St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-07
Every Charge Made Has Been
Proven to the Small
est Detail.
No Stronger Evidence Could
Be Desired Than Has
Been Furnished.
Farmers Robbed Of Millions
Of Dollaps--TaXing the
Man.
They have no defense.

rule are discredited.
And they will be driven from power.
Defeat on national issues in this cam
paign was predicted by the leading Re-
publican organ two years ago.
Because the people of Minnesota
favor lower and not increased taxation.
For this reason the Republican de-
Tenders of ring rule tried TO discuss
state issues.
But on this line they found the Dem
ocrats ready to meet them, and in few
days every stump speaker from Nelson
down and every organ were on the de-
fensive.
They were thrown into panic over
the wheat ring exposure from which
they have not yet recovered.
Read the views of Hon. James E.
Child, of Waseca, on the attempted de-
Tense Of the Republicans on the wheat
question:
What is the defense made by this
gang of plunderers? Why, that VOL
colt is a scoundrel.
We ask, Didn't you write those let
ters?"
They answer. "WOlcott is a black
mailer"
Didn't you sign that contract to give
WOlcott 5000 a year?'
They respond. "Wolcott is a liar"
This won't do. If you wrote those
letters then you are in the combine.
If you did not write them, we aDpre-
bend that you would not only deny
them, but that you would long before
this have caused the arrest of the news
paper men who have published them.
There can be no doubt as to the let
tiers.
And yet there are editors who, for
party's sake, deny the letters. For
shame!
TIE amount OF lying which is being
done to eceive the people Of Minnesota
In regard to the wheat combine would
be astonishing were it not so common
50 universal. And it all comes from the
Tact that the thieves have mad Il falling
out. TO a man who has watched the
formation and working Of this powerful
combine, the evidence recently pro-
duced is very welcome, for it proves
every charge heretofore made against
the railroad eleYatOr-W heat-gamblin
combine Of the Northwest 1t proves
that the wheat gamblers. with head
quarters in Chicago, have been for years
joined with the wheat buyers of Mime
sofa
To Rob tIle Producers
of certain amount on every bushel
produced. The wealthy wheat buyers
oG Minnesota got tired of giving the
lions share OF the plunder to the wheat
gamblers of Chicago, and Senator Wash
burn introduced in the senate a bill to
virtually prohibit gambling in wheat.
lie aud Mr. PillSbnry produced proof
conclusive to us that wheat gambling
robbed the farmers Of the Northwest by
iesSening the price of wheat.
Now. the wheat gamblers didn't pro-
pose to be slaughtered by their cu-part-
ners in that way. They. too, knew
something about how the farmers had
been plundered, and they, too, had evI-
dence ''strOng as holy WRIT of how 1t
had been done. They have published
the letters of c. A. PllSbury, George A.
Pilsbury, G. NJ. Amsden, j. Il. High
land, w. ID. Washburn, f. Cardin,
Pratt q Porter, s. A. Harris and others,
and also the contract between the Pills
bury company and WolcOtt, whereby
Pillsbury was to pay Wolcott $4,000 a
year for five years ($25,00O
Not TO BUY Wheat
in certain locality. That was Stat
take" for WolcOtt, and he forthwith
proceeded to open warehouses in other
places. The combine Of wheat plum
derers found that Wolcott was an ele-
plant on their hands. They couldn't
afford to buy him off everywhere, and
they didn't propose to have competi-
ton. What then? lie must be ruined.
The railroad part of the wheat com
bine was brought in and re-
fused him cars. At every point
where Wolcott started to pur-
chase wheat he was met either
with ruinOus competition, or a re.
fusal Of cars in which to ship wheat
Millers who had been purchasing his
wheat were bulldOZed into refusing to
purchase wheat of him. and everywhere
this railroad aud elevator combine so
entirely encircled him that he was ut
tcrly crashed and ruined financially,
and with him many farmers lost much
OF their grain which he was unable to
pay for. Not only was Wolcott crushed
Ly this wheat octopus, but every other
man who has attempted to purchase
wheat III opposition to the ring has been
crushed in the same way.
We have no sympathy for Wolcott,
for We look upon him as one of the
same gang; but the letters which the
gang wrote him while he was in their
employ and confidence constitute the
strongest evidence that could be given
Of the actual existence Of gigantic
combine which has plundered the farm
ers Of Minnesota and the Dakotas of
millions Of dollars.