Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
lGNATIUS OBJECTS.
President Donnelly, of the Minnesota
Alliance, Issues q
Circular.
Scheme Of the National Alliance to
Corner Wheat Not Approved
by Him.
An Agreement Reached Between
Tennessee Miners and the
Governor,

ST. PAUL, July 90. TO hold wheat or
not to hold it, that is the question at
present, and it appears to be a question
upon which the Alliance leaders are
much divided. The National Alliance,
with headquarters at Washington, de-
vised the plan of sending out circulars
to Farmors' Alliance men throughout
the wheat raising districts of the coun-
Try. advising the holding of wheat for
better prices. Ehe work is now in pro-
gress. most of it being done from St.
Paul on account of its location in the
centre of the great wheat belt.
w. Il. aver, secretary to President
Polk, in an interview aJ Washington,
said that there have already been
400, 700 of these circulars sent out from
Washington, and that during the next
few days an average of more than
100. 600 day will be mailed until more
than 1000, 900 circulars altogether are
issued. The circular, he said, will also
be published in about 1000 weekly
papers with which the bureau is con-
heeted. Whether or not the circular
would have the desired effect he could
not say, but he thought it was already
being felt in the receipts at wheat cen
tiers.
Mr. Donnelly's Views.
But now comes 1gnatius Donnelly,
president of the Minnesota Farmers
Alliance, with q circular to the farmers
Of the state. It is quite a long docu-
ment, and not at all in accord with the
National A11ianoo rirr,11nr [ ffar nv
pressing the hope that the scheme may
turn out fully as bright as it is painted,
he says:
But l realize that when q few men
undertake, without proper "pre-concert
and consultation, to affect the price of
. great staple like wheat, and do it,
either directly OF indirectly, in the
Farmers Alliance, they are entering
upon a tremendous and dangerous ex-
pertinent, which may not only in its re-
coil crush them, but injuriously affect
the Alliance itself. 1 desire, therefore,
to have it distinctly understood that the
State Farmers Alliance of Minnesota is
in n 10 wise responsible for this move
ment, or for any consequence that may
flow from 1t. The time is not far dis
tant when the whole farming popula-
tion of the United Suites shall be
banded together for self protection, and
to resist the efforts Of spectators to
break down the real value of their pro-
auctions; but to do this through con-
sultation and wise action are necessary,
together with the estnb lishment of some
bureau that will direct the sales; other
wise some farmers would get out at
e~xtravagant prices and others be caught
in the collapse Of the boom. I see MI.
Pil]sbury, the great miller of Minneapo-
lis, declares that wheat will touch So q
busl!ei within the next twelve months.
IUDGcrstand that the English syndicate,
owing to the Minneapolis mills, now
hold $4,000, GOO bushels of wheat. If the
price Of wheat goes up 20 cents under
the holding back OF the new crop, those
gentlemen would realize So, 900, 600 and
get cut. In the meantime the farmers,
who are hoping for 80 a bushel
Would BE Caught in the Slump,
and might have to sell in the spring al
%ruinuusly low rates. And then every
farmer III the state would turn upon and
deLounce the Farmers Alliance, and
our great organization would he de.
strCyed. And then the cry would &c
forth. why did not our president warn
us OF these lawyersi lie must have sold
out to the s~yndicate!"
Where farmers car avoid rushing
their wheat into market, they should dc
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 y,u no advice and is not
responsible for the mutations OF thu
future.
Fer the present the interests of the
millers are identical with the interests
OF the farmers in the great secret
now raging, and we Should do what w ',
reasonably can to help them in thei,
efforts to advance the price of our grea'
cereal. But this is a world of selfish in
t%erests, and we must watch even oul
pllies