Show IDLE ADVICE Mr GEORGE M MILLER editor of the St Paul State a Farmers Alliance organ is out with a sensational circular the substance sub-stance of which appeared in THE HERALDS telegraphic columns on Tuesday The gentleman gen-tleman tolls the farmers to hold on to their wheat and says that if they will do this they will be able to get 150 or perhaps 200 a bushel for it He gives statistics and goes over the European situation to sustain him in his prediction Mr MILLER undoubtedly means well Ho would help the farmers and if his article could be obeyed the agriculturists might grow rich from this years grain crop While the season has been an unusually bad one in Europe and Asia causing a sad deficiency in the broad supply nature has been exceedingly ex-ceedingly kind to American farmers The grain yield in the United States this year is larger than over before and there will be an oe enormous surplus with which to feed the hungry people of the old world Nearly all the wheat we have to spare will go abroad where it will fetch good prices for Europe will be compelled to pay all that is asked for the bread which it must have and can obtain nowhere else except In America But Mr MILLER does not understand the true situation when he talks about the farmers hoarding their grain until such time as they can get their own price for it If he would open his mind to the facts he would know that if the farmers were able t to do as he advises he would notbo editing an Alliance newspaper and there would be no Farmers Alliance Because the farmers were not in a position to hold back their grain because they were deplorably in debt and their farms were weighed i down jwun mortgages iney grow uiscontenieo if not disheartened and banded together in an effort to free themselves from the financial and political evils with which they were afflicted The truth is the farmers are compelled to put thoir grain upon the market at once Not one in a dozen can hold back three months In many cases the wheat has been sola in the field and the unfortunate farmer has used the money to pay interest on his mortgage and keep the collectors for the agricultural I implement concerns from proceeding against him The situation has been plainly described lately At the commencement of the harvest circulars wore issued requesting re-questing the farmern to withhold their grain from the market for a few weeks or months and advising them of a certain rise in prices yet ever since the threshers began to hum the railroads have been unable to handle the wheat so great has been tho rush to get tho grain to market mar-ket and receive the cash for it Within a week the dispatches have told us of five great railroads that had brought all their resources into play and were literally paralyzed par-alyzed by the demands upon them for cars In one city more than two thousand loaded grain cars were blocking the yards and the railway managers were almost distracted The farmers are not particularly eager to accept present prices when they know that they could get more In a few weeks but they are compelled to sell in order to save themselves from disaster And this will be the case just so long as the farmers arc ground down by debts and they will bo thus held in subjection to the capitalists until the farmer has the privilege of buying what he needs for himself and his family in the cheapest markets of the world just as he is now forced to sell his products in the cheapest markets It is idle to advise the American farmer to hoard his grain unless the advice bo accompanied by the substantial substan-tial relief which tho farmer must have |