The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-06

| ton at all. The condition OF winter
wheat is CIV IN fraction of per cent.
lower and that ct spring wheat per
cent above the June report.
This supplement deals principally
with the wheat question, as the specu.
lation in other cereals Is not as strong
" developed.
Corn and oats are reilly not in ~ good
position for high prices az rheat, because
being principally absorbed as food for AMI
mas, greIt economy can be prarficed tn
| their use.
StiH they hare maintained about double
| the ordinary prices, berdnse they are com
paratire,y tcti alone By speculation.
This communication will be in the
hands of every farmer in a few days,
| and it must be, indeed, stubborn and
| imprudent man, who would not heed its
advice. which in no case could work to
his detriment, and which Is based upon
facts conservativcly stated AMI uncon-
| tradicted.
A successful move Of this kind means
dollars and cents and shows better than
anything else that allianc, gives
strength and prosperity. It can be
speedily accomplished and will greatly
assist in the enforcement of other just
demands for the benefit of the most
numerous and important class Of our
population.
Your effort to reduce railroad and el-
cvator charges, If Systematically fol-
lowed up, will result to your benefit,
but when the railroad and elevator
men take advantage of you, they take
cents or nickels out of your pocket,
while the Spectator takes the dollars.
You cannot afford to lose the chance
that this year offers YOU Don't get ex-
cited even If prices 60 far above those
| indicated.
This year it is easy for the farmer to
protect his interest. Next year we will
be better prepared to meet any attempt
at manipulating prices.
This extra will be mailed to every
local alliance in the country.
Express your opinion and let your
| secretary communicate the same to the
| secretary of the state board. All these
| resolutions will be collected and the
exact results will be laid before every
alliance. SO that you will know very
soon what the farmers of the whole
country think of the situation and how
| they will act.
You can fully rely on the figures and
facts as given above, and must not mind
L tho 1niruS of thu cOno,slatnra
Let them sell aeheat promises at 10 cents a
bushel, that has nothing to do scith req,
grain.
Spectators have sold more than you
surplus crop already.
What business have they to do that?
| Will you sanction their actions and,
SO to say, make them your agents by
delivering your grain at prices made by
them without even consulting you?
When the wheat gamblers hear of .
determination on your part to hold
yonr grain for higher price than they
have sold it for, It's likely that they will
make desperate efforts to further de-
press prices on futures for the purpose
of soaring you.
This must not affect you in the least,
for If you hear that man has sold
| your horse or COW and has to deliver it
in a certain time 1t is your luck be-
cause he has to come to you first and
make his bargain, and you will know
what to charge him.
Many people think that the specula-
ton for depressing prices is Offset by
speculation for high prices and that
i q 1~n hill na,H A1~cr Sc n
bear
This is entirely erroneous, for the
bear Spectator sells principally to
legitimate buyers.
| lie is the cause that there are t,eo crops in
the market erery year.
| The buyer can easily take care Of
one. but rs tie farmers crop comes
later than the spectators the farmer
is the sufferer.
The spectators NEARLY all profess
sional spectators are bears) will not
like this circular. They will say 1t
emanates from some patty who wants
to sec wheat going up.
In this they are right-most decided
| ~ right-and we have to confess to it.
| Our address is Mt the head OF
this circular and we most sim
cerely hope that you will remember
| it, and our confession, that zee rant to see
aehedt going up; that acc cant to see tie
farmers out Of debt and farm property re-
muneratire. and zee confess also that ,ce
seiH do our best to help along to that end; and
that this article was written especially
for that purpose, and that we intend to
write similar articles on kindred SUBJ
| jects, and if our efforts are appreciated
and sufficiently encouraged, we may
even publish them in three languages.
| The daily press does not love the
farmer since he shows political indie
pendence, and any move like this, cal
culated to prove his strength, and i'm.
prove his condition, will meet with a
strong protest on their part.
They will probably call this move q
corner or trust, because such names are
unpopular.
But what similarity is there between
a corner or trust and move like this?
A set of swindlers have sold your
property at q certain figure and want to
force you TO deliver it up at lower
price SO they can make handsome
profit
Their manipulations have impover-
ished the farmer and they calculate
that he is sufficiently reduced to be in
a perfectly defenseless condition and
that his creditors will compel him to
again become the victim of the specu.
lator.
If in view of large deficiency Of the
CROP acknowledged by every body, they
succeed in forcing You to accept the
lower prices for wheat, what can you
expect when the worlds crop is abun.
dant?
Can it be called corner or q trust,
that you refuse to sacrifice your prop
erty because the speculator has sold it
for You?
Is it not your right and indeed q
moral obligation to crush this swindle,
when you have it in your power?
No creditor will compel you, nor can
compel You, to sell your crop for hall
its value, when few weeks patience
must establish fair prices.