The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-10-08

81, 7e2, which is S1l.2O per acre per year.
Now. gentlemen. 10 you begin TO realize
the point am making And do You COM
prehend the fota amount of loss Won have
sustained on each 1G0 acres of land YOU
have cuitivaf for the pas. ten years. by
the wrongs that have been fastened upon
yon by the transportation companies. by
the consent an help OF your political lead
ers whom yon have trusted, IL you do
mo-. then let me state it to You in plain
language. The Sl1..O per acre which YOU
have lost on your crops each year, after
paw e not only A reasonable and profitable
but an extortionate rate for tran sportin9
your crops TO marke.. is ten per cent in
feress on si12 per acre on tie value Of your
lands III t Is 10 say. whenever You reap
the III fruits Of yoar toll " receiving that
protection from the II - OF ur country
that yoa ought 10 receive aal ION get your
farm Irodrct carried for the reasonable
cliar1e, of tel or twelve ents per bush
from LIMA &, New Yors; ..g vour llnds
will b. worth MT icss tia s.3ts per acre
more than they are % day rs All i,.vcst-
mens.
Whenever yoa LIN !. .f4.ns or!aI on sys-
tenn tat Is honesty instructed md man,
aged IL lii .i:;efes Of tn people. and OF
for lii. ,fur o. o robin. fh@m. Won and
all The firm II Of TIL 5 u.hwest wi | have
a,iie t. yoar yea'Iy ibeo re iioin the
pr,ia Il Il. The ii 10; ass IT, n Ter
acr clear profit VII eli you ,oa lose a-td
whe.i that DAY comes. as il III ut soone or
later yoHr lands A. siz, per acre " L be a
better Investment thin any bond that was
ever issued.
But, gentlemen. you will never secure
such Just system OF Transport stion,
neither vii! you receive ya:;r mt pro.its
from your IA AS. until the Iaas of Inc ma
ton protec. Your interests. III. same az
other great in erests are proceed
MILLIONS: LOST.
Let rs recapitu.a and see inst what
you as farmers have los; on each 10 acres
Of land that you have cultivated for the
past ten years.
/ have demonstrated that you have lost
on your crops. by extc;tion % what YOU
have shipped, and by ierraciation Oh What
has been consumed al ,solne, Sta pei
year on the l6O acres OF lani Gil tiY. ed. OF
total loss on crops in N Years Of go.
while Won are losing in the value If your
lands not less than SO ;ser i ere, or n tota|
loss on lGa acres Of laud b. lei recitation oil
SIC, 900. which makes t.;ai loss Of S33,-
$40, and you must bear in mind that this
statement does not include he loss of the
use Of 81, 792 per year for ten years. which,
ct 10 per cent. will make yonr total LOST
over $40, 900 ON the lG1 acres of lind in ter
years.
Gentlemen, does not this actual loss tina
you have suffered at the bands of the ex
tortionists startle you? and especially is j
alarming in the highest degree when VI
apply II to the whole State OF Missouri.
Il shows loss on crops to the farmers
Of ST., $50 on each section Of land that hal
been cultivated for the ten years. And i
We say that one half of the State has beer
cultivated, we find that the number of Sec
tons that have produced crops are owe
81, 1000, and that actual losses on crops to thu
farmers Of Missouri, for ten years, by de-
preciation and extortion. have been owe
%, 15O, 400, 600, which does not include thu
loss Of the use Of the money each year. and
that the depreciation Of value Of their farml
amounts TO over 81. 800, OG0. tHO.
If We apply these facts to the crops th.
farmers are raising this year, they will max,
| . more startling showing. There are owe
| 60, 900 sections of land in the State ant
from the best information that can get,
| feel safe in saying that at least 10000 sec
| tons, or 25. GOO, OCO acres will be cultivate,
| by the farmers during the year 1885. upor
which they will lose, by the failure Of tn
laws Of the land to protect tn n from th
unjust rapacity Of the transportation com
panies, not less tina SO per acre, or tota
loss in value to the farmers of $255, OO0, OOO
more than one haf of which vii
90 into the golfers Of the ira sror
fafion companies. for which they vii
| render very inadequate service, VIII lie tn
other half will be the loss occasioned b,
| the depreciation OF the ,alue of the prod
ucts Of the farmers that viii not be ship
ped, but which vii! be cons med by til
people at home.
And if the farmers Of this great Stat
had ct this time this prote lion from tn
laws Of the land that they ought to have
and they had Just system of transporta
L ton, their farms would be worth. in tn
aggregate, more than $2,5GO, 100000 t
them as an investment more than they ar
to-day. And when we try to ascertain
the total loss to all thu farmers and lane
owners Of the country that g caused by tn
unjust robberies OF the transportation com
panies, we become lost in tho immensely o
the out1agcs that are heaped upon the grea
toiling millions Of our leople. and wonde
that they do not unload these robbers b
force.
because so stupendous is the amount Q
money lost to tho farmers and its dam
aging effect upon them as farmers, an
upon the State at large. but defy any ma
TO show that it is lot true, and that it is nc
farmers Of the country paying no heed I
make and execute their laws.