The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-28

Long Prairie Press: Why can't we
issue greenbacks Instead of govern
ment bonds, thereby saving per cent
interest. The government has to re-
deem bonds with gold, the same as
they do greenbacks. II the govern
ment would issue greenbacks they
would save the per cent interest it
has to pay on the bonds. See?
Princeton Union, Rep): A Mime
apolis brewing company contributed
$500 to the Democratic campaign
fund in Hennepin county, and like
amount to the Republican committee,
but not cent to the party that advo
Gated State dispensaries.
Window Reporter (Rep.): A lot of
mill owners held a meeting in Chicago
recently to devise ways of increasing
the price of flour, and agreed that as
soon as millers representing $50, 600 bbls
day sign the agreement that all the
mills shall shut. down six weeks each
three weeks after Dec 1. What a
mighty good thing it would be for the
farmers to quit raising wheat for the
"critters" to grind for several years.
There is little difference between the
price now and when wheat was 10
cents a bushel. Ii the action of the
| millers only increases the price of
wheat the farmers wont kick But it
won't do it. 1t will lower it il any,
thing.
Litchtield Independent: One thing
can be looked for at the session of the
next Republican congress, and that is
concerted demand by the banking
and monied interests of the country
for the complete turning over to them
of the paper money issuing privilege.
The national bankers association, at
its annual meeting last month, agreed
upon what it would ask at the hands
of congress. 1t will ask the privilege
of issuing circulating notes without
depOsiting bonds as security and
further that all the present govern
ment issues of notes be retired.
What the banks want is the exclusive
privilege of issuing the paper money
of the country. Republican legisla-
tion ever since the war has been ia
vorable to the banking interests from
first to last, and it remains to be seen
if this fresh demand will be granted.
Litchfield NewS-Ledger Rep.): We
have been informed that the railroad
has given instructions to govern this
point at least, not to furnish cars for
loading with wheat unless the party
making such application has sufficient
wheat in sight to load said car at once.
Ii such state of affairs really exists
it seems to us that the state laws are
nullity, or at least the intention of
the men who made them Anybody
knows that farmer would be foolish
to load his teams with 600 or 1000
bushels of wheat and start for town
without first knowing whether a car
would be there to load it into, and vet
under those circumstances, that is lust
what the railroad would be compelling
him to do. Still the state law says
that the farmer shall have show with
anybody else SO far as loading and
shipping and shipping his grain is con-
cerned. 1t seems to us as though this
is a first class case for the railroad
and warehouse commissioners to look
into at once.
LIE Sueur Record, Rep): Twelve
men representing five hundred millers
and an output of three hundred
and fifty thousand barrels, met in
Chicago last Friday and decided to
shut down the mills for six weekSfor
the purpose of advancing the prices
mot of labor OF flour. Among the
delegation were; b. G. Church, Of
Duluth, W. Edgar. Of Minneapolis,
and II. S. Kennedy, of Mankato. This
may not be trust but it is eminently
worse. 1t not only tends to increase
the price of a certain article but
throws at least fifty thousand men out
of employment during the cold months
OF December and January. Organized
labor no doubt will take hand in this
matter and give these mllers a just
rebuke. We would not be surprised
to see large ntimber of new brands
of flour on the market during the next
year.
Mankato Review, Dem.): The Pho
neer Press reproduces an article from
the New York Evening Post, which is
a criticism lon the recent election in
Minnesota, summing up the result as
the final defeat of Populsm and the
death blow to financial heresy in Min
nesota. Our capital city cotemporary
thinks that it will have the effect to
restore confidence among the eastern
capitalists, and induce the loaning Of
money in this st tie. This may be the
case, but we imagine that such
swindles as the Guaranty Loan, the