Telegram-herald., 1890-03-22
LUCE ON THE TRUSTS
He Tells Why Wheat Doesn't Bring
81 4 Hushsl.
He has CEn TIE SUBJECT IHOUCHI
as Ostsk ~ Combinations says the
Farmer tisssrsSr-frasIs .Fs ~nast-
lag the ksFuasEs, sot ths r.rin
Why He Believes 80.

Gov. Luce was getting the hang OF
tne Detroit cattle markets, yesterday,
tor his Own private lifJrmatiOn a. a
stock ralser. On hisreturn from King :
Yards be vas interviewed BY the Aers
reg4rdlng bis alleged candidacy Tor
Congress. Gov. Luce, oy tue bye. -
now a resident 0f lngham county, and
votes there, having taken up a per-
uanent residence at the capitol duung
h.s term AZ Governor, and IL was 10 the
SIXTH, or Brewers district, IN which
Lansing Is situated, where he had been
talked ol Tor Congress, not IA the THIRD
Congressional district, as might have
been supposed, OF which KranCn county
h4s former place OF residence. i part.
You may say that ] Am not a can
dldate for Congress, SAID the tfOveTn-
or. "ln The trst place, do not want
lt' and IN the second place. | hope |
have enough mOdesty not 10 be reach
ing out for one Office while | occupy
another.
mo. | can say that the senstOrship IN
nOwise influences my action either one
way or the other lu the matter OF the
Congressional candidacy. All my
political aspirations at present are cen
tered IN the desire 10 serve out my term
"a GOvern0r with credit. That Is all.
What the future may bring forth Is lett
"a the disclosures OF time. No, | DO
not think | shall continue 20 reside in
Lansing at the close OF my term as
GOvernOr, but will remove TO my farm
IN Branch county
Concerning the interesting struggle
abOnt 10 be precipitated n the Repuoll-
can party over the GoyernOTshlp, Gov
eruOr Luce said be would not wish TO
appear as debating his own successor:
but still he had his private opinion A.
10 who would De the right man.
The Governor did not think the re-
port that the farmers OF Michigan are
incllnlng toward free trade was true.
That they had cause for grievance,
owing 10 the collapse OF prices for farm
products, was true, but they do not
look to free trade Tor a remedy. They
heheye that trusts and combinations
are the causes that lead 20 agricultural
distress by cheapening what Is produced
upon the farms. Trusts and cOmblna-
tons are not the result o. a tariff, but
axe combinations of capital resulting
from special advantage, "a, Tor example
the Standard oil trust, which did not
depend upon tariff for the accumula-
ton Ot = vast capital.
There Is nothing, continued the GOV
CTnOr, upon when the tariff operates a:
"a tax except sugar. The tariff on that
he would admit, was tax. To what
DO the farmers attribute the low price
of that great Michigan cereal, wheat
To combinations. There was no ques-
ton IN the Governors mind but that
wheat would be worth Sl per bushe
today were u not for TINS manipulation
OF combinations.
Who were in the combination tc
lower the price of wheat? Why, the
mllcrs and the experts. IL was the
fight for the flour making privilege
that depresses the price Of wheat, and
until such time as that fight was over
wheat viii rule low. That great Ameri
can milling city, Minneapolis, and tn,
other wheat grinding towns in tn,
nited states want TO grind the wheat
and the English millers want 10 grinC
% also. Between the two, as It appeared
from the Governors : statement, thC
farmers were ground fine. There die
not appear 10 De any combinations tha
affected other products. Pork, foI
example. was cheap because the west
crn corn crop was immense. But th'
tariff; no, the tariff had no effect OF
farm products. Indeed, while ther,
lad been some farmers who had re
g8rted the tariff - 10 blame and had
leen leaning toward free trade, they
laf al receded from that belef.-Ds
traf Ne~s.