Show the farmers convention 1 the famous P perhaps chaps wo we should say the notorious convention of farmers which assented last august to turn trade topsy carvy tm vy regulate enhance enhancer prices of produce nod and establish that myth gold agold a busts basis met again last week pursuant to adjournment we have waited very patiently for an official announcement no of the result of the deliberations erat ions of the conclave but beyond a brief p our longings have hare not been gratified it is apparent however that the old scale of prices adopted in august did ro no in all cases operate to suit the leaders hence important modifications were made it is a source of regret to the real well wishers of the mass of the tb people tint thit no jio reduction was made i n ade in the price of flour the great staple which every man joust have to support himself and family twelve dollars in gold which simply means any price that the holder chooses to ask in the currency of he country was adhered to and we ive suppose during the long ft winter before us the poor can hope for no relief it is announced however that barley was reduced to 2 00 oats to 1 50 and potatoes to 1 50 in gold being a very considerable reduction on oil he prices named at the first sitting 0 of the convention in it august last it may fairly bo be claimed that the law of supply and demand enforced this reduction it was found that the officers of government Ii miker dmn akan pay the tha exorbitant rates s at first established were ready and willing to herd their animals as tr alicy icy did last winter inconvenient as this course would be it was discovered to be entirely practicable and certainly imminent hat provision the overland mail and stage companies were preparing to mke we know not though n it was sug bug t med that they would draw their forage from other sources outside of utah the oat and birley barley crops like that of wheat this year we are arc told are immense eke co convention Conventi oo therefore from froin whatever motive ino tive has acted wisely in reducing red acing the prices of the former articles that it not act likewise in the case of wheat w eat and flour i is s to be regretted by the il thou oil sandis who do not raae their own produce duce from the first fit it we opposed the whole on just grounds and not as a waiter of personal or official interest roat the th e government has been forced to transport hither at large cot cost I 1 an a n im in inie deal of flour for the use of the troops and to that extent has a market been withdrawn from the people for their large surplus of wheat tile the effect of this policy enforced by tho the action of 1 convention has ha prevented tho the ex cx titre by government in utah of not na less than for this omy Article alone this largo large sum might jima as well weil have gone into the pockets of the farmers of tak territory to enliven tride trade remunerate labor and a nd enrich the I 1 people as to bo be expended as it has bas been on the bank of the MIss missouri onri river if the leaders insist by their action that all the supplies for the troops troop t sent hero here for the protection of the people shall be drawn awn from other states instead of en cn con raging and aiding their own people they alone are to blanie blame to accomplish this they only to adhere to past policy by mesas bealis of monopolist conventions Convent ione and church edicta it is s iba ib old adery of the doi in the langr ibo saik of abo career we believe hw history tb iuta w us a i 11 ya t f |