New Ulm review., 1900-10-31
If They Want Honest Taxation and Other Re
forms They Must REFLECT Lind and
officers to Sustain Him.
TO Fail to Do So Would Set Back State Reforms
for Many Years---Let the People
Answer Well---It Is Now
Up to Them.

I'm connection with the inventory for
Aug I, 1000. it is explained that the
valuation of the twine raw material on
hand at that date is lower than the cur-
rent market value at that time, but it
was taken as basis of estimating the
profits Of the institution, as it was
what in the best Judgment of the board
was fair price, fibre prices for some
time having been raised by temporary
causes. chiefly the war in the Philip
p:nes.'
The inventory on hand Aug. I, 1899,
plus the expenses of the entire year up
to Aug. 1, 1000, amounted to $685.
o3o.o7. The inventory of stock on hand
Aug. 1, 1000, plus the amount of sales
made during the year equals $685.
o5o.58, leaving a net profit of $I6.-
oII.5I for the year.
THE TWINE TRUST AND THE
COST OF FIBER.
Last spring the Fibre Trust and the
Twine Trust between them had 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 $3I4,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 a 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 ther7
are no trusts, and that they should lie
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
twine 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 twine 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 pound, to which was to be add
ed freight, cost of twine, oil Increased
IN price 200 per cent from the previous
year), the allowance of so cents 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 twine made by the trust
was from ~ 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 twine of the
same grade as that made by the prison
twine plant was sold at a lower price
than that fixed by the Prison Board.
THE TWINE TRUST, ITS PUR-
POSE AND ITS HENCHMEN.
The prison twine plant saves to the.
farmers OF Minnesota thousands of dol
lars every year. AS long as the prison
plant sells twine to farmers at 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 tor having it shut down, the farm
ers would have to buy all their twine 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 twine plant:
back again into the hands of its Re-
publican friends, it would soon manage
to have it run in such a 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.
twine plant in Kansas.
The farmer will find that nearly every
Republican politician and dealer in
twine, is bowling about the way the
twine plant at the prison has been mis-
managed. By selling directly to the
farmers the prison twine plant has IN
Cured the i'll will Of the dealers, and II
is their object to destroy this -competi-
ton so that they can help the twine
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 twiine trust has contributed
to assist Repub orators and news
papers to destroy the prison tWine
plant.