Show II 11 HUT st and re ohe la ST lonis oct 24 atae convention met egan today to day kobert lindbloom Lind bloam chairman of lie acala a speech in which be nave the specula tors side of the wheat qu cation lie eaid the monopolists liaa taught society a leeson that would in time make monopoly an impossibility that les eon was the cescon of coope co ope ration the lahsin taught by trusts was operation cooperation co there was no dounda aloa lor the cry arout over prodoc tion la five years while the production of heat 22 2 2 per cent the price decreased 28 per cent tha speaker then vent on to show there had been DO overproduction over production in other count hes president coleman ex secretary of agriculture then addressed the contention from a free stand point lie deneui ced the way carmera are uel by the present and alie protective policy and bald the only way to protect their interest w as to adopt free trade lie assailed e elevator combines paola and con tuia sion of farmers the committee on resolutions then presented a resolution that the farmers of the states in the Mitt soun river valleys acid the statis of oregon athington and in national convention conven tiou hereby memorialized congress and the president of the united state and seriously petition pei tion them to make such reciprocity treaties with those foreign nations to whom we slip our surplus farm product as will cause such foreign babions to demoe the duties from products abroad thereby causing us to recene higher price for our foreign faim surplus and thereby fixing a higher price upon all thai we sell at leoine tint w e ask that such steps ba taken by our national congress as will destroy tie monopolies and trusta and prevent the formation of ol 01 liars and HO eliat HO mar get our farming implements at a less ir e than at pie sent alie laws be repealed that pace a duly upon fari DiDe r raw materials used in their manufacture an animated fallowes fallowed fall owed was decidedly poli in alm acter the free bradera raly outnumbered the 8 and the resolutions were finally adopted by a laree during alie afternoon a to ba known as the interstate wheat growers association was formed permanent chairman among other reola one requesting the superintendent of censul lorer to collect data to show in alie next benaur what percentage of the people in this country occupy their own homes and what percent are agents |