The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-14
Campaign Liars" Out of Work.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE:

Campaign Liars" Out of Work.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE:
There is one advantage an honest
man has over rogue, and that is, the
honest man shapes his life in accor-
dance with the laws of nature, and
consequently he has nothing to do
but act naturally in order to be con-
sistent, while a rogue and liar, whose
whole study is to successfully violate
those laws, is only acting a part,
which, it is needless to say, he can
not for any length of time carry out.
This being universal law, the most
simple, uneducated person, if he have
an honest mind, will, in the long run,
be more than match for the shrewd
est rascal that treads the earth.
All the FEASIBILITY, ostentation
and pretentious solicitude for the
people, did not prevent the common
sense farmer-soldiers of Oliver Crom-
well from wiping the educated liars
And so it will be with the guardian
pangels of our farmers. echo combine
together IN order that they may do business
ON smaller margin. and thereby sell
aoores cheaper. When 'shayseed" gets
time to straighten his back and look
at his cowhides and overalls; he will
begin to think; and what an easy job
will be for our Representatives, to or
ganize the farmers when they (the
farmers) begin to realize that they are
but sheep that are annually sheared.
But to the point: A few years ago
the whole state press jumped on Mr..
Donhelly because he made the state
ment, on the authority Of the captain
of the steamer in which he went to
England, that the freight on wheat
from New York to Liverpool, was
sometimes "nil," at that time 24c.
per bushel, and seldom went over SC.
per bushel.
The Minneapolis Journal of April
25th last, incidentally, gives the rate
on wheat, by steamer, at &c. per
bushel from New York to Liverpool.
This is official, as the Journal quotes
Consul Brown, of Glasgow, Scotland.
The Minneapolis Journal is off
'duty'' now, though it claims to be a
republican paper, it has borrowed one
democratic ,"feather,"- lies 'for
revenue only"
There is still, some 45c. bhshel
difference between what the Mime
sofa and the English farmers get for
their wheat.
The Journal, and all such organs,
will figure this out all right during
the next campaign as they did during
the last. "Freight from New York
to Liverpool, 1Oc.; handling, storage,
insurance, dock and harbor dues
there is none on the wheat, it is on
the vessel in Liverpool-pilotage,e etc.,
ETC., 444c., shippers profit 4c.
There is something else we can
learn from the low ocean freight rate.
Three cents to carry a bushel of wheat
5000 miles! 1t is ''free for all'' car
rying trade, open to all nations on
equal terms.
From Duluth to Buffalo, N. Y, 800
miles, under the close communion
American shipping laws" which
were passed to protect American ship
owners. and their Canadian manned
ships, from Canadian competition.
the freight on wheat is about &c. per
bushel, and from Buffalo to New
York, by canal, from 4e. to SC. That
is. in competitive market our grain
is carried 5000 miles for &c. per bushel;
where the danger is greater, and the
expenses and insurance more, than it
is on the lakes and canals. while they
charge &c. for carrying it 1000 miles.
II we followed the comparison to
railroad freight rates, the difference
would be still greater, but it is need
less, for if the calamity howler'' will
read between the lines, of the great
monopolist papers, while they are in
''plain cloths" he will find more.
better, and cheaper campaign thun-
der, than he can possibly rake to-
gether himself.
SETH BOTTOMLY.
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