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


nesota or Dakota, unless the shipper pays the
freight to Milwaukee.
mink OF 1t! In my own county you can
not ship bushel of wheat from Pennington
TO Minneapolis, twenty miles distant, unless
you pay the freight to Milwaukee, four hun
area miles distant, where the wheat does not
20 al all and where the shipper does not want
IL 10 go. And this Is true of the whole line
OF road. What would be Thought if
when you went to your depot here in Glencoe
10 BUY ticket to st. Paul you were com
pehed to pay your fare to Milwaukee, and
| tnen mad to send the rebate to Milwaukee to
| SELL 1or whatever the scalpers would give?
Is not this precisely parallel cases
LOSS OF SEVEN CENTS PER BUsHEI.
think the history of modern times can
nc challenged in vain to produce greater or
more accountable injustice. And this rebate
paper crowds into Minneapolis. Again the
mlllers are masters of the situation: nobody
else wants it; they fix their own. price: and
this fraud alone, it is estimated, makes
difference OF seven cents bushel on every
Dushel raised in the country tributary to this
road; for the outside buyer has to put down
the price to cover the anticipated loss on the
rebate, and the millers avail themselves of
the fact. And the Republican party Of the
state, to its shame be it spoken, has been SO
dominated by this and kindred rings, that it
has not raised single note of protest against
it. With full power in its hands to redress
these wrongs it has met year after year,in leg
islative session and adjourned without even
attempting d remedy.
WHAT is THE RESULT OF ALL THESE RoBBER-
| les.
Plethora in the center; poverty
in the extremities. We see, on
one hand, men who few years
ago were poor and in debt rolling up their
millions; we turn on the other hand to the
offices of the registers of deeds and town
clerks, and we find the whole farming COM
munity covered with debts; almost every
farm, horse, COW, OK, pig and farming i'm
plement plastered over with mortgages.
A SAMPLE CASE. {.
Let me give one sample of the condition
of our farmers. Thomas c. Hodgson, q
prominent and able farmer of Grant county,
|
''The records of our towns and counties
show most deplorable state of things, as
regards the financial condition of the people
My own figures show: Gle is town assessor),
that the personal property of the whole town
L live in is, in round numbers, 800 000
The town clerk assures me that there are I'M
discharged chattel mortgages in his office for
about SIP, 900. This is terrible. The county
recording office reveals just as bad a state
of things.'
1t must be remembered that property is
never mortgaged to its full value; it is there
fore not improbable that nearly everything
in this town is under mortgage and the town
practically bankrupt. Andyet Grant county
is as rich body Of land as there is on the
planet; inhabited by a most energetic, in
dustrious, thrifty race of people.
Prolific nature yields her abundance in
vain; she cannot keep up with the Unsuitable
rapacity of man.
HOW THE THIEVES SPEND THEIR MONEY.
And the men who profit by these rob-
berries, generally fellows who were squeezed
into sharpness by the ordeals of hard and
barren lives, bred on the east wind and fed
on the bitter bread of necessity, [laughter]
launch out into extravagan cies and luxuries
worthy OF the court of Charles the Second,
or of that shoddy humbug, the second Ma
poleon.
THE DIAMOND MARKET OF MINNEAPOLIS.
find the following in the st. Paul Pioneer
Press of Dec. IL, 1881:
In a conversation with Mr.. Geo. B. Eustis,
the jeweler of Minneapolis, he said: 'sThis
growth has been perfectly wonderful, though
we have endeavored to keep pace with it,
We find that expensive gems, such as YOU
see in our cases, are more readily salable
than would be shelves full of cheaper goods
Taking for instance, our diamonds. We
are obliged to carry very large line of the
finest brilliants. People think nothing here
now OF paying $500, $500, 81, ZOO for a
solitaire or cluster The sales are confined
not only to the ladies who purchase largely
of bracelets, breast pins, ear rings, finger
rings, necklaces, etc, ETC., but we are
obliged to keep on hand q large stock of
brilliants for gentlemen, who indulge
in expensive rings, sleeve buttons,
shirt studs and charms. The taste of our
people is certainly becoming refined. We
have found that French bronzes of the finest
workmanship sell readily, and have just i'm
ported the collection you see, together with Il
large variety of costly French clocks in
bronze and Italian marble. That clock be-
fore you, which strikes the quarter hours on
a double gong, cost 1925. Yet there are
plenty Of people here who readily pay such a
price for parlor ornament. In all the end
less varieties of gold and flagree work, in
the rich and beautiful specimens Of silver
ware, in vases and parlor ornaments, there
is a constant and growing demand We
could not carry such case of Louis XIV
gold watches were this not so; neither such
| a display of rare articles Of silver in endless
| VARIETY
Injustice is performing its perfect work
THE MIsERIEs OF OUR FRONTIER POPULATION.
On the other hand. it is not given to the
mind Of man to conceive, or the tongue of
man to utter, the silent, pitiful, awful strug-
giles that are being endured among our from
tier population, to enable these creatures to
adorn their wretched bodies in the gitterinp
spells of Golconda, and revel and riot in
wasteful spendor. Applause. 1t is a 81
lent struggle, for these pioneers belong to
strong races; they represent the American,
the Irish, the German, the Scan dinayian, the
English, the Scotch, the French races; and
| ilho lhS span eoh IVY tneJ WIZ uOL CRY out,
but prefer TO die and give no sign, even
though the serpent is gnawing at their heart
BURNING HAY AND FREEZING TO DEATH.
But every now and then we read in the
newspapers some little incident, which
throws a whole food Of light on the
scene, Ike that for instance, of the
poor Nelson family, who last win.
ter persisted in the Red river valley,
father and two daughters, caught in a
blizzard, carrying hay to burn, freezing to
death between the haystack and their wretched
smoke-blackened home. Those stark,
stiff and half clad bodies should have been