The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-15
EDITOR SIN:

article by our esteemed friend Sax in
your issue of April II, will not permit
US Co overlook an error which he no
doubt holds honestly. The cry of
cover production" Is plausible one,
and great fayorite with those who
would hush, the American farmer to
continued stupor while they plum"
dered his pockets more ruthlessly.
We find very many benevolent
people and very many influential
journals, and very many patriotic
statesmen and financiers echoing it,
some sincerly,-some for clearly
understood purpose. Even educa-
tional and religious journals tell
the farmer that Uncle Sam has been
too good to him, and has given him
and his brothers too much of the
public domain. So we hear the cry
reiterated with an JUNCTION that only
constant repetition can give, and we
hope to be forgiven for intimating
that we are willing 1t should be con-
signed to oblivion and forgetfulness
along with some of the stale advice
mentioned by Bro. Sax.
So long as there are thousands OF
hungry people in our own land as we'll
as abroad, and thousands more who
are compelled to subsist on inferior
food, we are 10th to believe that there
is not a market for all the No. hard
that we can raise.
When we recollect that very often
during the past 20 years wheat has
been worth in Minnesota from so cent
to Is cts per bushel while in the same
market -four is quote" 1t $500 to
$500 per BIB ut
the Assn
ing very fair pllce for his produu.
considering the cost of his land.
Though most OF our local millers and
milling associations seem willing to
be gamers by the situation; we would
not be understood to imply that those
wide margins of profit between
producers and consumers are alto
gether chargable to the millers. We
are glad to accept the statement of
Mr.. Pillsbury that "there are many
reasons why wheat should have COM
mauded a higher price for months
past"
A Chicago paper commenting on
Mr.. Pillsbury's declaration says the
price has been presistently kept down
by leading gamblers in futures.
Whenever prices took an upward
turn these men threw millions upon
millions of bushels of fictitious wheat
upon the market, and the smaller
dealers and the prices had to give
way. In the mean time the farmer
who had real grain to sell was COM
PEELED to take just such prices for it
as these men, who toll not. were
pleased to permit. IA greater outrage
upon both producer and consumer
could hardly be contriyed.
That one reason of low prices is
over production is clear, but when
the real surplus is increased by these
!imitless millions of cultures and
these controlled by the wave of a hand
the condition of actual producers is
rendered well nigh intolerable." Here
we have portrayed an evil vastly
more disastrous than over production,
and yet we are inclined to thiak it is
less an evil than the Encouragement
and ruthless greed cs railways.
If we may crave your indulgence
NJ, Editor we should've happy to set
IN some OF the evils and dangers
OF pres ent methods in Railway
management as we see them. Not
that we should hope to elucidate the
whole subject but, by provoking
kdiscussion we may come to a clear
understanding or the Issues before the
people which will be affected by our
votes in the coming fall election.
GoADsTIcL.