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warning of the Company in language that carried no 

 double meaning. 



"We have no quarrel with the Winnipeg Grain 

 Exchange as an Exchange," said the Guide. " It is a 

 convenience for gathering reports from other parts of 

 the world, market conditions, and for drafting rules 

 that facilitate and simplify business dealings. 



" As we have often pointed out, however, the Exchange 

 is being used by the Elevator Interests that seem to 

 dominate it, to further their own particular ends with 

 the result that the nefarious methods of the Elevator 

 Trust bring suspicion and condemnation upon the 

 Exchange and its members. 



" The demand for the Royal Grain Commission arose 

 from the methods pursued by the Elevator Companies 

 in dealing with the farmers at country points. The 

 pooling of receipts at country points is not forgotten 

 by the farmers ; heavy dockage and unfair grading and 

 low prices paid when the farmers were compelled to 

 sell and could not help themselves, are also not 

 forgotten. 



" Every injustice and disturbance in the trade that 

 has taken place since grain commenced to be marketed 

 in Manitoba, can be traced to the Elevator Monopoly. 



" The farmers of this country owe nothing to the 

 Elevator Trust and we have confidence enough in them 

 to believe that they will not be bought over by them 

 now. The Commission Men and Track Buyers certainly 

 owe nothing to this trust either. They have helped in 

 the past to carry the suspicion and sin arising from its 

 methods and it commences to look as if they were 

 getting tired of carrying the load." 



Column after column of such plain talk was given 

 place in the Guide week after week, together with 



