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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

some neighbor should get small advant-
age that would enable him to get ahead of
his ne ghbors. We ask this question: II
we farmers have to pay for handling the
grain, and for the elevators and we know
that we are being plundered, why do we not
own the elevators and hire and boss those
who handle our wheat?
Because we are jealous Of each other.
What we should do and must do, Is to build
elevators at the terminal points, Duluth
and Minneapolis. We need not put much
money into the enterprise. All we have to
do is to organize, elect our officers and then
instruct them to borrow the money neces-
sary to build the elevators and then build
them.
When the elevators are ready for bust
ness we ship our grain there and let the
management charge one cent bushel COM
mission. That is more than 1t costs to
handle the grain, if handled in large guam
titles. and therefor every shipper shall re-
receive credit on the books for the commits
sion deducted and when the years bust
ness is over the actual cost of handling
each bushel of grain may be deducted from
that cent per bushel and elevator stock for
the balance may be issued to the owner.
Thus every shipper becomes a stakeholder.
the elevator is soon paid for and after that
1t will cost very little to handle the grain.
And the best part of it will be that the
grain growers themselves will have control
of their own wheat until it is sold to the
millers, and they can by those means stop
all gambling in their product
If we own our terminal elevators can
ship from the numerous farm elevators all
over the state; and where there are no such
elevators we can load on the track. From
the terminal elevators we can sell for cx-
port when prices suit
Shall we protect ourselves or shall we
continue to be fleeced?
If an organization is perfected it might
be possible to rent or buy an elevator, or If
the work were pushed along one could be
built in time for this years crop.
What is needed is a thorough discus
sion, by the farmers, of the whole sub
ject of organizing such a society. What
is necessary, therefore, is the benefit of
cooperation with perfect safety for The
Individual THE FARMER MUST A.OLD
HIS WHEAT UNTIL 1T IS PAID FOR,
although he may agree to ship it to tho
same commission man, after thorough
inquiry has demonstrated the perfect re-
liability and solvency Of that person.
The machinery will not be finally per-
fected until the great June convention of
grain growers is held, in Minneapolis or
ST. Paul. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

ment. passed wet sponge over every
act Of congress that did not meet with
his approval, and the people submitted.
OF course they did. They always do.
Third, Then every state court fol-
lowed suit and the laws of people we're
simply what three or more lawyers
thought ought to be passed. The rest
was thrown into the waste basket.
Fourth, And now comes an attorney
general and declares the action of a
governor and a whole legislature illegal
and of no account.
What we need now is an Office boy. in
our attorney generals Office, to sweep
the whole legislature out of the capitol
with broom, a
The man with "a law book is more
dangerous to the liberties of this coun-
try than 1.-The man on horseback" Cae-
sar has given place to pettifogger.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01
THE TsSINE PLANT.

We are informed by Warden Wolfer,
of the state prison at Saltwater, that the
profit made upon Irvine manufactured in
the prison amounts to 1882 68 in the
last two years.
This profit is made off the farmers ;
the farmers pay the bulk of the taxes
and buy the Irvine when made, and in
the meantime they contribute this large
sum to the support of the state pris( =
and the relief of other citizens from
taxes
This is all wrong. The twine should be
furnished to the farmers at actual cost.
They should not be 'bled". for the bene-
fit of others. If the Irvine was furnished
to the grain growers at its actual cost
it would bring the price down to 4 or
cents pound. But this will not be done
until the farmers take hold of the mat
ter and insist upon their rights.
The output per year Of Irvine is 5000
600 pounds; this is about one-t1iird OF
the twine needed in the state. To man
ufacture this Irvine 40 convicts are en-
ployed out of about 500. The number
of convicts making Irvine should be tfeb-
led, and every pound of Irvine used in
the state should be made in the state
We would thus get clear of the Irvine
trust forever.
There should be an agent appointed
in every county with a sub-agent in
every township, to sell the Irvine at cost
and sell it as the dealers do on one, two
or three months time Even well-to-do
farmers are not always ready with tins
money at harvest time, and hence are
driven to buy from merchants. The
present legislature should pass a law
giving the state the first claim for Irvine
sold, and making it paramount to taxes
mortgages and everything else. In this
way every farmer could obtain Irvine en-
time and the state not run any risk as
to the collection of the money due
The governor should also be author
lied to appoint a commission of clear
headed and able men to inquire wheth-
er the Irvine used by the farmers could
not be manufactured from material
raised in this state instead of sending
half round the world to Manila and
other places. We want to keep as much
OF the money made in the state as DOS
slble. The state prison furnished us at
one time with hemp twine. Why was
this discarded for the Philippine prod
uct? IN
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01
IDLE MONEY.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The Financier
says The banks of New York gained
s''i'ecO IN cash last week. ma My in the
form of specie. The heavy Increase in poI6
was ole 10 treasury disbursements to re-
celpts from Europe and San Francisco and
s1nalier transfers rom other points The
casn expansion, owing to the relatively
small loan increase greatly swelled the sur
plus reserve, and the gain in this item f.
the week was no less than Sc $50 GOO bring
ing the total excess to a noint we'll o.
$so0oo,0O, the highest figure in fact. record :
ed since August last
Much interest has been excited bv tho
slowness with which loans are advancing.
In the lace OF stock market and industrial
conditions never before paralleled in activ
1ty One theory that finds ready acceptance
is tnat the present speculative craze finds
its course in investment buying, and that
securities are being paid for and taken out
of the market instead of being used az
collateral. There is some room for this
contention, but the operations of the banks
Tor week past do not reflect it. While
the gross loan expansion was but So 500 600
detailed account shows that a gain was
made In spite Of the loss of $,0OOOOO in
loans by one very large inst tuition, which is
heavily interested in sterling investments
and treasury disbursements. Whether this
loss represents the maturity of outstanding
foreign credits or opera tons with the treas
ury is not known but it is true that to
meet the decrease and report the gain
noted the other clearing house banks must
have increased their loans over 5000 900.
The Nicollet bank, of this city, an
nounced, the other day, that it was
about to reduce its capital stock one
half, because it could not find borrow
ers for it's money.
Does this mean that the people of
means they are not prosperous enough
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

to be able to furnish security to the
banks for loans.
With FIFTY PAGES MORE or DE-
LINQUENT TAX NOTICES LAST
YEAR IN THIS COUNTY; with whole
strings of business men rushing to the
bankrupt court; with real estate fallen
to one-third of former prices, it is evil
dent that there is a demand for money
that would empty all the banks in the
Twin Cities, if the banks would but ac-
cept their securities. But there's the
rub.
There is little value in anything, and
the gold standard is getting in its
work; and the bottom is out; and no
man can tell into what pit values may
yet fall. And the bankers sustain this
policy and will yet be swallowed up N
it's remorseless nav. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01
AN IMPORTANT REFORM.
Railroad Commissioners to BE Here
after Elective by the People,

after Elective by the People.
House bill No. 10, by Mr.. Torson, which
makes radical changes in the system of Sc
lectlng members Of the railroad and ware
house commission, was today passed with
practically no debate, the matter having
been thoroughly threshed over In committee
of the whole. The bill as passed provides
that members Of the commission shall be
elected by the people, to hold Office four
years, and that the election shall displace
not more than two members at the same
time. The law, as amended provides that
only those whose terms expire within the
next two years shall be replaced and then
hold office only until the system becomes
operative.
dozen members explained thir votes.
Representative Hagstrom, of Minneapolis,
the youngest statesman in the house, made
his maiden speech and explained that while
he was personally opposed to the bill he
would vote for it out of Difference to the
wishes Of the farmers Of the state.-St. Paul
Globe.
The vote stood-yeas, 90; nays Il. The
nays were: Dwinnell, Elwel Hennessy,
Hill. Holm ,Jeub, Lampe, Linds, Moran,
Munger, Nelson. N. o., OConnor, Wethern,
Winston Yale-14.
Absent, Barteau. Cumming. Larson, Plow-
man, finland, Won Lehe, Wallace.
All the rest voted for the bill.
This measure has been advocated by
the alliance for fifteen years, but the
railroad CORPORATIONS have always Been
able to defeat it heretofore. Will they
kill it in the senate this year?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01
Hill and the Farmers.

Jim Hill thinks this government
should pay bounty on American ship
ping on the Pacific coast. He says that
if there were sufficient amount OF
shipping to carry the wheat to Asia that
would naturally go that way, the price
all through the country would be adj
vanced at least cents per bushel, which
would mean great thing for the farm
ers of Minnesota and the whole North
west. Mr.. Hill says over one-third of
the entire population of the world live
in Asia and all could be induced to use
American -four If it could be got to
them. Congress should look into the
matter and see what could be done, as
such a thing would be a great boon to
all farmers.-Waseca Radical
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

Norristown, Pa, was paying $1G0 a
year for arc lights and the owners swore
that they could not be produced for less.
But then capitalists will swear to any
thing. The town put in it's own plant
and 1t produced arc lights, interest on
the entire plant included, for s35 year
The plant will be paid for in just four
years by the saving on street lighting
alone. When you hear franchise hold
er expatiating on the extravaganza Ct
public management and the cheaper phi
vate service, just wink the other eye.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

as we'll might a flute become foghor1.
She is full of merry conceits, yet new
er boisterous. She is trimming over
with joy and mirth, but her laughter
never springs from source that works
harm or discomfort to anyone. She is
sensitive to the sorrows of others, eager
to redress wrong, quick to champion
the weak and defend the cruelty op
pressed. Children love her. women trust
her. Her humanity keeps her near to
earth, while her purity draws her ever
more toward heaven. There are few
types of her kind left on the sordid old
earth, and God be thanked for it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01
THE GRAIN GROWERS ASSOCIATIO

THE GRAIN GROWERS ASSOCIATION.
The farmers all over the state are
discussing the new society and the best
way to organize
One of the best articles on the sub
ject is from the pen of cx-Congressman
Hon. Haldor E. Boen, editor of 1.-THE
Fergus Globe" We quote it in full:
To produce an article is one thing; to
sell it is quite another.
Most farmers know how to raise wheat :
comparatively few of them know how to
sell it to the best advantage. The writer
hereof knows how to raise wheat, but he
knows mighty little of how to sell it at a
profit. Still he ventures to write an ar
tlcle on the subject. Judging from the
great fortunes ANA sed by many persons
In the wheat trade there must be big
profits in the business. If that be SO, then
why don't the grain growers themselves
act as their own middle men and handle
their own grain until it is sold and de-
l1vered to the miller?
Anyone knows that the labor and expense
and risks in the wheat business is greatest
from the time the ground is broken and
the seed sown until the grain is har-
vested. stacked. threshed and housed in the
granery or in the local elevators. And
Judging from the general poverty of the
grain growers as compared with the finan-
cial affluence of the elevator people who
buy and sell wheat, the profit in handling
wheat is vastly greater than in growing
it. Under these conditions we ask: Why
do not the farmers themselves act as their
own rniddlemen2
The farmers can, if they will. buil0 all
the elevators necessary to handle their
grain. There lis. notsa terminal elevator or
grain warehouse that has not been paid
for by the wheat growers And yet they
do not own any, of them.
inexperienced, in business and schooled in
the hardships1 of small means the farmers
become very Suspicious of each other lest
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

all the wants Of the state, and thus
drive the Irvine trust beyond our Dor
ders.
their legislators and give them facts
showing the mismanagement of the
Irvine business If they do not a coat of
whitewash will be applied to it a foot
thick Id.
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The Good Woman.

Earth holds nothing sweeter than a
good woman. She is tender, sympa-
thetic, true, infinitely loving and with
out guile. Her heart is a pavilion where
in one hides in the time of trouble;
her wisdom is a shield and her devo-
ton a strong and staunch deliverance.
She is never loud nor ribald nor coarse:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

We are going to great expense getting
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

At Omaha, in bank cashier embezzle-
ment case, the judge issued an order pro-
hibiting the papers from printing the
case! How is that for a free press?
Afraid the people will get on to The
schemes of robbery. Once there was a
bred Scott decision, but the people later
knocked it into a cooked hat,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-01

It causes Daudruff, Gray and Failing Hair
Dandruff prscedes Badness! Prof. J. II.
Austin, the eminent Scalp Specialist Of
Minneapolis, Minnesota. offers to deliver to
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-07
UNITED STATES RUBBER.

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tisement; but the assertion applies only
to the hotel guests, not to its managers
or employees. Such a conglomeration Of
paradoxes was never seen before under
one roof. Implanted rafters are thread
ed with electric wires; bare, dirty wood
en- floors and elegant furniture of carved
mahogany brought from southern Eu-
rope long ago; tall brass bedsteads,
quaint enough to arouse the sin of cove
tousness in the most religious heart are
canopied with yellow satin and covered
with red calico spreads, the linen sheets
trimmed with coarse cotton lace. The
dining-room is ornamented CD with
plaster statues draped in gorgeous
painted gowns, and the several patios,
with their growing plants, colonies OF
doves and gossiping servants, form in
terestng studies.
The mayor of Cienfuegos called upon
Miss Barton at once and begged for
some Red Cross nurses for his orphan
asylum, but sometimes we find sltua-
ton which must be handled with ex-
IRENE care, or, better yet, left alone.
The orphans occupy two private houses
in the residence portion of the city, the
combined rental being one hundred and
fifty-four dollars per month, American
gold. One would think that the good
citizens might donate building, rent
free, when the United States furnishes
food, medicines, clothing and every
thing else gratis. The institution was
established a few months ago by the eff
forts of Dr. Gabriel A. Lander, who Sc
from
townsmen to the amount Of four hun
dred and fifty dollars per month, mostly
in small amounts. The good doctor was
managing the institution admirably and
getting along all right, when he was in
duced to interest the ladies Of the city
by appointing committee of twenty, as
Matanzas and Sagua la Grande mad
done. The result was the usual thing,
and now the poor, harrassed astonished
and disappointed man is in the hottest of
hot water, The ladies' of the committee
are all rich influential and devoted to
the Catholic church, for which the men
of Cuba seem to care very little The
lady president and her generals made
immediate arrangements for Roman
Catholic Sisters to take charge of the or
pidIdSeS III COiiSSiICiiec VI "iit~'' ii'N
of the male subscribers refused to con-
tribute another cent, and the cash ac-
count fell short. Then the ladies ar
ranged theatrical entertainments, bene-
fits, fairs and other enterprises which
for time furnished a partial and pre-
carious support for their charges. In
the girls asylum there are eighty-four,
under the care of a matron and two
hired assistants, the older girls doing
the homework. Nothing has yet been
done toward educating them and the
place is incredibly dirty.
FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-07
A MARINE 4 UTOMOBILE.
Launched ia Erie Basin-Rolls Upol
Bottom of Sea

New York, July 6-Simon Lakes new
Argonaut, the Submarine automobile
which rolls upon the bottom of the sea,
was launched at Erie Basin to-day. The
new Argonaut is practically the same
boat exhibited last summer, enlarged.
While the inventor claimed for the
smaller craft total submersion of ten
and one-quarter hours, for the new one
he can stay in her under water as long
as fuel and provisions last. Without
surface connection he claims he can re-
main submerged until his supply of
compressed air is exhausted, which Is
for about forty-eight hours. The first
Argonaut was constructed primarily for
a wrecking boat, but the inventor built
the present craft with view of taking
it to Europe and there giving demon
tration before patent officials. Besides
wrecking work the boat is intended to
be used for sponge and pearl fishing and
for blasting and dredging. The inventor
said to-day that the boat would be ready
for her first trial trip in two weeks.
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AGAIN A VICTOR
Continued from First Page.)

| smashed big wave she shipped some
| water forward. Then the talent began
| TO get nervous. Gradually but surely
the Defender was drawing ahead and it
was also apparent that she was point
| ing higher than the Columbia.
Ihe Defenders sails fitted perfectly,
and every inch of canvas drew. The
CLUB topsail of the Columbia, on the
other hand, was loose and cracked in
the wind. The forestaysail did not
draw. The breeze was then blowing.
about ten knots an hour, and while it
continued at that clip the Defender con-
tlnued to gain very slowly. Half an
hour later the wind sank to about five
knots and Immediately the sails of the
Columbia began to draw and she began
to gain. Both shippers pnched until
their headsails trembled as they strove
for the weather gauge. The Columbia
continued to gain on every tack and a
few minutes before the first mark was
reached she crossed the Defenders bow
on the starboard tack. She rounded
the stake exactly one minute ahead of
the Defender AS she eased her sheets
and turned the mark the steam craft
oCIeullleu congratulations.
Both yachts had towed their baby jibs
anC had sent up their big jib topsails
in stops as they approached the stake;
but the Defender, although the last
around, broke out her big jib fully
minute before the Columbia loosed hers.
And then the latter had to be taken
down and reset. On the long reach for
the second mark, with the wind abeam
the Columbia gained So seconds About
half way down, a black squall to the
southwark broke sharply. 1t was now
only a question of how much the Column
bia would beat the Defender and many
of the steamers headed back for the
finish,
When the rainfall ceased the wind
hauled to the west and instead of run
ming home before the wind with spin
makers set the yachts made the last Leg
with the wind on the port bow The
wind gradually died down and when tho
yachts were about a fourth Of a mile
from the finish the fleet had gathered
about the lightship and Commodore
Morgans flagship. AS the Columbia
crossed the finish line she received a
royal salute. For several minutes whis-
ties shrieked and sirens walled AS the
Defender crossed one minute and AZ sec
onds later she also was greeted with
demonstration quite as enthusiastic and
prolonged. The yachts We're Immediate
ly taken in tow and brought up the bay.
bay
Herbert Leeds in behalf of Mr.. Iselin,
said after the race that the friends of
the Columbia We're very we'll satisfied
and hoped to do better when their sails
were made more trim. He said there
was no accident of any kind and that
the yacht would leave for New Rochelle
tomorrow. Butler Duncan said he had
nothing to say for the Defender. Every
thing had been satisfactory. The race
to-day was an informal trial for cup
offered by the New York Yacht club.
The official trials will occur in Septem-
har