St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-31
CIRCULAR NO. SENT OUT FROM
TRIPLE ALLIANCE HEAD
QUARTERS.
1T is FULL OF MYSTERY.
FARMERS ADVISED TO HOLD
THEIR WHEAT FOR A DOL
LAR A BUSHEL.
QUEER SORT OF A DOCUMENT.
Ninety Thousand Farmers Said I'd
Have Pledged Themselves to
Hold Their Wheat,

1t appears from the circular Ier-
ter given below that there is either
a gigantic combination among the
farmers of Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, or some resident of Mime
apolis is trying his hand at emulat-
ing Munchausen. The letter, a copy
of which fell into the hands of the
G o b e last evening, purports to be
No. 8 of a series sent otu from
Triple Alliance Headquarters"
Minneapolis. 1t speaks of circular No.
2 and gives to the gentleman to whom
addressed, a farmer in Mcleod
county, the cheerful information
that everything is going according
to the wishes of the alliance. The
farmers are advised to keep their
mouths Shut, borrow money to pay
machinery, twine and grocery bills,
likewise mortgages, and hold their
wheat until they are assured a dol
lar for each bushel. This farmer
out in Mcleod county is told that
over 10000 farmers in Minnesota and
the Dakotas have taken the pledge,
and that the remainder of the tillers
of the soil of this section are fall
ing over each other to do the same
thing. The letter in full is as fol-
lows.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE HEADQUAR-
TERS-CIRCULAR 3.
(Confdential)
MINNEAPOLIS, July 9, 1S95.-Dear
Sir: All that was outlined in Circular
No. 2 has been accomplished. The
triple alliance of the farmers of the
two Dakotas and Minnesota is now a
fixed fact. But the utmost secrecy
must be maintained. 1t is desired that
the Importance of this be impressed
upon you and all the friends. Ii ma
jority, or even respectable minority,
of the farmers of these three spring
wheat states will pledge themselves
and keep it to themselves to hold their
wheat for a dollar bushel they will
get a dollar a bushel. But if the fact
of an alliance leaks out and the wheat
gamblers get hold of 1t, prices will be.
depressed.
There are three hundred and forty
odd thousand farmers in the three
states. Over ninety thousand of them
have already taken the pledge and
more are taking it daily as rapidly as
one hundred and thirty agents can adj
minister oathS to them. The work is
being done satisfactorily and much
more rapidly than it was done in the
winter wheat states. The movement
was inaugurated there in January and
with an ultimate number of agents
amounting to over three hundred only
two hundred thousand pledges had been
taken up to May 1.
The general agent for your section
is --, but we want half-dozen
subagents. No one can become an
agent till he takes the oath. Call on
the general agent and assist him all
you possibly can. Our time is getting
short. Not much work has yet been
done north of the 47th parallel. Talk
to all of your acquaintances whom you
can safely talk with and urge upon
them to enlist. Urge them to borrow
money to pay machinery bills, twine
bills, grocery bills, mortgages and
everything they owe. 1t will pay them
in the end. They can pay per cent
a month and still come out ahead.
Anything of Importance pertaining to
the cause that you may learn, we beg
of you to communicate to us. But do
not write to headquarters. Tell it by
word of mouth to a general agent who
will attend to it. Yours for the cause,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
IT LOOKS FISHY.
A leading member of the Farmers
Alliance said yesterday afternoon:
'I do not think the circular can be
genuine, for if there were $4,000 men in
the Northwest in a movement to with
hold their wheat from sale we would
have heard something about it. The
Farmers Alliance has had nothing to
do with that. No man who has any re-
gard for his name would take the re-
sponsibility of advising people to with
hold their products from the market,
for prices would go down. Besides,
the farmers Of the Northwest are too
hard up to be able to hold back; they
must sell in order to pay their debts
and get what they need to live"
TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.