St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-22
A Strong Letter Received by
a Resident of the Flour
City.
Talk of Another Water Power
Scheme and Another New
Dam. 8.
Walrath, the Croekery Man,
Into More Trouble With
Creditors.
Lowry in the Meeker Island
Deal With Henry Viii
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There has been good deal written
and said throughout the Northwest rela-
tive to the suffering which prevails In
certain parts of North Dakota and about
the measures that have been taken to
alleviate the distress. There have been
some statements made, too, 20 the effect
that the relief which has been sent to
the afflicted sections has not found its
way to the persons for whom it was i'll
tended. James A. Dilworth, of Mime
ap0lis, park policeman, has sister
living near Morris. Eddy county, n. D.,
of affairs in that county differ
ent from the majority of the
reports that have come from there.
This lady's husband. whose name is
W0odw0rth, is quite an extensive farm
er in Eddy county. He was from Iowa
originally, and used to be wheat buyer
in Southern Minnesota and Northern
Iowa. A few years ago he and his wife
removed to Eddy county, N. ID. They
HAD several Thousand dollars, bought
good farm. stocked it and did we'll for
time until the crops began to fail. Mrs.
Woodwork says that she and her hus-
band are much better situated than
most of their neighbours, but that even
Her testimony as to the state of affairs
prevailing there is best told in her own
words.
Dear Brother: You may be sur
prised to get another letter from me be-
fore get an answer to my first. but |
can't stand any longer the way things
are conducted i'm this county. L am
going to write you full particulars and
nothing but the truth. When you hear
that North Dakota is being helped. re-
member that this county has never re-
celved one cenJ-nOthing but little
coal. and while that was all right
Tor some. there are others who
need something else much worse.
Those whose business it is to
attend to the wants of the people are
the ones who helped themselves most
Literally to the coal, and still they are
using every possible means not to let
one word go out of the county that help
is needed here. When such news does
go out, the editor of the county paper
cOntradicts every word of it, thinking it
will help immigration to this part and
boom the county. We saw piece in
one paper saying that, while all the
other counties around here need so
much help, it is strange that this county
can get along withOuE any. But the
people here cannot get along without
any, and before aid can be sent in here
some of them will be in starving con-
ditiOn. All the county officers and
commissioners make plenty of money.
SO that they are ali right. but the poor
farmers must pull through as best they
can.
I'm the first place, the crops are a
failure year after year. Then the next
thing the farmer has to resort to is to
mortgage everything to satisfy some
creditors, and pay interest at the rate of
per cent month. Then the farmers
have to do everything they can to pay
up the interest, or the sheriff calls, which
be does sooner or later anyway. The
stores will let you have a few groceries,
if you give them security for three
times what the groceries are worth. and
charge three prices for them, too. Elmer
(her husband) was up to Devils Lake
and he say they are sensible people up
there. The head men investigated, and
found that aid was needed, and
asked for it. He says they have
just had 5000 bushels of corn,
carloads of clothing and groceries-in
fact everything you can think of, and
81 800 in money, while the leading men
in this county think it is going to hurt
them if they ask for help. A county
commissioner went the other day to just
few places and then went home, and
gets So for his work.
Take some of the farmers that have
plenty of stock of all kinds, and ma
chinery. They look as if they could get
along. but the most of them need help
While some have feed enough for stock
there are others who have not enough
to live on. and God knows what they
will do before another crop is raised.
We have large herd of cattle and a
good many horses, and we have only
two loads of hay left and no oats or any
other feed. This last fall word got to
New York state just how things are
there, and subscriptions were being
raised for here. Our editor heard of it
and he said it was all lie, and abused
the man who wrote East. 1t is clear
case of poverty and pride and selfish
ness thrown in.
"The men who are at the head here
do not care for the farmers so long as
they can get along themselves, and,
without some suitable person to dis
tribute 1t, in case there should be any
aid sent here, these very persons who
talk against it would be the ones that
would take the most. The railroad
company IN. P.) have offered to furnish
seed wheat if the farmers will mortgage
the crop and everything else they own.
You may think / am going crazy on
this subject, but must do something
The rest of the letter is taken up with
private subjects. Coming from a relia-
BILE source, this should command some
attention.