THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



It is evident that 2,000,000 bushels of 

 Rejected and 2,000,000 bushels of No Grade 

 and 2,000,000 bushels of No. 3 were trans- 

 formed into 6,000,000 bushels of No. 1. Did 

 the elevator do anything to it to change its 

 quality? Nothing except to dry it, if it was 

 wet, and to blow the screenings out of it. 

 Neither of these processes could change its 

 intrinsic quality. If it was No. 1 when it 

 went out it was No. 1 when it went in and 

 the farmers were defrauded on these 6,000,000 

 bushels of close to $500,000. If it was No. 3 

 and Rejected when it went in it was No. 3 

 and Rejected when it went out and the pur- 

 chasers were defrauded of a like amount. 

 It was no wonder that in a spirit of biting 

 irony a witness before the House Committee 

 cited these facts and then read into the pro- 

 ceedings an account in a Minneapolis news- 

 paper of a grocer's boy in that city that had 

 been sentenced to sixty days in jail for selling 

 a short-weight peck of apples. 



The report of W. E. Thompson, chief clerk 

 of the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse 

 Commission, contains a table showing the 

 amounts of gram received by all the public 

 terminal elevators in Minneapolis for the year 

 ending August 31,1911. From this it appears 

 that of No. 1 Hard these elevators had re- 

 ceived in the year 586,500 bushels, had 

 shipped out 276,484 bushels, and had nothing 



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