Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-27
FOR CONGRESS,
The Outlook.

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felt of 154, 10000 bushels to be supplied
from the surplus producing countries
other than those in Europe.
The United Kingdom will have on the
market very fair crop in point of yield,
estimated to be ~, 105, 600 bushels. The
sale by the producers of the surplus after
supplying their own requirements, as has
occasionally been the case in the past, will
again probably cause some friction between
the interest of original supply aud the de-
mand. The interest of the English pro-
Queer is always identical with tie Ameri-
can, for he, along with the American,
wants the highest price, and occasionally
enters his protest, against the methods
adopted to keep it down. The surplus of
the United States should find its earliest
and best demand as it once did in the
United Kingdom. English producers would
willingly make common cause with our
interests to secure that result, did not tho
over-powering influences brought to bear
in the interest of consumption prevent it,
The Government and the breadstuffs- buy
ing population are virtually combined
through commercial manipulation to SECURE
the greater object Of cheap bread for the
millions rather than have q prosperous agri-
culture by affording it the natural and
legitimate means to which it is entitled for
securing it. The strong hand of the Gov
eminent is generally prepared but not al
ways SO clearly discovered in its partial
workings of its policy which applies hun
dreds of methods to make English agricnl-
ture, to greater extent than it can will.
ingly bear, contribute to the supreme OBJ
ject Of cheap bread for the populace. It is
natural and proper, too, that English pro.
ducers, who have surplus Of supplies to
sell, should look abroad and unite their eff
forts with similar interests wherever eX-
listing in maintaining full standard Of
values for them.
The shortage of the American crop Of
wheat, and the consequent tendency to in
creased prices for it at home, as well as the
less than the usual amount for export,
have stirred the English interest, and the
producers are making stiff stand against
the many Influences to bear them down. tits
not often Of late that the advance in wheat
in the United States, brought about mainly
from reduced production and increased
home demand, has had so salutary an eff
feet upon the English crop and its sale as
has been announced during the last few
days. Under the effect Of the American
condition, the English trade reports note
the advance of English wheat. There is
another and increasing advantage for the
American surplus this year in the markets
of the United Kingdom. India, upon
which British capital and enterprise were
lavished with exultant assurance that it
was to be the competitor to the complete
downfall Of American wheat in the English
markets, Is gradually proving failure
All the squirting and all the combized eff
forts which can be brought to bear to make
that country maintain the exporting rank
to which it had attained, are proving
abortive. Since 1886, when it gained its
greatest success in production and export,
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not, this year, export moro than $4,000, coo
bushels as against 41,000,00 four years
ago.
The British agriculturists complained
bitterly several years ago of the policy Of
the Government and the commercial power
il interest which subjected their interests
so hurtfully to illegitimato speculation
The policy which embraced several diff
ferent and antagonistic aims, they said,
could not stand. One was to encourage
the introduction of British capital into
India for building railroads into the interior
that increased wheat production might fol
low. The agricultural interests there were
to be burdened and oppressed by being
levied upon to secure dividends TO the
capital advanced, and, at the same time,
keep down the price of wheat SO as to eX-
clude America from the English markets
by the larger exports from India at lower
values. And another method to keep
down the price, was to feed the laborers in
the wheat fields on rice, denying to them
the bread from the superior grain which
had been produced by their toll.
The English farmers have expressed, and
will not hesitate again to express their
disapprobation Of the policy of their rulers
which subjects the home agriculture to por-
picking disadvantages that spectators
may profit on the one hand, and the re-
sponsiblity of providing food for the peo-
pie made easier at their expense on the
other.
Without going into the estimates gener-
ally of production and the demand in
breadstufs. the prospect will continue to
brighten for our farmers as grain growers.
There Will be a suffieiency even to abun-
dance, but not the surplus, when the year
closes up its transactions, to which we
have been accustomed. We never had
the least faith in the teachings of econo-
mists who talk about over-production, for
their theories are not founded on a correct
basis. It is open trade and freer COM
nerce we want The American is
teacher SIS we'll as a merchant and pro-
Queer. Give him the opportunity to take
his products where they have not hitherto
found place-his superior breadstuffs for
instance-and the immediate demand will
be created and valuable trade will spring
up. Englishmen, who are fond of good
bread, persisted in the error Of trying to
secure such food from India wheat, but
they are not ignorant now as they were
then that American wheat Was required to
be mixed with it before even a tolerabie
biscuit could be baked. The world of
people who would like to have the bread
of the quality which can only be made
from American eat-flour, are not SO per-
sistent in error nor 80 particular either as