Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-16
HOLD YOUR WHEAT
1t Will Reach $l.5O and, Posi-
bly,, 81 Per Bushel.
The Advice of an Alliance Editor to
Our Farmers.
No Reasonable Limit to the
..s, Price He May Get
lF HE WILL ONLY AWAIT THE
EFFECT OF THE CAUSE.
an TuE UFENNA EnNnDINSG
FIGURES OF THE VIENNA CONGRESS
AS ARGUMENT.

Millers, Grain Dealers and Others De-
nounced as Tricksters Because They
Advise Selling at Present Prices-The
Shortage in Europe Four Times the
American Surplus-One Million Copies
of the Advisory Circular Being Mailed
by Editor Mueller, of The State, St.
Paul.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 1G. - George M.
Mueller, editor of The State, the ALI
ance newspaper organ in the northwest,
from whose Office was sent out the fa-
nous wheat circular asking the farmers
to hold back their grain for an advance
in prices, has issued a second circular,
following up the suggestion of the first
Of the proposition that wheat is bound
to advance to $3.50 or 50, and farmers
should profit by it. One million copies
of this circular are being mailed besides
the many thousand copies of the current
issue of The State, in which the circular
is printed.
The circular opens with the statement
that the farmers will be saved millions
of dollars if the advice given in the
document is followed. Alliance secre-
taries are instructed to give the circular
as wide a distribution as possible, while
newspapers are requested to publish the
same. Continuing, the circular says:
Honest Advisers Needed.
"The farmer needs honest advisers
who understand the situation, because
he has too many other kinds just now,
and it is high time that he is learning to
discriminate among counselors. This is
not the first time the elevator men and
the millers, the grain dealers, specu-
lators and large commission firms and
those newspaper men who go to them
for their information about the condi-
ton of the market, have flooded the
country with advice that has injured
the farmer. Two months ago all the
advisers predicted low prices ON account
of large crops in the United States, and
advised the farmers to sell as soon as
they had a chance. If at that time
these advisers did not tell the farmer
that the condition of the European crops
was such this year that wheat must
inevitably reach the highest price ever
obtained, they were either very ignorant
men or they were knaves who wanted to
benefit by spreading anything but the
truth. In either case they were unfit
counselors, and as two months have not
likely changed their intelligence OF
honesty, the farmer had better beware
of them.
"They, of course, admit now, when
the question has been thoroughly venti-
lated, that the shortage exists in Europe
which no surplus of our country can Off
set, but still they try to tempt the farm
ers into sacrificing their wares by differ
ent tricks. The press, for instance, is
Utterly overtlowing with articles con-
graduating the farmers on the crop
raised. These newspaper articles are at
any rate misleading, for we hope that
few newspaper men are so ignorant that
they don't know that large crop o f
itself is no ground for congratulations to
the farmer.
Farm Values of Crops.
"The farm value of the crop does not
depend on its size, as the following will