, 1889-12-05

the c. =. H., and will petition the do
minion government.
A KICK AT THE ELEVATORS.
Julietta Gem: The Pacific Elevator
Company Is likely to become stencil In
the nostrils of the Palouse county farm
ers If II continues its present system of
doing business. From various quarters
come complaints and fthe charges made
by the farmers. AS the small buyers
are frozen out one by one, the business
assumes the aspect OF unprinciplcd
monopoly. For more than II week past
the price offered here has been 40
cents and at the same time the market
price in Portland has been higher than II
was, earlier In the fall at the time 80
cents was paid TO. wheat all over the
Palouse country. Something is rotten
iii Denmark
IN THE souP.
Palouse Gazette: It is announced
that tho preferred stockholders of the
Northern Pacific have Just received
per cent dividend, the first in six years.
The other fellows, the common stock
herd, are probably still in the soup, but
with hopes for tho future.
THROUGH A FURNACE.
Kent Advertiser: The editor says:
"ro prevent any possible wonder as to
why l elect to carry my non de plume
at the head OF this journal, | desire To
state once and finally. Ward Ries is
known as u writer for the press, where
II. B. jeilries was never heard OF; Ward
Rios is, Mildly, to a limited extent,
IN perfectly harmless way, am
bilious; ho desires to receive any
credits due for journalistic work; ho Is
willing to bear the burdens that his gro.
tesqueness, oddities or peculiurities may
evoke ii. B. Jciiries is II poor man,
broken down in spirit, robbed of am
bition and burdcned by debts, through
humiliating circumstances over which
ho bad no control. lie has sought the
retirement OF provincial journalism for
the quiet /: appears to otier him and In
the nope that by and by he may be able
to redeem himself from debt and do his
creditors justice by fully llquidating
their just claims. He has passed
through fiery furnace of fearful, out.
rageous and vindictive persecution, but
he cherishcs no i'll wishes for any one"
GIVE THE FARMERS A CHANCE
Garfield Enterprise: Wheat has not
been worth less than from "a to ~
cents anywhere in the Palouse country
since harvest, uCCOfulIE 10 PORTLAND
prices, but 4s has been the price offered
10y the buyers during u greater part ofthe
time, and 81 the limit The producer
has been dcfrauded of from to cents
ON the bushel, which means that the
farmer must deny himself the many
little luXurics he had planned; put OIL
the building OF a new and more COM
Portable house, and add patches to his old
clothes instead of getting new ones. II
II costs 25 cents to raise u bushel
of wheat, this is robbing the
farmer of one-fourth OF his
years profits The wheat. raisers of this
country sec the injustice that Is done
them, and recognize that 1t is necessary
for them to organize some movement TO
defeat the boundless cupidity of the
grain buying companies. The most
practical plan that suggests itself is for
the farmers In the vicinity of Garfield To
buy or rent one of the warehouses that
have been abandoned since the advent OF
the elevator companies, and store their
grain in 1t. BY this method the wheat
from the Burrcll lands was sold this
season for an advance of several cents
over the highest prices paid by regular
buyers. II this plan had been followed
by those who sold to the elevator COM
pnncs this season, the amount saved
would have more than paid for the
{ building. 1t is not too soon TO begin at
once to make preparation to protect our
selves next season. The columns of the
Enterprise arc open for the discussion OF
the project.