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Show H To Fh: the Price o(, Wheat. aaaai H The Washington Post snys: "A con- H ferenco.of nations on the subject world'8 H '- wheat market, is understood to bo de- M , deeired by at least 'one of tho great H foreign wheat-growjng cmjnrcs. It is M stated in oflicial circles Ik-re that Russia H is particularly friendly to riiich an idea H and is believed to be making overtures H not only to the United Suites, but to M England, the Argentine Kppublic and B " Australia. The idea suggested, aa out- H lined hero, is that those nations, should H they sfo tit to unite 'in an agreement H upon the subject, cgtild fix a price for B wheat, to be maintained uniformly H - . through various 'seasons of ovorpro- H duction and unsatisfactory crops, caused H by. drouth of continual rain,' and thus M make-the principal grain staple upon B -. which tho millions'ot consiunors depend H for food almost aq unchangeable in valuo H as trold itself has becQine. This would, H v- it is ntgued, cnablo rhe producer, in H caso of an unuuuully large ctop, to store H iis wheat and obtain thereupon a loau H 4bnt would tido him ovcr'until t bow-hen t H "waah (Iomandl'iii4hoivorld'B'J'marl;ets? H when ho would receive a full and fair B " jrricofor it." |
