Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-15
Iowa Legislators Point to That
State as Excuse For Opposing
Binder Irvine Bill
CHANGE OF PLAN FORCED THERE
State Now Sells to Dealers and Not
Direct, to Farmers = Dealing Direct
With Consumers Not Success From
Either Point Of View - System of
Manufacture May Be Changed.
Special to Times Republican.


speoial to imes-Repuolicah.
Des Moines, April 15.-Iowa legisla-
+ors ara mo na,;no 70 ,,se the report oil
4as -
t.e -ni'i''eso.'l -
prison made binder tWlhe 10 stfehsth-
en- their position with their clnstitu-
ents and explain their votes against
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8. 4,
IN the Ahamosa penltentiary' Ine
Minnesota legislature has found 1t
necessary to change its plans and a
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the Farmers direct, sells 10 the' aealers
and the dealers are allowed TT sell to
the farmers. 1t has been found by
anaa, - ,t,n,ot. +ho+ III ot,a,
-
in the bill introduced In the Iowa leg
islature, was not altogether a success.
The farmers furthermore disli,.ed the
T..
PRISON Tor the goods ana mo lt much
more convenient 20 pay little proht
10 the dealers ana ger the tWlne When
they want it.
The report oftthe MlnnesotaSnoardo OF
control shows that there was sold dur
ing the year ls06 total OF lS,SI,OSV
pounds OF binder tWlne from the prison
at Saltwater. This was distributed as
follows:
10 dealers CLUBS ...-.......$ S,Il6,tVo
70 FARMERS CLUBS '........ S,Iss,syu
70 dealers .....#..s.......... l.S4s,lO o
C i1s ordefs ACCOMPLISHMENTS. l,ooS,zpo
Shipped out OF state north. 54,0o0
- :
Iotal s.......... .......... .$lS, 81, Ooo
Under the new law passed by the
1870 Minnesota Legislature the dealers
lty to take the great bulk of the out
put OF the factory and the board OF
control viii reserve only 100000 pounds
to sell direct to the farmers. The
dealers are 10 be allowed to make a
profit OF one to one and half cents a
pound on the tWine.
IN Minnesota the plan seems to re-
qulre cash from all single orders, but
where clubs are formed either of deal
ers or farmers where the state author
tues are given an opportunity TO. m
ses.lsaIe ttlelFi Is1iaptAey t"iile cAh pe
s'hlpped without the cash. mat the
alWlne plant IN thas state IS q success
however seems TO pe eVloanced by
.he lact .hat the Output OF the rae l,-
Tory mas peen .conslderaaply increased
by the iasl LEGISLATURE.
me Dill 10 manulacture nlnHer tWlne
5al the penltentlary mas peen introduced
at each session OF the Iowa leglsla-
peen searching Tor excuses TO vote
against II because the FARMERS de-
manded the law ana tney were AFRAID
70 anlure me Ieelinss OF the FARMERS =.
me iacI tnat the ilhterhaltphal HurV-
ester company mas announced thru
trade papers Tor the last year or more
that It has perfected machinery 1or
manufacturing tWlne from }other ma
tterials that the imported slsaL hemp
-and mania Whlen are impaired pro-
ducts. me new macMnery ol the IN
lerhatloIlai II 70 alacsnle Tue iWt he
considerably cheaper tnan the other
tho JUST as good u inns can pe aone
Iowa legislators argue that they sHoutu
go slow ABOUT equipplng me Iowa
penltentlafy plant with costly ma
enlhery that VIII manufacture ohly tlte
h1gh priced tWine TOT Wnen 500 With-
out the prom ~ might pc sun hgher
than the max tWlne ana tfle farmers
would want tne cneapest. IL,
1t is more than iiKely tn'it the Dill
will be introduces again when the
tes1slatute ineets TWO years Atoni ~"
ana y II = lhlroaucea " VIII propaDiy
provioe Enal the factory pc lhstltuleu
at Fort Maolson lnsleaa q at Aha
mosa. Ine legislature JUST ad1ourheu
turned me AAaH1osa peni.e h!1ary my
refprmatnry' ana Dlhaer t"lns = not
gooo aTttcls Y I1'a lntaG1uIe ~
reIormatory ~ 1s u1sA!ilea 'apol. Iils
ianorer can IeHa seVeral iAa'ta.hes anu
n requires no training 70 opfi eneili.
For feIonmalory onty sh4llsa tiaaes
should ne taught ana lhs 4nueterintt!-
ate sentence law provlues that oliiy
useful trades shall pc tausne DIT lne
Anamosa retormator1.
poycotllhg o saen u.asr 81 ~ ,,ent which
h pnae hes . ii n fo u for some time the
two states have had what might be
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