Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — TO CORNER THE WHEAT CROP. [ARTICLE]

TO CORNER THE WHEAT CROP.

farmers’ Alliance Will Endeavor to Form a Trout. St. Paul has been made the headquarters of a national movement by the United Farmers’ Alliance of the country to corner tlie entire wheat crop of the United States. At No. 317 Wabash street, far

several days, a large force of employes has been engaged In sending out circulars with the view of having not only tho Allianca men of the United States but all classes ot farmers, keep back their wheat crop until the bears have been killed off and prices have been advanced to a high point. In other words, the Alliance Press Bureau the Reform Press Bureau and State Presi Bureau are Working to unite the busines* of the United States in a gigantic wheal trust, in which the producers shall be th« stockholders, and by which the speculators and wheat buyers shall be squeezed tt the wall. At the head of the movement which has its headquarters in St Paul, is George Muller, editor o'. the State land a prominent Alii anee man. A circular reciting the benefits of combination and urging the formation of the “trust,” has been made public; The circular estimates the wheat crop ot 1891 in the Udited States at 500,000,001 bushels. The promoters of the farmers' wheat trust believe that four-fifths of thii wheat can be held back by the farmers for from four to eight weeks, by w-hict time it is thought that prices will ha vs gone skyward. Lists bearing the names of secretaries ol every Alliance in the United States an now in the hands of Mr. Muller, and Circulars have been sent to the Alliances ol the Eastern wheat-growing States, UHt note, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Oregon and to a part of the remaininj wheat-growing States.