Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — GRAIN “CONSPIRACY" BLAMED [ARTICLE]

GRAIN “CONSPIRACY" BLAMED

Farmers’ Congress Head Touches Cause for Price Decline. Columbus, 0., Nov. 17. —Blames for the present slump in prices for farm products was laid at. the door of a “Well organized conspiracy on the part of grain gamblers and some of the captains of finance,” by O. G. Smith of Nebraska, president of the Farmers’ National Congress, lh his annual address at the opening session of that body’s annual convention here.