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Show the rain from fiilllugnud thFcrop from renehlng anywhere near the estimate. It there are shortages elsewhere in the world it is plain that they must have been engineered engineer-ed by the unscrupulous American schemers. It is not safe for them to make large contributions to other parties in order to bring about the defeat of the one privately conducted con-ducted by Senator LaFollette, but by flinging millions into the grain market they may be able to embarrass em-barrass the campaign of that son of thunder. He can be counted upon in due time to inform the puzzled farmers that they are the victims of a plot, but the likelihood is that, now as in 1S96, they will simply wish the plotters more power to th?ir elbows. Taxd wheat trices. sudileu increase In the price r-iins, particularly wheat and that developed within the past . jks, has caused much com-I com-I Apparently, conditions were 'neatly different, from those which the grain price was '1 lower'.' There was no great .-je in market conditions, and , weather, while unseasonable, s hardly of a nature to cause 1 unprecented price changes. 'ine persons have asserted that ; present prices are due to a .deal pre-election plot ne New Tork Times, In a re-t re-t issue had the following con-nine con-nine prices of wheat and corn ; 5 was bound to come. It came in when the price of wheat rose :- by day as the presidential elec-.1 elec-.1 approached, and it was certain come this year with an even sre marked and sensational jump , the wheat market. Vigilant rids of the people detected the aid) plot behind the movement ; B years ago, and their eyes are fciniDg to be fastened upon it :T. An indignant gentleman in liimmt asserts, with the trifling prriso, "if this information is cor-t" cor-t" that a sinister conspiracy be-rea be-rea politicians and capitalists liibeen formed for the pnrpose of rifidaUy forcing np the price of inii in order to force down the arest'' in the wheat and corn pwiog states. It seems that the :v. skilled grain manipulators In x country have been employed In !i nefarious work, and the cost of le whole is veraciously pot at lay millions. Great sums must have been eroded er-oded by the plotters to advance ie price of wheat on the Chicago artetT cents a bushel in one day. ! logical inference would be that dssaries have been sent to the Radian wheat fields to prevent |