St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-30
FARMERS WILL BOYCOTT
The Irvine Trust and Let Them
Keep Their stuff Till Prices
Come Down.

AnC L WHO lfuSt ana Ley Inem
Keep Their stuff Till Prices
Come Down.
Special to the Globe
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, March 23.-And
the "twine trust" think they have
good thing on the farmers, 90 they?
All, we'll: the farmers know how to do
thing or two. and are ready to meet
the Irvine twisters, and let them keep
their Irvine up as high as they please.
They will learn that there are other
ways to stack grain than by binding.
The farmers around about remember
that it can be cut and bound up in the
old way; that "beaderS can be used:
that it can be stacked without being
bound up.
And they propose to do it in spite of
all the ''twine trusts in the country,or
city either. There has been altogether
too much "gouging'' out of the farmers
already for them to submit to any more
without a desperate fight for their own
are threateningS of the StricteSt kind of
a boycott of the<t'twine trust" and it
will be carried out too, for they've no
money to throw away IN that man
ner. and can do without Irvine and
are not in any humOr for such
treatment as these men seem to think
they are, and Irvine is thing they can
do without and they propose to do so.
In this Immediate vicinity there is no
organization among the farmers, no al
lance, nor grange, but this trust con-
spiracy will be promptly met and re-
pulsed vigorously by sturdy class of
farmers as ever swung a cradle or drove
a team before binder, and the latter
will be left in its place beneath its
sheltering roof if need be before they
will submit to the combination
scheme for such unparalleled robbery,
for it is nothing less. / can not say that
farmers around here are hard pressed,
but with the havoc of the chinch bug a
year ago, and the light crop of last year.
and low prices for what they have to
dispose of, part of which there is no
demand for, there is not very encour-
wheat, nor any signs of any being OBJ
tanned here. or they might try to
SOW few acres each, just to see if they
can grow anything that will put money
into their pockets to pay ordinary eX-
penSeS of house and farm. But where
is the wheat? In some cases, it's where's
the money to pay for the wheat? And
here comes in this new combination to
make us pay double price for Irvine to
bind up the oats and timothy we may
grow to keep the farm and house from
slipping, like dead thing, out
of our grasp. Perhaps all that try
to ''gouge" the farmer had better COM
bine and completely clean us entirely
out of house and home. 1t certainly is
growing that way with some of the
farmers now, and others would like to
know if they have any rights TO living
from the products of their labor. Its
from the farm that get my bread and
butter, and though i do not live on the
farm yet a part of my family does,
and we are identified and deeply in
terested in all that trenches upon the
the farming community in part or the
whole of them. Their lossis our loss, as
we are all in the ''swim'' together. only
there is still Irvine enough left in the
bundle of last year to use the coming
season, yet our good neighbors are not
SO fortunate in that respect, and we are
with them, and will strenuously fight
with them against any further schemes
to rob any one of them of their
just due. When the farmers are
crushed down and their capacity for
prospering is checked these combines
will tumble to the racket" That no
place or community can prosper is
well known truth, that has an impover-
lshed farming country surrounding
such locality. Its on the farmers that
cities depend for veal or woe, and tie
farmers are after their own rights now.
On with the boycott. and let the Irvine
twisters feel its grip on their own Vi
tails. MRS. MARTHA CRANDALI