St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-17

Democratic friend is registered.
Abuse Is no argument. and it never
get helped a bad cause.
The Republican defenders of the
wheat ring have found this out to their
satisfaction during the past few weeks.
The Republican managers have filled
their organs, or, rather, those of them
that would consent to it, with attacks
on the reputation of some of the chief
witnesses against the ring, and by
branding them as scoundrelS think that
they have answered the charges.
"Wolcott is a rascal" shout the or
ganS, and then, without answering or
denying a charge, they claim that there
is no wheat combine.
Neither are the Infamous charges
concerning the alleged wheat combine
producing the effect intended 10y the
Democratic state committee" said the
evening Republican organ, Of this city,
yesterday in its account of the Doodle
session of the county chalrmen with the
state central committee.
"lntamOuS" is good, but until the
Republican defenders of the wheat ring
present proof of the falsity of the evil
dence that has been presented, the word
must be used in describing something
else than the story of the robbery of
the wheat growers of Minnesota.
This state. long as it has been ruled
by rings, is not yet i'll that abject state
where it has become Infamous to tell
the truth.
The robbery of the farmers of the
state by the wheat ring may properly be
called Infamous.
The assumption by the Republican
ring of the role of defenders and
patrons of the wheat robbers is in
famous.
The subserviency of the RAILROAD COM
mission to the railroads and the wheat
ring is Infamous.
The doings of theRDuluth elevators
that were accustomed to ship stolen
wheat under the cover of darkness were
Infamous.
The open alliance between the prose-
cuIion apd the wheat robbers in the
legislative investigation of the wheat
steals was Infamous.
The failure to examine certain wit
nesses by the deputy attorney general
in that Investigation was Infamous.
The rewarding of Henry w. Child
for his services to the wheat ring by
making him the Republican nominee
for attorney general was Infamous.
These are few of the many facts
and incidents in the history of the
wheat ring exposure that may properly
be termed infamous, and the evidence
will warrant the term, but the course OF
the Republican defenders of this un-
holy combine in ignoring the evidence
entirely and attacking witnesses will
not and should not do else than
disgust the People.
This it has done, and the farmers of
the state are reading the exposure of
the dOingS of this great combine and
forming their opinions as they read.
Sitting. as they do, i'll the jury box of
this state, calmly considering these
matters, their Judgment may be await
ed with confidence by those who hold
that the prosperity of the farmers and
the business men of this state is para
mount to and more important than the
continuance IN power OF a party that
has fallen into the hands of a gang of
cnt-thrCatS who would enSlave million
people that few great corporations
may prosper beyond all justice and
reason.
The correspondent of the Chicago
Herald has devoted great deal of care
full investigation to this wheat combine,
and in late issue goes into the organ
iZation and workings Of this most
damnable Of all trusts. Speaking of
the testimony brought out before the
legislative committee, he said:
But before passing this testimony in
review it will be well to glance over
some of the conditions that have made
it possible for the existence OF such
state OF things as now prevails in Min
nesota and the DakOtas. Whoever
shall undertake to investigate the
great wheat combination of the
Northwest will find that the
further he penetrates the deeper will
the conspiracy appear, and the more he
probes the matter tie more will he be
impressed with its power One may
wonder at first how it is that people,
ostensibly free, can quietly
Submit to ITS Abuses
and its tyranny, and why it is that the
whole Northwest has not long ago risen
in arms, so to speak, and, with the hot
blast of public Indignation, blasted the
foul combine forever. But if he eX-
amines more closely he will see that it
has become. through long and con-
tinuOuS growth. SO intrenched in power
that it is now, so far as its interests are
concerned, a practical though impersonal
CeSarism,
Its grip is on every avenue through
which shipments from the state may be
made, and upon majority OF the wheat
houses at the local stations. 1t has a
common business agent and uniform
price list. 1t has facilities for handling
annually 2O0,O00,O0O bushels of wheat,
and an actual storage capacity of not
less than 100,000,000 bushels. 1t has
agents at every station and representa-
tiyes constantly travelling from place to
place to guard its interests. In the
growing season, while the wheat is
ripening, its agents. both local and
migratory, report daily OH the prospects.
SO that it is enabled before the crop is
harvested to estimate its probable pro-
duction.
Yts ManfpuIations Are Such
that it somehow gets possession and
holds in its warehouses the vast crops
pf the Northwest without actually own
Ing the grain, and it even sells it with
put delivering it.
IL receives into store from farmers'