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

ahp offs committee whose duty II = to CAREFULLY In
yesgate and report the facts. AS chairman OF said
committee, cal upon each one Of you who have
been unjustly 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
An adequate remedy for the abuses so widely and
bitterly complained OF can and must be had. No
wheat ring, no matter how respectable powerful.
condition Of the crop. It's of those years when
Warehousemen and wheat buyers find q rich harvest
nI grazing s6 and doctorns wheat Let suggest
you, the necessity Of organized resistance to the
ABUSES you complain OF. Let every netghborhood OF
farmers mold meetings. talk these things over and
Work togetner. Test the value Of your wheat BY tax
nonr Sci! your -four and what your wheat brings
N tnat shape. Report the number of pounds Of
i.ra,gnt hour, and also the bran and shorts, per
pushel Let one man In each neighborhood test q
load Of rejected wheat in this way; another load Of
No. another load of No. 8; another load Of No.
=. Compare results. BY this method you arrive at
the true value Of your wheat and can easily deter
like full value. Is = = - 100 e
In my own experiences have thus made wheat M
me from 80 cents to $105 per busheI for some wheat
tne would only offer SO cents per busiel for.
nave good reason TO believe, and have you that
wnen tn the grade Is arbitrarily widened out SO as to
make 10 Cents per bushel difference between NO .
and NO. wheat that the temptation to make wheat
barely grading No. grade No is Temptation thas
.oo mucn f9r some kinds OF poor human nature to
resst ana tnatthey ina tvertently or in some other
way, steal q gtade from the farmer. That form of
stealing must be punished. That sort Of thief
must be reduced to the footing Of horse thief and
P!n'sneo as severely. It has for many years been
sv1oent to majority Of the farmers Of Minnesota
that some sort Of legislation, having for its object the
prevention and cure Of the evils you complain Of in
sooner the better. shall be away from home the
next -FOUR weeks, but don't stop for that Send your
communications to me at st. Paul fast you cam
and On my return the committee will proceed to col.
!ect and arrange facts upon which such report can
re made as Will be the basis Of such necessary leRis-
latlon as the condition Of things demands.
truly say am truly actuatcd BY no selfish vindictve
OF pecuntary motive. never can forget Tho way my
sef and neighbors were plundered 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.
BEoNAED 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 she divine injunction, that if
thine enemy smite thee on one cheek turn to
him the other also, 1 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 abt-
slVe articles which have from time to time
been published in the Pioneer Press, take at
random prime sample, which ought to grade
No. !. Here it is:
The nomination Of that blue-ribbon blatherskite
Hodges for the legislature, by the Democracy Of St
paul yesterday, affords q full and complete expana
uon OF that noisy demagogue's attack upon the Min
neapols Mlers' association, and would seem to rer
DER any further police Of him or his sanders wholly
unnecessary. The farmers; in whose behalf he at
FIRST pretended to speak, but whom he SO quickly
abandoned; can now see what the lnscruplous knaye
Was Morkng for when he opened his campaign of
falsehood and SANDER against the inneapos rnilera
The reputed author of this internal lie is one
of the editors of the Pioneer Press, of st. Paul.
lie IS bright ornament Of the beautiful city
OF Minneapolis. He is truly representative
man Of Minneapolis. He is a bankrupt, finan-
c1ally, politically, and morally. He was elected
70 ! 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
ruption, one of his present associate editors
Press, that this political strumpet was stalking
IN naked horror through the land, buying men
as butchers buy up sheep for the siaugh-
ter, words to that effect. and
still later, after he had been elected
by the Republicans Of this district by means
u ,, the most shameful political debaucheries
that ever dlsgraced Christian community
after he had been compelled to fee from the
officers of Justice to a foreign land-after he
spent the same winter he ought to have benin
ais seat in Congress- in sl1ulking around the
Gull pens and sheep yards Of Canada, after the
Of Minnesota by solemn RESOLUTION
called upon him to get out of those Canadian
on Minnesota soil-after all his brilliant ex-
plo1ts 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
the Pioneer Press contemptuously alIudes to
him as 'perjured scoundrel.''
OF such are the defenders of the wheat ring,
the pine land ring, and every other ring whose
sole object is a wholesale robbery of the public.
Ny well known amiability and good nature
renders any further punishment at this time of
THIS perjnred scoundrel" very unpleasant
task Not wishing to be personal, I avoid men
tioning his dishouored 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
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.
II 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 a fellow up and
nominate him for any Office of trust or respon-
slblGty; IT the office seeks him, he has no right
to avoid 1t, but, it he seeks the office the people
should avoid him.
avoid tho usual appliances of the politician.
at once, that 'iA have - too ohaer moeS
personal independence to engage in going from
door to door begging votes. I might possibly
do it for a friend to save him from defeat; but
would Thousand times sooner suffer defeat
myself than become political mendicant.
can travel in the ranks with my old flint
lock musket, or you can 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-RlBBoN BLATHERsK1rE.
There is covert insinuation in the article