The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
desired; but the great radical change is

viii burden you with but one thing
further and that is the subject Of cattle
running at large. It is a good time fol
those counties excepted from the fence
law, to get information from those with
in and see if it would not be best to
bring other counties within its pro-
visions.
This is subject too, that interests
all classes and none more than the
farmers, land Spectator and those in
terested in migration.
| Yours
FARMER.
We would be glad to have the views
of leading farmers in the state upon the
| questions referred to in the above
Communication. ANTI MONOP'
OLIsT.
A SwindIe on the Farmers-How to Get
Even With the Railroad and Wheat
Rings.
Editar Anti-n1onopelist
have just received the following cir
cular.
There is probably no class Of people
in the United States to-day, who suffer
more extortions and indignities from
Railroad and other wealthy Corpora
tons and Rings, than the farmer, and
especially is this the case with the farm
ers, in the great wheat-growing States
ofthe North West.
The price of wheat, the great staple
product of the North w est-is regulated
by set Of merciless and inscriptions
sharpers and Ring gamblers-assisted
and encouraged by equally tyrannical
Railroad Companies who combine to get
control OF the wheat crop at prices that
leave little or no Iroit to the farmer
whose labor produces the crop.
At the close of navigation every yea
the rates of freight are advanced much
more than there is any necessity for, and
it is only done to enrich the Railroad
Rings at the expense OF the hardwork-
ing and selfsacrifcing farmer whose
hard hands and brown face commands
no respect in the eyes OF the well ted
and poHlpous Railroad Aristocrat.
A residence Of 10 years in the West
and close connection with the handling
and transporting of wheat has given the
undersigned an.extensive and intimate
knowledge of the management of ele-
vators and warehouses, and the tricks { t
wheat buyers and elevator-men. and the
various means made use of to make the
wheat weigh out more from the elevator
than when it was taken in from the
farmers wagon.
Believing that the farmer is justified
in making use of any means in his pow
er to ssget event. with Railroad combir.
atoms and Wheat Rings, | have conclud.
ed to offer to those who wish to avail
themselves of it, a full and complete des-
cription OF how wheat can be made to
weigh ten per cent. more than it natur-
ally does.
The process is simple,-any one can
do it-and it requires little or no time to
prepare and apply it, and is no trouble,
making the wheat weigh ten per cent.
more. and of course increasing the num-
Der of bushels one in every ten.
Send Three Dollars in the enclosed
envelope, with your address plainly
written, giving Town, County, and
State that you live inland full des-
cription as above, with directions, &C.,
will be promptly sent you.
1t is worth $50 year to any man that
raises 800 bushels of wheat"
Very Respectfully,
A. L. Landie
Boston Mass.
The above document was handed us
by S. e.. Paddock Master Of this Grange1
to whom it was sent by lis Intelligent
and scrupulous author. and there were
numbers of them sent to the Masters OF
the various Oranges in the County.
There IS little fear that any one will be
caught in such fliinsy net the swinde
is too apparent, but it is illustrative Of
the estimation in which the farmers OF
the Northwest are held By the sharpers
OF the East. They have so long sub
mittel to all the burdens imposed upon
III m by the .soulless Corporation"
who have grown rich off the hard earn
ings of the ''honest farmers" that this
fool thinks to take advantage Of their
cupldtr and reap an additional harvest
of dollars from the wheat-growers of
Minnesota. But it is too thin: they
have rebelled against imposition OF any
kind and we doubt if any of the class to
which his circular was addressed would
be dishonest and unwise enough to give
even single dollar for his boasted ..Se-
crets' for the Patrons motto is ..justice to
all. and his proposition embodies a
swindle on either hand. 1t is no COM
pliment to the intelligence of he Pat
rons that such documents should be
sent them: and the man who could thus
insult all decency is too contemplate.
l.. G.. Moore.
Grand Meadow, January 9th, 1876
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