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


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srtalnly. I1s asksd inc how much
Il VS., and Z ~ Ss1l csnta a pound.
Well, hs \ I'D ~ though That waS
rather high, hut III looked reasonably
good. and he though he would ts,y
some g anyhow. He tcok TIA twins
home. He had three eighties Sirl one
Held and had Just mn AZ one round.
which you'd mail two miles and y
hall. the whole round Of three eighties.
The man 10 farmiris over Soos n acres Ct
land. He put one ball Of the manila
Sstwine I'M one req der. hey wers ot stx-
loot cuts ana one of each of the other
machines hsdS the old etillwaters twine,
He5 started 70 90 around this two miles
ana q dali on sl the same piece ana the
machine that yVas$ AZ me heaa oi sthe
procession was the one that had the
manila twlne, 70, e there Wa, Anythin9
in favor Of that. II made the LONGER
turn around He adA three trips
around that piece with the 4; manila
twine. and hGs did not set around twice
with the sisal twine. Els boy had
been 70 school ana he figured 4 out
and saw about how IL compared I'm
price. The sisai cost him here. with the
freight added 10h cents mine cost
him ~ cents q pound, and he found By
figuring Il out that my Irvine waIa
cheaper at u cents pound than the
Saltwater twine was at 10y. 30. you
see that he paid 81 cents a pound lesa
for my twine when you come to con-
slider the amount Of work II would do
ana was also maj king e fair profit.
was not selling It at cost. So you zee
that this Irvine. instead OF being
cheaper than It had been before. upon
Investigation ID found to be higher. and
the farmers of Minnesota are COM
PEELED to pay the state 9 higher price
for the Irvine than they could pur-
chase 1t at all over this, country from
their local dealers, to say nothing about
wholesale prices. .55i Ia, Ss5 S vt
Future Danger to the Plant.
/ But that is not the serious feature Of
this controversy IN regard to our Still-
water Irvine plant, We can stand 9
loss, 1t 10 quite small to each farmer,
but the serious thing about It IL this:
How many OF the farmers who ordered
that kind Of Irvine that year will send
In their cash orders this year or next
year? How many, do you suppose. will
do that with the knowledge before
them that they have not been getting
anything but sisal Irvine, manufactured
by q lot Of men who don't know the
difference between good and bad
twine? Do you suppose they are going
to send their, money there next year.
and in the month Of January, February
and March, to pay for that twine or
the product Of that Irvine plant? SO
the consequence is that we will meet
with the same conditions that any
other manufacturer does when he can
not dispose Of his property, and when
the next legislature meets It will meet
under a condition altogether different
from that which confronted It when
Gov. Lind took hold Of that plant.
There was q surplus at that time Of
some $500, 900, and to-day. according to
State Auditor Dunn, the fund is over
drawn over SO, 900. II Now, what will
be the overdraft year from now, pro-
vided we do not dispose Of the Irvine?
And in order to dispose OF It we must
sell it at least as cheap an other COM
merctal twines are sold or else the
farmers will not patrontze us. Then
you will see the enemies OF the Irvine
plant from III over, the country, and
there are, % ! say, q good many Of
them, applying for the wiping out Of
the whole institution. and they will
have all these facts and figures before
them to back them up and show that
the state is running behind. Up to the
present time we can say that 1t Is the
only plant OF its kind in the state that
was making q dollar and that was the
situation when Lind rot, hold Of it; but
the situation to-day IS that it has run
way behind. 1 I j S = ,;.,,5 81
.$$ Now, then, what he promised was a
reform, He promised this Irvine ut
cost. intimatine all the time and con
veying to your minds that you were
not getting it at fair and reasonable
rates. The price charged at the time
that he was making these charges was
6h cents for sisal, 81 Tor the half-and-
half, and Z cents for pure manila, when
every commercial Irvine dealer at that
time was selling it at from II to IL and
up to is cents pound. IA y. n; =, >,
!. Now, the farmers were not satisfied.
"A great many of them thought that
they were being wroneed and robbed
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