The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-06-29
THE THYME QUESTION.
Great Excitement Through the State.
We find in st. Paul paper the fol-

Binding Irvine ordered Of William Deer
ing and others for from 81 to cents is
now being held at 10 cents. and a talk of
20 cents per pound. We will have to have
it, Now. look right here. The worlds
supply of wheat is short Harvest your
crops as best you can. Stack your wheat
so it will keep, If need be, over winter; do
all the blowing you can In August and Sep
TENDER; let your grain stand in stack until
you can realize % cents clear profit on a
bushel of wheat and 10 cents on oats and
corn. Then thresh and sell. II you have
2,OO0 bushels of wheat in stack or granary.
you can get trusted. You can borrow money
for per cent to pay your editor grocer.
merchant and banker We don't want -
a bushel but we do want a small profit
over cost on every bushel. If you do as
say you will come out all right. II he
dealer brought Irvine to your door. would
you give Is cents for scent Irvine?
Joshua Boyle, a Farmer.
Marshall, Mimi, June q.
The cause of the trouble is that the
board of prison managers sold, we are
told, 5000, 900 pounds of their Irvine to
dealers and spectators this year, in car
load lots; and reserved but half mil
lion pounds, to be sold in small guam
titles to the farmers. The merchants
and spectators then put up the price
from cents to 15c and zoe pound;
back where they we're before the manu-
facture of Irvine at Saltwater by state
prison labor. was established, on the
demand of the State Farmers Alliance.
The whole purpose of the original act
Is thus brought to naught. The check
on the Irvine trust is removed. For it
makes no difference to the Trust wheth-
err the state makes 100000 pounds or
soc. 0OO,O 900 pounds, if they are permitted
to gobble it at low figures, in car load
lots, and sell it to the farmers at high
figures Under this arrangement the
state becomes a party to the trust, to
plumber the grain producers. who up
hold the state, by their taxes.
Who are responsible for this?
The voters who refused to place the
administration of the state, and the
state-prison itself, in the hands of those
who secured the establishment of the
twine manufacture; and gave it over to
men who were hostile to it.
1t is claimed now that the farmers
cannot pay cash, and hence there is a
necessity to sell the Irvine TO those wko
can pay cash, and to sell it by the car
load.
And yet it appears that the half mil
lion, reserved for the farmers, went OFT
like hot cakes; and the farmers are
now clamoring around the state prison,
forced to go of and pay Is cents a
pound for that which they ought to
have obtained at cents pound
Why was the great bulk of the twine
product sold or to merchants and spec
ulators long before the harvest began !:
We do not want to do injustice to any
one, but it looks like trickery and foul
play in the interest of the Trust.
If the state is to manufacture Irvine
for the benefit of the Trust. the sooner
the business is stopped the better
The farmers will now perceive the
wisdom Of our advice for years past
not to give up the Alliance. The Peo-
pies Party is no substitute for it. We
need farmers organization, made up
| of nothing but farmers, to defend the
rights Of farmers.
What is to be done?
Grin and bear it now; and pay your
| little Is cents pound like men. You
can't help 1t. 1t would have paid your
Alliance dues for many years. You
| have saved at the spigot and lost at the
bung-hole.
| What next:
REVIVE YOUR ALLIANCES AT
| ONCE; AND THROUGH THEM INSIST
THAT ALLIANCE FARMERS SHALL,
BE ELECTED TO THE NEXT LEGlS
| STATURE, FROM EVERY AGRICUL.
TURAL COUNTY IN THE STATE.
| What next?
II you have control Of the legislature
next winter, pass laws that NO MORE
| TWINE SHALL BE SOLD BY THE
CAR LOAD. Create an agency in each
county to handle the Irvine, and SELL
1T DIRECTLY TO THE FARMERS. AT
THE ACTUAL COST OF MANUFAC-
| TURE.
| Then provide for selling 1t on 60 days
time; and pass laws giving the state q
first lien upon the crop or the grain O:
the farmer, until 1t Is paid for. Then
the state can sell on time.
Then will you smash the Trust, so ia,
as this state is concerned; and other
states will follow your example.
Then elect L. c. Long governor, land
the rest of the Peoples Party ticket
to execute these laws; and appoint the
right kind of state prison board, made
up of practical farmers, to head off al
tricks and rascality.
There is no use of "crying over spill
milk" The farmers Of Minnesota arr
paying for their neglect of duty; ant
their refusal to use their votes for thei1
own protection. Now go to work anl
see if you cannot prevent another such
robbery next year. I'D.
GOOD NEWS.
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