Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-11
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III EsDAY. NOVEMBER %. isas

~, aud To hold on To them by the present hol-
dcrs. The farmers now appear to be but poor
~ satisfied with 50 cents Tor wheat, 81 Tor
pork, and other things ia proportion, while
those spectators who have ANY produce m
hand are disposed to hold on to it. We say,
now, gentlemen, b. careful you do not hold
ON too long. There are IA lew observations
that We have made within the last few years
that we think must carey conviction OF their
justice to every man. Three years ago, and
from that time To the Gloss oi the canvass of
1911, VIC contendcd that a protective tariff
Mas more beneficial tn the farmer, il possible.
than To the consumer, because il led 10 the
consum ption, BY laborers, of products that
. not, without nome markets, b, pro-
duced. would b. consumed by the producer or
rot for want of a market. We were met by
the remark that there would b. as many To
consume without a tariff as with one-,hat
men, women and children must eat, tariff or
no tariff. We contended, upona fair ground
Of argument, thai ii there was no tariff our la
borcrs and artizans would not have work-not
have money, and, therefore, could not buy;
but this was not SO potent as tn broad aSser-
tion that men had mouths that must b. filled
any way.
To prove the correctness of our position we
refer TO our own market. Twelve months a.
SO our city had a population of "a little over
1000 Inhabitants. Within that time the pop-
. ulatim has increased more than 1000. and the
money now expended in our market is treble
what il was a year ago. Why? The people
have the work-the moncy-and will buy.
What follows? The produce is found to exist,
is not consumed or suffered to rot, and is
brought in for sale.
From a tabular statement of the crops for
1913, it appears that the State of Ohio produ-
cas more wheat than any other State in the
Union, viz: Is. 7S6, 705 bushels, being nearly
one fifth OF the produce of the country. In
1914 that State produced about 20 millions of
bushels and consumed about IL millions, at
all average price of 80 cents. This year the
millions produced, and of that not more than
s millions will be consumed, wheat averaging
rs cents, because every farmer will limit his
consumption that he may realize the more
money.
Thenew State of Michigan is advancing
with the greatest rapidity IN her ~agricul-
tural career. Tn; first year III which she
supported herself without importing wheat
was in 1888; Ill 1910 her production was p
l37,l0S bushels; and in 1913 her crop was es-
timated at 5,206,2 7l bushels, being a surplus
OF nearly three millions of bushels to dispose
of abroad. This year she produced about 10
millions, and will ~sell.not less than s millions
Of that. Indiana will this year double her
surplus and Illinois nearly treble il. The
crops Of Iowa and Wisconsin have trcbled
since 1910.
We copy from a letter Of a Mr.. Williams of
Michigan to Hunts Magazine, the following
just remarks:
The annual export OF Flour and Wheat from
the United States To all countries ON the face
of the globe, from 1890 to the present time.
has not amounted to | 800, 900 bushels annu-
ally, and for the last > years has not amounted
TO 1900 900 bushels. Our annual export,
therefore, TO all the world is equal to a TWEEN
ty-sccond part of the crop of 1913. Our an
Huu SADOiN VI iilCSt dIllClCS W pGcul DTlldiu
Is less than one hundredth part of the crop,
being about one quart OF breadstuG annually
to each inhabitant of that empire. OF other
gains than Wheat, the foreign demand is les,
than one th~ree-hundredth and fifiieth part
SuCh has been the foreign demand for our &C.
neal grains during our whole existence as q
nation, never taking oil more than a mere frac-
ton of four annual produce, such has il been
alike when our tariff laws were relaxed, and
when they were most stringent; such has il
bccp when the whole carrying trade of the
world was open to us, such has il been when
the South American Republics, struggling for
existence, gave us markets; such has il been
while Europe was desolated by the wars of
NapoleaD, such has it been while starving
millions abroad were crying for bread. 9
Even n the corn laws of England were re-
peaied, and the trade was open and free, tho
American farmer could not supply her market
until he can place himself on a level with the
serfs Of Russia and Poland. II he can live a.
poorly housed and fed as they, if he can en-
dure TO go as mcanly clad, il he can content
himself TO have his children grow up around
him as ignorant as his cattle, then he car
isise wheat and sell II in competition with a
European scTi. The average price of whea,
In the market of New York, Tor the last thirt,
years, has been Que dollar and dirty cents 4
bushei, while in the grain exporting marts o
Europe II has been less than a dollar.
The crops of England have partially failed
Their wheat crops UNNECESSARILY less thar
ours and their whole consumption but moi
ETY.. or the % millions Of people in the Brit
ish Empire, not more than five millions us,
wheat bread as a general food, and half o
that number very sparingly and much more S,
xlten xyhnaf - h.yI 81 Al. -. l.
dull. This must present but a very smal
market for our surrlusof 60 millions Of bush
els, which we have this year.
But. says ihe'dealer whose vision has cx
tended ata terrible rate, the potato crop Ina,
tailed ON the continent and the wheat crop .,
the Baltic. Aye, but we have no accounts O
failure from The Black sea, really the mos