Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-11-02
THE TWINE TRUST AND THE
COST OF FIBER.

lW1ne Trust between them mad corner
ed the market of fibre and raised the
price several cents per pound: In this
connection the report says: The raw
material for the year 1900 cost $55o,ooo,
as against $314,ooo for the year 1899,
an excess of $245,ooo." And now the
opposition would blame the admins
tration for being obliged to pay $245,-
900 more for the raw material this year
than last and the previous, when the
notorious fact of it is that Republi-
can trust had cornered the market of
fibre and had raised the price to suit
itself, and in this way robbed the farm
ers of the state of several hundred thou-
sand dollars, and now the trusts have
sent their Republican lackies abroad in
to the land to tell the people that therI
are no trusts, and that they should He
given a chance to run the country so
as not to interfere with the interests of
the trusts.
THE PRICE OF TWINE.
The law requires that the price of
Irvine for the entire season shall be
fixed by the 1st of March and shall not
be changed at any time during the sea-
son. In this connection the report
says: ''The price of Irvine had been
fixed on Feb. 9Th, 1900, at 10 cents per
pound for sisal, at which time the price
of raw material in New York was 9
cents a pound, to which was to be add
ed freight, cost of Irvine, oil Increased
in price 200 per cent from the previous
year,, the allowance of 50 cents a day
for convict labor, and all expenses of
the manufacturer" Almost the entire
output of the plant for the season was
sold to farmers during March on or
ders for future delivery at 10 cents per
pound, while at the same time the
price OF the Irvine made by the trust
was from 1H to 2H cents per pound
higher. During harvest time the
trust did indeed cut prices and throw
some inferior grades on the market at
great reduction, yet no Irvine of the
same grade as that made by the prison
Irvine plant was sold at a lower price
than that fixed by the Prison Board.
THE TWINE TRUST, ITS PUR-
l. POSE AND ITS HENCHMEN.
The prison Irvine plant saves to the
farmers of Minnesota thousands of dol
lars every year. AS long as the prison
plant sells Irvine to farmers at a rea-
sonable price the trust will have to sell
its product at the same price. If the
trust could discredit the prison plant in
the eyes of the people and get a pre-
text for having it shut down, the farm
ers would have to buy all their Irvine of
the trust and pay whatever the trust
saw fit to ask. In pursuing this object
the trust can we'll afford to hire orators
and buy up newspapers. If the trust
could only get the prison Irvine plant
back again into the hands of it's Re-
publican friends, it would soon manage
to have it run in such way as not to
interfere with the interests of the trust
or even have it shut down completely,
as the Republicans did with the prison
Irvine plant in Kansas.
The farmer will find that nearly every
Republican politician and dealer in
Irvine, is bowling about the way the
Irvine plant at the prison has been mis-
managed. BY selling directly to the
| farmers the prison Irvine plant has in
Cured the i'll will of the dealers, and it
is their object to destroy this COMPETE
| ton so that they can help the Irvine
| trust to rob the farmers as it was done
in former years. -
There is, however, one thing that the
farmers of this state would like to know
they would be very much interested
to hear .Tams Bixby tell how much
money the Irvine trust has contributed
! to assist Republican orators and news
papers to destroy the prison twins
:! plant 5