The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-11-06
Washington Letter.

The receipts of wheat, including -four
for the month of September, including both
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, has been
28,5s0000 bushels as against 1855, 0Oc
bushels for the same month in last year
The price has been five and half cents lo,uer
per bnshel than Il acas last gear.
With the enormous foreign demand
demand which comes from the we'll known
fact that starvation threatens, that in Rus
STA alone there are 100000 people who
are feeding not even on the husks with the
Prodigal Son, but upon the roots dug out Of
the earth and the leaves Of the trees made
into the semblence Of food-the spectators
have forced down the price of wheat FIVE
and a half cents less than it was last year
when the European demand was almost
nothing. The farmers of the country-the
grain growers Of the country-are asked to
look at this condition aud see how complete
ly they are under the control of the money
power of the country, and how they have
themselves contributed to this condi-
tion BY forcing their grain into the market
against the advice oftheir friends, who knew
the situation and told them what it was.
Not only is wheat reduced in price, but in
the face ofthe fact that Germany has opened
its ports to American pork that Denmark
has done the same that Italy has volun-
tarily removed the prohibition that France
has reduced lis tariff upon American meats,
pork has fallen 25 cents barrel, lard q
fraction, and hogs ! OF IA cent per pound.
All this through the monopolists, the grain
gamblers and the meat gamblers, while the
foreign demand is double what it was last
year because of this change In Europen law.
The American farmer, the grain grower
aud the meat raiser has If he were to exer-
else it, the power to control these markets,
but instead of exercising this power be
allows these gamblers to exercise it. 1t is
about time that the farmers began to use,
and TO use effectively, the power they
possess: 1t DOLLY requires cooperation and
action on their part TO put up instead oil
down the price of wheat, the price of pork
and the price of corn.
In Kansas the farmers are moving in the
right direction, IL the other States will fol-
low the example set them in Kansas there
will be on difficulty in regard to the price OF
grain and other farm produce, but 90 long
as the grain growers and the meat raisers
permit Armour 10 control the price of meat
end the New York and Chicago Grain Ex-
changes TO control the price oferaiD, so long
will the middle man make the profits of =
great crop like the present. The farmers,
instead OF making the profits, are forced TO
pay 10 the railroad monopolists and the
grain gamblers all that they make, instead
Of putting il into their own bank accounts, a
thing which they do not now have, but
which they could have if any ordinary
business sense was used.
The Kansas Alliance has provided for
cooperative stores; for cooperative insur-
ance; fol- enough elevators to hold at least
one-half the grain crop of the State. Why
will not the other State Alliances adopt
similar methods? The Kansas farmers will
save this year not less than $50,000,000 by
the wise action Of the State Alliance meet :
ing. They will save this sum which would
otherwise have been made by Armour and
the grain gamblers. Let Iowa, Illinois, Min
nesota, the Dakolas and Nebraska take sim
liar action and the Grain Exchanges Of
Chicago and New York viii be driven out
OF existence, while the meat packers will
have 10 pay the farmers the price they de-
nwnd for their meat, instead Of settling the
price they will pay themselves.
These are iacls which the farmers should
consider,