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ADVOCATE AND GUIDE. 15 



When wheat growers have a little money saved up they 

 are afraid to invest it in hired help and machinery to put in 

 another crop through fear of the price being too low to jus- 

 tify it. That will be remedied when they unionize and take 

 over the price-making on their wheat to insure the return of 

 money invested in it. It is of much greater importance that 

 favorable conditions for making a living be provided pos- 

 terity than that great wealth be given it. 



Wheat Grower to Get Benefit of Favorable Weather. 



Under the gambling plan of regulating the price of wheat 

 by the board of trade, future prices for wheat for a year 

 ahead are sold down whenever a rain or snow or other 

 favorable weather cover one or more of the big wheat-pro- 

 ducing States. That carries down the present cash price of 

 last year's crop. Thus, what should be a joy to the wheat 

 grower is made a sorrow. By that method of price-making 

 the bumper crop is a calamity instead of a benefit to the 

 wheat grower, since he is made to take less money for it 

 than for a poor crop. Only by unionizing can the wheat 

 growers take over from the board of trade to themselves the 

 power to dictate the price of wheat and change favorable 

 weather into pleasant anticipations instead of gloomy fore- 

 boding. 



Will it pay to unionize to secure the reward of industry? 



Desirability of Stabilized Price of Wheat. 



None but the gamblers and speculators are benefited by 

 violent fluctuations in wheat prices, while all other people 

 are injured by it. The farther the big gamblers swing the 

 price back and forth the more millions they make. By that 

 method they not only juggle the wheat out of the growers' 

 hands at the low price and sell it at the high price, but they 

 beat the small gamblers generally out of the margins they 

 put up on either side of the game. Only by unionizing to 



