Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-29


can party must give vent, or explode,
one Of the fantasies of the parade was
a neatly designed elevator, lined with
this inscription. "Handled 1000, 900
Bushels of Grainp Certainly credit
able showing for the port of Duluth.
Minneapolis has always boosted that
she gets the cream of the wheat trade
to supply her mills and requires 5O,-
100000 bushels Of grain for her home
trade and for export; there are also
some elevators in the SANITY City
We may fairly presume that the
grain thus stored and used in Min
nesota in her large cities, besides the
cities and towns having mills that
turn out from 800 to 5000 barrels of
of flour per day, will run mp the grain
receipts to about go, 900, 900 bushels of
wheat
At the commencement of the politi
cal campaign, some one suggested that
Mark Hanna invest some of the cam
paign fund in securing a corner on
wheat, and thus demonstrate his and
the republicans love for the farmers
but at that time, and not until near the
close Of the campaign did any direct
information leak out that Russia had
any signs of shortage in her grain
crops. Occasional rumors had come to
the west that India was short in her
crops; this was known at the time in
the eastN-but the only sign given was
a succession of orders for grain from
the east At the commencement of the
harvest the price of wheat in the coun-
try was "a cents per bushel, and as the
orders for grain was explicit and came
in sharply that all grain should be
shipped as early as possible, and
a string of the largest steamers on the
lakes, carrying their 100000 bushels,
more or less, were engaged to export
grain as fast as it came in. The ship
ment of grain vas enormous, Duluth
has never seen such times; crews work
ing night and day, and money turned
over so rapidly that fortune smiled on
the grain men.
But how about the farmer? Did he
reap any benefit from the increasing
values? Did his dollar appropriate in
value? He had sold at "a cents to
meet obligations that were crowding
him to the wall; and wheat was boom
ing into the head of the lakes at this
figure until election; when almost the
entire grain crop was in storage. Then
prices began to climb; so cents was
reached; then 60 cents; then IS cents;
and finally So cents;-just double what
the farmer was paid for his grain al
his country elevator.
What are the results of these fig
ures? At middle figure, 20 cents per
bushel, the farmer of Minnesota have
been robbed out of twelve millions of
dollars-the result of combin alton Of
circumstances that has initiated
against the farmers, whom the repub-
lican party loves so well.
The loss to the farmers of the north
west has been sum that it is almost
impossible to calculate. If Minnesota
has thus suffered, North and South
Dakota have also suffered by such
greedy extortion.
Suppose we base the growth at a
medium figure of 70, 1000, 900 bushels OF
wheat in these states-this sold at 80
cents per bushel more than the farmer
was paid for it at the country station
where he shipped the wheat Then
the grain growers of the Northwest
were lovingly slkunked out of twenty
one millions of dollars, by the pater-
nal kindness of the men who crowded
them to vote for recommendation and
honest lnoney-and by the party of
progress who so love the farmer and
watch over his interests. This party
promised the farmer protection" and
yet robbed him open handed--The
Representative,
why the Party VIII Live.