St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-23
ways' and bleeding the general public as


often as they choose. If they do engage in
such rascally operation, however, an opera
ton that would paralyze the milling interest
and derange almost every species of BUSH
ness, each and every conspirator engaged in
1t ought to be strung up to the nearest lamp
post. Let them get Carlyle's history of the
French revolution and read his graphic de-
scription OF how the populace utilized the
''Lampiron" to punish the forestallers Of
bread. A terrible vengeance will some day
overtake the capitalists in this country who
deliberately use their wealth to impoverish
the people and make the condition Of the
poor still more wretched.
How ready are these men to invoke ''the
lamp post' and the bloody example Of the
reign of terror against those who would put
up the price of wheat and keep them from
buying it at their own fgures2 1t never
seems to have occurred to them that the men
who put dorm the price Of
wheat, and thereby ''impoverish the
people" Of Minnesota, equally
deserving to be STRUNG up to the nearest
lamp post" Applause
But do not advise any such desperate
remedy. We have the ballot box, and if the
people use it they can right their own wrongs.
II they refuse to use it they are themselves
10 blame aud deserve to suffer. [Applause.l
PREPARING TO STEAL THE NEW CROP
And remember my friends that even while
speak, the snares are being set to capture
Tie crop you have just raised. The work of
ROBBERY Is to go on. l quote the following
extract from the Minneapolis Tribune of
Aug. Is:
1.-THE millers held meeting Yesterday at
the association rooms and decided upon the
necessity OF dropping prices to the following
hgures No. hard, ne; No. 2 hard, 74c;
NO. l, re; No. 2, Csc, for new wheat In
conformity with agreements these figures
became the basis for buying in the country.
VI course, taking freight and expenses from
such figures and prices to the producer are
extremely low How liberal they will sell at
such prices remains to be seen. x
Old wheat of d milling quality was in very
good demand, and brought 93c for No.
hard, while No. northern was only worth
about seventy-eight cents, making 15c diff
| ference between it and No. l hard.
The arbitrary difference made by the millers
| between these same grades-new
wheat is only &c. Many dealers seem to
think the difference between grades is likely
to widen, but that of necessity will depend
upon the amount OF each grade offered as
compared with others.
Let US study this extract.
1t is well known that the millers, like the
holders of railroad stocks, and all other forms
of property, have lost good deal of money
during the last six months by the shrinkage
in the value of their -four and as a well
posted friend said to me in st. Paul the
other day, ''they propose to make it up
this fall off the farmers The
fellows who lost by the decline in
the price of railroad stocks, have no such re-
| source; neither can the farmers shift their
loss on the shoulders of any other class; but
our Minneapolis milers have got system
which relieves them of the ordinary contin-
gencies Of business life; where they make
money it is theirs; where they lose money
the farmers have got to pay the piper. APP
plause.]
FIXING THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
In this choice extract we see that the mil
lers are again fixing the price of the total
wheat crop of Minnesota, Dakota and Mani
toba.
No. hard, new crop, is worth, we are
told II cents; No 2 regular, new CROP is
|
same market They are to decide what is No.
1 hard and what is No. 2 regular. If they
decide that it is No 2 regular, when it is No.
l hard, they make cents per bushel; 80 per
hundred bushels; $50 per thousand bushels;
5000 per million bushels; or about $4,000
600 on our total crop.
Justice in the old time was painted blind
fold she did not see the contending parties,
but simply felt when the scale was rightly
adjusted.
THE MONKEY WEIGHING THE CHEESE.
Our justice is like the monkey, with his
eyes wide open, who divided the cheese
found by the two dogs, and who kept biting
a piece alternately off each fragment, to
make them balance, until there was nothing
left for the astonished dogs. Laughter and
applause. Think of a set of men deciding
whether our wheat is No. 1 hard or No. 2
regular, and pocketing 100000 il they
find that it is No reguar Applause
And remember too, that every variety of
soft wheat except white Hamburg, becomes
hard wheat, on our western prairies in three
| years.
But again No hard old crop is worth, we
are told, ninety-three cents, while the same
grade, No. hard new crop is worth only
seventy-seven cents. VIII not one make
| just as much -four as the otheri Is it not
therefore worth intrinsically the same. Why
then this difference of sixteen cents per
| bushel!
FARMING OUT TIE STATE.
Gin conformity with agreements these
figures become the basis for buying in the
country"
OF course; remember seeing that distln-
guished prestidgitateur, Prof. Heller, take
a half dozen separate iron rings, rattle them
through his hands, and instantly the rings
were all linked together. The agreements"
are made whereby the whole state is given up
to these vampires and their associates Such
a region is assigned to such set of buyers,
and there Is to be no competition; such
other region Is delivered over 10 such an
other set of buyers, and there is to be no
competition. Everywhere 'these figures"
established by the Minneapolis millers, "be-
come the basis for buying in the country"
from the Iowa line to Duluth, from the Mis-
sissippi to the Red river.
CARVING UP THE ANIMAL.
These fellows deliberately sit down upon
US, and carve US up; and
divide us among themselves; saying
to one another, ''you take this hind quarter,
and you these ribs; you take this sirloin
steak, and you this piece of the rump." And
the people are stripped until the state looks
like Greedy expedition; daughter and APP
plause. There is nothing left but the bones
a great, intelligent and self governing peo-