Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-03-19

| IcolllpetlUlOn. Ih1s spoiled them.
! Some OF them would not sell at that
! price, and in 1892 when the price
! dropped to so cts, nobody thought
! 1T possible for wheat to remain at
| that price long, but they finally we're
forced to sell for 80 cts, and the To-
cal price in 1894 was 20 cts, and
land values have gone down until
you can buy a first-class improved
farm for from $15 to 500 per acre.
The people did not yet know the un-
limited power of the bond-holders
and ''go}d gamblers" backed up and
abetted by The National Bankers
Association, to depress prices. Mr..
Editor, there are some queer things
in this world.
Your paper has reached my home
every week since [ came to Pullman.
which was in the spring OF 1892, with
the price OF wheat quoted at Warren.
(prices here are based on Chicago
! prices, and until very recently there
has been from Is to 20 cts. per bush
el difference in price, it being that
much higher in Warren than in Pull
man. About December lst or 10th
the gap gradually began to close.
until we were getting 3 cts. per bush
Ell more for wheat in Pullman and
common points than you were at
Warren, which Was about February
1st, 1896. At this writing, the price
| IS about the same for same grade of
wheat, [ think it is possibly shade
higher there than here. Now. Mr..
Editor, hundreds OF thousands OF
bushels OF wheat at these prices were
shipped to Minneapolis, Mimi, during
the last three months, by rail. If
you can give a solution of this. |
would like to hear it. Mark nv
words, Mr.. Editor, there is a ''screw'
loose somewhere; where is it? Echo
answers where! You will undoubt-
Eed1y have said ere you have read this
far, "Why, Mr.. Preston has Joined
the crahks!' What is ''crank??" A
crank turns something I refer you
to Senator Tillman, Of Washington,
D. c. When the ''crank'' moves. the
machinery trembles, from center to
circumference. Yes sir, kind readers,
stand squarely and honestly on the
Peoples platform, or the second Dec
laration of Independence, formulated
at Omaha, Neb., July 4th, 1892, and
have stood there for three years, and
in this country at least [ am not
alone. In '94 we elected every county
officer but two, (sheriff and one COM
missioner) and in '96 we expect to
carry the State of Washington for
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln prin-
ciples.
| am doing fairly well, havea steady
Job with a large eastern corporation,
(which, however, cuts no figure with
my politics, nor my politics with my
position at a fair salary considering
the times. I jumped out of panic
owing to failure OF crops in Mime
sofa and jumped into another panic
and failure OF crops in Washington.
In the fall Of '93 I lost about 81 900,
but thank the Creator of all things
l am still on earth and myself and
family have good health, which, after
all, is riches untold, and should be
appreciated by all who enjoy these
blessings.
1 am sorry to note the silence OF
the SHEAF lately on the silver ques-
tion. Keep the ball rolling, Mr.. Edi-
tor! Surely the good old SHEAF can
not be developing into ''gold bug"
sheet. No, that would be impossible
with the interests ofso many millions
of the producing classes at stake. We
are not sectional silver men out here,
Mr. Editor, but believe it to be to the
best interests of all the common peo-
pie throughout the United States to
show no preference to the wealthy
mans money-gold, but we believein
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the present legal ratio OF Is to 1,
not as a western measure, but we be-
lieve it would benefit the east as
much as the west, in so much as it
would increase circulation and not
so easily allow the money OF the
country to be cornered by few mill
Gonaires, to the detriment of all 9th
ers. Mr.. Editor, / am not ashamed
of nv position in this matter, and