Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-11-07
90 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
FOR THEPEOPLE No. {

IJoO'll - Ion III LII Liz NV. x
Why is it, that the merchants and
milIers Of Iowa do not give a price for
wheat or grain proportionate to the price
Of flour or meal?
By reference to the following scale
Of prices taken as the standard price of
the places indicated, it will be observed,
that the average price Of = bushel Of
wheat exceeds one fifth the average price
Of barrel Of -four, or that barrel Of
Of -four can be bought for less than five
times the price Of bushel Of wheat.
If q barrel Of -four is worth four dol
lars in Dubuque or any other town in
Iowa, how is that wheat does not bear a
proportonate price? or if wheat is real.
Iy worth but from forty five to fifty cents
a bushei, why is it, that flour cannot be
afforded for less than four dollars bar
rel? But flour is really worth four dol
lars barrel, since it brings that price
therefore, wheat should bring price pei
bushel holding the same relation to the
price of flour here, that the price Of east
ern wheat holds to the price Of eastern
flour. This position cannot be contro
verted. If it can, let US hear by whom.
Taking it for granted for the present
that this principle is true, let us have re
course to figures, to show what whea
should bring the farmer in Iowa. A
Boston Mass, a barrel Of -four brings
5000 bushel Of wheat $3.50. Now
if $500 Che price Of flour in lowa) ough
to bring 86s cents a bushel Another ex
ample At Rochester N. Y. the price Q
-four is $3.50; the price Of wheat IS 81, 2!
a bushel. Blythe same calculation a:
before, wheat ought to bring here 87acts
per bushel. But there is no use in null
tiplying examples to prove that whea
does not bring the farmer proper re-
enumeration for his toll.
II the eastern miller and the eastern
flour merchant can afford to buy whea
and sell flour as is indicated above, in the
proportion Of paying for wheat per bush
el more than one fifth the price Of flour
per barrel, and make money, as they I'M
doubleday do, by the transaction, cannot
our Iowa millers and four-merchants dc
the same? And should they not be con
tent with fair profit as their eastern
neighbors are? These questions may be
answered by 'can' and 'should' but
'wont.' They could make profit enough
on the same terms Of sale as their east
crn neighbors. They should be con,cn,
with this profit and give The farmer some
thing for his trouble, but :hey acont o,
don't do it. ....,..s -... .:...
Instead of paying for wheat per bush
ell one fifth the price Of flour per barrel
or selling the latter for fine times the
price of the former, they give for bush
el OF wheat but one eighth Of what they
charge for barrel Of flour, or they sell
barrel Of flour for eight times more than
they pay for a bushe! Of wheat, instead
of centen:ing themselves with five times
more, which would afford them a fair
profit. - .....s.. .... .r- .. 49,,
And who are the loosers? Aye, tina,
is the question. Both the producers anc
the consumers. The farmer in not being
paid for his labor price bearing the
proper proportion to his toll, and the
consumer in paying price more thar
proportionate TO the cost Of production
J The farmcr loses more than thirty cent