Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-21

ship ofs committee whose duty II Is to carefully in
70 stgate and report the facts. AS chairman Of aaid
committee, call upon each one of you who have
been unjusty treated BY this arbitrary grading and
widening out of grades. to report to me at your ear
est convenience, giving nothing but facts and evil
dence that cannot be set aside.
An adequate remedy for the abuses so widely and
bitterly complained OF can and must be had NJ
wheat ring, no matter how respectable or powerful
should be allowed to take advantage of the peculiar
condition OF the crop It is one of those years when
Warehousemen and wheat buyers find rich harvest
in grading and doctoring wheat, Let me suopest IA
you the necessity Of organized resistance to the
ABUSES you complain Of Let every neighborhood Of
work together. Test the value Of your wheat by tax
ing fun loads OF it to mill and having ground to
honr, sen your hour and see what your wheat brings
IN tnat shape. Report the number of pounds ct
stralght -four, and also the bran and shorts, per
Dushel Let one man in each neighborhood test q
load OF rejected wheat in this way; another load of
NO. another load of No. g.; another load Of No.
q Compare results. BY this method you arrive at
the true value Of your wheat, and easily deter
mine whether the wheat buyers paying anything
In my own experience have thus made wheat net
me from 80 cents to $l05 per buslel for some wheat
me ring" would only offer SO cents per bushel for.
when the grade s arbitrarily widened out 40 as to
make 20 cents per bushel difference betfyesn No, .
ana NO, wheat that the temptation to make wheat
DaLey grazing NO. grade No is temptation that
1s 100 much for some kinds Of poor human nature to
resist ana thastey ina lverently, or in some other
way, steal grads from the farmer. That form Of
sseatng must be punished. That sort Of thief
ust De reduced to the footing Of horse thief and
punished as severely. It has for many years been
sVaoent 70 majority Of the farmers Of Minnesota
hat some sort OF legislation having for it's object the
prevention and Of the evils you complain of in
tne arbitrary grading of wheat, must be had and the
sooner the better. I shall be away from home the
next four weeks but don't stop for that. Send your
RI Got Do,1 Ec1k
ana on my return the committee will proceed to col
!ect and arrange facts upon which such report can
re made as VIII be the basis Of such necessary legs
lat1on as the condition of things demands
In taking tie initiative in this movement can
truly say am truly actuated by no selfish vindicye
or pecuntary motive never forget tho way n.y.
ssa ana ,nelghbors were pundered years ago in
Southern Minnesota, in much the same way you now
complain of. We took the robbers of the public by
the throat and taught them lesson they remember
yet. 1t seems about time to do it again. trust
every newspaper in Minnesota that has the welfare of
the public at heart will publish this circular.
IEoNAsD B. HODGES.
For this first step taken in what considered
the right direction, you all know how venom
onsly have been assailed. Fully believing in,
and endorsing Jhe divine injunction, that if
thine enemy smite thee on one cheek turn to
him the other also, have patiently endured
the abuse of the slaves of the Wheat Ring until
patience can no longer be deemed virtue. /
propose now to roll up my sleeves and go for
the slaves, defenders, pimps and apologists of
the robbers OF the public, in way they'll de-
spise.
Without noticing in detail the various abu-
sive articles which have from time to time
been published in the Pioneer Press, take at
random prime sample, which ought to grade
No. l. Here it is:
Inc nomination Of that bue-ribbon blatherskite
Hodges for the legislature by the Democracy Of 81
Paul yesterday, affords full and complete explana
ton OF that noisy demagogue's attack upon the Min
1eapols Mlers' association, and would seem to rem
The farmers in whose behalf he at
tirst pretended to speak, but whom he SO quickly
abandoned can now sec what the INSCRIPTIONS knave
vas wording for when he opened his Campaign of
taisehood and SANDER against the inneapos illers
The reputed author of this internal lie is one
OF the editors OF the Pioneer Press, of St. Paul,
tie IS a bright ornament of the beautiful city
OF Minneapolis. He is a truly representative
man n OF minneapolis. He is a bankrupt, fnan-
cially, politically, and morally. He was elected
to Congress by the Republican party of this
district He is said to have bought and paid
tor, IN ready cash, the necessary number of del
egates IN the Republican convention which
nominated him for Congress. Referring to
this shameful and wholesale bribery and cor
ruptlon, one of his present associate editors
Press, that this political strumpet was stalking
n naked horror through the land, buying men
As butchers buy up sheep for the siaugh-
,er, or words to that effect, S and
still later, after he had been elected
oy the Republicans Of this district by means
y u the most IS. shameful political debaucheries
hat ever. disgraced a Christian, community
after he had been compelled to Zee from the
officers OF justice to a foreign land-after he
'pent the same winter he ought to have been in
lis seat in Congress, in sl1u1king around the
quill pens and sheep yards of Canada, after the
legislature OF Minnesota by solemn resolution
called upon him to get out Of those Canadian
bull-pens and show his honest face once more
on Minnesota soil-after all his brilliant ex-
plolts as the most corrupt lobbyist of still
more corrupt Congress-after his Pacific Mail
operations, the consequences of which brought
the prison bars wildly before his imagination
after all this his present associated editor of
him as a 'perjured scoundrel.''
VI such are the defenders of the wheat ring,
The pine land ring, and every other ring whose
sole object is wholesale robbery of the public
NY we'll known amiability and good nature
renders any further punishment at this time of
this ''perjured scoundrel'' very unpleasant
task. Not wishing to be personal avoid men
tioning his dishonored name.
was nominated for the legislature by the
working men Of St. Paul, without any hint or
notice OF their Intention. The idea of the
had not entered my mind.
was again nominated by the Democratic
convention.
Both nominations have come unsolicited and
unsought. l am not at all certain that would
have accepted either nomination but for the
brutal assaults daily made upon me.
have been in the legislature of
Minnesota before. My business there then.
was to deliver my constituents from the grasp
Of gang of public robbers.
Ihey were worse gang than the present one.
Iney had more money, more brains, more
character. They embraced some of the most
powerful corr orations in the State. They bit
the dust.
OFFICE HOLDING,
My idea of this thing of Office, is that if the
people, spontaneously pick fellow up and
him for any Office of trust or respon-
sibility; if the office seeks him, he has no right
to avoid it, but, if he seeks the Office the peonle
should avoid him.
Acting on this principle, I shall scrupulously
avoid the usual appliances of the politician.
1t may as we'll be understood
ut once, that haye too much
personal independence to engage in going from
door to door begging votes: I might possibly
do 1t for friend to save him from defeat; but
would a Thousand times sooner suffer defeat
myself than become political mendicant.
can travel in the ranks with nv old flint
lock musket, or you by sending me to the
me with the most effective
weapons. Suit yourselves, and you will suit
me. The fight is going on all the same till the
robbers are routed.
THE BLUE-RIBBoN BLATHERsY1TE.
There is covert insinuation in the article
ottnted II the y y hot r hove hoo,, loo.,.4.l