The Saint Paul globe., 1899-02-26
TWlNE PRICE PADDED
CHARGED THAT PRISON. BOARD
DID NOT FIX 1890 PRICE
Low ENOUGH
+ ~ = - " p - =
BIG RAKE-0FE is POSSIBLE
stock of the Raw Materials He
% fOre--The Hoard Had Held the
- A"''Witnesses and Ofher Parties to
the Suit Pending It's Adjudica-
ton.


There seems little reas On to doubt
that the state prison expense account
next year will show up we'll beside It's
revenue. "a sf 3it 61,ttss-.se &
The reason for the belief thus ex-
pressed is to be found in the recent
designation by the board Of prices at
which 1T shall sell twine during the
present year. The prison people bought
a lot OF sisal and manila some time
before the recent rise in the prices of
the rbres from which the modern
binding twine is made, but 1t does not
necessarily follow that the farmers Of
minnesota are to reap the benefit of
the bargain thus sharply made
IL mas been estimated by men who
are IN position to- be familiar with the
WORKINGS OF the state prison twine
plant, that with it's present stock the
INSTITUTION could continue to turn out
eoou manila and sisal fibre at cost
or W. to cents pound, instead of
IiItihg the price merely because, since
tne prison management laid in it's
STOCK, the twine trust had ''bulled"
the market till 1t gave the prison man.
ayers not only a margin of profit over
us us cost Oh production, but a margin Of
o!sc1uht against the current quotations
Oh the trust The MoorheaG News
prints the following:
10 the Honorable Board of Managers of the
AZ Siin.esota state Prison-Gentlemen: The un-
eeisisheo FARMERS and consumers of binding
omdne ema neIepy protest against the price rules
anu IeSuiaucns made by your honorable
Dody for the sale of binding twine to farm
erS. w A'NA IL
we make this our protest for the reason
;nat, la we consider said rules gross discrim-
inalion against farmers and in favor of deal
eGts, 81 ihasmuch as 1t compels farmers to order
S aneil twlne at time when they are hardly
zone zone seeding, and cannot possibly know how
much tw1ne they will need. and because il
also compels farmers to Iay out cash for
tw1ne, at least three months before they
nave any use for 1t, as In every locality. like
ouI own mere, where we are all small farm
ers, needing but from 100 to 200 pounds each.
u VIII be impossible to take advantage of the
rules regulating the sale of twine in carload
tots; while dealers are given the privilege
see ana Judge they can have sale for twine
credit '"Ano VI
In regard to the price of twine we wish to
say that as far as we know, there is no rea-
son why the price of twine should be anv
n1gher than last year and that II it shall be
maze the rule and custom for the state pris-
on On ooard, to keep up the price of twine to
the market price, the trust and machine
companies will see to it that such market
price shall come up to its old-tirs4 standard
ana the intent and purpose of the legislature
and the law, establishing the twine Industry
In the state prison will be entirely defeated :
said intent and purpose being as we have al.
ways understood 1t. to furnish work for
the prisoners, to furnish twine to the farmers
at cost and thereby stand between and pro-
tect them from the greed and combinations
OF the twine trust and dealers
Dated at FELTON,, Clay county, Mimi, Feb.
IA. 1899.
Hans P. Larson, O. A. Christensen, Jacob
A. Holte, j. Fredrikson, Adolph Balow, An
drew Hatledal, E. G. Studelin, A. Wilson,
John T Holte, Charles Swanson, Jacob Wam-
ET1r fhn, y, m
Tangen, c. S. Nilsen, Christian Ingebre.sun.
Thomas Kiland, John Oberg. G. T. Lofte, A.
ostrom, Olef Void. A. A: Johnson. o. M.
Stesn, John ~ Knudson. Nils ohlson, N; g.
Rice, John o. Hukee, Gustav o. Lee, Charlie
Danve, Hans johnson, e. Carlson. John
Flore, A. Ekstrom, John seim, Annun Oh
son, J. Q. Lee. Ole Hogstad. Gilbert Kragnes,
II. P. A. Nilsson, Hans Jenson, Martin Void,
S. o. Lee, NJ. Olson, Julius Olson, NJ. Wam-
bach, Pete ]. Asved. A. c. Kragnes, o. B.
ton Olson, F. Huschka, w Wold, A. Marfen-
son, Martin Thompson and C. A. Carlson
Moorhead News.
The Otter Tail county Populists gave
Gov. Lind an unqualified Endorsement
Wednesday,. after electing B. F. Part
ridge, president; Judge E. Frankberg,
secretary; 8. Folkedal, assistant secre-
tary, and H. P. Bjorge treasurer. The
resolutions were:
The Otter Tail County Peoples Party
league at its third annual meeting renews
its loyalty to the principles Of the Peoples s
party national platform adopted at St.
Louis in 1885, and the state platform Of 1898,
on which was elected the governor of the
state, the Hon. John Lind, who in his inaug.
ural speech, recommended each and every one
OF the reforms advocated in the resolutions
adopted at our last annual meeting.
Believing that the principles Of the Peo,
pies party Will ultimately triumph. we call
upon all patriotic citizens to stand unitedly
together in support of the same and of the
following resolutions:
1. Inasmuch as our present representative
form of government opens the door for class
rule coupled with outrageous abuses Of the
constitutional rights and liberties Of the com,
mon people, we demand the adoption of the
initiative and referendum system of law max
ing, without which "a government Of the
people, by the people and for the people,
eventually will perish from the earth"
2. We are unalterably opposed to the ef-
forts being made in our present Republican
congress to retire the government green.
backs and for imposing on the American peo,
Dle against their eYnraSsad a