Show TRUST AND MW i WON WO WOIn In a letter to tho the Omaha lIce Bee from Solomon Kansas the story tor Is told of ot how by the cooperation of ot the tM farmers an elevator syndicate was made mode to va VII vacate Vacate cate the field For two years the syn syndicate syndicate I had kept tho the price of oC wheat In that locality 14 U cents below belo that at Kansas City In hi vain tho the farmers at attempted tempted relief through legislation and then timen they organized their cooperative association and put competent men mon In charge of ot their common Interests As A soon ns tin the tho farmers elevator opened 00 O per cent of oC t the f wheat mar mitar marketed at Solomon was W B deposited there while the syndicate elevators received less than 10 per cent The Tho farmers elevator paid 52 62 cents a 1 bushel four cents more moro than the syndicate Then the trust offered K GG 5 cents a bushel The Tho cooperating farmers however had an agreement that they should houM be bo at lib bib liberty erty crt to sell their wheat wherever they wanted provided they contributed one ono cent a bushel to their own elevator on wheat sold elsewhere The effect of ot this was decisive The farmers went to the syndicate and received K 5 cents for tor their wheat They paid ono one cent to their own association and still nut not ted teel n a good goo price above aboc the time actual mar market market market ket value For several days das the syn sn syndicate dicato not only bought wheat at a n loss but Jut virtually void a DrOm to tho the neo ace ples pies Institution tl n which Vh h it It was trying to drive from the Held field 1 In lest lesi than three weeks the tho syndicate gave up the tho light fight locked Its elevator and withdrew Its it agent a ent from that field Is there not In this story a n hint to tho the people ev ov everywhere everywhere that Intelligent cooperation la in the best remedy against obnoxious combinations against popular Interests |