Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-25

amount to this vast sum in bushels,
to what number of bushels will the
crop of rye, oats and barley amount?
We may say, with safety, many mil
lions of bushels. All this vast crop
must he harvested within a short
space Of time. Few indeed are the
farmers WHO have storage room for
their grain, once it is threshed. This
one hundred million bushels of wheat,
one Of the prime necessities of life,
will be thrown upon the market near
ly at the same time; tle difference
in time will not be much. Let us now
consider all the wheat growing lands
in the United States where the har-
vest season comes nearly at, or about,
the same time of the year, and the
wheat crop will he what, in dollars?
Billions of dollars. The great major
ity of producers dispose of their crops
Immediately after the harvest. Once
sold by the producer it IS no longer
under his control, and consequently
he can in no way control the price.
We now have the worlds supply OF
the most important article of human
food in the hands, and absolutely un-
der the control Of whom? The ones
who have made the purchase; call
this control, the money power, mid
die man or whom you choose.
The question now arises: How is
the worlds supply of wheat for an
entire year to be kept out of the hands
of the money}power. Yes, how is it?
Mr.. Lewis advises that the producers
sell only one.tweliJh OF their wheat
each month. Does ne mean the farm
ers Of North. Dakota alone, or doee
he mean all the farmers in the Unitea
States? To combine the farmers of
NORTH Dakota might be a most diff
cult task. But Tor the sake Of argument
lite us say it can be done. Does any
one for a moment think that this would
have any effect, excepting in a very
SMALL way, upon the price of wheat.
What would the farmers In the other
wheat producing parts of the United
States he doing? Lee us say: have
all the wheat growers IN the whole
country combine. Surrey NO sane per-
son of ordinary intelligence would be-
.lieve that this could be Gone. Many
farmers would think, should such a
proposition be submitted to them, that
there "was a niger in the wood pile
But even could such a combination be
consummated, what would the wheat
growers of Russia, Canada, South
America, and in all other wheat grow
ing countries be doing? We certain
ly coGld not get all the wheat grow
ers Of the worlds Wheat lands, who
are Of many different races and speak
sc many different languages, tocom-
bine. If such combination could not
be formed then we fear all theories
would be blown to OF by the winds.
1t must be borne in mind that of all
the articles OF human food, wheat is
the n and only n Which can 3e
kept in all climates with little care,
excepting to keep it dry.
In order to sell IN article there
must be "a purchaser; when the word
purchaser is used, the consumer is
not meant. If the farmer had no
purchaser other than the consumer
he would have a most difficult time in
marketing his crop, for the consumer
only purchases for his immediate
wants, and consequently the farmer
would be from one crop year to In
other disposing Of his grain. To in
sure quick sales, the sale must he
made to those who have the money
to purchase, and wish u purchase,
whether for speculation or otherwise.
Think for a moment the vast sum Of
money required to purchase the
worlds supply of wheat, when the sale
is made inside of two or three months.
Much has been said and written
about the state erecting an elevator
at the Twin Cities. Should such an
elevator be erected with a capacity,
say of twenty million bushels, and the
farmers would all snip to the state
elevator, but as all ship about the
same time, and the elevator wouli
only hold one-ifth OF the years wheat,
what would he done with the eighty
million bushels which it would not
contain? We are told that when full
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