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

4 rem fks this svenins tosa fsws 81 them;
Ind Will sxa mine and see wfieth lei Sor
not those edgesS and proInises have hssn
/ fulnlle a the people sxpscted thSy
Ind attacke "A the Republi al
ministrat lion along = xood many lines.
One hat he laid special stress mon 49,
/ the grain inspe ction department: another
was the Irvine depart tnent; another Eais
the g. dminis lion of the school funds
md ne public lands. and another was the
transpo N ton dues ton. Upon these Sslee
people actually believed that he would "a
complish something that had never been
done before by any Sof the Republican,
lsgoyernors OF rs this d state. Let ,is N see
whether Sor not he \ has. fulfilled those
promises. n IS ~
The Twlns Plant l1isnn q - ~ cent.
want to take Up FIRST tho twine plant.
The charges that were made against the
Rspublican party in *Llnd,s campaign il
this county. and all over this state. were
that the wine plant had become part 81
the twine trust; that the mana rers Of
tho tyine trust had diverted ii from its
original Intention. and that the armers
were unable to get twir,esa IL cost from
that plant: low, permit me It's give YOU
little history Of the origin Of the twine
plant and how It came to be established
Ct Saltwater: II has grown from = very
small thing up to g very large institution.
~ is the only manufa cturing establish
ment we have Of Its kind IN the state. Ii
1889 the Republican PARTY was ii power.
The contract system at sstillwate for our our
prisoners had been enforced TOR; Great
many years. There had been q great deaI
ct dissatisfaction amongst the laborinF
people against that system, because they
said the prison labor came Ii, cont TACT with
the free labor Of the state. The ieRisla-
5fure, Of 1887 abolished the system, but
gave us no other system In its place.
When the legislature Of 1885 met We
We're confronted with the situation that
the prisoners ct Saltwater had practi-
cally nothing to do. In order to relieve
that situation, we cast about to And
something for those prisoners to do. There
was no Irvine plant In this state, nor any
westsp Chicago at that time Irvine was
largely used In our state. There 4 were
millions y OF pounds being sold every y ear,
We made application III 1880 Tor 4, that
plant. and inside of eighteen months 3be.
sgal1S4 to- nlanufa ctureS &twtne on ~ ANAL
plan. It has crown from year to year
until now sik has become !. liant. that ii
capable OF manufaotu turing nine million
pounds per year. or more than half OF all
the tWine that - used In this state. Near
IA one-half Or over one-halt million dol.
lars IS involved every year in the running
Of this plant AS you all know, the prison:
Irvine, for 9 number Of years, has been
sought after BY the farmers Of this state
because II 4 has been cheaper than the
other commercial Irvine throughout the
country. and the great dissatisfaction that
was created two years ago-ands Governor
Lind and other Democrats stump speak,
ers took advantage Of that situation
was not because the twdne was too high,
but because everybody couldn't get It.
/ There was only 50 much twdne. and by
the way, at that time. we only nanufac.S
tured about four million pounds Of Irvine
#a year. The Irvine plant has been IN
creased twice since then. Two years ago
we increasedit one-third. from six million
pounds to nine million pounds, and to-day
It IL capable Of manufacturing nine mill
ion pounds tits true that the plant, UNI
able to- do that, but that Is the capacity
..of the plant. Now, the dissatisfac
that was created four years ago with that
plant was, az ! say, not that the plant
was not run well and doing well, but be.
cause there was not enough twine to 90
around, and the few who sent In their Or
sders early were regarded by their neigh
Ebors as favorites and q great deal OF
tclamor went up Throughout the state,
that there must be something wrong with;
that Institution. Governor Lind promised
the people, if he was elected governor sof;
this state. that he would see to II that the
Irvine 30 manufactured should be given
TO the farmers at cost. Let us now. see
what has taken place. Wolfer had been
III charge u the Irvine plant for nearlysten
years. He was n the most eficient man
that I have ever seen In that or any other
state institution. and I am tory 70 say
that he Ii mot there today. The reason
why he ID not there to-day, Il ID perhaps
/. Unnecessary to inquire into. It - not,
however, cre ditable To- tho present admin
+ lstra4ion. When he was discharged Of re.
signed 3 little over q year ago, Governor
Lind appointed = new man III his place.
sdr. Reeves from Minneapolis now has
!, char q 81 that institutio Ion. They COM
4 irln,enced $to tnanufac ure tWines Il They sent
their agents down through the Southern
states and % Central America to make
large purchases of raw material But they
purchased nothing but sisal and manu-.
factured the twine from that material
alone. Every pound that has been bought
3 bys this administrati ton of Governor IAnd's
\ hrs been nothing but siSal. They bought
iii their Irvine or nearly all the raw fma-i
! terial ;4at q time when material was very
high. & wasn't 70 De perfectly air, % that:
no statement Of mine can be construed
III making out good case for our side
when In reality. the other side should
have some of the credit They sent In
experienced men into the market % buy
this twines and they bought more at the
time than any prudent business man
would havs done Il ne had been handling
his own capital They bought large
j amount more than they were able 70 use
u those high prdces, ana to-day they have
nearly u million and q half pounds OF raw
n,aterial and manufactured Irvine that
was NOT disposed OF during tho season.
Now, the price OF this nber has gone
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