The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-20

ana central otates' OF this country, ex-
cept Dakota, Minnesota. Wisconsin and
parts of Michigan, the grade is low and
much Of the grain damaged. There ap-
pears to be disposition on the part of
farmers, in all sections of the country,
to crowd the crop on the market and
get it off their hands. If this policy is
pursued,price will yield to the pressure
of large receipts and producers will lose
the benefits Of short crop, and all the
profits will accrue to the speculator or
dealer who holds the grain in store.
Another effect of crowding so much low
grade grain on the market is to depress
prices for the better qualities, as they
sympathize more or less with the lower.
If farmers would look at their own in.
terests, and, we think, at the interest
Of the country, they would not market
their whole crop at once. IF money for
current expenses is needed, sell a por-
ton of your crop and hold the balance
for winter and spring sales. 1t is better
for the whole community that, if the
consumer mus: pay high price for his
bread-stuh' that the money should
be distributed among the produ-
GERS rather than consumed in expensive
storage and insurance, and go into the
pockets of spectators. By all past ex-
perience we are taught that wheat will
command higher prices than are now
current before another harvest, and we
would like to see the farmer receive the
benefit of it,
The REFoRXERs.- The Industrial
Age says that the press of the East is
beginning to note the influence of the
oranges in checking class legislation,
and compelling the distributive bodies
to do more for the people and less for
the monopolists. The New Haven Un-
ion of the 26 ult., has an excellent arti-
Gle on this subject from which we ex-
tact the following:
"The spirit of reform which vitaiizes
| the movement soon attracted to it the
deepest thinkers in the great West, and
through the leadership of men its work
has been truly marvellous. Although
the Order is not at all political
in it's nature, individual members are
not all averse to acting in political con-
cert. The farmers were not long in
finding out that legislation in the inter-
est of class had more to do with the
burdens depressing productive industry
than was generally believed. The La
boz Reformers had been tainted with
lunacy in demanding reform by legisla-
ton, and the farmers, before organiza-
ton, were mainly of the opinion that
so-called "natural CAUSES" were the
result Of the wretched condition of the
toilers. When they associated together
and began to study the social problem,
they soon became convinced of the ne
cessity for honest and anti-monopoly
legislation, and like men they carried
their convictions to the polls. Thus
they find state after state completely rev.
olutionized because Of the granger senti-
ment. 1t is not that the farmers have
an Independent party to redress their
wrongs, but they have exerted gen
eral influence for good, and the old
parties have been forced to recognize
their sentiments.
FLOUR Trade WITH SouTH AMER
1cA.-The prospective increase of trade
between the United States and South
America, which will doubtless flow from
opening the mouths Of the Mississippi
by means Of jetties, can hardly fail to
give great impetus to the milling in
terest in the valley of this great river.
In the American Miller for last
month we took occasion to notice a
movement, now we'll advanced, of estab-
fishing direct trade between the cities
Of St. Louis and New Orleans, and the
Island Of Trinidad, the West Iudies,
and the ports on the Orinoco river and
it's tributaries in South America. We
have since learned that, in -four alone,
Kingston, Jamaica, requires an excess
of 100000 barrels per annum; the port
of Spain, Trinidad, over 100000 bar
rels; Georgetown, in Demerara, Eng
lish Guiana, over 100000 barrels, to say
nothing of Bridgetown, Barbados, and