). And then once mora our
wheat will sell for what it is really
worth, and these infnltessimal dis
tinctons as to grades and pedigrees, will
never more be heard of in Minnesota; and
again it may be said:
THE value OF thing
Is just rs much as it will bring
in an open market, with the whole world for
buyers. Applause.
THE HIGH PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
pass now from this local wrong to the
consideration OF a great national wrong.
have shown you that the Minneapolis
Millers' association has built Chinese wall
around your markets, and fixes the price
at which You shall sell your chef production.
Another, a more gigantic, a national ring,
existing not by neglect of law, but
10y force Of law, has built an
other Chinese wall around you, aud fixes the
price of what you have to buy.
The old image for rapid waste was q candle,
lighted at both ends Your candle is burn
lnr and suffering away at both ends. The
little that the Millers' ring leaves you, you
have to divide with the manufacturers of the
east. .Applause
An ILLUSTRATION.
Lctm suppose 4 ease:
When Won have sold load of wheat that
ought to be worth $l.OO per bushel for "a
cents per bushel, you take your money t,
buy necessary articles, such as clothes, tools,
nails, glass, lumber, salt, coal or anything else
You may need. You go 10 an Englishman,
or u Frenchman, or German
and lac offers You the articles you want al
reasonable prices and you are about to deal
with him when the government, your own
government which your own vote sustaius.
and for which, perhaps, YOU formerly shed
your blood, steps up and SAYS:
"Hold ON, my friend, YOU cannot buy these
goods of this Frcnchmau, Englishman o,
German. rs free American you can only
buy of another free Amercan-thcse men are
fenced out"
"WcILH YOU say, THAT sounds patriotic.
! think more of an American than l do of
these foreigners; l love the old flag, " etc,
etc.
Aud 50 You 20 to the American and YOU
say:
'AIy friend, prefer to deal with Won I
an come to give YOU my custom Let us look