THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



stories of combinations the farmers tried to 

 form for their defense, with the story of the 

 ruined or suppressed farmers' elevators, the 

 long fight of the Equity, and the tragic story 

 of the Minnesota Farmers' Exchange. With- 

 out the least bitterness one may say that 

 combinations on one side seemed always to 

 thrive and yield more profits to a business 

 already fruitful; combinations on the other 

 side met with uniform disaster at the hands 

 of a power so great it could disregard law 

 and defy what had always been regarded as 

 fundamentals of life in America. 



