646 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



by buying all the wheat on the market, aims to run the 

 price up. The stakes are the difference between the 

 market price and the price agreed upon. 



Wheat may be a good price to-day and the farmer who 

 has been holding for better prices will start his wheat to 

 market, but by the time it reaches there the "bulls" may 

 have become "bears," and "unloaded" their supply upon 

 the market, causing a rapid decline of prices that sweeps 

 away all the profits of the farmer and country grain dealer. 

 The system is fraught with such apparent evils that the 

 only wonder is that it is tolerated at all, and we presume 

 it would not be in an uncivilized country. 



The following note of warning and manly protest 

 from the pen of T. V. Powderly recently appeared in the 

 Journal of United Labor: 



"Congress is in session quarreling over a tariff bill to 

 regulate the price of articles that come to our shores in 

 ships, and Hutchinson is raising the price on that which 

 is native to the soil, and which every workingman is most 

 in need of, but no means are taken by Congress to put an 

 end to Hutchinson and his methods. 



"Is there any remedy for this condition of affairs? 

 Can we put an end to this system of robbery without revo- 

 lution? If there is a way it should be pointed out quickly, 

 for men will not be turned out of work on the eve of 

 winter, and be told at the same time that the source of rev- 

 enue is cut off, that the price of food has gone up. Human 

 nature will not stand everything, and it should not be 

 asked to. * * * 



* ' This is a good season to hunt bears. They are too 

 plenty, and have invaded the haunts of civilization. We 

 must get rid of them. 



* * It will not do to place a boycott on wheat or sugar, 

 but we can put an eternal boycott on the ien who gamble 

 in these articles. Write to the President of the United 



