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Show WILSON'S SPEECH GAUSESGRAIN RISE Bulls Accept President's Attitude At-titude as Tacit Approval of High Prices. CHICAGO, Feb. 4. President Wilson's speech referring to a world ehonage of food and to his desire to promote the export ex-port trado of the United States served as a haKis today for renewed activity on the buying side of the wheat market. Largely as a result there was an extreme price advance of 55c a bushel, with the close unsettled at 3c to 4jc above last night. iV.ni gained liVIs1" to ljjc net, and oats 1c to Uc. Provisions finished -tc off to ,'.c tip. Ac'orulng to pome lenders in the woeat trade. .Mr. Wilson's address formed.- the stronsrst Influence that buyers had been favored with since the recent rise In quotations began. As construed by the bulls, tiie speech virtually acknowledged that high prices were unavoidable because "f the great European shortage of, breadstuffs and titat something of a s.Uc;ztf could not be escaped In supplies j for home and foreign needs. Reports of I a lark.'..- export hus-Lness in flour today, a well as in wheat, tended also to make prices mount during" the greater part of the session. No decided selling pressure developed In the wheat market until quotations had readie 1 within I cent of the tip-top level h-rctofore attained. A moderate re-i re-i aedon then was accompanied by asser-I asser-I tions that M'5".0vi) bubhela had been pur-i pur-i ' V a-d In Minneapolis to be brought to Gl.l.airo to replenish t he meager Ktock . here. On the other hand, country holders' were said to have bhuan little disposition to part yet with any of their reserve. Corn responded to pt-neral buying brought about through sympathy with the strength of wheat ( 'ats paralleled com. l'mcis-iona were niif ! tle-T. UANtJK OF LKAPING FTTUPS. Whea t Op't:. Hir;i. Uw, Cioi-e. M;tv Sl.r.'i Sl' ?l .5i ?i.64i July l.Si 1.4:j 1.3i 1.41 "oni Mav Vi .05 .S2i July "'-J -N4J .Ki -S 4i a ts Mav e?i .M9 .Mi July jiij .u.vj .6;i CASH QUOTATIONS. "le.it No. ? red. tl.Wv 1.66a". "o. 2 hard, h l.fifil. t'orn-N'T 4 yellow, T'ic; No. 4' wiut -. T-l ; --r 7oic M No A white, 5'.' li Jc; No. ' wi:ii, ."'''i ."ic. i:o-No. :. il.3' Parley, SI n vie. TlmoUr", I.'. r.c i 7. no. Clover. JI-.- '" l-'.-'H'. 1'ork, JlTjio'a I'.i.lu. Uard. 1 1 lLiby. J;'..i7,'u 10.12. |