Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-20

81 to o. cents upon every bushel OF
wheat. Proof OF the elevator companies
knowing Of the robberies by the eleva-
tor agents is given In q number OF In
stances, one Of which relates now
country agent for well-known elevator
company HAD an over-rGn, so-called, but
when was only steal OF 10000 bushels
OF wheat.
The book carries the proof of this sys-
tematic course of robbety directly TO
the doors OF the officers of the elevator
companies in an affidavit by young
man named HOlcomb. THIS affidavit as
serts that Holcomb mixed wheat Tor
many firms while employed by one OF
tho Pnlsbury elevator companies, and
that such mixing was done by and with
the instructions of the officers OF the
company. The latter gave such instruc-
lions. he swears, with the knowledge OF
and by the consent OF the directors OF
the company.
SOME TELL Ia LIE LETTERS.
There are 80 or so letters from ]. II.
Hnand, general manager Of the Min
neapoliS Millers' Association, the So
called trust, United States Senator
Washburn, Charles A. Pillsbury, G. NJ.
Amsden, general manager of the Min
neaDolis q Northern Elevator Company,
owned by the Pillburys: s. A. Harris,
president of the Northwestern National
bank Of Minneapolis; L. Cardin, general
manager OF the Northern Pacific Ele-
yatOr Company; d. NJ. Robbins, presl-
dent of the Northwestern Elevator
Company, and others.
These letters all agree on the point
that the elevator companies OF the
Northwest have made enormous sums
of money during the last few years,
and each letter is corroborative EVIL
dence that the profits ranged from
% to 30, 40 and so per cent. on capital
stocks ranging from 100000 to S1,000,-
600. Mr.. Pillsbury and others who
wrote the letters probably never i'm
agined that letters written to the Paris
bank In 1850 would get back TO America
and be used in the presidential cam
paign Of 1892, nor did il occur to Mr..
PillSbury himself that the letter writ
ten 10 II. +. Arnold, farmer, and the
letter TO the Paris bank, the first to q
point far distant In the Northwest and
the second to a point thousands Of miles
away in Europe, would ever come to-
gether and be used as proof that Mr..
PillSbury aud those associated with him
had deceived the farmers and the rest OF
the world on this side of the Atlantic as
to the profits which they were making
out Of the wheat business.
SCORING SENATOR wAsHBURN.
United States Senator Washburn re-
ceives a scoring at the hands of the
compilers for his failure TO mention at
any time in Congress the facts which he
stated in his letter TO the Paris bank, 10
the effect that the elevator companies
had made good profits, and he is also
accused Of bad faith in endeavoring TO
put the blame for the condition Of the
wheat market on the boards Of trade,
when he must have known from these
letters, as we'll as through his actions
as president Of the $500" railroad, that
the fault did not lie with the boards OF
trade, but was directly traceable TO the
millerS and elevator men OF
the Northwest, aided and abet-
! ted by the railroads. A direct
charge is made against Senator Wash
burn that as president of the $500"
railroad he co-operated with the ele-
vator men in preventing competition
/ with the combination. 1t is asserted
that he ordered his general manager.
one Underwood, not to furnish cars to
| independent buyers, and that by this
means competition was stiaed.
The book goes on to tell how the an
| ti-optiOn bill was drawn in Pillsbury's
| Office in the interest of the combine,
and the assertion is made that the Re-
publican party is connected directly
with the big wheat steals, and that
/ com binatiOn is running Knute Nelson,
| the Republican candidate for Governor
of Minnesota. II is also broadly limited
| that United States Senator WaShburn
/ paid 5000, 600 TO be elected to the United
States Senate, and from a casual read
| ing OF the book it appears that the
wheat combination absolutely controls
not only the warehouse and railroad
| commissioners, and all OF the ma
Chinery Of that political Office, but also
tue MIN utSOtd oLdJo Lug iSIdtuiO AVoCiA.
II is said that there is great deal
more evidence back Of that put out in
the Book, which is being reserved when
the Republican machine OF Minnesota
attempts TO refute the charges, as it
will undoubtedly do. The arraignment
is too powerful and too direct to be ig-
nored. The facts were OF course pre-
served with absolute secrecy from the
Republicans and those whom the publ
cation directly attacks, and its effect on
them will be that Of thunderbolt out
OF clear sky.