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twenty-four cents, from old to new wheat, should suffice. 

 You will also note that the lowest point is when farmers 

 are unloading the bulk of the crop. 



There are on a crop generally hundreds of millions of 

 dollars difference each year between the lowest and highest 

 >rices per bushel, and everybody has stood for the highest 

 prices when exacted by speculators, and they will stand for 

 it with still more satisfaction were the wheat growers to be 

 the beneficiaries. 



When business will be pleased with a stabilized, though it 

 be the highest price, and wheat growers' wages and interest 

 increased by hundreds of millions of dollars annually, with- 

 out increased work or expense, why not just unionize and 

 grab it away from gamblers? Are not your wife and chil- 

 dren, who help to raise the wheat, more entitled to it than 

 the gamblers and speculators? Who will look after their 

 interest if you do not? Before anyone works for you or 

 produces anything for you they set the price and know in 

 advance what wages or price they are to receive. Why 

 don't you wheat growers do the same thing before you begin 

 seeding? You have the same right to do it that others have. 

 Are you going to remain too stupid and indolent to do as 

 other classes are doing bv you? 



Government Indorses Future Price-Setting. 



In August, 1917, when wheat was $3.00 on the Chicago 

 board of trade and prices expected to go much higher, the 

 government set a price limit of $2.20 in Chicago until July 

 1, 1918, when it was to be reduced .to $2.00 for the crop of 

 that year. Thus the government recognized the principle 

 of not only pricing the entire wheat crop of the United States 

 in advance of threshing it, but also in advance of preparing 

 to plant it, or for two years ahead. In February, 1918, 

 there was an agitation to raise the price of wheat to stimu- 

 late a greater spring wheat acreage. Senator Gore, from 



