The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

freight rates and established grades
and state inspection and all the 9th
er safeguards we are supposed to
possess, if the railroad company can
compel us to pay any price
which one OF their monopolies sees fit
to impose for handling the grain
Fortunately for Lac qui P arle county
we have three Independent houses
and these, with the one at Clarified,
are all their are on this line of road.
The four Minneapolis companies
operating houses are virtually but
one concern, and, as the railroad
company has started out to foster
the monopoly, it is probably only q
question of time when our independ-
ent houses must succumb to the
pressure.
1t does seem that the farmers are
powerless to cope with the railroads
and wheat rings. For a time itlook-
ed as if we had an open market, but
as soon as our last legislature had
shown that it was friendly to the
railroads, the latter showed their true
spirit and the "open market was no
more.
Mr.. Murray assures us that he is
not yet through with the fight. He
proposes to build a house either at
Dawson or Madison upon his own
land and then demand side track
from the railroad. If this is refused
he will carry the case into the courts,
providing he can obtain the support
of the railroad commissioners This
is a case in which every farmer of the
state is vitality interested, and if the
commissioners are wise they will
stand by Mr.. Murray to the bitter
end. If we are entirely at the mercy
of the Minneapolis rings we want to
know it now, and the farmers of the
state will elect to the next legislature
men who will stand by their interests
though they have to wade through
rivers of gold. For in spite of our de-
plorable experience of last winter we
know that there are men in state
who cannot be bought. If we have
been sold out in the matter of an
open market it will pay us to spend a
good deal of our time in finding men
whom we are sure we can trust.
And it will be done.
The article taken from the Dawson
Sentinel, as above. is crowded full of
pungent facts. If any farmer receiv-
ing this paper fails to read it, then
he fails in the fulfillment of his duty.
And, ii, after reading it, he does. not
feel inspired to act from this time
henceforward with the Alliance-in
every possible wayne fails again in
coming up to the full standard of his
manhood,
But we have faith in the farmer
We believe that they will rouse-will
awaken to the slogan that has gone
forth! If these things Can continue
unheeded, then indeed the case of the
tOiler is a hopeless one.
But the case of Mr.. Murray is only
one of many. Sidetracks have been
ripped up. Men have been crowded
OUT OF their own elevators. Ware
houses have been moved. Men have
been ruined within the last three
years. Your grain laws, your rail-
way commission, your granger laws,
are farces which no rich white man is
bound to respect. This is a sumner
but look over the record. See
what has been done to destroy you,
and see how every man who indig-
nantly raises hand against outrage
becomes the butt of abuse and ridi-
Guile! How long will you continue
to sell your country for party when
the reeking base of politics is soaked
with corruption and the framework
is reared up with money stolen from
you.