The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-10-31
70 FIX THEIR OWN PRICES.
Wheat Growers Of the Mississippi Waller
Form m Association to Control the
Market In Leading Cities Elevators and
(ranaries to he Built.


wheat Growers Of the Mississippi yaiis5
Market In Leading Cities Elevators and
Granaries to he Built.
ST. Louis, Oct. 25. - The Wheat
Growers convention on Thursday took
positive steps toward putting in opera
tion the theory Of It's members that the
farmer should control the price Of
wheat The Wheat~sirowers Asso-
citation of the Mississippi Valley was
organized and Norman j. colman elect
cd president. The executive board
consists Of two members from each
State and Territory. They will open
agencies in Chicago. st. Paul, Kansas
City and Omaha on the 1st Of December.
The executive board will fix the price
Of wheat and build elevators and gram
aries to hold it until they get the price.
Tie agencies will do general commits
eion business for the association.
Robert Lindblom, the Chicago spec
ulator, made speech, in which he
gave the spcculators' side of the
wheat question. lie said the lesson
taught BY trusts was cooperation. II
was intended ss blessing to monopoly
and will end in being . blessing to hu-
manity. Mr.. Lindblom believed that
at fairly high prices more grain
could DO sold than at low prices.
There was no foundation for the
cry of overproduction. In five
years, while the production of wheat de-
creased az per cent, the price decreased
% per cent. The speaker then went
on to show that there had been
no overproduction in other countries.
President Colman then addressed the
convention from . free-trade stand
point, denounced the way the farmers
are used by the present Admin
istration and the protective policy,
and said that the only way TO
protect their interests was to
adopt free trade. Hc 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 plat
form Of which the following is . sy-
nopsis:
It points out the present deplorable state Of
the agrtculturist; petitions Congress to 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 tho duty on raw ma
tcrial that enters into the manufacture OF farm
implements: recommends to farmers the
building OF joint stock elevators for
their own use; asks Congress to pass
an interstate law making il felony
for any man to sell or offer for sale any produce
which he does not own at the time OF Offering
for sale, and requests Mr.. Porter Supcrintend.
ent Of the Census, to collect complete statistics
upon the farm mortgage question:
A very animated debate followed.
which was decidedly political in charac-
ter. Tho 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 T. Colman, OF Mis-
souri,. with the privilege Of naming his own sea-
retary. Executive board, W. L. Scott aild 4.
D. Noe, OF Kentucky: N. J. Colman and Z. S.
Hall, Of Missouri; +. II. Murphy and r. 4.
Odell, Of Minnesota; ID. Il. Green ana j. +. Nc
Canrey, o; Illinois: Calvin Cole aud George
Gibson, OF Oregon: Walter y. Allen and Gov
eruor Charles Robinson. Of Kansas: T. A.
Coates aud ID. A. Eppcrson, of Indiana; n. d.
Walker, Of Tennessee, and ii. ". Sargent, OF
nhi,