The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-08-01
Slandler InDarnllcllCd.

Slander Unparalleled.
In the local columns of the Dubuque
Daily Times of one day last week may be
found the following infamous SANDER against
"the grain buyers" (and by implication the
business men Of McGregor generally. We
print it to exhibit the terror which McGreg-
or trade inspires in Dubuque. 1t is not
worthy detailed re(utation. The ''gentle-
man from Chicago cannot be named by "a
resident of Dubuque-no grain buyer
of McGregor has been arrested for using
false weights-no such report has obtained
anywhere except through the Vaccinations
of enemies to our city prosperity, and by
those who arc ever prating of "unfairness'
in all operations where the advantage does
not aloays result to themsclves-nor is it
true that grain buyers at McGregor have
paid as high prices as did dealers in Chicago
and Milwaukee," Our buyers always have
a margin on Milwaukee prices, except in
cases where but little was in the city and
parties desired to fill up car. Our COM
petition is sharp, our buyers spirited, and
for honesty they will compare favorably
with those of Dubuque or Chicago. If the
Dubuque Times will hereafter make it q
point to learn facts before it INDUCES in
such wholesale SANDER towards an acknowl-
edged business rival, it will be better for it,
The city Of Dubuque is good business
place, but the heavy profits demanded by
its grain buyers have sent much Of its for
mer trade to McGregor, and the pcddling of
falsehoods against us by gentlemen from
Chicago or other places cannot rob us of
our wcll-earned commercial prestige.
In the name of the TWENTY-FIVE grain
dealers, and the FIFTY mercantile firms of
McGregor, we demand of the Dubuque
Daily Times, Poor Of its statements, ref.
ercncc to authority, or retraction of it's
libellous article
FRAUDS IN THE GRAIN TRADE.-Tt has
been matter of wonder to the citizens of
Dubuque for a long time, why it was that
grain buyers of McGregor have been able
to pay as high prices as did dealers in Chi
cago and Milwaukee. 1t was known that
quotations in the latter city, where the
McGregor trade found market, always
ruled two or three cents higher than in Chi
cago, and it was furthermore understood
that the NJ. & NJ Railroad carried at cheaper
rates than did the Illinois Central and Gale
IA & Chicago Roads; yet even with these
advantages, there was no reason why our
up-river n,ighbors should be able to pay
from five to eight cents more on a bushel
than could buyers here. The truth has at last
come out, and although the interests of our
city, as well as those of the whole Northern
and Western section of the State demand
it, yet we confess to a feeling of deep NOR
tification and shame, at being compelled to
give publicity to facts which so tarnish the
fair fame of our young State. '.
1t has been rumored here for some time
that the grain buyers of McGregor have
been using false weights, SO that bushel
of wheat which by law is rated at sixty lbs,
would weigh seventy % thus causing loss
on the side of the seller of nearly one-sixth in
every bushel, and a corresponding gain with
the dealer When first the report reached
here, our citizens were disinclined to credit
1t, but it has since come from so many reli-
able sources that there is little room left for
doubt upon the subject. No longer ago than
Thursday last a gentleman from Chicago
Informed a resident Of this city, that tn,
rumor was correct not only, but that all
the grain buyers in that place, with the OK
ception Of three, had been arrested and were
under indictment. II charges of frauds of
so outrageous a character shall be we'll es-
tablishcd in court of justice against these
men, there can be but one result, and th"t,
tradc nom our neIgnBolfhG town. In THAT
case what Dubuque has lost, and more
would return to her again, and with the
proper action on the part of her citizens
might and ought to be permanently secured.
Let our business men look to it, and see
that now, when the wave of prosperity has
once more commenced to set toward our
State, they overlook no means by which the
interests OF this city may be improved. r