Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-12-29

Of these figures, present . condition
important 10 ALA disease known ~
''under consumption"
The underlying primary cause of do
precision In prices is public official,
acting as private grain dealer in n
public warehouse, with the permlssion
and cooperation Of railroad compan-
les.
Many Of the causes Of "hArd times,
In recent years arise from this alliance
and 10 sever II and demand a change
that will rectify the evils will necessi-
tate public sentiment as strongly Or
ganized, influential and determined 40
the truRt.
II should not be overlooked that
public grain warehousemen are ser
wants OF the people, licensed by tho
state, created by virtue OF the neceSSi-
ties of commerce, who, while author
lied by law 10 act as custodians ouly,
usurp their duties, form a trust and
year by year kill tho interests OF pro.
dpcors who create them.
When II 10 clearly understood that
they are the greatest factors In the
pits at the market centers. shaping
values OF crops annually Of $500, OOO,-
900 OF bushels, worth from one 10 two
billion dollarN, our farmers and labor
ers should open their eyes for light;
and especially so when tho motto Of
tho trust Ia, tho lower prices, the
larger our proAts." Who guards tho
farmers interest in the market, where
TO large extent values are made?
In 1896 In civil suit before the cir
cult court, Judge Tuley decided that n
public warehouseman could not deal in
grain. The trial before this eminent
jurist was most thorough invebtiga.
ton of the legal rights Of public SER
wants, In the form OF monopoly, to
crush the very life blood out Of Ameri-
can producers.
This trust found IL had no standing
before an honest court, but emerging
from generally conceded doodle leg
islature, to which they fed for protec-
tion, they now carry the flag OF tri-
umph and as II were. plant 1t on the
very house-tops, as a souvenir Of their
victory and the traitors who sold out
to them.
No better illustration OF the failure
OF our representative system of gov.
eminent can be shown than this act OF
the last Illinois Legislature In the
face of an able opinion by learned
and efficient judge, pending the decis-
ion of higher court, and fearful Of its
verdict, our representatives. misrepre-
sented the public by legallzing a sys-
tenn far more injurious to the welfare
Of tho whole people, than that against
which our forefathers fought In l770,
Human liberty was not contaminated
when Carnwallis surrendered his sword
to Washington, or when protection to
American seamen was guaranteed in
1912, or when Lee bowed to Grant at
at Appomattox.
Judge Tuley fcarlesSly set forth his
views on the rights of public ware
housemen as grain dealers 40 the fol.
lowing will prove;
"The great weight Of the evidence 10
TO the effect that the wNrehousemen OF
Chicago did not commence to so deal
in grain to any general extent until
about the year 1885; that the practice
has grown 80 rapidly that now and for
two or three years last past they are
the principal buyers and sellers on tho
Chicago market and upon the Chicago
board Of trade; that by reason Of the
advantages they possess, and by reason
of certain changes in the grain trade,
they have practically driven out Of
business the class of men who were
before they engaged in buying and
shipping grain on the Chicago market.
And 1t is admitted that they have
dealt in grain to the extent that they
now own st least three-quarters Of nil
the grain stored in tho public ware
houses Of the city Of Chicago, and 10
also appears by the evidence that they
are fast monopolizing the business Of
dealing in grain in the Chicago mar
let
1.-THE defendant is created and IL
,ensed to carry on the specific business
Of public warehouse and to use Its
for that purpose. Being IL
,ensed for one purpose, created by tho
and the law for the speci-
ic business, 1t Is not opposed to public
policy that this defendant should car
" on in competition with the general
public another and different business
N which ITS interests must necessarily
90 brought into conflict with its duties
n exercising this sort Of public Of
icep"--S. II. Greeley, member Of the
Chicago Board of Trade, in Farmers