The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-18
ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA MONDAY OCT Is, 1875.

Will they not be equally alive. so far
as it effects John S. Pillsbury, their can
didate for governor. to public opinion un-
| til the election is over? Are men who
would rob farmers of Is cents per bush
| ell too pure and too righteous to resort to
such political tricks?
Then the Register says:
Only think of it! With the fact staring
him plump in the face, that Minneapolis is to-
| day paying SO much more for wheat thar it is
| worth for foreign markets, that scarcely a
| bushel is going out of the State, yet his love
| for Buell. is so much stronger than his regard
| for the interests of the people, that he would
laugh to see the torch applied to everv Touring
| mill in Minneapolis, IT by the light of the
flames he could see the way clear to boost him
| l. to the gubernatorial chair.
Bosh! Liberty. We have no desire
to injure the m,llers. All we ask is fair
play for the farmers, 1.-The" right
wrongs no man.
But is the Rim paying more tor wheat
in the 81, zoe market b IN it would other
wise be worth? Let the Minneapolis
Tribune, the only clear-cut Republican
paper in the State asnd the organ OF
the Ring, answer the question. Here is
its answer:
The Millers Association bad an agent in
Glencoe for short time previous to the pres
ent arrangement, but during the most Of that
time the sharp competition between the trans
| portation companies, who entered the market
as wheat buyers, RUN THE PRICE OF
| WHEAT so HIGH THAT MILLERS
| COULD NOT PURCHASE WITHOUT 4
LOSS, as flour was dull ard low, consequently
mo- of To shut for
want Of cheat.
| Ii there was no Mi,ler's Ring IN Glen
coe would not the transportation COM
panies again compete for the farmers
Xheat9 And if they did, and if they
ran the price up so high that millers
could not purchase without loss"
should The farmers therefore be deprived
OF the opportunity to sell at high price,
so tina. the millers could buy at low
price? Is that fair? Wouldn't the Ring
have Just AS good right to seize the far
| mers by the throat and take their money
out OF their pockets?
Then Liberty continues:
Now, Mr.. Donnelly knows that there is neith-
er sense nor reason in his twaddle. Mr.. DON
nelly knows that the Minneapolis market con-
| trols the price Of wheat in this State, just so
| long as it pays more for the lrheat than it is
worth fol the markets Of the world, and not an
hour longer.
Then Liberty. himself, shows hosc the
Ring pays more for wheat in that mar
ket; form the same issue of his paper he
says:
These gentlemen had evidently agreed
| among themselves to control the Glencoe heat
| market in their own interest. We infer this
from the fact that we are perfectly satisfied that
1t never was the intention of the Millers' Asso-
| clation to give any exclusive privileges to
Messrs. Van Auken X Lange in this market
yet Mr.. Lange announced himself as being the
sole agent of the Association, and Mr. Dun
woody refused to receire shipments Of ,rheGt
from any other partias tn this place.
If this isn't a monopoly what is
monopoly? And then the Register adds:
We do not care how much business they do:
the more wheat they buy here the better, so
long as they do their business in fair and
open field. We do no: complain of the prices
they have been paying for No. wheat: neither
do the farmars; all the dissatisfaction comes
| from the grading, and we knor that the dis
satisfaction expressed so emphatically during
the last four weeks, has, in some instances al
least, been well grounded, These arbitrary
decisions by one man on GRADES of wheat can
not be satisfactory. We need not tell Messrs.
Van Auken < Lange Why, for they know them
selves. IL is enough for the people 10 know
that II a buyer in market like this was so dis
posed, he could rob the .fermer of teas of thou
sands Of dollars in one yecr. BY grading srheat
lo'csr than It shouid bc graded II is asking
too mitch Il .ae people 10 trust 80 important 4
matter to the hands Of one wheat SPECTATOR.
And so Liberty balances himself on
the ridge-pele of public opinion, first
on one leg, then on the other. He de-
nouuces us to please the millers. and he
denounces the millers to please the peo-
pie; the millers. he thinks, are not TO
blame for establishing monopoly; but
their agents. Van Auken & Lauge, are
TO blame Tor carrying on the monopoly.
The millers pay. he thinks, the full
price for wheat. but thev cheat in the
grade. and consequently they don't pay
the full price The Miller's Ring is not
much of monopoly after all. and yet if
PEI mits one man to rob the farmers of
s.ters # thousands o!Hollsrs in one year.
The Glencoe mark-t is open TO all the
world, and Yet no man who is rot an
agent of the Ring can ship bushel of
wheat to Minneapolis without paving
six cents per bushel more freight then
the Ring does and Mr.. Dunwoodv. the
agent OF the Ring refused TO receive
shipments of wheat from parties outside
of the Ring..r
Does Liberty think the people are
fools. that he can crawl down his own
throat in than way expose and not
his coat-tails to the public gaze.
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