The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-07
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

ANOTHER HOLD YOUR WHEAT C1RCU-
LAR.
We print in another column an ar
ticle from the Minneapolis Tribune of
July 81, which will be interesting read
ing for the farmers of the Northwest.
1t is not fake. Somebody must pay
for these circulars. It was charged
that Charles A. Pillsbury expended
&c. 900 in the last "Hold Your Wheat"
movement. Charley had lot of wheat
on hand and wanted the farmers to
hold back their grain until he could
get clear of his own. He played the
farmers for suckers. We were savage.
ly denounced for not upholding the
scheme; and kept busy for years after
in denying that we were not the get
ter up of it. We caught it both ways.
The probability is that this new
movement is gotten up in the same
way by a lot of wheat Spectators; and
as soon as they have forced the price
up and unloaded they will drop the
whole thing and leave the farmers in
the lurch.
Some years since young man walk
ing along one of the back streets of
St. Paul encountered goat. The
youth was rather spry. and it seemed
to him that the goat had altogether too
much gravity and dignity and took up
too much of the pavement; and so, to
express his disapprobation he kicked
the animal. 1t was a mistake. The
goat lowered his head and went for
his abdomen like rock from cata-
pult;-the youth seized him by the
horns; and as they were about equally
matched a struggle began, to and fro
around the street, that lasted for an
hour. BY this time both parties were
exhausted, and just then another
young man came along.
"My good SIR" said youth number
one, very affably, twill you be kind
enough to hold my pet goat for just a
few moments, while 1 60 into the
house and get rope to tie him with?'
"Certainly," said the accommodate
ing wayfarer, taking hold of the horns.
The other walked off half a block.
stuck his head around the corner, and
cried out:
Il say, stranger, let 60 and run like
HILL"
That is the kind of advice the Min
neapolis spectators will give the
farmers as soon as they have unlOaded
their own wheat.
We trust no reader of The REPRE-
SENTATIVE will be fooled by any such
confidence game.
Sell your wheat when you get ready.
If you are in debt sell enough to get
yourself out Of bondage, but don't sell
a bushel more. If you can meet your
obligations by the sale of barley, rye,
flax, ETC., hold onto your wheat for a
time, for it is lower in proportion
than any other product.
If the farmers united in move
ment to hold their wheat the trouble
would come when the time arrived to
unload. 1t would take very wise, and
honest and skillful management to
open the reservoir without flooding
the markets and breaking down all
values.
! God has sent you good crop, broth
ers. Use it:
| /. To provide amply for the bodily
necessities of yourself and family for
year to come.
2. To provide amply for their men
| tai growth and intellectual appetite
by good books and newspapers.
3. To get out Of debt.
The man who is in the power of our
| western sharks would be more COM
| Portable in the internal regions on a
pile of hot Goals, without fan. Get
out of their clutches and be a free
man..
4. Then help the Peoples Party to
help the rest of mankind; and SO win
the approval of God and his angels.