The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

should believe that there is scarcity
rather than an abundance of grain. So
when they give in their answers to ques-
tons as to the supply they, rs a rule. do
more or less of the Ananias business, which
they think they have perfect right to do;
not being on oath, and having lawful
purpose To carry out, namely the further
ance of their own interests. Therefore if
a farmer has something like 1000 bush
els of wheat in his bins, he is liable to
report five hundred; and satisfies his con-
science in this way He says to himself, at
looks as if there might be thousand
bushels, but appearances are deceitful. At
any rate there are surely five hundred,
and when | report five hundred | don't
assert that there may not be more; and
anyhow Pm not on oath. Besides before
] get the grain to market the berry may
shrink or the rats may get in, and so I'll
say five hundred and let it go at that"
This is one of the reasons why, when
there is an attempt at a corner, and the
price OF cereal goes up, the stock keeps
pouring in on the speculator, just as if a
pint bottle so called, were to give out
quart of the fluid. The hapless spectators
who fancied they had the whole of the
visible supply find that there exists an I'M
known invisible supply which all at once
takes on shape and becomes alarmingly
visible and insists on being bought and
paid for at the highest prices. 1t is
the unexpected that always happens:
and if expected wheat has been CON
tracted for and delivered at dollar a
bushel, along comes the unexpected
wheat and clamors for $l.10. or the market
will be broken, and then where will the
spectators be? The agony is always
piled upon the spectators just at the end
of the deal, when the rich profits seem TO
be about in sight. But this sort of sight
is like the mirage on the plains of Arizona;
You stagger along hungry and thirsty, and
n splendid lake with verdant shores seems
to he about two miles distant. and when
YOU have travelled those miles the view
breaks and you are in the middle of
heated sands. and the nearest water many
miles away.
Let me say right here whoever attempts
to control any one OF the great food pro-
duets Of the world, whether corn. wheat or
rice. puts himself in the place OF man or
set of men who should set ont 10 dam
the Niagara rapids with bulrushes They
lose their labor and are swept away be-
sides.
The trade in futures or options has its
Headquarters in Chicago. Chicago is real
IL the heart whose beats send the blood OF
commercial activity coursing through the
arteries of trade all over the body of the
great Northwest When You 90 where the
wheat Is raised. and where large part of
il Is. YOU ind more business men than
SPECTATORS. Men buy the grain. store it,
and grind the -four. Ia Minneapolis the
harvest. indeed. means something to eat
As King David says in the lol,h Psalm,
18th verse: 1T is bread that strengthened
the heart of man" He says that wine
makes him glad. and oil makes his face
shine. bur bread makes him strong. That
IS why the Minneapolis men are SO happy;
they feel So strong.
Irnatius DonneIly is president Of the
Farmers Alliance OF Minnesota. There is
tins about Donuclly; He likes 10 differ
from most people. Ihe world at large
SAYS that William Shakespeare wrote
Shakspcare's plays, Hamlet. ''otnelo"
and the rest of them: 50 ponuely says
thus: No. Francis Bacon, who Vas Lord
Ve-ulam. wrote them" Philosophers
and astronomers in general say that COM
els are wj~us Of thin yapor that career
through space and have no influence upon
any 81 the solid bodies which they pass in
their course: Douneuy says;
No. comets are an aggregation OF stones
ut small SIZE that - travelling through
space: and the grave! beds and lodges
which YOU lind on this planet, the earth,
are the results OF the contact OF some
comet with our globe in long past ages
Now if Mr. Donnelly, who Is an able
man in many respects, is off ON Shake
speare and comets. aud We have a perfect
right 10 believe that he *. and the major
ity IS certainly on our side. We may also