Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
lent one. but the largo deficiency was

lent one, but the largo deficiency was
an unpleasant feature to record.
.'ShOrtly after the beginning Of the
present grain year, in October, 1899,
your honorable board raised the price
for weighing cars from l5 cents to 25
cents. thus adding largely to the re-
/ celpts OF the department.. 1t was one
OF the necessities aud though some
fault was found with this, the justice
of it soon became apparent to all. The,
Board of Appeals, created by act of
the last Legislature, added from SIS, 900
to $40, 900 to the expense of the grain
department and this, if no other reason
existed, would have justified the ad-
vance. Then. too, there is vast diff.
ference between the Car Of ten years
ago, or even five years and that of
today. The capacity Of the former
would not average but little over 900
bushels, while the latter. built in these
times, will average from 200 to 800
bushels more. The thousand bushel
Car of the present time is becoming
quite common. With these changed
conditions the weighing of q car of
wheat now, in reality, is almost as "a
sonable as it ever has been.
1.-The year just closed, it is gratifying
TO state, sees the department self.sus.
tanning. The deficiency of almost
$23 900 in 1899 has been turned to a
surplus, small though it be, of 1929. ~
in 1900.
"Going back to the birth of the de-
partment in 1885, but one year has ex.
celled this in the number of cars
weighed. That.w the big crop year
Of 1897 I desire to say, too. that while
the number of cars weighed during the
past year was IL, 1877 more than during
| the previous year, still the expense
account of the department. was less by
$4,269. 45. To be more explicit, the
year ending Aug. ii, 1899, showed an
expense to the department of $57, 338. SO,
while the year which closed Aug. 81,
1900, showed an expense Of $50, ,069. %. :"
Deliberate falsehood and misrepre-
sentation is very treacherous ground
for making great political campaign
on. Every voter instinctively feels
that no party would choose such
ground if it had any other. A cam
paign Of falsehood is an admission Of
incompetence. A party won't depend
upon falsehood if it has anything else
to depend on.
1t is almost saddening to what ex-
treme the Republican campaign man.
ayers are forced, in order to manufac-
ture campaign thunder out CT whole
cloth, and then submit to the mortifi-
cation of seeing their flimsy frabric
ripped, raveled, and torn into shreds
before it even comes to the notice o. the
public
Among their latest fabrications is a
story how a certain grocer, P. O'Grady,
was unjustly arrested at the instance
of Major Bowler, head of the dairy and
food department., and had to be re-
leased because the injustice Of the ar
rest was glaringly shown up, etc., etc.,
etc.
In answer to this came the testimony
from Assistant County Attorney Zoil-
man, declaring that the case against P.
O'Grady was brought by one G. J..
Lyon, not in any manner connec5, d
with the state dairy and food depart
ment. and who did not have any in
structions from that department., aud
that the state dairy and food depart.
ment had nothing whatever to do with
it, except SO far as the prosecuting at
torney called in the services Of the state
chemist as witness. -''
If Tams Bixby wants the voters to
make comparison between the work
of the present and past administration
of the dairy and food department let
him submit to them the following Of
fetal figures:
Report of Convictions, Dairy and Food.
| tn Man Z