St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-30
CONVINCING PROOF
OF the Existence of the Great
Wheat Combine

Of the Existence of the Great
Wheat Combine.
No one can read the pamphlet, "The
Great Conspiracy" without being con-
vinced of its truth. 1t carries conviction
with it. The Republican press at once
took it up and began an assault upon it
because it was evident that its circula-
tion meant the downfall of that party in
Minnesota. But the assault is mere
abuse. Not one fact has been contro-
verted. A cry against the Chicago
board of trade has been raised, and un-
der this cover the Republican press has
endeavored to divert attention from the
great expose. But it will not answer.
1t is true, as the book says, that
it presents to the world the first
ring which is now, and for years has
been, with persistent activity robbing
the farmer of the profit he is entitled to
receive Gil his grain, and incidentally,
as consequence, robblng the merchant
and other classes of business men who
depend upon the farmers prosperity
for their living. The pages which fol-
low are full to Overf1owing with testi-
mony that cannot be contradicted.
showing cOnclusvely land beyond any
SO long existed of a close combination
between the elevator and milling COM
panies and the railroads in Minnesota
are founded on fact, and are susceptible
of demonstration. They relate history
which almost SurpaSSeS the ability of
the average man to comprehend, so full
is it Of trickery, skillful miSrepreSenta-
ton of facts. intimidation, prevarica-
ton, evasion and fraud.
''They show that for years a combine
composed of the elevator, milling and
railroad interests of Minnesota has been
an octopus whose tenacles have been
fastened about the agricultural and
business interests of Minnesota, the
Dakotas and Washington. and are now
being stretched forth to compass those
of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and
any other state in which its arms may
secure firm hold. In these pages it is
shown that this combination has delib-
erately. by the association together of
elevators and milling companies
and the cooperation of railroads,
fixed a price beyond which it
will not pay the farmer for his
wheat: that 1t has for some years, and
is now, paving such low price that it
can sell the grain in Minneapolis and
Duluth at profit ranging from 1015 to
20 CeHtS per DuSlel, anu LllaL tulS onOf-
nous aggregate sum of money it is put
ting in its own pocket, with the result
that its members are growing richer
and richer every year. piling up mill
ions upon millions of dollars, and re-
ceiving so much money that they
scarcely know what to do with it.
This book lis not repetition of the
many reports and speculations on the
existence of a wheat combine in the
Northwest. Men are convinced, and
have been so convinced for many years,
that such combine exists. But beyond
some facts brought out at a legislative
investigation at st. Paul, in March,
1892, there has never yet been produced
positive and incontroyertlble proof of it
1--WE present that proof for the first
time. That it is genuine is proven by
the fac-SimileS of the documents pro-
duced herewith, and the ear-marks
which will make other letters and docu-
ments readily recognized, as we'll as by
the circumStantiality of detail which
forms continuous and consistent story.
The statements made in this volume are
true, and no fair-minded man, who will
consider his own interests sufficiently
to read it through, but will declare.
when he finishes it, that there is neither
eXaggeration in the deductions nor lack
OF warrant for their publication"