The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-16


Its businessEit has no taxpayer on whom
to fall back. No taxpayers. willing or
unwilling, are thereto make UP any de-
hciency.
{ Tt is salso a fact, that its prices are the
same III all parts IN the country, save and
except: the difference in the, freight rate
owing to the difference in the- distance
from its factory.s sss
fits a fact that gth .rison prices have
never made an iotA -. sdifference, in the
prices of its twfne lin the state of Min
nesota, owing to prison competition.
1T is also true that, every cent that the
formers of the state have saved in the
purchase of prison made Irvine in Min
nesota has been filched from the pockets
Of the supplement dealers of. Minnesota,
also taxpayers. $4 q
The saving in the price of Irvine to the
farmers in the state of Minnesota meant.
only that the state has become socialistic
to the extent that it is manufacturing
and purchasing at wholesale and selling
at wholesale to the retail buyer. Or in
other words, the state has entered the
catalog business for the benefit Of class
within its borders at the expense OF an
other class Of its own citizens.
1t seems strange that the dealers of
the state have not. Before lifted their
voices against this invasion Of their
rights. Surely the politicians are too
afraid of the unions to tainper with their
rights. But here is a field where the
dealers are not organized, and they are
able to make cheap. "grandstand play
for the benefit Of the farmer vote.
It is "a good thing to shout about when
! the people of the state want to know what
has become of the vast tracts Of state
land covered with timber and mineral
wealth. While this deal has been going
! forward they have been keeping the farm
er vote amused with this cry of trust
and what they have done for him at the
expense of his brother taxpayer, the local
implement dealer. 81 ,,:t&
And all the time the occupant of the
warden's chair at Saltwater is being in.
terviewed as to whasFsthey are saving
These tall stories are being accepted
by the press without even a grain, of
salt or an attempt at Investigation on
their part among theg men that are in
! touch with the true status of the matter,
! Let one of your capable young men go
out and interview a half dozen Of the
best dealers of the state IN the implement
line. and he will get some light on the
I matter. 1t is the implement dealers of
! Minnesota that -, the prison Is fight
ing. It is the implement dealers OF
4 the state that are. tasking the AstrustsN'
4 what. they can doss. to sake them from the
state Of Minnesota socia1istfc . catalos
house maintained by, Warden Wolfer. and
the politicians. who wish to- eaten the
n ia rmer vote. 'atItt4 3A96 .tfr 2&t 81 e.
Now it is proposed ttopurchase from; the
1 farmers their flax. straw" (which now is
practically. worthless1 and 70 turn it into
Emoney here at home. and thus help the
4 farmers. And great newspaper like
T h e o urn a l is caught in the specious
4 arguments of the warden and thinks it Is
i better to send oir moneysto Yucatan tt
buy fiber to hurt -tf1e'A'trr1st. t. & - -. :
Give a, little attentions to this matter
: and see some of the retail trade and 20,
J. will be soon set right A Dealer.
: A Soft Fiber RFsaM Needed.
:: To the Editor. of The Jourpsl.e'
Z 4, read with much interest your edito
=, Z rial on States Contest with a Trust.
y That means that the powerful cordag,
: trust will fight the state Of Minnesota t.
Z a, finish. Under thea conditions as the.
are, today, the state of Minnesota Wi
, get the worst Of? the fight; and will hav
to close down sher 1pla MT. and let the trus
> win and get all of eahHsiness along, thi
. line of supplying the farmers with Irvine
Mistakes; are eeostlyt things, and in thi
i; case it has cost the ustat to of Minnesota
=, / think over 1885, oGGd tsThe TX mistake :
/; speak of was if lputttffg In the prison
hard fiber plant instead oflputtingi In
E soft fiber plant WITH a. hard fiber plan
' you are compelled to, Ship your sisal an
= manila all the way from the, Philippin
! Islands and pay a good, fair price for il
e. besides paying the freight for such lon
e distance and the expense of making it u
a Tito Irvine. OF course the price Of twin
unjust be high. and the farmers hereto
fore have, had to pay it. But. with a. sol
e fiber plant everything is changed !
the first place you can; buy your fibe
8 almost for a song. It Is grown every
8 where in the great, northwest I migt
" say up into the millions of tons, which
I now fed up and burned up No sale #
h lit: Flax straw can be~baled just as it Il
g. for the farmers can have little tow mil
and make it into tow fiber and ship it |
a that style, furnishing the prison with
:. very cheap fiber, grown right at HON
:, and by the very men that must use tt
IS tWfne:: and at the same time will make
good market for all the flax straw grow
- by the farmers. In. thissWay their stra
Twill help pay for fheiEs twine,. and tt
. low to the fasslmers1, ~ zone alta glane
: can. see the boat haTstate of Minnesot
is ia with her hard fiber plant
. T. Now, what is she going to do about il
z If you will pardon me Il. will suggest
way out of it, and the only way I &c
see out Of it. Let the state put in
good soft fiber plant. ana buy all the fls
straw the farmers can raise, and make
p, up into Irvine and sell the Irvine at co
to the farmers Of the northwest Amer
the law SO that twine can be sold an
Il where. Nov, if this is carried out,
will quickly bring the mighty trust
s. its knees because there is behind II ,
the farmers and the state of Minnesot
X and the prison can sell Irvine cheap
than any live trust. :. ~ e@,
4 think it worth a, trial. ;:
I'D w. G. Dance.