THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



One cent a bushel was now assessed against 

 the wheat for this sale. For a reason that 

 Evans never knew and few suspected, the 

 able young man that represented Doe & Com- 

 pany on the floor was quite willing to sell 

 the wheat below the market. It was because 

 Doe & Company were also the owners of the 

 Tidewater Elevator Company. The sale, 

 therefore, was made from themselves to them- 

 selves, but the cent a bushel commission 

 was assessed, nevertheless. 



The Tidewater Elevator Company now 

 sold the wheat at an advance of one and one- 

 half cents a bushel to the Basota Grain Com- 

 pany, performing no other service to society 

 than what might be involved in making three 

 marks with a lead pencil. 



The Basota Grain Company sold it to the 

 Medicus Terminal Elevator Company at an 

 advance of two cents a bushel. Same ser- 

 vice, same value, same result. 



The Medicus Terminal Elevator Company 

 sent it to its mixing-house, where it presently 

 underwent strange transformations. 



If Evans could have pursued the matter 

 far enough he would have found that the 

 Basota Grain Company and the Medicus 

 Terminal Elevator Company were likewise 

 owned by Doe & Company, and that each 

 of these sales also had been from themselves 

 to themselves, the right hand of the institu- 



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