Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — WAR ON BUCKET SHOPS. [ARTICLE]

WAR ON BUCKET SHOPS.

Grain Men’s Convention Would Tax Evil Out of Existence. Des Moines telegram: The convention of the National Grain Dealers’ association adjourned after re-electing its old officers, selecting Memphis, Tenn., as the seat of the next convention and adopting resolutions memorializing congress to amend the interstate commerce law, condemning bucket-shops, and recommending the reorganization of the government crop service. The resolutions denounce the so-called dealings in bucket-shops as the “national mode of gambling,” and a constant menace to the grain trade and to values, working great injustice to producers. Congress is appealed to to tax the bucket-shop out of existence. The officers elected are: President, Benjamin A. Lockwood, Des Moines, la.; first vice president, Theodore P. Baxter. Taylorsville, Ind.; second vice president, H. S. Grimes, Portsmouth, O. Secretary Charles Clark was unanimously’ re-elected. He immediately resigned because his work as editor of the Grain Dealers’ Journal required all his time. G. A. Stebbins of Red Oak, la., was then elected to the place.