The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-22

the officers of the company in order
to induce the British people to take
more stock! More stock-why, what
for? That they might own and con-
troll the
| INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF THIS
COUNTRY.
And thus you see British syndicates
buying up our manufacturing plants.
The sale of the vast mills of Mime
apolis to the British Syndicate was
part of the scheme. The combine
has overdone itself. Those vast
profits of thirty per cent intoxicated
the foreign financial world, and in the
effort to extend operations an ex-
posture has resulted.
Now, farmers of the Northwest,
what say you? While you have
raised wheat for SOC. a bushel this
combination has made thirty per
cent. usury three times over, off from
your starvation. There has been Is
and Is cent profit when brokers in
the past charged one-quarter of one
cent!
Do not be deceived. This horrible
oppression is not removed by ex-
posure. No, gentleman of the pillow!
You cannot tear down the wall of a
city with a paper blast. The wall of
Minneapolis, and the foundation
thereof, are on this vast combination
of robbery. 1t was never equalled
on the face of the earth. 1t cost the
interior Of this state last year from
II to 27c. on every bushel of wheat.
1t has cost by false grading false
prices,-false weights. It has cost
by refusal to grade No. 1 hard in
northern counties, and mixing of
grades. 1t has cost by controlling
the Chambers of Commerce with a
rod OF iron-and by shutting off the
Alliance Elevator system from the
mills of England! It has kept the
commerce of an empire out OF
Duluth. It stands with the railroads
and has sustained them in their fight
in return for their iniquitous privi-
leges. It has deied the law-and
torn up sidetracks, and delayed cars,
and by fear, bribery, lying, and by a
legal iniquity of which you scarcely
dreamed, has actually undermined
the whole fabric of our free govern
ment by multiplying statutes and by
destroying the purity of the ballot.
This ring has bought up, sold,
demoralized and flung from them,
legislators who have been their mis-
cradle tools. The cross-feld lawyer
has been their implement OF work,
and the county political demagogue
has been the hungry wolf they have
fed.
We could put our hands on the
shoulder Of one-a silent, broad
laced villain, who has sold out his
county and county-seat over and
over again-and whose whisky
breath is not more malodorous than
his secret record! 1t has controlled
the courts, delayed decisions, made
the state house rotten! You know
how inactive the Railway Commits
sion has bertrand yet the head of
the State Law Department is their
attorney.
Do not be deceived by an idea that
this is solely a London Combine. 1t
is a Minneapolis combine. 1t is a
MINES ota railroad-elevator-mill
mbine-in which more members of
your last legislature were interested
than you ever dreamed of.
Look out when you send that man
back to make your laws. In that
silent, excusatory, palliating, So
frustrating fellow, you are sending a
man whom the elevator system is
feeding like dog while it holds him
by the collar.
Our State officials have really dis
covered nothing. It is pretense. The
idea that the heavy weights in polit-
les were not familiar with these facts
is wonderful idea! When you see a
politician, or official, all of a sudden
stirred to publish some high-fown
interest in the farmer, or cultivates
sudden Alliance Iove!-look in the
face of his record, and see whether he
has not been one of the moving