St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-24
To Hold Wheat Nay Be in the
Interests Of the Mill
QpC
Pillsbury Will Make $3,000,-
600 if Wheat Goes up 20
Cents.
Farmers Should Sell When
Their Judgment Directs
Them.
Hold your wheat-Muller.
Sell your wheat when you think best


III DlIeS VI prosperity YOUR
Friends will be plenty;
In times of adversely not
One in twenty.
At the.opening of the most bounteous
harvest in the history of the state the
farmers of Minnesota are being brought
to a realization of the fact that they
have whole host of friends looking
after their interests. Hardly had Edi-
tor Muller and the National press
bureau of the Alliance perfected ar
rangements for the distribution of a
circular advising farmers all over the
land to hold their wheat for
large advance than President Donnelly,
of the Minnesota Alliance, comes out in
a document almost as long advising the
grangers to beware of wheat gambling
on either the bull or bear side. He
makes no direct charges against the au-
thors of the
'sHOld YOur Wheat''
circular, but calls attention to the fact
that c. A. Pillsbury, the great Mime
apOlis miller, predicts that wheat will
go to 81.
"Millers are always bulls" says the
Sage.
The English syndicate in control OF
the Minneapolis mills Mr.. Donnelly
claims has 15,O0O,00O bushels of wheat.
A rise Of 20 cents bushel would give
them profit OF g, 100000. The syndi-
cate could then get out and the poor
farmer who was holding his wheat
might be obliged to sell for what he
could get. These are the Sage's rea-
sons for telling the Minnesota Alliance
men that the organization at the head
of which he is, has had nothing to do
with the Muller circular, and advises
the farmers to sell when their judg-
ment tells them it is best.
DOnnelly or Muller-which is the
friend of the honest granger? And
what does this all mean?
These are questions that will be an
swered in a variety of ways. The
friends of the Sage will denOunce Null
Ter, and Muller and the anti-DOnnelly
faction will jump OH Donnelly. The
real causes of the trouble, however, are
not anxiety for the dear granger, nor
the Doodle of the Minneapolis millers,
but simply and solely
a Newspaper War
between the Great West, the Donnelly
organ and The State, the recognized ad-
vocate of the anti-Donnelly faction.
This is the situation in a nutshell. Rev.
Muller and his friends were a few days
ahead III working up the ''hOld your
wheat cry, and this obliged the sage
and his friends to take the other and
-mOre sensible side. Had the sage first
thought of the Muller scheme the other
fellows would now be fighting on the
contrary side. The sage's letter of adj
vice to the farmer in opposition to the
Muller circular will appear in the Great
West to-day, and in full is as follows:
The Sagess Advice.
To the members of the Farmers Alliance
of the State of Minnesota: As president of
your State Alliance it is my duty to see that
no injury be inflicted upon the organization
which l can prevent; l therefore take the
liberty of issuing this circular letter.
The editor OF th@'State," of St Paul, has
issued an interesting and valuable COM
pendum Of information. tending to show
that the price of wheat is far below its real
value, and must rise in the near future; and
that the farmers of the whole country should
hold their wheat out of the market until the
demand brings ii to a proper level Now
while / agree with much of this reason
ing and do not impugn any mans mo-
tives, nevertheless feel that il is my duty TO
say that the state alliance of Minnesota has
nothing TO do with this movement; the exc
cutive committee has never been consulted
about il; neither so far as l am aware. has
the National Alliance officially Endorsed the
scheme. 1t is purely an expression of 1ndl-
and right. l think it is; hope it is; for be-
lieve that the farmers products have been
Systematically depressed IN value for many
years past by rings OF SPECTATORS In Chi
cago and the other great trade centers.
But l realize that when few men I'M
dertake, without proper pre-concert ana con-
sultatlon. TO affect the price OF great staple.
like wheat, and do it, either directly or indi-
rectly, in the Farmers Alliance, they are en-
tering upon tremendous and dangerous ex-
pertinent. which may not only, in its recoll,
crush them; but injuriously affect the ALI
Once itself. I desire therefore. to have 1t dis
tinetly understood that the State Farmers
Alliances of Minnesota is in no wise
responsible for this movement or for any
consequence Ihatmay flow from it. hope the
time is not far distant when the whole farm
ing population of the United States shall be
banded together for self-protection, and to re-
sist the efforts of spectators to break down
the real value of their productions: but TO do
this thorough consultation and wise action
are necessary. together with the establishment
of some bureau that viii direct the sales,
otherwise some farmers would not get out at
eXtraVagant prices and others be caughtln col
lapse Of the boom. see Mr.. Plllsbury, the
great miller of Minneapolis. declares that
wheat will touch s. a bushel within the next
twelve months. l understand that the En-
glish syndicate. owing to the Minneapolis
mills, now hold 100000 bushels of wheat
If the price of wheat goes up 20 cents, under
the holding back of the new crop, those gen.
tlemen would realize S3,000,000 and get out.
In the meantime the farmers, who are hop
ing for s.. 90 q bushel, would be caught in the
slump. and might have to sell in the spring
at ruinous low rates. And then every farmer
in the state would turn upon and denOunce
the Farmers Alliance, and our great organi-
cation would be destroyed. And then the cry
would 60 forth, ''Why did not our president
warn US of these LAWYERS! He must have sold
out 10 the syndieate!'
Therefore, l say to you, use your own
Judgment when you will sell. Study all the
facts submitted TO you from every quarter.
My own judgment is that wheat must rise.
But know too much of the history of the
wheat market in the past to prophesy as to
the future, or advise any man re-
garding SO grave and complicated a
problem, into which enter influences
which no one can foresee Where farmers
can avoid rushing their wheat into market
they should do so by all means; but let them
keep their eyes open, and do not become the
tools of bulls or bears either. In any event,
understand clearly that the Alliance gives
you no advice and is not responsible for the
mutations of the future.
For the present the interests Of the millers
are identical with the interests of the farm
ers in the great, secret and world-embracing
battle which is now raging, and we should
do what we reasonably can TO help them In
their efforts to advance the price OF our great
cereal. But this is 8 world OF selfish inter
ests, and we must watch ever our allies, The
Great West showed, 41ore than & Year ago,
that there was g SiIefenee in the price
Of wheat IN Duluth and London
of % cents a bushel after deducting
every charge that could be made for the
transportation and handling. This repre-