Telegram-herald., 1889-10-26
TO FIX PRICES.
Plans Of the Wheat-Growers Fer
raulated at 81. Loula
THEY ORGANIZE Al ASSOCIATION.
Its Object Is - Control the Markets IL
the Leading Cites Elevators aoG
1rauaries TO BE Erected
al OnCe.
RTsofrTIoNs ADOPTED


ST LoUIs, Oct e5 The Wheat.
Growers convention on Thursday took
positive steps toward putting n opera
ton the theory OF It's members that TIE
farmer should control Tie price -
wheat The NheaI-Growers' Asso-
citation % the Mississippi Valley Was
organized aud Norman J. Colman elect
"a president The executive board
consists Of two IA embers trom each
STATE ana Territory. They wall open
agencies IN Chicago, ~. Paul Kansas
City and Omaha Oh tie lst ot December.
The executive board viii tx the praoe
Of wheat and build elevators ana gran
aries 20 hold IL until they get the prloe.
The agencies wll do a general coinmls-
sion business for the association
Robert Lindblom, the Chicago spec
ulator. made speech, IN which he
gave the spectators side OF the
wheat question. He said the lesson
taught by trusts was COOPERATION II
was intended 80 = blessing 10 monopoly
aud viii end in being blessing TO Lu-
manity. Mr. Lindblom believed that
at fairly high prices more grain
could be sold than al low prices.
There was no foundation for the
cry OF oVerproductlon. In five
years, while the production Of wheat de
creased 21< per cent. the price decreased
2s per cent The speaker then went
on to show that there lad been
no overproductiOn IN other countries
President ColInan then addressed the
convention from a free-t.aie stand
point, denounced the way the farmers
are used by the present Admin
and said that the only way 70
protect their interests was 10
adopt free trade. He assailed ele-
vatOr combines, pools, commission
men and spectators as robbers Of the
farmers, and said that between these
factions the farmer was crushed. After
these speeches were applauded-Lind-
blom's by the protectionists and Col
mans by the free-traders-the commit
tee on resolutions presented a plat
form of which the following is sy-
nopsis
II points out the present deplorable state Of
the agriculturist petitions Congress 20 make
such reciprocity treaties with the foreign na-
tions TO whom the farm surplus is shipped
as will remove the duties from farm pro
ducts that enter their ports; demands the
extinction OF monopolies and trusts; asks the
passage OF laws repeating the duty on raw ma
terial that enters into the manufacture Of farm
implements; recommends 70 farmers the
building OF joint stock elevators for
their OWE use; asks Congress 20 pass
an interstate law making IL felony
for any man TO sell or offer for sale any produce
which he does not own al the time Of Offering
for sale, and requests Mr.. Porter. Superintend-
ent OF the Census, TO collect complete statistics
upon the farm mortgage question
A very animated debate followed,
which was decidedly political IN charsc-
ter. The free-traders greatly outnum-
bered the protectionists and the resolu-
tions were finally adopted by a large
majority. Permanent officers were
elected as follows, and the convention
adjourned sine die.
President, Hon. Norman J. Colman. az Mis-
souri with the privilege OF naming his own sec
retary Executive board, ". L. Scott and A.
D. Noe of Kentucky; y. J. Colman and U. 5.
Hall, of Missouri; Z. II. Murphy and p. A.
Odell. OF Minnesota; d. Is. Green and J. 7. Nc
Cafrey, OF Illinois; Calvin Cole and George
Gibson. OF Oregon; Walter y. Allen and Gov.
ernor Charles Robinson, OF Kansas; J. 4.
Coates and ID. A. Epperson Of Indiana; n. o.
Walker, OF Tennessee, and II. w. Sargent, Of
Ohio.