The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
The Grain Fraud.

foSultS VI UHo WHcbU lHVcSCISdUlOu-
we mean the lack of results. If it be
true that r. J. Hall and Chas. Can
ming, and Brandborg, and others
some of whom have been positively
connected with the wheat ring-had
no more to "show up than the old
1856 shipment OF wheat without
inspection, some should go to Jail
for swindling the state out of $13,-
900. II they had anything more to
show up they must have been ''seen,"
for they have not produced the facts.
Is it possible that the whole thing
has been a scheme to get the wheat
business under examination through
Hall and Canning?-so that it could
be plastered over? Where are the
facts promised? "Ineffciency of the
inspection system!" Certainly-but
that was understood-thoroughly.
Where are the thelts and mighty
sources of MISUNDERSTANDING the
loss OF the fifteen to twenty million
dollars to the farmers of the state!
Alas, those gigantic promises whittle
down to the farce of 279, 900 bushels
of wheat moved without a proper
record-of which 100000 bushels
were moved by the sanction OF Gov.
Hubbard and Com'r Baker, in 1885,
6! Only $4,000 bushels in six years
remain as the glorious discovery!
Bah, such childishness makes us sick.
Neither Hall nor Canning, nor any of
that neutrality-suspicious. gang
exhibited any desire to get facts
which would crush out the wheat
combination. Such leaders! They
make us Disguised with humanity.
Would a man who actually
ASKED MONEY of w. R. Merriam
to sell out the entire reform move
ment just twenty-four hours before
Owen was nominated, prove to DO
bribe-proof in a pretended wheat in
vestigation?
But the control of the price OF
wheat by a man named Irons!-a
matter which fills columns OF an an
ti-forfeiture-H ompe-$ 5O-a-week-M ul-
Ter paper in st. Paul.
1t makes our blood boil to be ask
ed to take notice of such scum!
Good God, is there a man in the
northwest who has not known that
the elevators fixed the price of
wheat? Has not the editor of the G..
W. so stated in almost every village
in the nOrthwest-with the names of
the officers who conducted the bust
ness! Aye, and months before this
rotten farce did not the GREAT WEST
get hold of the
SECRET CARTEL OR AGREE
MENT
of the two associations and publish
that cartel to the world, and actual
contracts with buyers to get out of
the market for enormous sums!
Bah!-where was Canning then?
Why he was in the wheat ring, ridi-
culing those documents!-was he
not in the wheat ring? Where
was that wheat buyer Brandborg,
who paid for his new house with one
years profits at a small station?
He was where he now is, calmly pos
ing as a reformer! Where was
Hall? We can tell where Hall
was-and by the Eternal it will have
to be told some day!
Wonderful testimony that!-and
yet those secret orders and myster-
ious powers OF an invisible autocracy
were mailed to 1000 stations daily,
POSTAL CARDS!!
so that every postmaster and clerk
and carrier and chance visitor could
see them! Mystery OF mysteries!
Here's a sample OF the postal cards
sent by Irons every day:
Minneapolis, Mimi, June 4, 1891.
GEO. FILEsTON & Co.,
st. Cloud, MINI.
Your prices, taking effect to-mor
row, are as follows:
No. 1 Hard ...................... s .93
No. 1 Northern. ........... 5 81
No. 2 Northern. ............... S 81
No. 3 Northern. .............. S .82
Yours truly,
FRANK H. IRONS.
Why, farmers, is there a man in
this country who can read who does
not know that prices are thus made
on wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco,
oats, pork, etc., etc.
When the GREAT WEST published
those wonderful documents which
mi n SOMETHING NEW AND STRANGE