HOW FALSE CHARGES WERE MADE 



Classified List of the Memberships in the Minneapolis 

 Chamber of Commerce: 



Line elevators 135 



Terminal elevators 39 



Commission houses 200 



Feed houses 5 



Shippers 34 



Hay dealers 7 



Linseed-oil concerns 13 



Millers 50 



Maltsters 8 



Bankers 8 



Capitalists 6 



Manufacturers 7 



Lawyers 2 



Railroad representatives 2 



Farmers 2 



Insurance agency 1 



Total 318 



An institution chartered specially by the 

 state as a public market where the produce 

 of the farmer was to be sold; and of 318 mem- 

 bers of that institution only two were even 

 classified as farmers, and of these common 

 report said that neither was cultivating any- 

 thing but a bank-account. 



And again here was some of the distribution 

 of memberships, and the full explanation of 

 the nature of the control of the institution lay 

 in that distribution. Each membership in the 

 Chamber carried a vote and any firm or cor- 



