St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-21


BITTER CARICATURIST
to conceive and paint more damaging
picture? And yet you make it part
of your report, and these are the words
of one of your leading citizens. Wheth-
or its insertion in your report is due to
the wisd M of your secretary, or the
caleleSSneSS of the committee charged
with the duty of passing upon this re-
port, it matters little. That it must do
great damage, coming from the high
authority TO which it is accredited, can
not fail to be.
1t is hard to conceive that it was Mr..
Stickney's deliberate intention to in
Jure tie country, and when it is taken
into account that it is q part of his great
effort TO establish his stock yard in
South st. Paul. the venom of it appears
to diminish as the wisdom of il grows
less. And while all good citizens are
pleased with the stock yard industry
and wish it well and desire to encourage
it, 1t is always an eXpe Timent of Doubt
ful wisdom to tear down the walls of
one industry that those of il less promi-
nent one may be seen. think it is a
fair presumption that after Mr.. Stick
ney has shown the wheat business
TO BEA FAILURE
and has Immediately engaged in max
ing preparations 10 handle live stock,
that he naturally intends the public to
understand that he offers stock prOduc-
ton to take the place of the production
of wheat. Let us examine and see how
well those have succeeded who have
followed his suggestion.
On Dec. "a the press reports of
sales at Mr.. Stickney'S yards were:
highest. sixteen steers al $3.50 each.
and lowest. fourteen steers at $3.50
each; sixteen COWS at $3.50 each. Let
us figure. Each animal has required
care three years at least. and occupied
As pasture each year two acres i'm the
summer and all the hay off three acres
more in the winter, or five acres per
year for three years, or fifteen acres for
one year. Add to this whatever grain
WAS fed, the care and a liberal per cent
for loss. If $3.50, or sl6.75, or $1,000,
in MIR. Stickney's Judgment, is good pay
FOR A MANS TINE,
interest on his money and the use of
fifteen acres of ground for one year, he
certainly has had but very little practl-
cal experience in the production of
stock.
But the most serious feature of Mr..
Sti :kney's attack is his statement that
after few wears The wheat plant fails
and something else must be substituted.
Let us examine and See it he is not la
boring under misapprehenSion of the
fact.
The department at Washington gives
the following figures in bushels for the
wheat crOp0 1889: Minnesota. d, 456,-
600; California, 43. 900; Dakota, a.
$4,000: Indiana. 4l.lS7 600: Illinois, 3S,-
Ol4.000; Ohio, SO, S65.U0: Michigan, 23,-
10000. While Minnesota maintains
her place at the head of the list. Indi-
ana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. which
have been growing wheat for almost
century. are but little in her rear. Now
Is it reasonable to suppose the farmers
of those states where the production of
stock can reach its highest perfection
would devote this attention to wheat If
1T were so ruinOus to produce? And i'm
the presence of these figures. after all
THESE years OF successive crops, does it
not show
LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE
of the truth to state that, after four
years. the wheat plant is SO degeiIrr.
ated that it is Improbable to grow: and
is it not wrong. almost akin to crime,
to thus misintorm the public To the
great damage of those who own prop
erty in this and our other Northwestern
states?
On general principles. why should it
be when we find the corn plant. the cot
ton plant, the sugar plant, the flax
plant. the -oat plant ana the barley
plant-ln fact, every other plant grown
by the farmer-imprOveS with years of
walton, that the wheat plant alone
should be an exception, say nothing
about what experience and the past
show? As corn is. and ever will be. the
great standard grain of Missouri, so
must wheat be for the Northwest.
" hen considered with Mr.. Stickney's
immense Interests in Chicago and New
York and his vessels on the ocean, his
interests in st. Paul are a nere baga-
telle. and it perhaps should not be
thought strange. under these circum-
stances, that bewildering conundrums
tbrong his brain auout the Northwest.
ROASTING ST. PAUL.
1t may be Sacrilege even to think it,
vet l cannot refrain from asking, what
In tact has the city of st. Paul zone to
either make herself or the country? One
hundred million bushels of wheat are
annually grown upon the soil tributary
to this city, and yet you have nothing to
manufacture it, and 10 place to store it,
As result Duluth and Minneapolis
take it. One railroad alone, which be-
gins in your city, sends out 5000 miles
OF track, like the fingers of a powerful
hand, INTO every part OF this immense
field, ready and anxious to bring 10000
UOU bushels to your door. yet the sound
of the mill is not in your midst, and it
is compelled to take it elsewhere. Every
threSher, harvester, pound of Irvine,
pillow, harrow, seeder, wag n, haT-
ness, buggy. carriage, bedStead,
air, stove, chain. link. pin, nail,
shinsle. board, boot, shoe, coat, vest,
pants, hat and stockings, used by tile
great army of tOilers producing this
wheat should be made not further east
than this city; yet are there any of them
worth mentioning made here? From
the tOcks of Minnesota, the Dakotas
and Montana l5,0UO,000 pounds of wool
are annually
CLIPPED AND SHIPPED
East through your city. yet not spindle
or loom is within your bounds. You
have the benefit of the haIf-dOZpn men
who handle the cars, while villages in
New Jersey and New England have the
benefit of 100000 people variously EN-
piUyed i'll its manufacture. Three hum
dred million buShe Is of corn are grown
tributary to this city, yet no provision
for its consumption, to manufact-
ure bushel of meal, peck of
honiny OF pound or starch. One hum
dred million bushels of oats, unsur-
passed anywhere, are annually grown
In Your territory, yet tie meal for the
breakfast must be sought elsewhere.
Five million bushels of flax seed an
nuaIly grow IN your fields. yet not
enough oil is manufactured Iu mix your
paint, and the thousands of tons of fiber
go to waste. Northern Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan are covered
with bOundlesS forests and underlaid
with exhaustless mines; railways lead
ing from this city penetrate them in
every direction, yet what is being done
10 secure their manufacture here?
Where has the city expended dollar
or an hours enthusiasm for factories or
the settlement of the country? True,
you have grown, but is it not rather
that
you HAVE GROWN
upon what others have done than upon
what you have done yourselves?
have the railway people done any
thiDs?
They have built in the territory tribu-
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