Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 20, 1900, Page 9

a teeny ee t GROWTH OF COMBINE GRAIN DEALERS IN A TRUST AGAINST FARMERS. Latest Monopoly Is a Conspiracy to Rob Them of Their Profit—Has Far-Reach- ing Effect — Contracts Are ‘Already Signed. P. E. Dowie, member of the execu- tive committee of the National Demo- cratic Traveling Men’s association,and of the Commercial, Travelers’ Anti- Trust League, arrived in Chicago yes- terday. He has just completed an ex- tensive tour of Missouri, Nebraska and Towa. “I have recently discovered,” said Mr. Dowie, “a gigantic conspiracy to rob the farmers of the country. This latest product of monopoly includes in its membership about, 600 big grain dealers and elevator men in the terri- tory extending from St. Paul on the north to Kansas City on the south, including the states of Wisconsin,Min- nesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, ll the 600 and more memers of this newest thing in trusts are pledged to buy. grain at one and a half cents low, that is below the cash price, and to store for not less than one and a half cents profit. The association en- gineering the scheme is to fix the sell- ing price. Forty per cent of the profits are to go to the association, the bal- ance going to the dealers who are par- tles to the swindle. Have Signed Contracts, “Grain dealers in the sections where the tr is at work have been in- duced to sign contracts and a regular system of inspection guarantees inst cutting prices. Grain stations are established here and there, and at each station the trust has an agent who has authority to inspect the books of any member of the association. A membershfp fee of $50 is charged. A fine of $100 is imposed if the agreement is broken, and $50 is charged for re- instating a member who has violated any of the terms of the pact. On its part, the association guaran- tees the grain deslers, who enter into the agreement,protection from changes. in the ownership of elevators where they may have their grain stored. If an elevator attempts to break away or to run independent, they guarantee to have its supply of cars shut off, so that it cannot ship grain to market in opposition to the trust. Promoted by Republicans. “Since I discovered the conspiracy, a ew days since, I have been collecting information concerning it. I jascer- ned today that the promotor and zer of the trust is an ardent Re- an and superintendent of one of in the country, practical workings of this com- bination to rob the farmer are not dif- ficult to see. By getting all the grain i of a community enrolled as members, it is impossible for the farm- ers of that section to selh to anyone outside the trust or to ship their grain away y must stand the loss of a cent and a half a bushel on the price of their grain in order to find a mar- ket. I am not ready to give the names, but will do so soon,” It is said that the new movement tg compel the farmers of the states men- tioned to accept less than the market price to realize on their crops had its inception in Chicago, and that several of the big elevator men and grain deal- ers are interested in it. LYING WAS BEGUN. The Republican national committee keeps the Republican newspaper burning thoughts. This is a boom to the Republican newspapers, for their thoughts use to cost them 25 cents per column from the “boiler-plate” fac- tories, and now they get them for nothing. In a list of converts to Bryan pub- lished sometime ago by an eastern newspaper, the article mentioned half a dozen names of residents of Bath, ‘N. Y., as citizens of Bath, Me. The mistake was purely accidental. Ob- viously their votes would be much more useful to Mr. Bryan where they properly belong than they would be in Maine. The Hanna organs, how- ever, discovered the mistake, pounced upon it with a great outcry, and even yet have not finished crying “fake.” Last year, Mr. Creelman, the cele- {brated newspaper correspondent, wrote from Nebraska that statement that Mr, Bryan by his lectures and writings ‘had accumulated property worth about twenty-five thousand dollars, The ever vigilant and diabolically in- clined printer, put on an extra cipher, making the amount two hundred and ‘fifty thousand dollars. The mistake was not discovered until the paper was on the street. Here was another thing for the Republican press to make an out-cry about. Remarks about Mr. Bryan as a “plutocrat” began to cir- culate through the Republican press, but they eventually stopped when the explanation of the slip made them too ridiculous to be persisted in, The Hanna literary bureau, has, however, recently revived them, and has even improved on the original typographical error by raising the amount of Mr. Bryan’s fortune to three hundred thou- sand dollars. Another instance of the methods em- ployed by the Republican literary bu- reau may be cited. Some years ago a gentleman, no longer, connected with the New York Journal, wrote a signed article giving his estimate of Mr. Bryan as a man and as a leader. This estimate has been revived by'the Re- )publican press bureau and circulated .as the editorial opinion of the New | Senator Hanna was a little dubio | about attempting to make any cam- York Journal and even in some cases represented as the personal work of W. R. Hearst. Ex-Senator Manderson, recently un- dertook to prove for the benefit of the Republican party, that notwithstan#- ing the cry of “militarism” the ‘‘mili- tary pow rs of Europe spent more on their armies than we did.” York Journal printed an article show- ing that the military budget in Europe includes the entire cost of pensions, and that if we took this into account our military éxpenses were nearly twice as great as those of any other military country in the ‘world. There- upon the Republican literary bureau started out paragraphs like this and they are still running in the columns of the Republican press of the coun- try: : W. R. Hearst, editor of the New York Journal, an earnest “Bryanite,” says that the paying of pensions to soldiers is “militarism.” “Militarism” according to Bryan is one of the great issues in this campaign. Veterans will please take notice. Such attempts as the ones indicated are a very fair example of what may be termed “the slimy hands in poli- ties” and yet such are the methods of the Republican press bureau. MARK HANNA CALLED OF. Mark Hanna’s career as a “spell- binder’ has been cut short by no less an individual than William McKinley. For the first time in the campaign it is said McKinley has found it neces- sary to interfere with his campaign manager in any way. But Hanna iin a few brief efforts was having such a disastrous effect among the working- men and farmers in Indiana, Illinois and other states where the trust is not admired that the presidential candidate found it necessary in the in- terest of the party, not to say any- thing of himself, to interfere and call off Mr. Hanna’s dates as a “spellbind- er” much to the disappointment of Na- tional Chairman Jones of the Demo- cratic committee. As a resuit Mr. Hanna will devote his undivided time to the management of the contributed campaign fund where, in his opinion 4 it will do the most good. The main cause of the trouble was Mr. Hanna’s speech in Chicago in which he made the statement, “I do not believe there is a trust in the Unit- ed States.” From all over the country telegrams and letters of protest pour- ed in on the president against such foolish statements, even though made by “The Boss,” and McKinley could not let them go unheeded however much he approved Mark’s assertions. As a consequence Mark Hanna was told plainly that he must make no more speeches without first submit- ting what he is going to say to a rigid censorship and that. he must not at- tempt to make the Dakota and Ne- braska trip he had planned under any circumstances. As a matter of fact, paign speeches until Perry Heath and Congressman Landis of Indiana urged him to speak at Delphi. His reception there appealed to his vanity. The flat- tery of the Republican papers turned his head and he was induced to make a second trial before the Commercia) Men’s Club at Chicago at a noonday meeting. There was where he got into trouble. He believed that it was up to him to say something about trusts, and he did so with a vengeance. He jaunched forth in a challeage to Mr. Bryan to tell him what a trust was and then followed with the assertion that there were no trusts in the coun- try and finally concluded this phase 0: his address with a bold statement that the only trusts he was aware existed in throughout the eoenticvernoea ae tt | this country were the cotton bail trust hroug h and the ice trust, which he said cer tain Democratic politicians were sup- posed to be interested in. Democrats all over the country wil! regret Mr. Hanna’s downfall as a spell binder. But we still have Teddy Roosevel/ and Senator Stewart left. BRYAN DENIES IT. “T have not given to any one, either verbally or in writing, a promise of a cabinet position or any other position, and I shall not during the campaign make any such promise to any one. “I have not authorized and shall not authorize any one, verbally or in writ- ing, to promise any cabinet position or any other position to any one. If 1 am elected I shall be absolutely free to discharge all the duties of the office according to my platform, as far as the platform goes, and according to my own judgment in all matters not cov- ered by the platform.” Such is William Jennings Bryan’s answer to Hanna’s charge that he has made promises to would-be officeaold- ers and that the cabinet portfolios have been parceled out in advance of his election. Why Republicans Are Apathetic, Binghamton Leader: The record of the Republican party in government is not satisfactory to the members of that party, especially to these members who do their own thinking. Thou- sands of Republicans in all sections of the country disapprove the Philippine scheme, and while not all of these will refuse to vote the Republican ticket, their attitude and speech are calculat- ed to encourage and strengthen the growing sentiment. against imperial- ism. When the thinking and indepen- dent membership of a party is in a mental condition that reflects all the shades of feeling from indifference io disgust, it is not unreasonable to look for results that must be far from grat- ifying to that party’s managers. This is the state of things in the Republican party today, and over-confidence is the last feeling it is calculated to produce. The New | From Th Point of View. First Ape—And some apes have de- veloped into men? Second Ape—So they say. i} First’ Ape—Well, thank goodness? some of us have escaped!—Puck. New Ocean Greyhound. The famous Deutschland cost $3,332,- 000; displacement, 23,200 tons; accom- modation, 1,057 passengers, has estab- lished a new record. Among the great remedies of the world Hostetter’s | ‘Stomach Bitters holds the record with | its fifty years of cures of constipation, © indigestion and piliousness. Our Pri- | vate Revenue Stamp is over the neck of the bottle. 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