New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-19

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platforms of the three parties in this state
will show that that adopted by the Re
publicans is the only one that in any
way answers to the demands of the agri-
cultural sections, whereas the Peoples
Party and Democratic platforms are al
most alike IN their catering to the rail
roads. So far is this true that it has
lead many leadingAlliance men inNorth-
ern Minnesota, where jim Hills inhu-
ence predominates, to come out for the
Republican platform as against all 9TH
ers. If Others look into the matter f;,ir-
ly they must follow their example.
Furthermore, the Republican platform
is the only one which ad vocates anti-op-
ton legislation. To defeat this the wheat
gamblers of Chicago are making bitter
fight against the Republican party, their
ultimate object being to defeat Mr..
Washburn and Mr.. Pillsbury who are
leading the anti-option movement. Now
the Review believes that this gambling
in wheat has much to do with the de-
preston of prices and that the anti-op-
ton bill of Senator Washburn is the
most feasible way of getting at the evil.
At any rate the opposition to the meas
ure which has been started by the Chica-
go gamblers through the St. Paul Globe
IS indicative of its merits, and yet the
Demscratic and Peoples Party platforms
are silent on the question.
W. W. Erwin, the great lawyer who
made Alliance speeches two years ago
and was employed by that party to in
vestigate the railroad transportation and
elevator difficulties of Minnesota, takes
the same view of the matter and when
asked his opinion of the attack made bv
the St. Paul Globe on Pillsbury he saws:
AS I understand the testimony taken
before the investigating committee the
combine which Mr.. Moore found to ex-
ist was a combine forced by dealing in
false futures on the Chicago board of
trade. If an English miller who buys
wheat from Russia OF India, as we'll as
from samples of mixed wheat from New
York, finds himself obliged to insure
himself by sales in the Chicago market
how do you expect Mr.. Pillsbury can
purchase wheat without insuring himself
by sales in the same market? Pillsbury
testified that he was obliged to sell each
day the same amount of wheat he Dur
chased in the Northwest at Chicago to
protect himself against a price which
next day might be arbitrarily lowered in
Chicago by gambling. No living man
can be bull before that market. Until
that gambling is destroyed there never
will Or can be value placed On wheat
other than gambling value. A local
combine was adopted at Duluth and Min
neapolis Of the Chicago market less the
freight to Chicago from Duluth and Min
neapolis.
Mr.. Pillsbury explained to the inves-
tigating committee that no Western dea-
| ler could make actual wheat sell above
the price fixed by the gamblers. If this
fictitious price was not permitted to be
set up by the gamblers against the actu-
al value, Mr.. Pillsbury and every dealer
of actual wheat would necessarily be in
terested in advancing the price of wheat.
But Pillsbury testified that each day he
was forced to sell in the Chicago market.
His sales had q tendency to depress the
market. The investigation conclusively
shows that the false sales in the Chicago
market creates the combine to lower pri-
ces and compels price lists to prevent
had but one remedy to suggest, and that
was that the State erect elevators at deep
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of grain against the false markets of Chi
cago. And if gambling in false features
could be stopped, this remedy would
possibly not be found necessary.
Now the Chicago Herald and st. Paul
Globe if they understand the question
must admit that their efforts are for poll
tical effect only. They strangely offer
no remedy. That is not strange to me,
for there are but two remedies. One is
the plan of Washburn and Pillsbury and
the other the building of State elevators
at deep water at Duluth. If the Herald
and Globe are honest, they must either
go with Washburn and Pillsbury for an
anti-option bill, or they must oppose the
traditional policy of the Democracy and
advocate a radical system Of internal i'm
4 nrnvaIn nntc at tbe State'c eynapce That