Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
a LESSON IN FIGGERING

hoo handel the figgers. I haint got
nothin speshel agenst Jim Hill, in fakt
I think he IL abowt the best OF biz
klass, but I don't like the klsss. The
individewels In the klass will assay
jest abowt like the rest OF hewm annity,
tibet is, thay will ews the power thet IL
given them to the limmit. Tharfoar
I am opposd to making q klass with
sech power. But rather think Jim
overdid the biznes when he tryed to fit
on thet haylo Of glory for not keeping
up the cha, jss of urly days. Ffgger-
Ing on tibet kind Of baysis it IL. eesy
to 6gger owt thet the ralerodes and
other plootokrats mite now hev oand
the hull kountry and still he'd the pee
pei In debt to them. I find tibet Jim's
charles per ton>per mile ar abowt the
averadj, and on tibet baysis find tibet
the ralerodes hev saivd the peepel
sbowt q btllyun dollars by not char
jing e. mulch e. thay ewsd to do.
Then look at farm masheenery.v kin
remember the time when We pade $3.50
for q selfbinder. For abowt twenty
yeers ennyway we hev got them for
s12o, and I hcv fggerd it owt tibet the
manewfak tewrers hev tharby saivd US
abowt ten billyun dollars. / kin like.
wise remember tibet thar waz q time
when we paid Is cents for a. yard of
kallfko. For tho last thurty yeers the
prise hez a~erajd abowt six cents q
yard. The saim hez bin troo with re-.
gard to gingum and other. kotten
kloths, and sesty matt the saving
from tibet SCOTS to at leest ten billyun
dollars. IT. mite go on the 1jsaimz Way
throo the hull list, but this awt to be
enuff to sho what kin be dun by fig-
gering on osld prises. But Amt 60
ing to draw up no petishun to kon.
gress asking it to kreait :. nobility
order for the manewfaktewers for tibet.
Yu no, or awt to ne, tibet the reesen
these rrises hev gon down IL on ak.
kownt Of BITTER masheenery, inkreesd
produkshun of kotten and other ma
terials, and the inkreesed konsump-
sbun kawsd by redoosd prises.
''Now, in regard to ralerodes, VI no
tibet the peepel woodn't stand for the
old charles. I haven't kwlte forgot
the ]ejislayshun, of the seventyys for
rate redukshun. I distinctly remcm-
Der the Steerereon kais, In Witch j Inn
Hill fawt throo awl the koorts the re-
dukshun orderd, and tibet he lost: I
aw|so remember tibet few 'yeers ago
the ralerode kommlshun OF this stait
orderd a redukshun In southwestern
Minnesota, tibet effekted at leest one
Of Jim's rcdes. So III see he Kant
klame *kredait for the entire reduk.
shun. w ~ *
'Mebbe 1t woodent hurt to- talk :
look at charles on other rodes befoar
We fix the haylo on Jlm's he'd. find
by the ra'erode kommishun's report
of 1904 tibet on eleven OF the rodes do.
Ing big bizness In Minnesota the
averaj chart per ton per mile is
s0.0os64 o. the Great Northern Il IL
80 oo889 and on the Northern Pacific
90 00880. The raft per ton per mile
on the Willmar g. Sioux "Falls divi-
shan IL over 80 per cent hyer than ION
the name system Of the Great North
ern.' On the Wisconsin, Central the
raft was 90 0O643; Rock Islana,
90 00706; Great Western, 90: 0O772;
Burlington, 80. 00457 .. ... 81 d:
"No sur, yu kant phool me by Az.
gers. Lejislay shun, komp etis hum, in
kreesd trat1ix and redoosd knsts hcv
redoosd charles everywhere. But
kompetishun IL dying and we mu st
find sumthinR TO talk It's plats.
Rats Or komparativly low now, but
thav still pay interest on tho bonds
tibet bit most OF tho rodes and divi
dends on : hull lot Of stock tibet repre-
SCENTS nothing but 'water,' We Ire
still paying thoas oycrcharjes, hut
thar being moar peepel and konse.
kwently moar frate the charges Or
spred owt . little thinner Govern.
ment ownership wood get rid Of thoas
overcbarjes. 4 II.
J ack went hoam to overhaul biz
arithmetick. &, IS. rs.
..:..s. ..=s5 J1ndM1NriY CR1cK ETrs. 81.