Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — ALLEN TO PRESS HIS DEMANDS [ARTICLE]

ALLEN TO PRESS HIS DEMANDS

Says He Will Insist on Probe of Chicago Board of Trade. I Topeka, Kas., Oct. lfl —Governor I Allen will press his demands for a ! government investigation of the Chii cago Board of Trade on his allega- ■ tion that wheat prices have been manipulated, he said here yesterday on his return from an eastern campaign speaking tour, j “My request to President Wilson,” he said, “was merely for an investiI gation as to operations on the board. I I am noTjr awaiting action on that request and believe an investigation ! will show some startling facts and 'conditions.” + I Referring to the recent slumps of wheat and cotton, Governor Allen said: “If it is shown that these price fluctuations were due to speculation, j cold, deliberate gambling, and not conditions of supply and demand, I will urge abolition of the board. In 'any event, I will fight illegal gambling in necessities. “It is impossible to conceive how various forms of gambling in the state and nation should be made illegal and yet become perfectly legitimate when the speculators and gam- ) biers are betting on the prices of the food we must eat and the clothes !we must wear. I “Had the Kansas farmers sold ■their wheat under the recent break, they would have been forced to lose 1100,000,000. I can not see the merit of a legalized gamble in necessities by persons who sell thousands of bushels of grain they do not own, 1 who buy thousands of bushels of grain that is never delivered.”