Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-11
KELLEY'S FORCEFUL ANSWER
]. M. Bennett, Grain Dealer at Elan
dreau, Is Answered.

~ "eiSoiHeS tHe stepping lnCO Cne arena
by Mr.. Bennett, with one exception
This controversy has been going OF
now for more than four months, ane
the writer has met and answered al
comers of the opposition; hence, we
believe it will be conceded, even by Mr.
Bennett, that his four column spreac
does not appear very formidable. This
should be said, however, in justice tt
the men who have taken part in this
| discussion in the past, if the Chamber
OF Commerce did not always feel com.
petent to depend upon the talent of its
members to present it's case, it did hire
men of standing, character and ability.
Mr.. McHugh, the Chambers $40, ,O0C
secretary, is always gentleman. Mr..
MuHugh, the Grover, whom the cham
Der sent to meet us at Fargo, is less so,
but the chrmber did not send him q
second time. Judge Simpson, ex-su-
preme court justice of the state of Min
nesota, who represented the combines
at NV ashington, ID. c., is of course,
taultless In that respect las also, Judge
sardy, formerly of the federal court,
who was at Washington in the interest
of the chamber of commerce, not tc
mention the array of talent presented
there by the Chicago Board of Trade.
| Mr.. Bennett gets nown to an argu-
ment that we have not been accustom-
ed to and with which we have no famil-
iarity, buggy insect powder"
'fumigate. The mind of each person
naturally inclines to things most con-
genial to the sense and sight, SO we
must conclude that Mr.. Bennett was
dealing with his native and chosen ele-
ments in the above.
The farmers have been deceived by
the tariff bogy so that they may expect
the grain gamblers to cover up their
tracks, if possible, and they are now
working overtime on the job. There is
duty of 6 cents bushel on oats from
| Canada, and no oats has came from
there, except at the opening of the
market last fall, and good portion of
that came in bond, for export
later. The man who says that Cana
dian oats is now putting down the price
of oats in this country is hither ignor-
ant or viciously dishonest, and on that
point should have no attention.
AS to corr there has been seven mil
lion bushels shipped into this country.
1t is not in competition with American
corn, either in this country or in Eu.
rope. Note the price in Liverpool as
compared with American corn. Amer
lean mixed is worth today, April %,
79c, for Sc pounds.
During the course of my address in
Washington recently, | exposed the
trick of the gam blers in beating down
the price of corn, and showed what the
price of American corn was in Liver
pool at that time. When Mr.. Grace,
vice president of the Chicago Board OF
Trade arose to reply, he stated that
what l said was only true for two days,
claiming that the Liverpool price then
dropped back to correspond with the
price in the United States. produced
the market reports show that the Liv-
erpool price of American mixed corn
had been from 8811s to 90c for more 70
days and up to that time. Then he got
one who exists by licking up the crumbs
that fall from the tables of the gamb-
lers, to give out the statement that the
Liverpool price given by me was for
old corn-and this pinktail seems to have
got you, Mr. Bennett. This was given
out after we had returned from Wash.
ington. Not one of them ever thought
of such statement while there. But,
they were caught with the goods, so
they put out the "old corn" idea. Corn
| was the dryest last fall that it has been
for years. In fact, this very reason in
my former article as reason why corn
was rushed on the market; and it must
be admitted. that one cannot wholly
blame spectators for buying as cheaply
as one can.
Besides, not a year for more than
forty years but what corn has been
imported into this country and at the
same time exported from this coun-
try. Corn has always been imported
into the points remote from the great
centers Of distribution.
But this is not the only season that
the speculative interests has beaten
down the price of corn during the
time that the farmers were heavily
marketing. It.is we'll established
practice, as shall prove by the fol-
lowing table obtained from the Ag-
ricultural department and used by
me in my address before the late
hearing of the House committee.
Reader,I shall ask you to study
carefully this table and you will be
able to understand why the farmers
lare up in arms on account Of the