Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-10-18

dition of the department. BY the state
isauditor and this Democratic house OF
cards fell fiat The question Of grain
1 inspe ction has become a milestone
4 around their necks, and will drag them
Il deep S
Beneath the Waters OF oblivion.
! It has been shown by. irrefutable fig
ures that the Democratic administra
j ton of the grain inspection department
cost $16.274.47 more for the year 1900
than for the year 1898, when the de-;
partment was under Republican adj
ministration, and that this increase in
Iexpenditure was due to large in
crease in the number Of employees. not
1 Withstanding there were fewer cars Of
wheat inspected in 1900 than there were.
in 1898 by not less than u 600, or their
equivalent in bushels. Y : .{sl
AS to the value Of the grain tnspec-
| ton, 1t has never during the fifteen
years Of its existence been done SO
irregularly or unsatisfactory. This is
plainly seen by the Minneapolis mar
ket reports wherein it is shown that
wheat given high grade by the state
I inspectors on being sold on sample fire.
&quently fails to command the price
paid for wheat which has been given a
I lower grade. This is an every Cay oc-
i currence, not merely occasional, and in
dicates most clearly that the inspec-
I ton is at fault. I am Informed also,
that there have been many mole Iein-s
lsspections and the grade given by.
the inspectors has been overturned
oftener during the past year than ever
occurred in any former year; but, the
actual figures on this matter is one of
i the buried secrets Of the present adj
ADMINISTRATION, which will not be dis.
closed untilaafter election, when, and
not before in all probability, the annual
report Of the department will beXgiven
! to the public. S
Increased Cost of Inspection.
1t also appears to have been the
policy of the present administration to
increase the cost of inspection to the
i farmers and small shippers in greater
proportion than it has been increased
to the elevator man and large shippers.
/ For instance, in the beginning of the
1900 year the fee for inspection on ar
rival at terminal points, that is, lin"
inspection, was raised from Is cents to
20 cents, and subsequently to Is cents
per car load, but no corresponding in
crease was made in the fee for outgoing
inspection. The fee for inspection .ton
1 arrival comes out of the price the
farmer is paid for his wheat. The fee
for outgoing inspection is paid by the
terminal elevator men and large ship
j pers. Recently the fee for outgoing in
spection has been raised, but not in
proportion to the increase Of the sin"
4 inspection fee. To-day we find that the
fee for inspection ton arrival is c5
cents per car and the fee for outgoing
inspection is 40 cents per 1000 bushels.
That is to say, the inspection fee which
comes out Of the farmer has been I'M
4 creased 66as per cent during the past
4 year, while the fee that is paid by the
terminal warehouse men has only been
increased 1915 per cent.
With the smaller crop this year any
one Would imagine that the inspection
force could have been decreased and
not increased, as it has been. There
i has been less work, and fewer inspec-
i tors were needed: a smaller force
4 would have entailed smaller increase
4 in the inspection fee, and such increase
il as was absolutely necessary might have
4 been apportioned fairly upon the grain
4 growers onsthe one hand and the eleva-
4 tor men and shippers on the other. A
4 reduction in the force would have
4 shown sound business management,
4 and a fairly equalized increase Of fees
would have shown sense of justice
4 and fairness. lig; &Ss
4 5S No Reason to BE Proud. arEl'
=
grading Of grain, the addition to the
inspection force of large number of
superfluous and Inexperienced politi-
cal hangers-on. the consequent large
A increase in the expenditure of the de-
& partrlent and the unjust and discrim-
4 mating increase Of the inspection fee,
our Democratic opponents have small
reason to be proud of their record in
the matter Of grain Inspection. #,
If elected, Il promise to use all the
4 powers conferred on my Office to cor
4 rect any and all Irregularities to make
the service Of the most efficient char
Eacter and to keep the expense. account
down to the. lowest possible amount
consistent with good service.
The record made by the Democratic
administration in It's management of
the state prison 4. AZ IA Is sf.
4 binding Twinc Plant
4 is not one which rebounds to their
credit, nor IS it monument to their
business sagacity or intelligence. Since
4 the resignation Of Warden Wolfer this
Irvine plant has been conducted ap-
parent1y on purely political principles,
and the result has been that during the
j past year the farmers who had con-
8tracted to buy their binding Irvine from
the prison plant have been compelled
to pay from 2 to 3 cents more per
pound for it than they could have
+ bought the same quality Of tWine for
from outside jobbers. In former years
4 the farmers were allowed to cancel all
or part OF their orders in ease of crop
& failure, but during the past year of
democratic control, despite the fact Of
j a general partial failure Of the crops
1.-The farmers were not allowed to cancel
4 their orders, but were held mercilessly
4 to their contracts. Why was this arbi-
A trary action taken by the prison man
agenent? 1t was taken because the
Il MANAGERS Of the prison Irvine plant
Il found themselves In a hole financially
and knew that unless they insisted on