Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-09

petition in the purchase of grain ii
the country for shipment to Minnea
polls and Duluth. Do you know tina
the quotations that go out from Mir
neapolis and Duluth are made up b,
a committee? / have the name of tn
members of the committee that wa
made up last year. They are sucl
men as Smith, Andrews ana others.
All Line Elevator Men.
Five men on the price making com
mittee, all OF whom are line elevate
men, and if any member of the Cham
Der of Commerce sends out a pric'
one.eighth of a cent above the prize
the committee says they shall, the!
are fined 81, 000.0 90, and for a secont
offense their membership Is takel
away. A large concern sent out /,
bid on Northwestern flax one.quarte1
of a cent above this committee price
That was their second %Offense. Theil
membership a revoked and they
have never been able to get 1t back
Do you wonder why McHugh come:
out here to you farmers and tells yOl
how they are looking after the bust
ness of the farmers of this country
down there in Minnesota?
Made Blood Boil.
Then ! picked up the papers and
read about the reception you gave
this crowd of non-producers; how they
we're met with brass bands, and how
the farmers went through muddy
roads to meet these men, it made my
blood boil. If you knew how they
treat you people down there on the
Board of Trade, you would have met
them with bricks or something else.
! want to say, after all you business
men have nothing in common with
the Minneapolis crowd. II were a
in Bismarck, you would nos
me boosting for tradesmen from
Minneapolis.
A Few Figures.
Well, here are some figures SUB.
by an expert before the Rules
Committee on March 9TH last. They
make up a list of fourteen elevators
at Minneapolis. This applies
to wheat of the different grades.
There was shipped into these eleva-
tors 15,187,012 bushels of No. l
wheat. There was taken
out of these elevators 1856 1877
bushels. Quite a difference boys!
Yes, you boys over here at Drisco;l
and Turtle Lake say what differ
ence does that make to u.s." Do you
know they trimmed you beautifully
here in your elevators? That man,
while he was bidding on that wheat.
would place grades on the wheat that
would prevail at the terminal points.
He locked you. Its $4,000, 900 bush.
els came from farmers, and 4,50O, 600
bushels that they made up in grades
right there came out short, with the
Want to Pose az eenefactors.
Still they would have you believe,
the Fargo Forum and the
Minneapolis Journal and other dirty
sheets they control, that the elevator
proposition is an expensive propos.
ton, and the farmers make a mistake
going into this Farmers, Equity
movement. A man told me coming
up on the train that his home paper
had been printing a whole sheet
against our proposition. Mr.. Kelley
over here, gentlemen, is as good q
friend as | ever had.
Would Turn in Grave.
If Mr.. Siegel NJ. Owen could have
read the last four or five issues OF
the Farm, Stock and Home" edited
by his son, he would have turned
over in his grave. He was out In
1881, 1882. 1888 and 1884, when / was
boy and first came to Minneapolis
fighting that crowd of non.producers
and realized their view on the Min
neapolis Chamber of Commerce, be
cause he realized 1t has an influence
on the farmers.
Want Farmers to Go Slow.
They are telling the farmers to &C
slow in this fight. They would have
you believe that we men who 20 GU,
the country are false leaders
The men who are in the harness and
carrying on the work, are simply
farmers and are servants of the farm
and doing every just thing we
ian to carry out their orders. So II
Is. In the Farm, Stock and Home
they come out in this issue and say
It they 60 ahead with the farmers
movement they will have to foot the
bill, and so, Mr.. Kelly, you will have
to foot the bill. Well, we have al
ways done that have we not? We
don't have to go down to Minneapolis
talk in the farmers papers there;
we talk right here in the state OF
Dakota. We have a paper sup
porting this movement loyalty. They
went so far as to try to get the Am
erican Society of Equity to issue an
endorsement. entitled, "This is to be
the National Grain Growers"
Follow Ne Closely.
want you to follow me closely on
this. Kelly spoke about their going
to South Dakota and picking
up one of his own delegates and try.
Ing to have him introduce a resolu.
ton condemning one OF their organ,
lzatfons. 1t was Henry Ball. Of South
Dakota. He said, II won't introduce
that resolution" They turned around
and got a crippled fellow to introduce
that resolution. He said afterwards
that he was sorry. l guess he was
sorry he introduced that resolution
because McHugh asked him to.
Cleaned Up the c. c.
But going back to the newspaper
or this thing; this news
paper published at Fargo. 1t is called
the National Grain Growers. We had
. meeting at the Fargo Chamber o.
July oath last. There were