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

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man. ut was on this principle That we abolish
neapolis, by, the ticking of telegraph, shall
fix every year and every day
the value of the productions of
a hundred thousand farmers, and the result
ing prosperity of all the merchants, profess
sional men, mechanics and working people
dependant on them, is to say that gigantic
wrong mast be inflicted on the people. There
never yet existed the power to Cypress
that oppression did not follow. Man
kind is meaner than the monkeys and
crueler than the wild beasts. We have only
to look back few hundred years to see the
horrible outrages which unrestrained man
inflicted on his fellows. In fact, we need
only cross the ocean and visit the wretched
cabins OF Ireland, or the mines of Siberia,
to learn that tigers and sharks are kinder to
their kin than that ''paragon of animals, y
that ''quintescence of DUST the human
"Man's inhuman1ty to man
Makes countless thousands MOURN
WHAT Is THIS MINNEAPOLIS MILLERs AssooIA-
TIoN FORMED FOR!
Clearly to prevent competition and keep
down prices by pooling purchases; just as
the railroads take another slice off US by
pooling their earnings, to prevent competi-
ton, in transporting our commodities. [Ap-
plause].
If the association did not exist what would
the millers do? Every miller would have to
buy on his own hook; he would have p buyer
In each town; they would fight over our
wagons, and bid against each other, until
worth. Would they pay more! No; but in
their eagerness to get the wheat they would
be content with less profits ON their flour.
They would have less profit, but we would have
more; there would be fewer million aires, but
thousands Of farmers would be out Of debt and
good government to secure the competen ce
OF the many, not the affluence Of the few.
THE EXCUSES.
Ia civilized society you cannot rob man
without making him some excuses. Only
the highwayman is an exception to this rule
there are no apologies in the muzzle
OF revolver Laughter. And the millers
have their excuses for their robberies; and
they are Infinite
GRADING OUR WHEAT
In the first place they subdiyide the wheat
into numerous grades, Nos. l, ., 3, 4, and
rejected" and they fix a price for each OF
these grades. All the scientists in the world
could not determine the difference in the
1our-making properties of wheat thai
weighed 57M pounds per bushel and wheat
that weighed So pounds per the bushel. O.
either sort the miller insists on having his 81
pounds for bushel; he don't lose even the
4 h., and YET that 4 ID. may make a diff
ference to the farmer of 5, 10, or Is cent!
per bushel One year the millers held thei
council and resolved that between Nos.
and 9 the difference in price should bt
five cents; between 2 and 3 fifteen cents
and between 3 and fifteen cents. Here the1
there was difference of thirty-five cents
between the price of No. and No. 4, ani
the sole judge Of the fact as to whether thu
wheat was No. l or No. 4 was the buyer
the farmers as it required to sustain the STATE
government; and the state government die
not raise its hand to protect the farmers
from this outrageous robbery.
THE PEDIGREE OF BUsHEL OF WHEAT
But the excuses do not end here. In ad
dition to these fine DETERMINATIONS as t.
grade we have pretenses Of all kinds:-one
year the wheat is too wet; another year it il
frozen; another year it is smutted; another
year it has too much cookie in it.
And then they go into the question of the
genealogy of the wheat Qaughter)
Fellows who have no pedigree
themselves insist that every ker
kernal of wheat must have one; [great laugh
teri, and to sell a load of wheat is equal Il
proving the title to an estate. If it can b.
established that fugitive kernel of clos
Nation" has strayed into one Of his sacks
the farmer may have to forfeit the who'll
profits on his entire crop. He might just a
well trace back his paternity to a man tina
was hanged, as to have the buyer feel arount
in his sack and say triumphantly, There
LoSI NdIlOH J! lUredG laupnter
THE LITTLE BRASS KETTLE.
And then these fellows have contrive(
another fraud. AS the question of the pric,
of the farmers wheat turns upon the weigh
of q bushel of it, one would naturally sup
pose that they would ascertain this by weigh
ing bushel or at least half bushel. No
at all. To find out how much bushel O
wheat weighs they weigh a quart of wheat
like the Greek philosopher who, wanting t.
sell his house, carried around one of tn,
bricks to show to purchasers to give them al
idea of the house. Great laughter and ap
plause. And to find what this quart weighed
they used little brass kettle which, Gas wa
shown before legislative committee), coult
be made to yield, in the hands of an expert
three different grades of wheat out of tin
same sack. Applause.
PILLsBURY's VETO OF THE ANTI-KETTLE BILL
And when the farmers rose up in thei
wrath against this thimble-rigging operation
and forced the legislature to pass an act t.
make it penal offence to use such kettle
the millers rushed in and induced them Zoo
only knows how, on the same day, to pas
another act which declared that the buye
could use such kettle, provided he bad ON tol
of it what was called ''Stacy fller,'' named
after member of the legislature who in
vented it, and called ''the Stacey flller'' be
cause it has filed Stacey's pocket and the mil
lers' pockets ever since. Long continued
laughter and applause. And the,
sent these contradictory acts to th,
governor (Pillsbury), who was member o
the millers' ring and he, of course, vetoed
the first bill and signed the last. Applause
And now, instead of manipulating the whea
in the kettle, you manipulate the wheat in tn
hopper; and, as wheat ceases to flow at
given angle, it never fills the kettle unde
the hopper to water level, and thus the far
mer is certain to lose grade every time any