Morris tribune., 1891-07-29
pONNELLY'S ADVICE.
Farmers should Use Judgment and Not

Farmers should Use Judgment and Not
Ee Tools of Bulls or Bears.
ST. PAUL, July "a. TO hold wheat or
not to hold it, that is the question at
present, and it appears to be question
upon which the Alliance leaders are
much divided. The National Alliance,
with headquarters at Washington, de-
yised the plan of sending out circulars
to Farmers Alliance men throughout
the wheat raising districts Of the coun-
try, advising the holding of wheat for
better prices. The 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. H. Aver, secretary to President
Polk. in an interview at Washington,
said that there have already been
400, 100 of these circulars sent out from
Washington, and that during the next
few days an average Of more than
100. 600 a day will be mailed until more
than .OOO. 600 circulars altogether are
issued. The circular, he said, will also
be published in about 1000 weekly
parers with which the bureau is con-
nected. 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
ters.
Mr.. Donnelly's Views.
But now comes Ignatius Donnelly,
president of the Minnesota Farmers
Alliance, with a circular to the farmers
ST The state. 1t is quite long docu5
inent. and not at all in accord with the
National Alliance circular. After exe
pressing the hope that the scheme may
turn out fully as bright as it is painted,
he says:
But realize that when few men
undertake, without proper pre-concert
and consultation, to affect the price of
great staple like wheat, and do it,
either directly or indirectly, In the
Farmers Alliance, they are entering
upon tremendous and dangerous ex-
periment, which may not only IN its re4
coil crush them, but injuriouslY affect
The Alliance itself. + desire, therefore,
To have it distinctly understood that the
State Farmers Alliance of Minnesota is
in no wise responsible for this move
Inent, or for any consequence that may
low from IT. The time is not Ear dig
tant when the whole farming popula~
tion of the United States shall be
banded together for self protection, and
to resist the efforts of spectators to
break down the real value of their pro-
ductions; but to do this through con-
sultation and wise action are necessary,
together with the establishment of some
bureau that will direct the sales; etnel-
wise some farmers would get out at
Sxtrayasant prices and others be caught
in the collapse of the boom. | see Mr:
Piljsbury, the great miller of Minneapez
lis, declares that wheat will touch 80 q
bushel within the next twelve months.
understand that the English syndicate,
owing to the Minneapolis mills, now
hold Is 900, 600 bushels of wheat. II the
price Of wheat goes up 20 cents under
the holding back Of the new crop, those
gentlemen would realize $4,000, ,000 and
get out, In the meantime the farmers;
who are hoping for $2 a bushel
Would I;e Caught in the Slump,
and might have to sell in the spring at
s.1inously IoY rates. And then every
farmer il the state would turn upon and
denounce the Farmers Alliance, and
our great organization would be de-
stroyed. And then the cry would go
forth, why did not our president warn
MS of these lawyers? He must have sold
out to the syndicate!
Where farmers can avoid rushing