The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1890-04-11
A PARTNERS VIEW.
Exception Taken to Some East
ern Opinions.

LAccpUlOn Iaken to Some East
ern Opinions.
To THE EDITOR: In your last weeks
issue you give prominence to two
views of the farmers condition. Views
which, it would seem, might have been
seen through the same telescope-one
manufactured by Messrs. Vanderbilt,
Rockefeller, Carnegie and others of
that stripe. The alliances of the west
are credited with holding some very
queer notions of finance, taxation, etc.
1t will be found that those queer
views are borrowed from the gentle
men who have managed the finances of
this government for the last twenty
five years. One of the follies general
ly accredited to the alliance is the Cul.
lom bill, which asks the government
to loan the surplus in the treasury at
per cent. interest on land security.
A monstrous proposition, is 1t? Yet
is it not on q par with the policy pur-
sued by the government toward the
national banksY The National Econ
mist is authority for the statement
that during the past twenty-five years
the government has loaned to the
banks at one per cent. interest an ev-
erage of over S30O,0Oo,0O0 annually. 1t
may be that loanlng money Is not q
proper province of the government;
but the alliance is only asking Equal
rights to all, special privileges to none"
1t may be like the negro stealing his
masters money and then loaning it to
him at interes only to steal and loan
it to him aga,n; but as long as the
government is bent on taxing the
people hundred millions or 80 annu-
ally more than an economical admin
istration of the government requires,
we deem it just to dispose OF some of
the surplus In this manner.
| The Kansas economists are accused
of wishing to defrsud their creditors
by the imitation of the currency,
presume. Well have yet to hear the
alliance demand aught more than JUS
tice; aud justice says that the contrac-
tion of the currency has defrauded the
debtor as much as the imitation of it
would defraud the creditor.
The Kansas economists are also said to
"ask for the passage of laws for the alb.
solute control of railroad property by
the state and therefore practically Its
confiscation." Let US see. Corn this
winter in Nebraska has sold on an aver.
age price of twelve cents bushel,
while it was worth thirty cents in
Chicago. Thus it will seen that the
railroad company has taken nearly the
price of bushel and half of corn to
take one to market. Some of US think
that the eighteen cents is earned cas-
ier than the twelve-that there is a dis
proportionment between the services
rendered. AS we have seen the far,
mer unable to raise corn at that price
his farm passing into the hands o!
some eastern loan agency, we hay'
thought that 1t was the farm that wal
confiscsted instead of the railroad
The Iowa farmer has been fsring bet
ter because the state has controlled
the railroad. Call it confication i.
you please, gentlemen. We prefer t.
call it emancipation.
The article from the New Yorl
Press is headed "Facts for farmers
If it had not been labeled thet way on
would have thoughtit facts for dupes
> 1t says the higher the duty, or th
> greater the alleged tax, the greater tn
!. domestic production and the cheape
the article. This must be late dis
covery. If this were known wcul
certain capitalists be attempting t
double the duty on tin plate, while th
Gamers of New York, Baltimore an
indianapolis are solemnly protestin
against it2 Would the New Yor
farmer be clamoring for twenty-iy
5 cent duty on hops and the Californi
/ Fruit union for an increase on prunes
U The Press should inform these partie
q of this new law in order to have the
a actions reversed. The fact remail
$ that the men who have made the
y millions manufacturing highly pr
q tected articles are still clamoring fl
" more tariff.
The proof offered is that we furni!
- large percentage of many manufac
ured articles to the Canadians. Th
:. - would seem to prove entirely too mu'
y for if our manufacturers can sell to Il
10 Canadians in spite of the competitis
IL of the pauper labor of Europe why CT
~ they not supply the home market u
~ ~ der the same competition-witho
~ the tariff?
~ ~ The fact Is, the expiration of pate