The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
THE GRAIN

TEREST1NG LETTER ON FREIGHTs,
GRADES. ETC, OF AMERICAN, IN
DIAN AND RUSSIAN WHEAT-HE
GOES FOR Mr.. BURDICK RED-HOT.
To the Editor: -
The Liverpool Corn Trade News is at
hand. 1t had been shelved by our post
master.
1t is, as I stated in my last letter, moth
ing but a larger type of the Minneapolis
Daily Market Record" In fact, 1t de-
ponds on the Record" and the Daily
Trade Bulletin" of Chicago. for Its sta
tistics of the Aemrican and Canadian
markets, as it acknowledges in the copy
before me. Though at the heading it
has the words Registered as a Newspa-
per-" the subscription price SIS a year,
gives the statement the lie, and stamps 1t
as nothing but a huge private circular,
issued in the interest of grain gamblers
and SPECTATORS. No doubt but what 1t
has a great many subscribers who re-
luctantly pay the smart nancy $15) in
order TO protect themselves against the
modern vampires in whose interest it is
published.
So your readers will see that "a person
may know there is q hole through a
grindstone," and yet not be. able to find
the price Of No. 1 hard wheat quoted In
the English newspapers.
- But the chief value to me OF the News"
is In what Mr.. Burdick does not quote.
Here, for instance, Is one OF the costly
items Of the complicated and cumber-
some methods Of handling grain THE
rates charged for dischar ging grain at the
'Mersey Dock boards warehouses shal
be as follows: East India grain In bags,
IL cents pei ton dong ton Of 2,40O pounds);
grain from other ports, IA cents; grain In
bulk 2 cents extra" That Is about 21
mills a bushel. Costly, very, Mr.. b.
Freight rates on wheat, New York to
Liverpool, January, $1.21 per ton, or 81
cents per bushel; Odessa to England,
1892; Bombay, India to England, 1884;
River Platte, South America, 1915"
Here Is proof positive that we v
nothing to fear from foreign competition.
India is handicapped over 6 cents per
bushel on freight alone, and South Amer
lea over 10 cents. We have also 10 cents
per bushel advantage over our brother
farmers Of the Pacific slope. Here comes
in one Of the beauties Of u shipping
laws Nearly all the grain carrying
ships are English, you know, or ought to
know. Wheat took a jump up of 18 cents
per bushel In Liverpool q short time ago,
the English ship n put the freight
up Is cents per busAel, the Britisher got
Is cents of the raise, and the California
and Oregon farmers 3 cents-if the mid
dfeman did not steal it. Hurrah for the
Clamps and American built ships. Hur-
rah for 1896! and who? Shall 1t be John
Bull and Clamps, or Johnny and Levi, the
Jew (P. Morton), or Johnny and McKin-
ley. John Bull has got to be in 1t any
a There is nothing of the spirit of
1776 left but the hatred of England, which
the low, cunning rogues use to legislate
their pockets full of money.
1.-THE American Shipbuilding associa-
ton has a monopoly to the three-mile
limit. J. B. rattles the sovereigns in his
pocket, laughs and grins at the American
sovereigns dressed in their shoddy and
duck and denim clothing, and rakes in
everything outside the three-mile limit.
Well, let's have Johnny and the Jew
then. This would save the trouble and
expense Of an election. for here Levi and
tribe rule in Wall street, and Britannia
rule the (golden) wave outside OF 1t.
Johnny and Mckinley" would mean
cheap wool for clothing and shoddy cloth
ing for us.
And so it will be and ought to be, as
long as u people are led by the spirit
Of hate, sectional and national, instead Of
the spirit Of love and reason. Those who
appeal to the baser passions Of human
nature, appeal to something which, v
fhn hast ~ i, nnccocc ond ~ wo tvropo
honest with ourselves we should say with
Hamlet II am myself Indifferent Qairly)
honest; but yet I could accuse MT Of such
things that it were better my mother
had not born me. l am very proud, re-
vengeful, ambitious, with more offenses
at my beck than I have thoughts to put
them in, imagination to give shape, or
time to act them In"
But freight rates" have led me OF
my track. The railroads, ! know we
have always with us, but I did not know
that even they had to divide the "swag"
with. John Bull. Alas! for The American
clipper ships and their departed glory.
But to tho Corn Trade News again.
Here is something that ought to turn the
s~ub-treasury crank green with jealousy.
The agricultural party In Germany has
introduced q bill in the reichstag which
proposes to make the sale Of foreign
wheat and our a government monopoly.
This proposal was mentioned in Corn
Trade News some time ago, and now
appears to have taken definite shape"
Here is another, worse and worse, even
barbarous Russia is away ahead Of us.
Well might the Russian farmers call the
emperor Little Father" as Capt. Burn
ably tells US they do. Here it is. ct us
weep together.
Russian Grain Market-The State as q
Corn Dealer.
st. Petersburg, Feb. IAN order was
sanctioned on the 14th ultimo for giving
effect to proposals made some time ago,
for the purchase of grain by the govern
ment. The quantities to be thus bought
are to be determined from time to time by
the state of the market. The grain is to
be purchased exclusively Of the grow
ers," and are intended to provide for the
requirements of the population as well as
Of the army commissariat department"
No vested rights" for cormorants and
army contractors over there in Russia,
brother farmers. Ha! and Bah! Amt
we farmers free and enlightened, though?
Vote for "Money-bags and Buncome."
We thank thee, MI. Burdick, for the
Liverpool Corn Trade News.
SETH BOTTOMLEY.
SOME SENSIBLE VIEWS.
STAND By OUR OWN PLATFORM.
To the Editor: