Show WHERE GOES YOUR WHEAT while all the world is crying for protection of if home industry against foreign competition and its dasas erous results it appears to us that those fellow citizens whose hard toil and frugal enterprise produce at least three fourths of the national I 1 wealth should be thought deserving of some degree dearce of attention but fur far from that while mr blaine went around the country on the ragged edge of his protection stump and was filling the cars of his credulous and some not BO so credulous sec see election returns audiences with hollow declamation about erecting a chinese wall of protection around the iron workers the die woolen weavers the cotton spinners etc ho lie had not a word of solid comfort for the honest gr angers the bone boner and sinew of the people of the land why should he lit was he lie not the arch monopolist and the hireling friend and spokesman of arch monopolist 4 what ia is to him the toiling tilling yeomanry of the fields and the forests forest railroad depots und and factory t hin ineys ya are the prominent points on his topographical tab tableau brutt of the couii country try and the farmhouse and harvard barnard are not comprised within the coin coll pas pasi i of his protection pretension pre he hero re we have ft a production of ce cc reals in this country from born the past season oil one p third of which will have bay to remain in the tile granaries of the producers why because the railroad mt inin n and it iva allied cormorants elevator companile com compan panice M mallch combi nAti n it and other unhallowed u owed conspiracies of capital against igli hist labor are grinding the farmer down havin having 11 the heavy thumb of pecuniary power on him film and arid the yield of his hard toil and arduous labor here in utah we dohnt do not suffer from those colossal coloss al combinations of capital which oppress the eastern barnier farni fr exe lit I 1 lit disastrous discrimination in railroad freight rates I 1 11 there are no agencies which obstruct the gr angers way to profitable returns for tho the produce 4 if his broad acres of course the transportation por tation monopolies epple e him badly enough indeed nearly catt a him to despair of the profitability of raising cereals beyond his own anahis fam ilys consumption but east of ofus us where whee farming especially y wheat raising is carried on on a much larger scale the patient granger has many relentless and ancon scrupulous foes to encounter before whose combined power he be is compelled to yield thus we learn from a nebraska Ne brasLa paper a aa only one ins in stance of a series of consistent legal by capital shark sharks that when a mr olson w was as hauling wheat to kearney he lie could get only 80 cents for his produce lie ile went home and loaded up another load of the same is heat wheat and got a neighbor mr brown to haul it to kearney K earn ey at annl A mr brown sold tho the same wheat for 88 cent cents per bushel the elevators had been stealing from 11 r olson 8 cents on every bushel of his wheat in consideration of this the tile kearney press advises the farmers of buffalo co to stop selling their grain to elevator thieves and ship fillip it to chicago themselves bv by which they could save and make ten cents on every bushel they have to dispose of which would in the aggregate gre gate amount to thousands of dollars this advice of course is of a natu nature not entirely applicable to our local circumstances but there is is not the least doubt that by some concerted action of the grain grahl raisers in every settlement of weber county and arid then by a pooling of the isalea of those units into a county consolidation with trustworthy judicious busi business nees men at the head of tho the consolidation there might be found an opening for unload unloading iu 9 the surplus which now fills the hearts of the producers with as heavy a weighton weight of anxiety as it it fills ills their granaries with a wei weight ht of avoirdupois favorable market marke tp nowadays can call only bo be conquered with massive efforts and accumulated energy A ton finds a bu buyer yer 2 where a bushel boes woes goes begging ant a carload cau be sold soldat at a at rate of i pro profit fit beyond the reach of a to on think of it you farmers I 1 |