Middletown transcript., 1894-02-17
This means another large loss.
THE WHEAT OJrTpTTT

THE WHEAT OUTPUT.
Since India began to make perma
nent depression on the English mar
ket with her wheat, which may be
said to date from 1880, she has in
creased her supplies In varying amount
from year to year from 100000
bushels to 56,0O0,0O0, but averages
about 10000, 900. Australia has come
in the English market with about 10,
600, 900 bushels of wheat yearly.
The Argentine Republic has begun
to send wheat to Europe at rate which
place as wheat exporter, the order
now standing thus: United States,
Russia, Argentine and India. In 1898
over 10000, 900 bushels of wheat left
Argentine for Europe. This year the
estimate is for 60, 100000 bushels.
Here is a country which was unheard
of in the wheat market in 1884 and now
| is third in the race. Other countries
have been increasing their product, all
of which goes to show that the farmers
of the United States must look more
and more to their home market for the
sale of their wheat and other products.
But what does the Wilson bill do to
increase that market? According to
Mr.. Cochran, leading Democratic
member of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, the imports will be increased
$3.50, 900, 900 a year under rates Of the
Wilson bill. That must necessarily
mean an enormous decrease in the pur-
chasing power of American working
men, who will be thrown out of
employment, because if thr goods are
produced abroad, an army Of men will
be thrown ont of employment in this
And if not thrown out of employment
reduced wages and reduced consuming
capacity must necessarily follow.
The Wilson bill, therefore, in that
way reduces the home market greatly.
It opens the American markets to
Canadian farm products without gett-
ing any return whatever from Canada.
1t puts American tobacco growers in
competition with the Dutch syndicates
employing coolie labor in Sumatra and
other Islands. 1t destroys the Amer
ican wool industry by opening our mar
kets free to the wool grown in South
America and Australia where land can
be had free from tax and where labor
can be had for 10cents day and where
the sheep feed out of doors all the year
round.
WHAT DOES THE FARMER GET?
Now what does the American farmer
get In return? He may save at the |
most go cents year on his woolen |
clothing. He may possibly be able to
buy a silk dress cheaper for his wife if |
he is able to buy one at all, but it
would puzzle any one to tell what else
he will get out of the Wilson bill.
If his farm is mortgaged now, as Mr..
Wilson claims, then he may prepare to |
double that mortgage within the next |
two or three years. Statistics show
that owing to greater taxation and |
higher wages, it costs farmer 25 per
cent, more for his products in Penn
sylvania than it costs Canadian farmer |
to produce the same articles. To de-
liberately put the farmer Of the north
ern border in competition with those of |
Canada without asking any return
from the Dominion, looks like Dem
ocratic effort to punish the farmers for
some fancied grievance, perhaps that
of voting the Republican ticket. AL
together the farmer has hard time
before him under the Wilson bill.
And so does the workingmen generally |
and the manufacturer. E. J. G.