The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-13
THE WHEAT CROP. 4 SIGNLFI
CAN'T STATEMENT.

We ask our readers to carefully peruse
the following extract from a recent
money-article in New York Tribune
1t will be seen that it fully agrees with
the views we have taken as to the
amount and value OF the present wheat
CROP
The foreign demand for wheat, that ercn the
nsrspapors riu acknowledge as soon as the
spectators hare secured all they Want, if we
| only had full crop, would have given activity
to all branches OF business. II we only kad
90 900 OO0, 900 bushels of wheat to export at SO
per bushel, the Sl00, ,OOO, 900 that would come
to us from the other side OF the ocean. would
II 1e business men and capitalist the very much
needed conide n .e-and every branch Of busi-
dess would feel he iIpulse--and the cry of
hard times would die out. But there is really
but little # any surplus: and the attempt OF
newspapers to make out that the injury to the
crop during harvest is really but little, is but
the talk of buyers DhO hare the means Of hand
ling these organs If public opinion much more
eGectireiy than any body of wheat growers can
--even if they are organized into Oranges.
There is really very little sound and good win
ter wheat in the country of this years growth,
and having exported n ,O0O, 900 bushels in
1874, and $4,000, 900 in 1875 there cannot re-
maiu much of the old crop to make up the de-
ficiency of this year.
| make these suggestions that farmers may
be led to look over the matter, and in the hope
that they may receive the benefits of the liberal
prices that wins at is certain to bring before an
other harvest, if spectators and gamblers IN
grain, who buy and sell millions daily, and
who never own enough for their own bread of
real wheat, If such influences are not allowed
TO make prices.
There is no question in our mind that
the present condition OF the wheat crop
of the world would justify wheat being
worth Sl.5o to-day in the markets of
Milwaukee and Chicago, if the price was
1T beaten down by the spectators and
their lying tools. the hireling newspa-
pers. We are aware that in LAYING these
facts before the people we are provoking
the hostility of the wheat buyers, whose
sole object is to buy for dollar what
will be worth dollar and half next
spring.
In fact the price now paid in our Min.
nesoto towns is not q fair criterion of
value. The millers of Hastings have
been paying sl.25 for choice lots of No.
l wheat, while but $l.05 and @l.1O was
paid on the streets. On Wednesday last
the millers and wheat-buyers got up .
lively competition for wheat and ran the
price up to s1-22. 1t is fortunate for
our Dakota county farmers that the mil
lers and buyers ot Hastings are not able
to form Ring, like that of which Hon.
John S. Pillsbury is q member in Min
neapolis. 10 prevent. competition and
cheaper wheat.
Now we are not an enemy of the mil
lers. Some of our best friends are
among them; and we wish them abun-
dant success. But ''fair play is pretty
thing and the farmer who tolls throus b
| winters cold and summers heat is as
much entitled to the full value of his pro-
ductions as they are 10 the full value OF
their -four; and if any Ring was formed
in Milwaukee or New York to break
down the price of the -four they would
begin to understand how the farmers
feel at being chisselled out of the full
value of their wheat
We desire to see the whole State and
all its industries prosper; and w
know that the more profit the farmer