The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05
HOLD YOUR WHEAT.
ATWATER Dec. , Is

Editor Init MonopoList:
There has been so much said about
wheat rings, and brass kettles lately,
that it seems as though anything
more would be Superfiuous. Still IS
the brass kettles have proved to be
less dishonest than their manipula.
tors. and the low grading of wheat
chargable to something else than the
kettles, maybe the cause of depression
in the price and grace of wheat can be
traced farther than the millers asso.
citation also. Let us consider what
the effect would be. in case the farm
ers refused to sell wheat. at brass
kettle grades, and ring figures. How
long, let me ask, would wheat re-
main at 30c or SOC per bushel? ANY
one knows that wheat, as an article
of food, is worth more at $3.50 per
bushel, than beef at 10 cents per
pound. And as our tables would be
badly provided for without flour. we
must have it. even if it costs us $3.50
per bushel for wheat, or $3.50 per
Dbl. for flour. But the farmers are
all involved in debt, and must sell to
meet their obligations, and keep
FESTIVE creditors quiet. Ii he does
not, expenses any costs wlll.necessari-
ly, follow "a recourse by creditors to
collect their dues by law. But. sup.
pose the farmers were owning no
one. that what they raise was abso-
lutely their own, without either legal
or moral obligations to sell, that they
had no creditors to sue and make
costs. Any reasonable person will
admit that such being the case, the MIL
lers must either go to the farmers, and
purchase wheat, at the farmers grade
and price. shut UP their mills, or 20
| to raising wheat for themselves.
Admitting then the foregoing pre-.
misses, it follows, that the depression
in goods and price. IS it now exists,
is entirely due to the farmers iinan
cial situation. Were he out of debt
he could not be compelled to sell his
products for less than the cost of pro
duction. The wheat market woulG
not be glutted rs it is to-day. Nc
one could purchase wheat on the
brass kettle principle until the seller
wished to sell that way. Then gen
tlemen, let our daily ana weekly pa
pers, the true educators of the
masses. instead Of abusing or up
holdinp, either the millers association
or their brass kettles, advocate
sound principles, educate the farm
ing community, tas well as all othe
classes). that they. and they alone
are responsible for this state OF af
fairs. If only one farmer can see til.
matter In its true light, let him up
ply the remedy as far rs his matter
are concerned. and his neighbors vii
soon see the benefits, and ere long op
half the farming community viii
swell the ranks. Half the whea
that at this season gluts the market
will remain on the farm. where i
should be, and held for remunerativ
prices. Let those that can't, or won
see the cause of their trouble. cor
tinue to sell to the millers at bras
kettle rates. And on the groun,
that there is no pity. for those VIII
will not pity themselves let the mi
lers get all the wheat they can ut 3
or 40 cents. through any process the,
can make work. And when the su,
ply at those rates is used up. let tn
mlliers give more. stop grinding. o
raise their own wheat. One or tn
other Of which they would be com
PEELED to do. unless they resorted t
stealing. 1t is hard TO perceive wha
benefit is to be derived from abusin
the milleTs association or any on
else, because they can buy NOR
wheat than they want. or at leas
more than they can store. 1T 40c pc
bn>hel.--hrass kettle grade.
All the elevators and grain house
barns and outhouses on this line o
railroad. is now full of wheat force,
on the market by the farmers them
selves. Who are in turn forced {
put it there by creditors. Now III
cause evidently is: First put An en-,
to the creditors. Let them die an
be buried with honor. This will en
the necessity for Cutting the marke,
put control of the price and grade i
the farmers hands. the abuse of wnicl
natural competition will govern.
DEMOCRAT.
LIrcHEIELD. MINI, Nov. 70. 1878.
Editor Aafi-MoR opoliss: