The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-14
TELLS OF IT'S ORIGIN.
The Attack on Psllsbury SprfHss
from Spite and Politics.

The attaelS on PslIsbury Springs
from Spite and Politics.
~ NJ. I,Uing. than wlimn no IMAM in the
wo,. invest oss.unands mere respe1t :and eOh-
6dauoe fer what he would have to say I'm
tins f,onnect iOaa writes as follows about the
attack ON C. A. Pills1bnw by the Chicago
u,best gamblers and the political dema-
gegues: =.
..J s,,a q stoel1hsEder and director lin one, OF
the largest milling tirnss in the eountry, and
becamse of this / am opposed ITO Senator
Mashbuan,s anti-eRtion hill for if 1t were TO
heoome a law we would ne 'opneeu 10 20
into a sneeulatiwe business, whereas now we
ean by hedging" against S;t2es 'd1 ihonr 1or
futr7re delivery, do a Legitimate mining DUST
ness without the least clement of specuia-
tian. Nad we the past year heen Obliged
to purchase and carry the large stock Oh
wSseat required for oNr business the loss
WOULD have been sueat, while under our
! present system we lawe made lair milling
profit.
The elevator system of the country is the
only aainS that enables the farmers OF Min
nesota and the Dakotas TO compete with the
grain producers OF Russia anu lndla. i'na'e
been a grain buyer since 1860 and have pur-
chased wheat in Minnesota for 40 cents
husbel and lost money ON it, owing DO exees-
o;ya cost of handling. This wheat was
brought by farmers in wagons twenty to
seventy niles, and WAS shipped to Chicago
in bags and hauled from the depot to the
steamer i'm Chicago ia bags, and when 1t
reached the steamer the charges and Aasses
,,ere almost as much as the first cost OF the
wheat To-day, through the admirable ele-
yator systems. the cost OF handling Waeat is
reduced to the minimum and the farmer
GETS the benefit. But the Russians are LEARN
ing from us They have Lad agents here
Looking over our system of handling grain,
who have taken full notes of our way OF DO
ing business, and they are NOW building eie,
y;fors on the lines of their railroads, and
are extending cheaply built railroads over
their nlains and when their systems are
tompleted and their farmers nave the same
facilities for handling grain as the farmers
mDrh less than our present prsceS, ana our
farluers will be obliged to raise otner crops
Every cent taken from the COST ,e OF l hanqilnS
and transporting wheat since 1850 has been
added to the price the farmer sells his
wheat at to-day, and it is Il source OF great
regret that political pds f ~ fr,o aT Wf
nreiuHices against men who have been their
best friends, instead of educating them to
duced ON the millions OF acres OF land !, in the
vast Northwest territory, and that dlversi-
fed farming is their Only. salvation.
rageo,ls. II had its origin in spite and poll
tics. 1t is not in the interest Of the farmer.
There is not man in the Northwest who
syheat as c. A. Pillsbury. Every buyer in
the state knows that.
I.The statement that elevators are now
Is of present oyerdone and the competition
ia q, great that it requires the very closest
business management 10 make them pay
know. as 1 am stockholder In three of the
best lines. :,
.sThe interests of tine farmers and the mill
e,s are mutual and IL is better for both that
wheat should bring q good price, and were
1t not for the political demagOgueS they
would be the best Of friends