Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — COMMANDED TO HOLD IT [ARTICLE]

COMMANDED TO HOLD IT

ALLIANCE ORDER TO NORTHWESTERN FARMERS. From 91.50 to 92 Per Bushel for Wheat Xs Promised Later in the Season—One Million Letters Containing Instructions Sent Oat—lndications that a Big War Is Imminent. Anticipate-a Bise. The Farmers’ Alliance leaders in Min-* nesota and North and South Dakota have resolved upon another attempt to stop the tremendous flow of wheat to the markets. The receipts in Minneapolis and Duluth for the last week have run from 800 to 1,500 cars every day, and the price of December wheat has dropped to 90% cents in Minneapolis. At this rate of sale and delivery the Alliance people assert that the 150,000,000 bushels of wheat in the No. 1 hard belt will be out of the farmers’ hands before Jan. 1. and their haste will drive the price back to 80 cents. The Alliance therefore began tho mailing from its St Pgul headquarters of a million of letters to the farmers calling a halt all along the line. The letter states the new Wheat Growers’ Association and the Alliance secretaries all over the country are unanimous that wheat is bound to sell as hig i as SI. 50 and possibly S 2 per bushel, and they are unanimous in this warning to the farmers not to sacrifice their wheat ,and give the speculators all the profit there is in it. The letter says the crop is being greatly overestimated by the newspapers and grain dealers, and continues: “We do not believe a majority of the farmers are foolish enough to co-operate with the speculators to depress prices further. There is no question but prices will take a turn upward. The shortage •In Europe can now be figured with accuracy. About a week ago a congress of grain-dealers from all parts of Europe mot at Vienna, Austria? and computed figures about the crops in Europe. These figures are the highest which well-informed reputable men could furnish, for, If in a famine year like this they should give for the crop of any one country lower figures than circumstances justified, the government of that country would certainly remonstrate. It is surely the policy of Europeans not to exaggerate their disaster. The figures of the Vienna Congress show that Europe raised 258,000,000 bushels’ of wheat and 490,000,000 bushels of rye less than last year. Last year it consumed all of its own wheat crop and at least 50,0C0,C00 of reserves, 1i.0,00',000 bushels imported from America, all that other countries could supply, and all its rye crop. This year it will have from America 12 ,too,too bushels more than last, if we take the extreme figures which any reputable authority has made for our really splendid crop. “It will have as usual what other countries supply, which is insignificant, but it will have 748,000,000 bushels less of its own crop and 50,00 ',OOO bushels less to draw from reserves. In short, It will have 120,000,009 bushels extra from America to make up a deficiency of 798,0 0,000, and must consequently eat 678,000,000 bushels less grain. “Rye being dearer in Europe than wheat, the latter becomes a substitute, and is equally affected by deficiency in rye or wheat supply. When it is entirely certain that Europeans will have to\ economize in bread to the extent of 678,- z 000,009 bushels, and when the situation is aggravated by the partial failure of the potato crop, it is to be considered what prices they would pay for American wheat The shortage in Europe being four times as large as the American surplus, there is no doubt that the price of wheat will reach the highest figure ever known before this year is up and will exceed it by far before the new crops come in. “Wheat will soon be over 51.50, no matter how much farmers and speculators work together to keep prices down, and we would advise those who can comprehend the situation to hold their wheat for SL 50 and add for every month they keep it say five cents to the price. Hold your wheat. You cannot get left "

INDICATIONS OF A BIG WAR. Russia May Cause a Struggle in Which All Europe Will Participate. The Foreign Office here, says a London cablegram, is kept in a state of uneasiness over the projects ascribed to Russia involving the opening of the Dardanelles and the s izure of Constantinople. These intentions may exist only in the imagination of certain correspondents, but there is information in the Foreign Office sufficient to justify the belief that Russia is about to start on a new and important line of policy. The contingencies in question have not been sprung upon unawares They were foreseen when the German Emperor was here. Beyond doubt they entered into subjects d scussed during his visit to the Queen at Windsor and to Lord Salisbury at Hatfield House. They were considered on all sides, and the tone of the German press at this moment shows the impression which was made. The most important journals point out that an attack by Russia upon Constantinople, or a hostile movement against England in Egypt, would not affect England alone, bub would concern all Europe. England could not be left to deal with the difficulty single-handed. That is surely important notification to all whom it may'concern. Russia is rapidly Increasing Its’fleet and is trying to get its finances straight, and it means to have gentral mobilization of all its forces. The Black Sea clause of the treaty of Paris will have to be abrogated. There need be no war about that Russia by a little tact might easily accomplish this object, even before the meeting of Parliament, but if it means to pounce down upon Constantinople it would be a different affair. Then a great war would be inevitable, and breadstuffs, which you have to sell in the United 'States, would be worth anything you chose to ask for them. That is one reason why accumulating complications in European polities are of great importance to the American people. Worth Knowing. One-half the people that are born die before the age of if?. There are 3,500,000 of people always on- the seas of the world. There are at least 10,000,000 nerve fibers in the human body. It has been calculated that there are 200,000 families living in London on £1 a week. It take about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantio cable to the other. This is about7oQ miles a second.