The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-25

this drop in grade, and what was the reason
for it?
During these two weeks Armour's men
were buying in Duluth all the No 2 and be.
low grades they could
You say you will continue in the future as
you have in the past? Well 1 tell you
frankly, the past we do not like and we pre-
fer that you allow the commonwealth to get
along without your services or the services
OF any other set of commissioners to look
after our affairs. We want above everything
to get our wheat out of politics. Every other
state in this Union gets along without any
such law. We have had it thirteen years
and no other state has adopted our system
OF inspection Of wheat; all the other "com-
monWealths" seem to get along without mix
ing their wheat up in politics, and why can
not the commonwealth" of Minnesota?
We charged in our report that this is the
first year when cookie has affected the grade
of wheat. You do not deny this nor do you
give any explanation. We gave an illustra-
ton Of the working of the syndicate elevators
and syndicate mills you make no reply In
explanation.
The Pioneer Press says our committee,
secured the whole county to secure afidavits
and could succeed IN getting only four or
five. The Pioneer Press stated this as fact
THE COMMITTEE DID NOT NOR DID ANY
MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE, NOR DID
ANY OTHER PERSON TRAVEL ONE ROD
TO PROCURE AFFIDAVITS. The committee
declined large number who offered to make
affdavits, not wishing to burden the report
You say you wired Mr.. Douglas to ask the
farmers to come to st. Paul This is true;
your dispatch was read and no attention paid
to it. Why should we go to St. Paul? We
knew we had been robbed and knew how it
was done, and could not spare the time or
afford the expense of a trip to st. Paul for
the privilege of telling of It or whining to
you or any one else. The farmers in this
valley are very busy preparing for winter.
WHERE ARE YOUR PASSES.
1t is believed that you commissioners have
passes on the railroads and yearly salary of
$500 which we pay, and could come here
easier and with less expense than the farm
ers could go to st. Paul, besides you could
learn something from us while we could
learn nothing from you. You could go out
among the farmers and see the wheat in
their granaries, precisely like the wheat they
had shipped, and explain if you could, how
pure wheat weighing over 60 pounds to the
bushel could be graded No. 2 northern, as
hundreds Of thousands of bushels of our
wheat has been. You could have learned
something about wheat up in this country
but we know of no information in your pos
session about the quality of our wheat which
would be Of value to us. You say In your
findings: 1T will be conceded that putting
wheat which should go No. 2 north
ern or lower grades into No. 1
northern grade will not make No.
1 northern grade of It," l concede this,
Now is 1t not equally true that putting No.
l hard wheat into No. 2 northern does not
make it No. northern? If it is No. 1
hard is it not worth just as much Except to
the farmer) aftsr 1t is graded No. 2 northern /?
, If this is true then the farmers in this val
ley have been robbed of six cents per bushel
on hundreds of thousands Of bushels this
year in addition to dockage.
If you correctly report Erick Olson, then
Erick Olson, at Moorhead, and Erick Olson
at st. Paul. are entirely different persons
but this IS of consequence nor can 1
see any possible bearing on this question in
anything said by any of the gentlemen quoted
by you In your long report.
DODGE THE ALLEGATIONS.
| We alleged certain things to be true and
produced affidayits in support of what we
said, and yoU ignore all of the important