The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-08
The Wheat Steals.

matter which had been talked of
written of, carried before the ware
house commission and permitted, is
another question. The GREAT WEST
not only believes that there have
been constant wheat steals, and
shipments from elevators-but it
knows it and can prove it, if the affi-
davits of parties implicated in our
possession amount to anything. But
as for this Hall development, it was
revival of an old hot wheat and
burnt elevator business of 1885 and
SO, and Hall brought it out again to
make political capital to offset the
tremendous developments of the
GREAT WEST then being published.
However, the resurrection OF that
trouble is almost sure to lead to ex-
posures of some kind, for the evils
exist-and we hope that daylight will
appear on the crooked work. But it
will not appear through the blund-
ers of Eric Olson, who has, it appears,
loaded down a vessel with 10000
bushels OF wheat ION paper that
can carry but 10000 bushels at it's
best.
The Committee of Investigation
met at the Capitol, Room 16, on
Monday. The committee consists of
the following members:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES John Day
Smith, Reprs. Zelch and Caswell.
Observation-Disclosures Geissel, Repr.
Barrett.
Alliance. Sevatson, Reps. A.
French and Moore.
Geissel was elected chairman, and
Atty Gen'l Clapp for attorney. Gen.
Clapp was nominated by Mr.. Sevat-
son. In doing so he stated that his
part OF the state felt that the $1O.-
900 voted for this investigation was
an extravaganza. That Erwin would
get SIS day out OF the job, and the
State had an Attorney General for
the very purposes required who would
save that expense. An animated dis
cusssion followed, and Gen. Clapp was
appointed, by vote of 4 to 2.
An effort was made by the elevator
attorney to have the committee meet
at Duluth, where the witnesses were.
This was denied by the committee,
and the meeting ordered for the 10Th
of May.
OF course our readers are anxious
to know how the GREAT WEST re-
CARDS this matter. We simply state
that we have not one grain of conf
dence in anything that lying trail
torous fraud, who draws money from
banks for political purposes. and lies
around the capitol for bait all winter
may inaugurate. II anything comes
OF this investigation it will be be-
cause the force OF the ball set in mo-
ton carries it beyond the intended
point and reveals some OF the wicked
ness undreamed Of.
That is our OpiniOn-and it dOesn' t
cost much. As to Mr.. Erwin, we do
not care to express an opinion.
When vast body OF laborers will re-
solve, and resolve, and resolve, and
pound, and crate, and kick againsta
class OF men, whose brains are culti-
waited for eloquence, and whose con-
science is always advertised for sale,
and deny these language-foundries
admission to their body,-we say
when a vast body of men are caught
in a whirlpool of whoopers by the very
first lawyer who fires the Ephesian
dome with his beautiful rhetoric
then what can men say who are used
to such ''legal luminosity?" What
shall we say? Nothing. Simply turn
to the wall and-weep.
Oh God! But is there no door open
to the great manhood Of the toilers
where claptrap hath no power, nor
sophistry throne!
Irwin was not chosen attorney at
SIS day. We are sorry. For the
same lawyer-ability that enables a
man trained to think ANYTHING, be-
lieve anything, say anything in poll
tics, would enable him to work like an
incarnation for the farmers on the
committee.
We are sorry-not because we
would give one grain Of sand for Bill
Twins political "convictions," but
because he is trained to work for
CHS side," and get all the meat out
of the shuck.
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