People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — ANTI-OPTION LEGISLATION. [ARTICLE]

ANTI-OPTION LEGISLATION.

Mow b the Time for Producer* to Make a Special Effort. The producers of this country should make a determined effort to secure an anti-option law at the next session of congress. There will never be a better time to make their influence felt upon the politicians. The presidential campaign will come next year and the politicians will be looking for votes. The iron will be hot, red hot, at Washington next winter and the farmers should strike. If they will now make a united effort they can discount the money that the board of trade spends in hiring talent to oppose such legislation, and certainly there is no greater evil to the farmer than the gambling on tne board of trade. It is a constant detriment to the producer and an evil of gigantic proportions to the operators. It is the wild-eyed, loud-mouthed gambler on the board of trade who sets the prices for farm products. Without a thought of the law of supply and demand the gamblers go upon the floor and bear and bull the market, each striving to get the best of the other fellow, and when his game of chance ends for the day, the highest price bid is the ruling price for farm products. Without the slightest basis this price may tumble down or leap up the next day as the daring of the operators on one side or the other may be the most audacious. The price of the farmer’s grain is regulated by this shuttlecock performance. It Is a disgrace to our civilization and a monstrous crime against our farmers. —Farmers’ Voles, Chicago.