Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28

ELI PERKINS, who recently passed
through. Bismarck, gives the Pioneer
Press an interview on the condition of
the northwestern farmer which illus
trates the value of protection. MI. Per-
kins was asked when he thought the
northwestern farmer would be prosper
GUS. "When he can get 81 for his wheat"
replied Mr.. Perkins.
And when will that Gomez"
1T will never come from EuorOpe. Eng
land will never take dollar wheat from
this country, because she can always buy
wheat for rs cents in Sweden and NORWAY
and ffty-cent wheat in India. When
wheat is worth a dollar a bushel in Mime
sofa 1t can not go to England. But dollar
wheat will very soon come to this country,
in its production. The surplus wheat
which now goes out and which drags down
the farmer is about 6 100000 bushels"
sened"
"Four things will accomplish this de-
crease OF wheat in less than two years, and
the farmer will be on top again and the
what are they /"
swell, first, the cheap Canadian wheat
and barley, made on three.dollar land in
Manitoba, and being kept back by the
twenty-cent penalty. They can no longer
buck their two dollar land against our fit.
teen dollar land in Minnesota and Dakota"
What else will help the farmer out ~
"rhis penalty against Canada viii keen
out 100000 bushels of the 6O.OOO,O 900 sur
plus: Then the beet sugar interest which
has been grandly successful in Nebraka is
spreading. Soon millions of acres of land
now in wheat and corn will be put into
beets. Like Germany, we will make the
sugar we want, and $5o,ooO,OOo will not be
Grand Island, Neb., is turning out 200 bar
rels OF white sugar a day. So successful
has sugar beet raising been along the
Platte river that farmers are making more
money out OF it than In raising wheat ana
corn. Other sugar plants are going up in
Lincoln, Norfolk and in Sioux City, Iowa,
and now they are contracting with farmers
up at Aberdeen, S. D.. for beets, and BUSH
ness men are putting up a sugar factory
there. In two years this sugar interest
will change thousands of acres of wheat
land to beets. This will but down the sur.
plus of wheat still more"
And what next?"
"Why Minnesota and Oak ota farmers
and westward to Montana, sheep are TAX
ing the place OF wheat. l saw car loads of
horses on the Great Northern train yester-
Lighthouses that had been used in the
wheat felds-coming south and east to be
traded for sheep. This will take out more
wheat land"
And then" continued Mr.. Perkins, "the
uture of flax is growing in Minnesota. A
flax factory is going up in Minneapolis:
the fiber is to be woven into fine linen.
other linen factories are being talked
about. Iowa has two linen factories al
ready, 10 operation: nj using flax grown
$50 to sum up" said Eli, "the culture of
wool, faX, sugar and the stopping on the
border Of the cheap wheat from millions of
cheap land in Manitoba say all these
things will do away with the surplus of
6O,OOO,O0O bushels Of wheat which has
dragged down the price of wheat from
Sl.26, where it belongs, and a price that it
IS worth as human food, to 70 cents. In
Two years, with our tariff as it is now, this
will all be accomplished, and the north
western farmers will be on top. Their
lands will go up and prosperity will come