St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-22
MORE FACTS For FARMERS.

A morning newspaper which usually
emits sound of pain whenever the
corns of any kind or monopoly are
crushed, is unable to find any eXplana-
ton of the investigation by the G e
Of the treatment which the farmers of
this state and the Northwest generally
receive at the hands of the elevator
companies Perhaps it will find some
light thrown upon the subject by an
other letter which we publish this
morning from a special correspondent
Of the G o be, giving still fuller
account of the difficulties that oc-
CURED at Warren during the past ship
ping season. Our contemporary, and
the members Of the grain and ware
house commission whom it interviewed,
should not be troubled in soul because
weeks ago, and an open market has
since been restored there by the cour-
ageous and determined stand taken by
the people. The G l o e gave the dates
planned the situation as it formerly
existed and as it is today. We have
paid particular attention to this one
incident because it illustrates the pow
er which the elevator companies have
to Cypress the farmer, and deprive him
of the hard-earned produce of his toll.
That which has been done at Warren
may be done and is being done over
large part of the Northwest today. The
same men who tried to grind the life
out of the farmers tributary to the
Warren market, to depress their grades
and cut down the rightful price of
their grain, have a similar control over
the fortunes of tens of thousands of
other people where no such resistance
has been made, and nc such corrective
has been applied. The Globe is not
attacking the state railroad and ware
house commission, except, as the law
papers say, lin as far as their inter-
est may appear" If they have done
their full duty under the laws Of Min
nesota, we will say so. If they have
been derelict in any respect, we will
tell the public the truth about that
also. We will do everything, as far as
the power within us lies, to give the
people the facts about the marketing
of wheat in the Northwest, and to
show just what the farmer suffers at
the hands Of an irresponsible monopoly.
Any right-minded man, any lover of
justice, who reads the letter of our
special correspondent, published this
morning, reciting the occurrence of
events at Warren and PRODUCING. a
mass Of testimony that cannot be con-
troverted, will not stop short of the
opinion that wherever there is not an
open market, wherever free competition
does not exist, the farmer is deprived of
portion of his due that NAV ranee
anywhere from two or three cents to
eight or ten cents per bushel. This is
an iniquity that the people will NOT
tolerate and that shall be brought to
an end
We are especially obliged to repre-
sentative of the state warehouse com
mission who has supplied our contem-
porary with letter addressed to that
body which contains a repetition and
reinforcement of the statements made
In the G ! o b e. He says that farmers
during the past two weeks have sold
their wheat from two to five cents bet
ter than they did five weeks ago, and
that one lot that could only be sold
here for 35 cents, sold ten days ago at
4S cents en- track" This is ample con-
firmation Of the situation disclosed by
the 6 c b e. S representative This is
what some of the men whose business
1t is tc protect the interests of the
farmer call having a little trouble"
There is "a little trouble at a great
many points in this state and elsewhere.
and that trouble consists in such a
grip upon the facilities for marketing
wheat as compels the farmer to ACCEPT
unfair grades and prices that are in
famously unjust.
We expect to give to the pubic ample,