St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-10
ARE AFTER WOLCOTT.
Having 70 Defense to Offer, tho
Combine Goes After Him.

Ine appearance OF half-dOZen coll
umns on G. G. Wolcott in the Pioneer
Press few days ago is but the Begin
ming of a series of attacks of like nature.
The emissions of the combine have an
peared at LarimOre, as will be seen by
a special to the Chicago Herald quoted
below. and an article may be expected
from that quarter soon.
The combine, realizing that it can
offer no defense, seeks to mislead the
public by proving Wolcotta rascal.
AS has been stated before, the greater
rascal WOlcOtt is proven to have been.
the more conclusive becomes the evil
dence against his former employers, the
combine.
The Larimore special gives a great
deal OF Interesting information regard
ing the situation there. The article
follows:
The exposure of the wheat combina-
ton is getting TO the remote points In
Dakota. This state, as well as Mime
i sofa, is torn up over the accusations,
and there is i'll all the farming COM
munlty great excitement as the result
of the publication of the facts. Farmers
thrOughout the state are securing cop-
les OF the Herald and reading them at
their leisure. Just at this time, and in
connection with the exposure, the facts
regarding the drought in 1875 are
being recalled. In certain sections of
both DaEotaS in the years 1887 and 1888
the farmers raised
Absolutely No Grain
or vegetables, and were dependent upon
the outside world for food and clothing.
The farmers sent agents all over the
country to beg food and clothing, and
large contributions We're made bv the
leading wholesale houses of st. Paul
and Minneapolis and merchants ali over
the states OF Minnesota and Dakota.
During the previous years. 1884, 1885
and 1886, they had had immense crops
IN this same district. If they had not
been robbed of The profits on their grain
OF from 10 to 25 cents per bushel. bv
which the elevator companies were en-
abled to pay dividends of 40 and so per
cent. the farmers would have had suf-
flclent means to buy food and clothing.
ana the two Dakotas would not have
had blight-put upon them by having
published i'll the Eastern papers reports
that the country was nothing but bar
rem wilderness and the people were
starving to death by the wholesale,
which frightened out good many i'm
migrants who were moving to these
states.
Hubert, the former partner of Pills
bury, was associated with AmSden in a
national bank at DEVILS Lake, n. d.
W hen the farmers were unable to pay
chattel mortgages this bank held upon
their stock the bank foreclOsed and took
from the farmers several hundred horses
and shipped them out of the country and
sold them for very low price.
The reports of farming statistics for
this year in Minnesota and Dakota show
that farm mortgages have increased in
the Wheat-raiSing districts, while they
have decreased slightly in number in the
districts where the farmers also raise
stock aS we'll as wheat.
Trying to Parry the Blow.
The frantic efforts of the combination
to escape the force Of the exposure by
denounclng the author of 1t. have been
manifested the last few days by the
appearance here of man VINO is TAX
ing affidavits and Seeking to find facts
to use against G. G. Wolcott. The ring
is pursuing its old tactics. 1t is mat
ter of general comment up Iii this cOun-
try that so far the accused have not
answered single charge made except
belltting the character of Wolcott.
Farmers are almost unanimous in say
ing that whatever might be shown
against Wolcott is not in their opinion
a defense to the ALLEGATIONS. The COM
blnat1on has a tremendous sum of
money at its command, and its funds
are to be used, not in refutlng the
charges, because they cannot be re-
futed, but upon the line Indicated and
In the manner with which the cumbina-
ton seems to be most familiar.
Ole Hansen Ringstad, a farmer near
Larimore,- was formerly farmer in
Southern Minnesota. He says the COM
bination robbed him in that section to
such all extent that he lost his home
stead on mortgage, and determined to
20 away from the influence of the ring,
if possible, and so moved to Northern
Minnesota. He found when he got nice
ly started there, raising wheat, that the
same combine existed there, and broke
him up again in a similar manner. He
had then only one land right left, the
tree claim" right, which he is now liv-
ing Oh near here, raising wheat, and
thinks he will have to give that up this
year and go farther west, as the COM
Oine has finally reached this section.