The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-29
THEY ARE KICKING.
They Want Fair Treat
ment.
Farmers Say They Would Rather Sell
Their Wheat In the Cape Girar-
deau Market Than Ship 1t
to St. Louis If They Were
Fairly Treated.

Fairly Treated.
The farmers OF this county say they
do not want to ship their wheat to ST.
Louis. They would rather sell in the
home market and do their trading at
home if they could get anything like
St Louis prices, but they claim they
are not fairly treated at home. They
claim that they can always get from
eight to ten cents more per bushel for
their wheat in st. Louis than they can
get in Cape Girardeau. They say that
our millers go to st. Louis and buy
wheat and pay more for it than they
pay the farmer who delivers them
wheat at their mills. One farmer tells
us that if our millers would pay with
in five cents of st. Louis prices very
little wheat would be shipped to St.
Louis, but says he, your millers
never pay within five cents per bushel
of st. Louis prices" He claims that
the farmer can ship his wheat to ST.
Louis, pay freight, commissions and
insurance and then have more clear
money than he would have if he hauled
his wheat to Cape Girardeau.
! The DEMOCRAT wants to see the
farmer get every cent for his wheat
that it is worth, but we do not want
| to see our home market suffer. We
do not want to see our millers going
to the big cities for the wheat they
have to have to run their mills. South
east Missouri is the greatest wheat
section in the Western country. We
have as good mills here as are to be
found in the country, and there is no
reason why these mills should not
manufacture into flour all the wheat
produced in this section of the country.
We have talked to our millers and
they assure us that they are paying
for wheat within five cents of the st.
Louis market price. They do not
deny that they have purchased wheat
abroad and paid for it a little more
than they were paying here, but they
did this to fill special orders of flour
that had to be filed at certain time.
This wheat was purchased at time
when that large bulk of wheat could
not be had from the home producers.
Our millers. are honorable men. They
want to treat the farmers right. They
say they are always ready to pay
within five cents per bushel for wheat
of what the market price is in st.
Louis.
The DEMOCRAT is not crying down
the farmer because he is shipping his
wheat to st. Louis. We want to see
the farmer get every cent his wheat
and everything else he produces on
the farm is worth, but We believe-in
fact we know, that some farmers are
acting too hastily in their mad rush
for the st. Louis market. They are
not making any money by their
going away from home. They
are hurting our home manufacturers.
They are hurting the home mer-
chant and they are hurting themselves.
Home first and the world last"
should be the motto of every good cit
izen in any community. We are not.
here for a day, a week, month, a
year, or few years. We are here to
stay. This is our home. This is our
place of business. Here we expect to
live. Here we expect to die, If we
ever die, and why should wenot be one
with each other and all
pull together in everything that goes
TO build up our city, our county and
our section OF the State?
The cheap freight rates by river and
by rail should be no inducement for
US to run away from home with what
We have to sell. Our aim should be
10 build up home market for every
hing we produce.