The representative., 1896-02-05
TERMINAL ELEVATOR

TERMINAL ELEVATOR
A GREATLY IMPORTANT QUES-
TION.
Shall the Wheat Raisers Have Fair-Play-
What Say you?-A Plan Proposed.
We have just received the following
letter, which we take pleasure in
printing:
Editor Representative.
At our recent State Alliance con-
vention, the question Of terminal
elevators was brought before that
large and intelligent body of farmers;
and / believe was heartily approved
OF. A committee was appointed, my
name being added to the list, to de-
wise plan which would lift the farm
er from under the thumb Of the
Wheat-com bine. AS this committee
is scattered all over this big state it
will be hard for us to act: but for one
don't want this great question to die
in committee, / believe we should and
can have a good elevator at the head
OF Lake Superior, il we can properly
bring the subject before the farmers.
Would you not be willing to give say
half or two-thirds OF column week
ly, to the end that this subject may
be properly agitated; and call on such
men as w. S. Wheathers ton, OF Ken
yon, and w. G. DAILY, of Ma plcton, for
their views; also give any and all in.
telligent men a chance to lie heard.
l believe the way to build is to or
ganiZe stock elevator company, to be
managed by Board Of Directors COM
posed of represe tatives uf the differ.
ent counties interested. Yours,
j. S. NICHOLS.
We would say, in reply, that we will
gladly give half column or two
thirds OF a column" or two columns,
or half this paper, to discussion of
this great question; and will do all we
can to help it along. 1t was a horri-
BILE crime that after some Of US had
secured the passage Of an act to build
state elevator at Duluth, with the
farmers own money, and the site had
been secured, that the Republican
Supreme Court should have wiped out
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"work of internal improvement"
when the state was simply asked to
act as trustee and build the elevator
with the farmers own money, raised
by tax on the inspection Of their
wheat. No words can properly de-
scribe the shameless subserveDcy of
that court to the Wheat-Ring when it
wi lo; Io
cision.
What is the remedy? Mr. Nichols
suggestion is a good one. Let meet
ings of the farmers be held at once in
all the counties where any consider
able amount Of wheat is raised. Let
stock be sold at IS or $40 share. Let
the very best men be picked out for a
State Committee, and site secured
It Duluth, West Superior, Ashlan or
Bayfield,, and proceed to erect the
building. 1t need not be very large at
| first, for it can be increased every
year; although the stealings in the
Red River Valley, in one year. would
build an elevator bigger than any to
be found to-day in America.
Now is the time Of leisure, for the
farmers; so more at once friends. Com
mence with township meetings; then
hold county meetings; then congress
sional district meetings; then great
state meeting.
To do what no one else is authorized
to do, we will take the liberty Of
naming:
| wAsHINGTON's BIRTH DAY. sATUR-
DAY. FEBRUARY 22D, 1896,
for meeting IN each toUnstip IN Mime
sofa, and the t,ro Dak0tns, at 10 o'clock,
a. M, to organize and receive sub.
ScriptiOnS of stock. One- tent h should
be paid in at once to meet current ex-
pcnses, and the remainder could be
divided into three or four payments
as the work progressed. Put the
shares at s. or $40 SO that any body
can take share; and do not permit
any one man to hold more than SO or
100 shares, to prevent the control fall
| ing into the hands OF the Wheat
| Ring.
THESE ROBBERIES MUST STOP,
and ow is the time to go to work.
Let each township meeting adjourn
tC great county meeting to be held,
say the next Saturday, at the county
seat. On the 7th of March, the fol-
lowing Saturday, hold a congressional
district meeting of county delegates
and on the 14th Of March meeting Of
delegates for the State, say in Mime
apolis.
We are unworthy of the name of
American freemen if we permit few
! THIEVES to rob million and half
Of people of the profits Of their indus
try, year after year, forever.
up, boys, and at 'em."
---- IL.
! HARD TIMES,