St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-06
COMPETITION STIFLED.
The Marshall County Banner Wig
orously Arraigns the Wheat

Ring.
The exposure of the wheat ring that
has been plundering the farmers of
MINI tSota for so many years has not
only set the people to recalling their
wrongs, but has started the livelieSt
kind of warfare against the combine
in the local papers of the state that do
not believe that the farmers of this CON-
mOnwealth should be robbed longer,
even though to secure reform it may be
necessary to retire the Republican
party, which has stepped forward so
promptly as the defender and the
patron of the combine. The Marshall
County Banner, one of the leading
Peoples party papers in the Red river
valley, takes no stock in the absurd de-
Tense made by the Republican machine.
Col. Conkrite, the editor. has made a
study of the question and in recent
issue expressed himself as follows:
The terrible arraignment of Charles
A. Pillsbury and the accurSed wheat
ring of Minnesota by the Chicago Her
aid and st. Paul GLOBE, is one of the
most exhaustive and convincing exposes
of thoroughly organized combination
of systematic robbery brought to light
in many years. Whatever motive may
have actuated the Herald and GLOBE to
begin the investigation of this subject
we vii! not say: but they have torn the
mask of deception from the faces of
gang of genteel villains. who have fat
tened at the expense of honest toll.
They have brought to light the secrets
of this mysterious business; they have
drawn aside the curtain. and Charles A.
Pillsbury and his
Gang of Plunderers
stand before the people as proven per-
Cntf rnta 0IrrE
During all this investigation every
statement regarding the nature of the
elevator business with the public has
been given with great reluctance, and
every statement made by Mr.. PIllsbury,
who is the acknowledged head, has
been for the purpose of protecting and
covering up the gang under the pre-
sumed mantel of truth. So completely
intrenched IS this gang of public plum
dererS behind the bulwark of fraud and
deception. and SO emboldened have they
become through the years of successful
robbery that when this work of investi-
CATION began, they openly defied every
attempt on the part of those who have
suffered to adjust and regulate the
Manifold Inconsistencies
in the wheat market. They have been
driven from one position to another by
the convincing logic of an honest and
truthful investigation. They have
laughed at every attempt to unrayel the
my sterieS surrounding this robbers
ring. They have baffied every effort to
adjust the inequalities of our wheat
markets. II am the king" says Pills
bury, land I'll bet you $4,000 that am
not guilty." is the last bold and vulgar
bluff of this monstrous human devil
fish. Much power has made him mad.
He can conceive of nothing stronger
than the accursed wheat ring, of which
he is the leading spirit. He has ruled
the prices and absolutely controlled the
markets ever since the he'd River valley
first blOSsomed with growing grain. He
has filched from the pockets of every
wheat grower in Minnesota and the Da-
kotas to enrich the Golfers of mon-
StrouS and
Gigantic Living Octopus
that threatens the prosperity of every
wheat raiser in the West AS a weak
and t1lmsy defense, he says that compe-
tition has always existed, and the ele-
vators have not interfered with it. This
is most startlingsseXample of lying
mendacity. Every independent buyer
that has ever attempted to do business
at this place has either been ruined or
forced out of the field by the inhuman
combination. 1t is useless for any man
to attempt to bolster up the elevator
system of Minnesotn and the Dakotas.
1t is one grand combination SO COM
pletely organized that the wheat raisers
are powerless and helpless in its arms.
If ever there was any competition, that
day has gone. At this point. where
there are four different elevators Oper-
ated, one man only receives notices Of
market reports. with instructions to
Notify Other Buyers.
Another local agent operates two diff
ferent elevators-a living farce and a
mockery to any claim of competitive
market. The end Is nigh; tornado is
coming. No combination, however pow
erful, can dominateothe public with
high handed ifhpGnty and survive al
ways. These grievances have been &C
cum ulating for years, and no effort on
the part of the Republican party has
been made to correct them. The lead
ing Republican paper of the state in the
defender and open apologist of Pills
bury and his gang Of thieves, and is SO