Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Roiding Grain For a Rise. [ARTICLE]

Roiding Grain For a Rise.

Tl»«* .iblo adviser* of the daily pressliavc begun their annual lectures to the farmers on the "folly 1 ’ of bolding grain for a rise in tbe ,m**kal*. fine p f them say* "it is speculation,” and not justifiable. They never consider tbe propriety of farmers holding their produots tor a price that will pay them for the outlay in producing. That consideration is least in their thought. They seem to think that the Almighty made the land and the farmers upon«t for the purpose of contributing to the "aotivity of general trade,” and that it is not in the bond that farmer* ars oven to be permitted the consideration of maintaining their own existenoe. ‘‘Sell, and sell now, 1 ’ ie the chorus in unison of this whole tribe of talkers and writers. They do not have the temerity to lecture and belabor the producers of manufactured goods in speh away—to urge them to sell and sell now, whether ,th« market would bring them the cost of production, or not. They yrould eonsider it indeeent and .silly for any one to urge manufacturers to do snob a thing as that. Hie reason they assign for their urgent advice is that prices are as good now as they will be for the crop, and their predictions in this respeot as a role, prove false from year to year. Once in a while they stumble on the truth, but it is ofiener the exception than the rule. It need hardly be urged that tbe advice of any one to another to sell At a price below cost, except in emergencies, is that of a fpol. We grant freely that it is a mpo’s duty to make sacrifices in the fiiseharge of obligation. Ail classes occasionally have to do that. If a man has a debt jpeet, and he lhast meet it if at all' in selling a bolt of muslip or bushels of grain below coat, if j» his duty to sell, •nd pay it. This all honorable idea admit. Hut this scolding at fSfwelase because they won’t cpntribaUp to the "activity of trade,” eifterywH gsepenar, is getting monotonou*. Of course’ the crops thist and will be marketed, btt the thit upon their own jwteegmt, in sST/a s.tfc coartbute to tbe % irsiewill first seek to make a yiVg to}**** ft wMk If they, think holding will fio uk they will hold. Not onlikt they scan the markets, the supply sad demand, ana their yyrja coo-