Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-26
Facts For The Farmers.

We have not forgotten the promises
of high prices for farm products, and
general prosperity for the farmers, SO
profusely made by Republicans papers
and Politicians last year, if they would
vote for Harrison and high tariff. We'll
we have Harrison and high tariff.
We have had Harrison for nearly a
year, with the certainty that the high
tariff would continue for four years
longer. How have these promises been
fulfilled? And where are those whc
made them?
We have before us table of prices
of 25 leading articles of produce in New
York, the chief city of our country,
giving the highest and lowest prices of
the cheapest goods of these articles in
every year from 1925 to 1856.
The price of corn during last year,
has ranged lower in New York than in
any year since 1S25-the same is true
of wheat and oats-lower than in the
"hard times" of 1S41 to 1916.
1t is true that the Western farmer
can sell his cora, wheat and oats for a
trifie more than he could in lS41 TO
1916. Why? Because then we had DO
railways and steamships to carry them
cheaply to narket-then it would have
cJst the Illinois farmer more to send
bushel of corn to New York than the
corn WIS worth in New York. Then
the farmers of Illinois enjoyed COM
pletely the blessings of "home mark
et." They had no other-except those
who lived near a navigable river. And
when corn was plenty it sometimes
sold as low as cents per bushel in the
field and at 10 to l24 gathered-hcw-
ever it was seldom that low, being gen.
orally worth 20 to % cents. During
the last year, the farmers of William
son county, have seen wheat selling
from so to 20 cents-mostly at so and
65. They have have seen corn sell at
from Is to 20 cents; oats at 12I to Is.
Apples, potatoes, and turnips, as low
as 10 to 20 cents, and beet cattle at II
cents. Where now are the prophets
of prosperity for the farmers?
What's the matter with the tariff,
that it does not protect and uphold the
prices of farm products? Why is it
that with tariff of 20 cents per bushel
on wheat. it is selling in Williamson
county for 80 cents per bushel less than
Russian and India's wheat sells for in
London or Liverpool?
Or why is our No. 2 red winter wheat
selling in New York for or 10 cents
less per bushel than Russian or India s
wheat CELLS for in London or Liver
pool?
Or why is American wheat selling
in Liverpool and London for 10 to II
cents per bushel more than in New
York, and 80 cents per bushel more
than in Williamson county?
The answer is plain to every person
who desires to know the TRUTH as
long as Americans raise wheat Tor any
other article, largely in excess of the
demand for home consumption, and
the surplus has to be exported to find
a market, just that long will the price
of A merican wheat be just as low ac-
cording to quality, as the price nf Rus
sian aud India's wheat in the markets |
of Liverpool and London.
And just as long as American wheat
Is sold in tn ,se markets in competition |
with Russia and In Has wheat, it |
will be impossible for Russian or In
iIa's wheat t. be shipped to and sold
in the United States, even if there
were no tariff on wheat. Why? be-
cause as long as American wheat is
shipped to and sold in Liverpool and
just that long the price of
wheat in this country will be from 6
TO 10 cents per bu.hel, lower than in
Liverpool aud London, as much lower
as the cost of transportation and sale.
And as long as wheat,is worth more in
Liverpool and Loudon Il n it is in
New York, neither Russi! 'rIndia's
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