St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-16
OBBERY! !.
AS Ppacticed By the Wheat
Ring Monopoly.
Grinding the Life Blood Out
Of the Farmers.
Workings Of the MiIlers' AS
ISOLATION Now Known
As the Millers' Union and
Wheat Pool.
McGill as the Tool and Puppet Of
the RingsterS.
& CRY From the Wheat Growers
for DeiiVeranCe.
Price Of Wheat Regulated By the
Millionaire Sharks.
ROYAL 0vationS rendered AmeS at
Elk River and Anoka.
FnuI Monopoly.

The nomination of A. r. McGill was
brought about solely by the powerful infiu-
enee OF the wheat ring. This wealthy
pool had gone carefully over the field and
made its selection of a man best suited to
lis purpose, and a. r. McGill is the man.
c. A. Gilman and J, l.. Gibbs were known
to have the interests of the farmer at heart,
but 4. r. McGiu was known to have no
regard for the agricultural interests OF the
state. and was accordingly selected as the
tool and puppet Of the wheat ring. He
will be the clay and the members OF the
wheat pool the p0tters, to fashion him TO
their own ideas. If. by any calamity. Nc
Gill should be elected governor. his official
acts and official appointments will be die
tated By the members Of the wheat pool,
to whom he will owe everything. The cry
going out from the wheat growers OF the
state is not an idle one. They have felt
the power of the gigantic monopoly which
has crushed the profit out of wheat raising.
and they cry now for deliverance from the
insensate tool of the ring. The head and
front of the wheat ring in Minnesota
is the milling firm of C. a. Pillsbury L
Co. the heaviest flour millerS in the world
and the leading millionaires in the North
west. The leading spirits of this powerful
firm are c. a. PilIsbury and John S. Pills
bury. c. \. Pillsbnry and John
s. PiIIsbury dictated t"e NOM
nation of A. R. McGiIl. With them
in influence was Loren Fletcher. another
millionaire miller. and no one who at
tended the
RING RIDDEN
convention in st. Paul can or will dare
deny that through the exertions of G. A.
Pillsbury, Loren Fletcher and John S.
Pillsbury, the nomination of A. r. McGill
was accomplished. The voice of the
farmer Of the Northern part of the state,
represented through Knute Nelson by c..
A. Gilman, was drowned in insulting jeerS;
The cry of the agTiculturiSt from the South
ern part Of the state, in behalf of j. L..
Gibbs. was sti1ed with contempt, and the
nomination Of Andrew R. McGill was con-
summated by the wheat ring that for years
has dominated this state and built up that
giant. millionaire monopoly of mills
at the Falls of st. Anthony.
Against member of this m0nop-
DIV DR.. Ames was pitted last
spring and triumphantly elected by an over
whelming majority; to-day Mayor Ames is
pitted against the monopoly itself, and his
victory will be just as signal. The farmers
of the state have rallied and united against
the wheat ring that has steadily been rob
bing them for years and now seeks to per
petuate its power by the election Of its tool
and puppet, Andrew r. McGill. The cry
of robbery is no empty one. The career OF
the MIllers' association has been one long
system of Understanding the farmers
down to the lowest notch for wheat COM
polling them to sell at once or take the al
tentative Of the elevator charges all winter
and no better price in the spring. The plan
Of the association, briefly described, was
this: All the territory tributary to Mime
apolis was laid out and called by them ''Oul
territory" within which they fought out al
competitive buying and paid the ia rmer fol
bis wheat
JUST WHAT THEY CHOSE.
At every station they kept an agent to do
their purchasing. Each day. after
the close Of the market. the association de-
termined what price they would pay next
lay. and so wired each buying agent This
price, of course, was the lowest possible
No other buyer was permitted in this terri
tory, as an example will show. Suppose
the association had fixed the price at So
cents and an outside buyer would appear a
Glencoe and offer 90 cents. The association
would instantly advance the price at Glen
eOe to say 81 cents, so as TO shut out this
buyer, and at the same time would make
reduction at all other points, so the aver
age would cause them no loss. An outside
buyer could not afford to pay 81 cents anc
would retire, whereupen the price would bt
n iiof fol a
refuse to sell his wheat at association price:
and should ship it into Minneapolis fol
sale, the buyer at that city would ask
''Where did this wheat come frOm?'
''From Glencoe" 1--WE can't buy it,
Glencoe is in our territory" The result
would be the farmer must sell it a
reduction to get rid Of it
In territory tributary to Minneapoli:
alone and having no other outlet. the farmer
is compelled to sell wheat to the association
at its own figures. having no other aIteTna-
tive. The result has been to build up the
milling miIlionares of Minneapolis. Under
this arrangement the Millers' association
was enabled at one time to make a cleal
profit of So on every barrel of flour made
1t is not surprising that the name Of the
association
GREW TO BE A HORROR
to the ears of the farmer. The association
became abhorred and feared wherever whea
was grown for the market. and its method:
brought it into bad odor even at point!
against which there was no discrimination
Monticello, MonteyideO and Glencoe can tel
stories of the war of determination wageC
against it last year. The association exist
no longer, but in its stead the MillerS' unioI
and the wheat pool have sprung up, with
G. A. Pillsbury & Co. at their head. Thei
methods are even worse, and the cry of tht
wheat grower is going up ON every hand.
From good Republican sources come thu
stories Of the evils against the farmer
caused by these wheat monOpoiieS. The
Journal, of Minneapolis, which is now ad
vocating the election of the wheat pooPi
candidate, published the following OF
Sept. Z:
The grain business of the Northwest Il
to-day practically under the control of one OF
the most powerful pools ever organized Some
weeks ago it was announced that the Millers
Association would be abandoned. 1t wa
abandoned, but two others have arisen Il
take its place. If any one imagines that tn,
result is likely to be in any sense benefit tt
the producer it is to be feared his hopes TO