The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-12-15

ICE. ST. PAUL. MIMI.
ER-BOARD.
free markets can exist That is where the producer can
set his price, There is but one method to secure
that power And that is by acting in unison to the full
extent Of the vsibe supply There is but method
to secure unity OF action, and that is by .
SELLER BOARD.
The essential elements Of such q Board we enunciar
ted in 1887 at the opening Of the wheat war; Ia the
northwest. The pivotal idea s contract with q Ger
tain beard of men to decide when certain proportion
Of wheat shall be sold, and at what price The power
Of control rests absolutely with the owner or producer
in Of these essential elements Of domestic economy
the producers unite to do it, and they cor
tanly ought not they could put wheat 81 90 BUSH
in u hours The feeling that inasmuch as they could
do this, and would If united has been great detfiment
to the union Of producers thus far. wise poity pre-
vaing amongst them and declared intention OF seek
justice and removing oppression would unite enough
of the farmers to their protection For the power so OBJ
tanned is wonderful (snce purchaseseer board ex-
lists at Chcago that the producer is to or
ganze and speedily when he realizes what lies within his
grasp.
Very few people realize the enormous power of such
board-a power that would not exist but for the cen
tralzed demand produced by the Chicago infamy
So great is the power yet to appear that we meas
ure it by the following almost absurd proposition: If
of the farmers Of i've western states would put
the time of sale and price of oneha their crop Zone
fourth the full crop into the hands of seven men, and
those seven men to open Office in the wilderness
parC of Todd countyn the midst of swamp ten miles
from railway statonand then put the price of that
wheat at 81 90 bushe the gamblers OF Chicago would
come through briar and BRAKE in torn garb and with
dirty faces to beg for that wheat on their else
stop gambling and buy the honest grain at 81 90
bushell Yee-n done today, January December de.
liveries, they could run wheat up to $3.50 bushel
Such is the power of Corner" But the wisdom OF
such action cannot be maintained The end of corner
is ruin The break OF such corner would be Soc wheat
again. Hence Seller Board must be governed by hon.
est purpose and ust motives. we have permitted q
gambling hell to ruin us, cannot suddenly ruin the
''he without giving the furnaceres time to 20 out
otherwise an explosion Of disastrous import.
But Seller Board can open it's office at some rea-
sonably central point and organize it's forces and in
three months be ready to dictate prices the world
And that dictaOn would stand against the dctation of
a Chicago hell And it would not be giant warfare,
disastrous conflict if wisely conducted II that
Seller Board, controlling $50 millions of bushels of
wheat absolutey-(and Of course by rational expert
ence holding back at least hundred millions more by
native desire for the price)were find the Chica
gamblers selling at &C. and should declare that no
wheat would be de vered for less than 75c for sixtv
days. and to rise Kc per day would
spring to IS, 20, 1874 and within one week from
the edict. There would be no remedy-no recoursel
Ese gambling would cease and wheat by virtue OF
demand. I'VE mean 75c at the country station Let
the combines look after their freghts They know
how.
Chicago controls Liverpool, Russia and India The
statement that importing nation controls the export
price is ridiculous and defy any or men to show
where Chicago has followed Liverpool for week in ten
years. The contrary has always been the case
There never wll-nor can-be prosperity in the ma
tion until wheat is worth dollar bushel to the farmer
at average distance from MARKET corn SOC and cotton
double it's present price, The approach to these prices
be gradual. 75c for wheat is high enough for the
first jump And 80 days is time enough to settle all
balances the Board off of it-and be ready for
half cent day for twenty days longer. And then rest
for another crop at $1.O0
People who do not understand the inexorable |
Claws" ordained by Greed, may not understand why
such Seller Board would have such extraordinary in
tie of the Board Of Trade and Combine powers knows
that put this matter under rather than over the
tual truth.
HOW TO ORGANIZE.
The great bugbear in the way of Seller Board will
be the impression that it is impossible organize
vast concern. They the mighty expenses and shud
der in their poverty But the TACT a that the mighty
expenses myth Chicago has been buided in more
than imperial splendor Xc bushel Of the western
wheat crop, xc per hundred Of the western hogl
Let convention be called after the matter has been
discussed by the reform and agricultural press in the
counties. The counties to send delegates to state con-
vention.
II the cotton states would unite ii Grain and Cot
ton Board much the better. They would certainly