Daily globe., 1878-10-29
H0,y the Riuu Robs.

| lSpec1al correspondents OF the Globe.
WADENA, Oct. 26, 1871 met on the cars
Mr. G. W. Thurber, of Manomin, Anoka
county, who gave me some interesting facts re-
specting the informal working of the wheat
ring, with permission to publish them, as well
as his name. He says that he raised, this year,
about 7O0 bushels of wheat, which he claimed
to be No. 1, just as good as any wheat he had
| raised in previous years. He contracted with
Day & Co., of Minneapolis, for this wheat, who
were to give him the highest going price.
They were to send up cars for it, and these cars
were to cost Mr.. T. only six dollars apiece.
The cars were loaded, but before they left a
Mr. Robinson, brother-in-law of Day, tested
the wheat, and it went 5915 pounds, which
would grade it No. l, price $1.00. Mr.. Robin
son told Day of this, but Stevens, Days part
ner, remarked that the wheat apas ayeig7led in an
old last gears tester, and of course did not cor
respond with the new tester; so the wheat went
to Minneapolis, and in a few days Mr.. Thurber
followed it. He found the wheat unloaded,
but 1T had been graded No. 3-price, rs cents.
Mr.. Thurber objected to any such transaction.
knowing that his wheat was No. /, and that it
had graded No. l. He would not take the price
set upon it by Day g. Co.. but went to other
millers; but they claim that, while the wheat
was really worth more, yet they could not take
it for any other grade than No. 8, for, if they
did, they acould be turned out OF tile society, as
they aoe,e all u7aer obligations to receive avheat
just as 1t agas graded. Mr.. T., after looking
about for some time was obliged to let
the wheat go to Day & Co. as No. 3, when he
ought to have at least No. grade, price 81
cents. Mr.. Cahill, who the wheat before
and offered 81 per bushel for it, but it had
been previously contracted to Day & 20. at the
going price. Then to add, to Mr.. Thurber's
chagrin, and modification and astonishment
Day d Go. charged him $40 per car for get
ting the wheat down to Minneapolis, when
the sale of this wheat, into which Mr.. T. was
forced by that damnable swindling wheat-ring
combination, he lost II cents per bushel, or
$l19 on 700 bushels; and when it is taken into
consideration that the -four of this wheat
ranks No. in the market, and on which the
millers make an immense profit, Day G. Co.
must have cleared on this one purchase alone,
not less then S400.
No wonder that big mills and palatial resi-
dences can be erected at Minneapolis. No
wonder that Minneapolis is booming ahead
with prosperity, when the farmers are taxed
and the government pine lands are taxed to
enrich the men who claim to follow the teach
ings of the meek and lowly Jesus. Men steal
pine logs-cost them nothieg-have them cut
into timber, then steal from the farmer to
build handsome buildings with, and then, of
course, they are the leading, and mag
nanimous, and excellent men who moved
public sentiment! Bill Washburn is the big
est toad in the mud puddle, and, of course, he
must go to Congress. Out with such hypocrisy
and villainy When will the people see their
own interests, and strike home at the rascals
who arc piling up wealth--stolea wealth-in
order to obtain greater power to grind the
masses down to the common level of the
European laborer? When will people stop,
and think, and act? Will they wait
until the clash Of arms takes place
between capital and labor, or will they choose
that more quiet and more efficacious method of
ballot-box? The rich are to be
made richer-even if they steal every dollar of
their wealth-and the poor poorer; and where
the poor will land, in their present downward
path. God only knows. You have the facts.
you have the remedy. Act