The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-11-21


of the low price Of wheat and its
causes. All have agreed on one
point, and that Is that the price is
low, and here they divide, i
I am aware that the Farmers have
in the past, often regarded the mil
lers as their enemies, but / will at
tempe to- show briefly why the
interests of farmer aud miller are
Identical, and that by reason Of the
feeling mentioned, the causes of low
priced wheat, have not been re-
moved. .f..5s&l
First, the miller is the best custa
mer the farmer has, and is always
in the market and always pays the
market price for the wheat. The
market is not made by the miller,
but is practically made by tho Liv-
erpool operator. Except during the
first month or TWO, at the beginning
of each crop year, the lnillers take
the bulk OF the wheat brought to
market. During the first two
months. this movement is very
heavy and much Is exported, but
after this little goes for export from
localities where there arc mills
Remove the milling industry from
our country, and our wheat mustRo
abroad and come IN competition
with the poor and ,cheap wheAts Sof
Europe and India. Not only is this
true, but the offat Is lost to our
farmers. The foreign miller will
notsnse American wheat until II
comes down in price III the poor
wheat OF Europe and India but the
| American -four could be- placed In
every market In the world, because
Of It's superiority, If not shut out by
prOhibitory foreign tariffs. 1t has
done this In many markets In the
face Of their own tariffs. In talking
with a gentleman from Holland,
not long since, he said, in answer o
my query rs 70 how much Ameri-
can wheat their native millers
ground, "They do not grind any
because they can get Indian and
European wheat 50 much cheaper
they are anxious to use your fine
American wheat, but can't pay the
price and compete In the market
with their -four. OF course their
-four is much inferior to your
American article, and they realize
the fact, but can't remedy the de'
feet. / think they realize .that
your millers will eventually run
their business and therefore TREY
sre asking for duty on American
four He simply gave the situa.
ton the world over. The foreign
miller will only take our whsai
when 1t ia either sold at the low
price realized for poor forign wheat
or when their crop is short and
they must have 1t. On account OF
better wheat and better facilities
and having attained a higher de.
gree of art in manufacture, the
American miller can produce the
best -four in the world. His market
Is at present narrowed by the main.
tenance of prohibitery tariff duties
by certain foreign countries. i
these countries would take Ameri|
can wheat and pay u relatively
higher price for 1t than for the pool
quality of the European wheat
then the farmers interest in the
subject might not be quite so great
but the facts are not such. The
millcrs of this country, through the
winter wheat Millers' League, ar
organization formed for the exclu
sive purpose of extending the
j markts for American -four, have
asked Congress to enact retaliatory
laws whereby the Injuries, pur
chased only by our rich, coming
from the countries maintaining
high tariff duties against American
-four, might be charged a double
duty until they were willing by re
u ciprscal treaties to enter their mai
kets on a more equitable basis
Notwithstanding the fact tina
every barrel of -four exported rep
resents AZ bushels Of wheat, Con
gress at its last session refused thi,
request and passed bill in which
many of these luxuries were place.
on even 4 lower rate OF duty. TIL,
millers further asked that the re
ciprocity feature Of the then exis
ting tariff law be allowed to re
main in force. This was also disre
garded, and as result Spain ha.
/, abrogated her reciprocity treat,