The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
RED HOT CANNON BALLS,


Seth BottOmly Replies to the Railroad
COmmtssiOners and Makes the Fur
Fiy-Let the Debate Go ON and the
People he Enlightened.
To the Editor:
He that hateth dissembleth with his
lips. and he layeth up deceit within him:
when he speaketh fair believe him not, for
there are seven denominations in his heart"
Inc most discouraging obstacle that a
person meets who is trying, to leave the
world, If not little better than he found
1t, at least as good is the brazen, unblush-
ing and downright lying. the prevarcation
Of the truth and the garbling of plain
statements to make them answer their own
purposes
OF course. if it was not for the dense ig-
norance, the Indifference and moral lethar-
gy into which both the upper and lower
stratum of our people have fallen, no man
who valued his reputation at farthing
burst make such statements, for instance,
as those made by Commissioner Burdick in
the Representatives of March 6 and April
letter to answer Mr.. Delles' inquiry as to
To allay the general belief OF our farm
ers that they are not being fairly dealt with
regarding the grades and prices received
for their grain. this shameless tool of the
elevator combine has the unblushing cheek
to quote the "cost Of wheat delivered in
granary at Liverpoor' at Sc cents per BUSH
ell Of so pounds, while he quotes this same
wheat at the same time and place as sell
ing for 70 cents per bushel. Now, what is
the object of Mr.. Burdick in making figures
lie like this? 1t is to make the befogged,
bambooZled and bewildered farmer to be-
lieve not only that he is not cheated, but
that these hooked nosed, square chinned,
penny in the slot mouthed grain jugglers
are not only honorable. fair dealing gen.
tlemen, who would scorn to take advantage
of any one but that they are whole souled,
warm hearted, Christian philanthrOpsts,
who buy and ship grain at a loss of cents
per bushel What a great injustice We
farmers have done these men! How I'M
grateful we have been, for while we have
been calling them all kinds of bad names
they have been buying our wheat and ship
ping it to Liverpool at a cost of IS cents
per bushel and selling it for Is cents, or
else Mr. Burdick is-well-let the reader
christen him!
In his letter of April dt may be he
wrote it on the 1st. thinking that was a fit
day to write for the farmer), after a little
bluff, claiming ''he fears the readers will
think l know what 1 am talking about"
he virtually corrObOrateS every statement
/ made.
state that "our No. hard never reach
es Liverpool under that name" I do not
know where Mr.. Donnelly gets his author
ity for the same statement, get mine from
the English market reports. 1 have never
yet seen it quoted in any English neWspa-
per- Has Mr.. Burdick?
In answer to my charge that "Our wheat
is used to tone up inferior grades, he
answers "Of course it is, Mr.. NJ: that is
what is done with it everywhere, even in
your own town and under your own nose;
and therein lies it's chief value. No miller
makes flour from exclusive No I hard
wheat; it has not the proper ingredients for
-four" ~ 80 c%HS
What kind of flour? Red Dog" or "Bak-
ers?" This admits all that we farmers
have ever claimed; if we furnish the coffee
of the flour, others furnish the chiccory,
and get paid the price of the mixture.
Say. you Red river farmers. when you take
a grist to MILL be sure you take some In
dian or Egyptian wheat along with your
No. l hard, if you want flour made of the
proper ingredients.
AS for that 'cock and bull story about
tracing that shipment of wheat on board
the City of Rome, why did not Mr.. Sinecure
finish the story UP in good shape? Why
did he not hire Pinkertons, United States
deputy sheriffs and Cleveland's militia to
follow it-but not, not to Liverpool? Like
Anna Gould's French dude it has been de-
graded before it gets there.
"All American wheatS unless otherwise
specified. are sold &C. 1. F. Cost insurance
and freight paid, at the ships side' So
says Mr. Burdick in his first letter. This
tallies with my statement that England is
honeycombed with canals, and that the
bulk of the wheat is sold by sample to the
English miller, transferred from ships side
to coasting vessels canal boats, and
taken direct to the great milling centers.
What, then, becomes of Mr.. Burdcks
yarn about dockage, primage, commits
sions, weighing, transferrings, and his etc,
etc, etc. :?
All dock and harbor dues are on the ship
and not on the cargo. and as for his itches
-"Peaveyf& Co" will have to help him to
scratch his head before he will be able to
give them name to make up cost of
2* cents per buShel. ii :
Again. in his first letter Mr.. B. gives the
cost of handling wheataat Duluth and New
York at less than 2 cents per bushel. AS
long ago as 1867 1 went from New York to
Liverpool on Cunarder, which loaded up
with wheat from floating elevator in less
than two hours. Will Mr.. Bur6ick agree
to pay one-fourth of cent per bushel to
have cars filled with a scoop shovel and
wheelbarrow? If he will, the question:
What shall we do with the unemployed?'
will be settled in a jiffy. We can get
grain stored in our local elevators for half
a cent bushel per month. If it costs
more to handle grain in Liverpool than it
does in this country, how will you play
your pauper-labor racket next election?
Live and let live is the great law of
nature" Every nation has it's advantages
and disadvantages. Norway has its su-
perior iron, China it's tea, India it's silk.
Cuba it's sugar, Ireland it's flax, the South
it's cotton and rice, while we Northwestern
farmers can raise the best wheat in the
world. Our complaint is that in various
ways, of which wheat grading is one. we
are cheated out of our natural ADVANTAGES
by lot of human buZzards We nav Mr.
Burdick and three other men about $40 GOO
year to protect our interests A careful
readng OF this correspondence will show
now faithfully he is serving our enemies.
SETH BOTTOMLEY
OISGUSTED.
With the WOrkinymen
Mr.. Geo. Halsey Tuthill of BROOKLYN N
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