Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-11

April. ...,.... 51.S ILL 53.7
May y.......... 55.1 1914 56.S
June. .......... 60 S2.5 60.6
July .......... 65.8 3l.1 63.2
August. $50 1913 65.4
September -. 65.7 77.6 75.4
October. r...... 64.7 70.2 1913
November -. 61.8 SD TOT
December. -. 60 48.7 $50
j Anyone can get the above figures
by sending to the Agricultural de.
i partment, statistical division. They
stand as an eloquent indictment
against the manipulation of the grain
gamblers and their methods. Do you
wonder, Mr.. Farmer, that they will
join the Mulhalls, referred to by La
Toilette as the Black Hand manipul-
ators of this country. in their damn
able methods to turn your attention
in another direction while they are
getting away with your heard money.
by shouting tariff?
| What is my remedy? Build ter
minal elevators where grain can be
stored at the great centers and cash
drawn against receipt bill if desir-
able.
Still more misleading and nntruth-
full is Mr.. Bennett s statement as to
the Canadian farmers handling their
own grain.
This writer made no mention of
the Manitoba affair. We did men,
tion the Alberta efforts of the farm
ers, also the Saskatchewan efforts,
both of which are brilliantly success
full. And again Mr.. Bennett either
willfully falsitied or he is totally
ignorant of the question he under
took to discuss.
The farmers Grain Growers Asso-
citation of Winnipeg last year, an in
dependent selling agency, handled 4s
million bushels Of grain. l here sub
nit the following query and answer.
This enquiry was made by me of
Farm Stock and Home, which was
referred by the editor to Professor l..
D. H. Weld, of the University Of
Minnesota.
AS TO CANADIAN TERMINALS
Mr.. J. E. Kelley, of South Dakota,
writes relative to the articles by
Professor Weld, now appearing in
f. S. & H., as follows:
''I read with pleasure your article
in Feb. Is issue on the question of
terminal selling in Canada. Can you
inform me whether the Canadians
have terminal elevators under gov.
ernment management and whether
built by the government? If so where
are they located?"
The Dominion Government decid-
ed on government ownership of ter
minal elevators in 1912. 1t has al
ready built and opened for operation
a $500, 600 bushel elevator at Port
Arthur, reputed to be perhaps the
finest terminal elevator in existence.
The Dominion Government has in
course of construction two interior
storage elevators, one at Saskatoon
and the other at Moose Jaw. The
capacity of each is 100000 bushels,
but will be increased ultimately to
5000, 900. Similar elevators will prob
ably be built at Calgary in Alberta
and at Vancouver and Hudson Bay.
The terminal elevators Of Canada
are operated as public elevators even
when privately owned. The eleva-
tors operated by the Gram Growers
Grain Company at Fort William and
Port Arthur are leased from the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. The
province of Manitoba owns country
elevators in that province, as describ-
ed in my article in F. S. & H. of Feb
ruary 15.-L. d. H. Weld.
The entire question of the efforts of
farmers in Canada to throw off the op-
pressive yoke of the grain gamblers of
that country will be discussed in later
article, as the question could not be
given sufficient consideration here. tSuf-
flee it to state, that grain cannot go be.
low the export price in that country, as
the farmers are in a position to export
their own grain. and they do so at a
great saving.
Mr.. Bennett says: '.Ostensibly what
Mr.. Kelley is driving at is to create bad
odor sentiment against our American
exchanges.
Mr.. Bennett, / am not trying to Gre
late bad oder sentiment against the
American exchanges; they have done
that part OF the job themselves now
beyond the power Of any human being
to stop it. Now, Mr.. Bennett, / re-
ally did not think that it was hitting
you or any other local institution, and I
think still that I did not. II you think
Fl did, them conclude that you have 4
very brilliant imagination.
There are many honest and fair men
who are memers Of the Minneapolis
Chamber Of Commerce; men with whom
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