Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-10-19

ls&SUWN8 skOE yu0 stuAIs L0UEh04 nv 49, VII
this irvine. Il The consequence MI that we
sold within a million and 30 haif ponnds
Iot what M had bought because the farm.
Iserss believed that thsy were going III set
the same kind io1 stWins that they had BEEN
getting. but ~ two ~ three cents less
than the cost sof the commercial tM!nr.
They I'D not know but what they we're
going "a gst lust q rood Irvine - they
had Always. GOT. Hut the fact ~ The bnsl-
mess waa that. whsn they casns - OK
anime the fwins, they found they had rot
something that vas not q good ~ they
had been III tho haDlt of 4etting. an
not going. to saySi t was worthless. bscause
lit vas not. You could use ~ but it Was
1.-The ~ ~ I'M
IPoorest T.vy.ins Evsr ldads Al still-
n vvotee s&j
since the plant was established and
when the farmers saw what kind ofstwine
they began To gett, (. the orders csased 70
come In ana hence the n1Anag cement has
Ibeen unable 70 dispose of III Is itss tN 4
this year. $s<s 5s
But that It not all. The farmers
found. when they came To 'get this
Irvine and compare It with other com
imercial Irvine, that they were not ret
Ting 1T as cheap as they could get It
from their local dealers. Then $the1S
came TO compare the quality lot the
Irvine with that they were getting
from the penitentiary with tho Gus .ity
! o. the twine that they were getting
from the commercial dealer1, they
found that It was more expensive.
Hence there was 9 great deal. of3 lissat-
4 =
heard Of q second order being sent by
the same farmers to saltwater Tor
Irvine. 1t It was not the Same kind Of
Irvine that they had been able to- get
before under the old admlnistra ton.
VI Now, we have at the present time q
dead loss to the state Of from $35 600 to
$40, 600, but what Jill b. the corse-
quences next year Ri What is the seri-
GUS question IN regard to this twii,e
plant Why, we must dispose Of the
manufactured Irvine every year Or It
will result il 4, .3;,.. N Il sSg
5Sss..5s , AsD sad Loss to the State. n
And i want to say right here that the
Irvine plant has got q great q many
enemies In this state. Not only amongst
the Irvine manu- cturers of the United
States. but the wholesale dealers I'm
Irvine In this state, .-and they are q
powerful factor. Then there IL another
class Of people that do not look ur,on
the success of this Irvine plant with
any degree 3sof Kindness, and that 10
the local dealerssin this article. Let IL
be known III this state that the twine
plant III not able to carry Its own
weight and you viii hear q howl Ito
up from all over the state, and from
the laboring men Of the city; for the
latter class Of people do not look with
any degree 81 Kindness on this Giant
because they say It comes In cofmpeti-
ton with their affairs, and the only
reason why we have been able 70 make
appropriations and carry this plan on.
successfully Ii because we could show
to an absolute certainty the falsity Of
the arguments made again1t It and
ray, 4 .See what q grand success we
have made out Of It. II was not only
manufacturing the Irvine at prices from;
5 to cents below other commercial
Irvine, but II was actually better than
that and making q large clear profit to
the state every year. .$s. Ss.*3.s55$ Z .
81 Better ana Cheaper Tvxine and :
}5G S& PROFIT to the State. Se; K
Now, Warden Wolfer, when he was
before the investigating scomniitte two
years ago. which was appointed by
the legislature to Investigate the
charges that Gov. Lind and others
made, testified under oath that the
Irvine plant had made In 1897 d clear
profit above allgexpenses Of over $48 900.
] want to say, also, that the prison
labor IS charged up to the Irvine at so
cents q day. The farmer who gets the
Irvine pays for that, and che wear and
tear Of the machinery IL taken out and
considered in making these figures:
but when you take. all this out, we had
made 4 clear prof In 1897 Of over
s4S ST .SZ
S, II 1898 We manufactured about
5000, 900 pounds Of Irvine, paid n the
prison institution 80 cents q day for
the days employed Il r cling that
Irvine, and paid Tor the wear and tear
Of the machinery and cleared ant. put
into the state treasury over So, 900 In
clean. cold cash. So, ~ two years
cannot trace the whole history. because
It would be too lens tny In two years
We HAD made Irvine In the State Of Min
nesota and sold It to the farmers at
from 8 70 4land even s cents 3 pound
less than the commercial twine was
sold for and cleared for the state more
than $3.50, 900, and IN the time since the
plant was organized and esta blisned
we have made over 500, 900 IN cold cash
that was not In the treasury On the
first day Of August one year ago. ss.5
Poor Quality, HiRh Price ana Loss
II to the Stato. /. n Il
Now, what 10 the condition at this
time under the Democratic and new adj.
sministration that told thu farmers that
IL Gov. Lind was elected they should
have their twine for cost, intimating
that they were not getting itsas cheaply
then as they ought To have got sc ?.
What has been the consequence this
year? The farmers who bought their,
Irvine, when you come to consider the
quality, were paying from to- 2 cents
"a pound more than the retail dealers OF
this country were selling the Irvine for;
Now. nderstand the point I make. One;
or my customers had N ordered 500
pounds Of saltwater twfne this year.
and. he had been using II TOR some
time. He was very much dissatisfied
with the quality, but vet he was using
It. The shortnes4 Of the twins, the
number OF pounds II took 10 the acre
.,., = 80 en- AvSsnol ~ y !. = = = I.