THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



the farmers. But meantime the Grain Grow- 

 ers' Grain Company was no nearer to a chance 

 to do business, no matter how illegal or unjust 

 might have been its expulsion. It therefore 

 appealed to the provincial government of 

 Manitoba, which, after a time, ordered the 

 farmers' company to be reinstated on the 

 Exchange. But here comes the strangest 

 part of the story, for although the govern- 

 ment's order, one might think, was one to 

 be obeyed in its letter and spirit, and obeyed 

 promptly, the Exchange succeeded in holding 

 off the matter until it had compelled the plan 

 of the Grain Growers' Grain Company to be 

 changed so that the co-operative feature was 

 eliminated. Whereupon, being not different 

 from other corporations that did business for 

 profits, the Exchange no longer had objection 

 to it. 



The farmers of North Dakota knew well 

 the course of these combats and the finish 

 thereof, and did not fail to appraise rightly 

 the lesson of colossal and absolute power. 

 They now had another object-lesson nearer 

 home. 



The wheat markets of the United States 

 are Minneapolis, Chicago, and Duluth. Min- 

 neapolis overshadows these, for Chicago's in- 

 terest is speculative, having the wheel of fort- 

 une on which grain bets are made by the 

 whole country; and Duluth, while a busy 



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