St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-23
CAN'T GET TOGETHER.
Miilers and Elevator Men Take
Widely Diyerging Roads.

widely Diyefging Roads.
Minneapolis is the headquarters oflthe
elevator combine and wheat ring On
that account 1t is interesting to note
now the GLOBES exposure of the
methods of the combine has been re-
ceived there by the men most directly
interested. One of the most interesting
points Is that the attack of the GLoRE
has unified the forces of the combine in
one respect - antag0nlSm TO the eX-
posture. Minneapolis is the home of
w. ID. Washburn, the adopted
father of the anticipation bill.
which was before the last session of
congress. Senator Washburn is mem
Der of the Pittsburgh asllburn syndi-
cate, and in the Minneapolis Office of
that firm is commonly known as the
birthplace of the anticipation bill. Pills
bury and Washburh and their minions
fought for the antI-option bill. The
heads of the elevator companies in Min
neapoliS fought that bll-fought it by
petitions, by protests, by threats. They
fought it because it was blow to their
interests. They didn't want Piilsbury
and WaShburu TO have the elevator
cheStnuts ont of the fire.
Then came the GLOBES exposures
of the methods of the wheat ring.
With it came an instantaneous change
of front. Thieves often quarrel over
the distribution of the booty, but in
stantly make common cause and fight
for ore another with desperation the
moment the officers of the law appear.
SO in this case. The PillSburyS and
Washburns and the elevator men are
equally concerned in bleeding the
farmer. When they saw their surgical
Instruments about to be wrenched from
their grasp through the instrumentality
OF the GLOBE they made common cause.
Ana there is humor i'll the way they
have done this.
When the first broadside was poured
into the files of the wheat combine,
Commander Pifisbury and Aide de
Camp Washburn howied: "This is the
work of the Chicago wheat gamblers
their last desperate effort to defeat the
anti-opti0n bill" And they have stuck
to it. Their faction of the camp follow
erS took up the cry and have repeated
it every day. Their mouthpieces, the
Tribune and journal, have flung that
argument 20 the world ia news column,
III cartoon and in heavy editorial But
the elevator men couldn't consistently
repeat that cry. They had fought that
dnti-option bill as vigorously as had
their brethren Oh the Chicago board of
trade. They couldn't swallow their pages
OF teiegraphIc protest. their quireS of
denunclatory resolutions, their reamS of
petitions against the anti-option bill, all
at one gulp. and without one bit of
sauce. Nor could they allow their big
profits to be taken from them. So they
shouted: 1T is political scheme,
purely political, and nothing more"
And thus the defense of the wheat
combine is managed. PilIsbury and
Washburn, on the one hand, cry that
the Chicago grain gamblers have in
Splred the exposure; on the other hand,
the elevator men assert that the ex-
posure is political trick. Both parties
are fighting to gain the same point. but
their paths steadily diverge.
One of the funniest phases in this
connection is furnished by William
Henry EustiS. the Republican candidate
for mayor of Minneapolis. AS faith
full member Of the chamber of COM
MERGE, EustiS is bound to oppose the
anticipation bill, which would cut off his
opportunities for taking a little flyer in
wheat. For that reason he should Join
the chamber of commerce gang and cry,
Political Scheme.'' On the other hand,
he wants the support Of PiIlsbury and
NaShburn In the race for the mayor
atty, and perforce must argue that the
exposure is Il Chicago stab at Minneap--
oils industries. So he straddieS But
he doesn't do it gracefully. lie also, in
his enthusiastic wind bounding about
Minneapolis greatness, forgets that he
gives Minneapolis unenviable noturiety
when he defends the ''milking'' of the
farmer as one of the industries of his
city.