The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-01

States are being mercilesslv and pitt
lessly robbed OF. the greater part of the
fair reward of their labor.
From an exchange clip the follow
ing, dated Kansas City, No., November
"a:
1.-THE clamor for cars is becoming
greater each day, and each day the
roads seem to be little worse off than
the preceding one. The shortage seems
to be general and from every part of
the country comes the cry for addi-
tional cars Although grain is being
shipped from Chicago in immense
quantities by eastern roads and steam
ship lines, the mighty rush Of grain
that is flowing in from western points
keeps the shipping channels at Chicago
blocked up An official of the R.rlinsg,-
ton says 5000 more cars and 100 more
engines could be used on that system
alone. A dispatch from Burlington,
Ia, says that 500 cars of grain crossed
the Mississippi for Chicago yesterday.
and this is but fair sample of what
the other roads are doing.
1.-THE members of the railway COM
mission of South Dakota started for
Chicago to plead with the railway man
ayers to relieve the state from the car
famine it is now experiencing. Over
100 written complaints from different
points are recorded on the books of the
commission, arriving within ten days.
Many towns report that they have
stopped buying grain, having no cars.
1.-THE railroad officials are advising
farmers to store their grain for while
as a solution Of the problem. The
farmers, however, need the money, but
already in many cases they have been
obliged to haul their grain home after
taking it to the station. The result is
the farmers. having no chance to sell,
are short of money, and in some in
stances pressing obligations are causing
much trouble. Instead of being con-
fined to the roads and shippers the diff
ficulty arising from the short car sup
ply is beginning to affect the entire
western country, and unless relief is
given soon the gravest results are ex-
pected The Burlington has issued or
ders to suspend the loading of all grain
blockade at that city"
Now I want to remark right here
that no amount of manipulation of or
legislation concerning our financial
system, nor any increased volume of a
perfectly flexible and elastic currency
(such as the land loan and savings bond
plan would supply, can by any means
remedy the evil conditions depicted in
the above and foregoing clipping.
It will be observed that the money,
such as 1t is. in volume and value, is
ready with which to pay for the farm
er's wheat. The farmer is ready and
anxious to sell, although the fact that
he sells upon such glutted market for
q portion of such small, unelastic and
inflexible volume of money, is indisput-
able evidence that he is being robbed
And yet owning and possessing bread
stuffs upon which the people Of the
United States and many millions of the
people Of other nations must live and
subsist, such breadstuff is a worthless
drug upon his hands, and he, in the
possession of great wealth of intrinsic
value. must be annoyed and harrassed
by his creditors, not being even al
lowed the privilege of selling his
wealth at such prices as will give the
Spectator and grain gambler what
little margin of profit there may be de-
rived from his labors.
What then, does the farmer need in
this extremity? The answer is simple.
If he is out of debt he needs only stor-
age room for his wheat If he is in
debt and his debts are pressing him he
needs not storage room only, but an
advance of money to enable him to
meet the pressing demands against
him and thus be in position to hold