St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-19
MUST OWN THEM.
Farmers Not to Be Alarmed About
Their Not Being Profitable.

Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, April 15.-And
now comes the prophecy-''The cream
cry business will be overdone and but
ter will bring no price at ALL" Very
true, any one could see that it would be
so by the way these creameries are
being built: but no one has yet pre-
dicted any disaster to the cheese manu-
facturerS.
The creameries are nearly all owned
or controlled by one or two men or a
company that are very much engaged
in getting all they can out of the farm
er pockets, and if they alone sufferit's
all right, and it behooves the trusting
granger to be on his guard, for
it's real fact the creameries are
taking possession of the land.
Maybe 1.-THE farmers will wish they had
left the dairy business alone" but [
think the farmers can stand the press
ure all right, and where farmers own
the factory themselves. and the cows it
will be but short time before the
storm will be over, and there can be no
real loss. only another of their products
that is below paying investment for
time. It's just possible this cry is sent
forth to prevent the farmers from enter
ing into the butter business at all. but
they are the ones that can stand it best,
unless | am not well posted Oh the
subject, but they own the cows, and
when they cooperate they can keep ON
their work without
LOSING THEIR CAPITAL. rs
Like the Irvine trust, let the men that
have invested their money in building
creamerieS all over the land take their
own medicine and taste its bitterness.
There has been many bitter cup
drained to the dregs, caused by the
combination of men who walk the streets
clothed in fine broadcloth, with white
hands gloved with finest kid, land gold
headed cane helps to swell their dignity.
Some of them are misunderstanding
gentlemen. with snow-white hair and
flowing beard, very easy and graciOuSly
dignified III all their movements. and are
not afraid to chat with you awhile; nor
will they ever pass you if they have
once met you.
will not say they are plotting to rob
you while doing this. for theirs is the
right to build up any and every industry;
and know some such gentlemen that
would scorn dishonest penny; but
they are just like US all, want to make
their million it they can, and consider
their business enterprise legitimate
and an honest investment.
But all are not so, and if they fail in
reaping i'll the farmers harvest and
gathering in the proceeds it's their own
affair and their own loss. Such failures
do occur almost daily, and hourly, too,
as any one can see if they will only no
tice the statistics as sometimes reported
II newspapers. AS the farmers of the
great West have become aroused to ac-
ton and are determined to assert their
rights before the world and in the
world, it's hopeful they will so conduct
their own business that it will be left to
them, not by loss to others, but to force
them out of the downright robbery that
has been so long practiced upon the
men with the ''haySeed in their hair"
There seems to be no other way for
them to do but to cooperate like broth
ers, and
OWN THEIR CREAMERIES
and Irvine factories, and ask the rail-
way officials for the right to build their
own warehouses along their lines of
road, so they can store their grain and
not be obliged to sell to corporate com
panies or pay heavy storage rates until
they can sell to advantage what they
have to dispose of. All the difficulty
that presents itself to view is the farm
erS' lnertneSS, and in not rising up and
boldly asserting their own right to live
and thrive like the rest of mankind.
Sometimes the facts presented to view
look as if the farmers surplus that he
did not use in his own family and feed
to his live stock was to be delivered
over to others without any compensa-s
ton whatever. Or given up as something
they had no use for only to give away
as useless.
Others combine and dictate to the
producer, and there is no help for them
unless they throw off the lethargy that
binds them and let the world know they
have rights and dare maintain them.
Let them cry out about OVERRIDING the
dairy business. 1t will not scare the
aroused men on the many farms in
'Uncle Sans" vast domain, for they
know the line; land the farmer feed
eth them ALL" and the farmers know
that the foundations of all the country
are the farms and the men.that till them. 8
Now, let outsiders do >all the croal1ing
they please, for it's just possible thee
farmers will yet own all the dairy BUSH
ness and twine factories.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDAIL.