CHAPTER IX 



THE GRAIN EXCHANGE AGAIN 



" How many tables, Janet, are there in the 

 Law?" 



" Indeed, sir, I canna just be certain ; but I 

 think there's ane in the foreroom, ane in the 

 back room an' anither upstairs." 



Scotch Wit and Humor (Howe). 



THE efforts to eliminate the Grain Growers' Grain 

 Company had awakened the farmers of the West 

 to a fuller realization of the trading agency's 

 importance to the whole farmers' movement. The 

 Winnipeg Tribune had stoool by them in the fight, and 

 Knoji MagUe", lly editor, had conducted a stirring news- 

 paper campaign which presently brought things to a 

 head. A second Royal Commission had been appointed 

 by the Dominion Government in 1906, under the chair- 

 manship of John Millar, Indian Head, Saskatchewan, 

 to probe conditions in the grajn tTftfle and the farmere 

 felt that certain evidence taken by this Commission at 

 Winnipeg justified their claims that they werejthe 

 victims of a combine. 



In the latter part of November (1906) the Presi- 

 dent of the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association, 

 D. W. McCuaig, at the suggestion of the Tribune, 

 laid formal charges against three members of 

 the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange 



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