St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-22
HIS Bet 4 BLUFF.
A Terrible Arpaignment OF
Charles A. Pillsbury by ;,
the Chicago Herald. +
It Says He Is the Culprit IL
the Dock Confronted by I!
Many Witnesses.
His Plea the Same as That
Always Made by Polit- >.
zeal Knaves.
His Defense of a Monstrous
Monopoly a Load Too =
Aedyy W CdFFy.
One Question to Be Answered.
Has the Wheat Combine I
Robbed Farmers ?
Mr. EPillsbury Adds Number
Two to His Letters to
the Globe,
And Says He Will Have
Definite Proposition
Hereafter.
His Defense Of a Monstrous
Monopoly a Load Too >
Heavy to Carry. !.
Mr. FPillsbury Adds Number
Two to His Letters to
the Globe,
And Says He Will Have q
Definite Proposition
Hereafter.
Special to the Globe.

Speclal 10 the GLOBE
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The following
editorial will appear in the Herald to.
morrow morning in reply to Pillsbury's
open letter to the GLOBE:
"Pll bet you $4,000 am not guilty."
yells Charles A. Piilsbury, head and
front of the offending wheat ring in
Minneapolis. The time has gone past
for him to clear himself with bet, how
ever big. The man is accused of wrong
doing, is arrested and arraigned. He is
culprit in the dock, confronted with a
cloud of witnesses, admonished to sex
crecy by firm judge called Justice, eX-
amined by skilled attorney called
Truth. weighed by jury called the
People. No vulgar bluff will bring him
acquittal. He can find no safety by de-
claring that the charges against him are
campaign matter. That is the certain,
plea of guilt always put up by POLITICAL
knaves. The truth of the charge against
Pillsburyg and his gang may harm the
Republican party of Minnesota. If SO,
it is because that crowd is the Repub-
llcan party of Minnesota, and there is
no use trying to heap odium on his ac-,
cusers. One question only is to be de-
cided. Has the wheat combine \
Robbed the Farmers.
The Herald charges were supported
by proofs strong as Holy Writ that the
farmers were so robbed; that the rob-
berry has continued for many years:
that 1t was effected by combination
which absolutely closed every avenue
of escape for the farmer. aud that it
made the knaves guilty of the robbery, !,
immensely rich and powerful. When
Charles A. Pillsbury rushes to the de- :,
fense of this monstrous monopoly he
shoulders load of responsibility,
too heavy to carry. Much power
has made him mad. He can con-
ceive of nothing stronger than the
ring which has ruled the Northwest. |!
In that section and in that ring he has
he finds foe that dares to front him.
He knows how slippery is the ground
beneath his feet. He knows how empty
of weapons are both his hands, so he
borrows courage that was never his
own, and shouts his vulgar barroom
defiance: "Pll bet you S1O,0O0." There
are two fragments from the nass
of testimony against the ring. One
is a letter from Pillsbury to a |
possible competitor at Larimore declar-
Ing there was no money in the wheat
business; that per cent was more than
the best of them could make. The other
is letter from Pillsbury to a possible
creditor in Paris, declaring there are
millions in the wheat business; that hs
has made from 20 to so per cent, and
others may have made more. Both lets
ters are Pillsbury's. lie cannot, ha
dare not, deny other of them. If they
alone were in evidence against him h(
would be convicted
In Any Honest Court
on earth. But they are not alone.
There are hundreds behind them as
as they. The shameless
attempts to reconcile his let
ters. He boasts that for years his CONS
bine has been doing business on 81 Of
It's own money and $1,000 borrowed
money, and that on the basis of the
total investment the profits have
been 2 per cent, while on the
basis of its private investment the
profits have been so per cent. That
S fatal admission. If it is true, let
lin keep his $4,000. He will need
hem. Men so slippery as he, vouching
or trusts as corrupt as his own, will
leed to write further than Paris for
lelp next time. 1t is not the autumn
ephyr, but the whirlwind. which has
truck the elevator trust. This time 1t
S not the lettering snowflake of an
winter, but the advanc
ng avalanche that marks it for
destruction. 1t is not the spray
rom a painted fountain. but the
weeping, crushing cataract, and it will
ngulf the combine and sweep it from
he face of the earth. The unholy
wheat ring must be broken. The dis
onest party that supported it must be i.
The snob aristocracy that
ook root in the unclean heap that grew
nd f1ourished above it, that produced
his Pillsbury as its most fragrant
lower, must be uprooted and flung with