The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-15

In mlnd the price OF WneaG Is uAeu III
Liverpool. It makes no difference
which way the wheat is shipped tne
price is the same in Llverpooi, Wnere
the price is fixed. Suppose h MANI
toba farmers bring over a mllIlon
bushels and sell to u men,
does that increase the worlds supply!
Inst one million bushels more of wheat
will have to be shipped by the way OF
the United States and n mlIIlon
bushels less shipped by the way OF
Canada Our railroads would receive
five hundred thousand dollars o a +
wing this what which would increase
oI1r Circulation to this extent.
Mr. Amis labors under the impress
o;on that the demand for wheat is in
the United States, and if you increase
he supply you d~epreciate the price.
The demand for wheat is not in the
United States, it is in foreign countries.
And Manitoba wheat passing through
the United States does not effect the
price of wheat raised in the United
States. Suppose this wheat is loaded
on cars two hundred miles up IN Mani
tOba and passes through the United
States to New York, how would 1T
effect the price of wheat raised IN the
United States9 Mr.. Amis is woetully
mistaken about the farmers IN the
United States paying the frelghts on
the surplus Canadian wheat. The
farmers do not pay the freights on their
own wheat. In fact the farmer has
nothing to do with anything connected
with the transaction. The armers I
in debt and have to haul their wheat
to the railroad and they have to sell at
the price fixed in Liverpool by the
money devil, minus freights to Europe.
Wheat Is worth 1925 at Liverpool,
freights to Northern Dakota Is cents.
This leaves the farmer so cents per
bushel. e.
What has the farmer to say about
prices and freights? Nothing. He IS
a nonentity. He is not taken into
cons deratiOn in this transaction. He
has but one privilege and that is to live
on what the money devil of Europe
sees fit to leave him. If there was no
tariff and Manitoba shipped twenty
million bushels of her wheat through
the United States, the railroads would
receive ten million dollars On freight,
and this would add ten million dollars
to our circulating medium. The money
devil won't allow us seven this privilege.
Such things as we raise a surplus to
export, the price is fixed in Liverpool
by the money devil, and we have no
more to say as to the price than if we
had not been there. The tariff levied
on wheat, rye, barry, corn, and oats
is done to deceive the farmers and
make them believe they were being
protected to the extent of the tariff
levied, and give the Democrats a chance
to make the labOrers of our cities be
lieve they were being robbed to the ex-
tent of the tariff levied to enrich the
farmers. Read Hills speech to the
poor men of New York City when he
tells them they are taxed 30 cents per
bushel on corn meal, 25 cents per
bushel on potatoes, 3 cents per dozen
on eggs, u cents per gallon on vinegar
and $50 on each horse in the interest,"
of another class the farmers.)
The writer has seen potatoes selling
for 10 cents q bushel in the United States
on the Canada line. According to
Hills speech to the poor man they were
being robbed of 25 cents per bushel,
though they bought their potatoes for
10 cents per bushel and the farmer was
enriched by the tariff 25 cents on each
bushel than he would have been though
he received but 10 cents per bushel.
If liars were doomed to hell, there are
but few Republican and Democratic
leaders that would ever get to heaven.
SOMETHING FOR THE FARMERS TO THINK
ABOUT,
Everything we produce a surplus of
to export, the price is fixed in Liver
pool. This Is true of corn, wheat, oats,
rye, barley, pork, beef and cotton. We
will suppose we have established the in
dustrlal financial system and the Sub,
1 FNpooCI1nioC HIHn fonroo~, 49, Ill. l.
hold and fix a price on all of these
wheat is worth 81 so per bushel. Every
country is tied to the money devil of
Europe. At Liverpool they a wheat
is worth 81. 25. This fixes the price in
Canada, India and Russia and thew
must sell at this figure, minus the
freight. In Manitoba wheat is worth
40 cents per bushel. In Dakota. across
the line, cheat is worth S1.1O per
bushel. What is to prevent the Mani
toba farmers from shipping their wheat
to the United States? He will ship to
the best market. European nations
are not going to buy of US as long as
Canada, Russia or India has any wheat
to sell. While European countries r
consuming the surplus of other cOun-
tries, the farmers want the benefit OF
their home market. To get what their
wheat is worth at home they must
have a protective tariff of 40 cents per
ushel on wheat. When European
countries had exhausted the surplus
wheat of other Countries, they would
have to pay us our price of $1,5O per
bushel. The planters say their cotton
issworth IA cents per pound. The com
petltOrs Of the Southern cotton growers
are Egypt and India. These countries
are tied to the money devil of Europe.
At Liverpool they say cotton is worth
10 cents per pound and this fixes the
price in India and Egypt at 8 cents per
pound. The price of cotton fixed at IA
cents per pound in the United States,
the market is better here than in Eu-
rope. What is to prevent India and
EONnE from Shinninm thnic cunning cot