Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
THE BARLEY INTERESTS.
The Logical Statement on the Subjec
as Given by an Authority.

The Logical Statement the Subject
as Given by an Authority.
One of the allabsorbing topics of the
present campaign to the farmers here
abouts is the barley question, and much
is being written and talked about
it. Perhaps the facts in the case
cannot be better or more concisely
stated than they are in the following
words spoken by a well-known and ex
tensive buyer, the same appearing in
the exhaustive article on Dodge county
politics printed in Saturdays Sentinel:
Eli Hawks is one of the heaviest dealers in
grain, ,and,especially in barley, in Dodge coun-
| ty. His Office and elevator, located near the de-
| pot in Juneau, is sort of clearing house for
| hundreds of farmers in the neighborhood
| He enjoys their confidence, and they trust
him fully as much as an experienced and
| tried banker. There were several farmers in
his office when he was expressing his views
about the effect of the reduced tariff on bar
ley.
Dodge county" he said, lis the largest
barley producing county in Wisconsin The
production of wheat has been steadily de-
clining. Up to few years ago | used to buy
12e,000 bushels of wheat year. Last year l
bought only 5000 bushels. The fields former
ly devoted to the production of wheat have
been turned into pastures for COWS or to the
raising of barley, which is much more profit
able. In 1891 Dodge county raised 1,7O6SC9
bushels of barley. In 1892 the barley crop
increased to 900 bushels and this year it
will be in The neighborhood of 2,CO ,cu0 bush
ole I1noW ho,I l,
has been particularly good. 1t is of better
merchantable quality and it is plentiful. The
price of barley here is from A to AZ cents per
bushel, but | venture to say that the price
would have been So cents and more had it not
been for the sudden removal of the old duty. |
/ was standing on the platform of this depot
a few weeks ago when train arrived. One
of the passengers approached me and wisho d
to know whether was a barley buyer. I re-
piled in the affirmative On learning from
me the prices of barley at juneau he in
formed me that he was also in the barley
business in Canada. We expect to do a large
business in the United States, be said half
of our last years barley crop is not yet sold.
1t will all go to the states And what is the
actual truth? Thousands of bushels of Can
adian barley have already been shipped from
states, and to this was added Russian barley.
In August last l paid to the farmers IN this
neighborhood 80 cents a bushel and more,
now they can get only A and As cents bush
ell. don't hesitate TO say that the loss to the
Dodge county farmers, because of the re-
duced tariff, this fall amounts to $4,000, if
not to $4,000. Wisconsin barley this year is
among the best in the market. The barley
in I,
The barley crop in Nebraska has failed en-
tirely. 1t has failed also IN Western Iowa.
and Minnesota has produced only half of the
amount of barley that it produced last year.
But think of what Wisconsin barley would
sell at now had not our ports been thrown
open to Canada and Russian barey2 The
difference amounts to at least cents per
bushel, and that is what our farmer loses
| directly Immediately it became known that
Russian barley was for sale in America the
price of barley on Change in Chicago dropped
u cents per bushel. A month ago the mar
ket price of barley in Milwaukee was "a and
541l cents; now it is 81 and 81 cents 1t is ar
| gued by many of the farmers that they are
getting more for barley now than in 1890-91,
| but they forget that the supply then was
about three times larger than the present
duty the production of barley in Canada was
reduced to minimum. The new law went
into effect long after the fields were sown,
| but the eyes of the farmers will be opened
one year from now,iwhen, as am reliably
informed, Canada will produce more barley
| than it ever did before.
1.-The new tariff law has triclzed the farm
ers, who are easily made to believe that 80 per
Cd iC +I,oc
| per bushel. Some one ought to make them
see the difference. Suppose that the price of
barley in Canada is 30 cents bushel. Under
| the Mckinley law such a bushel of barley in
Buffalo would cost 65 cents, adding the duty
of 80 cents Under the present tariff law, 20
the 35 cents is added only so per cent. of 35 or
| 10A cents, which makes the price Of the same
bushel of barley in Buffalo 451a cents the diff
| ference thus amounting to 1917 cents These
1871 cents is the direct loss Of the American
| farmer. The reduction of barley amounts to
just 65 per cent. Yet there are farmers in
| this county who actually believe that the
new tariff is an improvement and has bene-
fitted them Demagogues are telling the farm
ers that the fact of the Importation of Rus
| sian barley into the United States was lie
an invention The farmers however, will
learn in due time that they were told the
truth. 1 understand the fact that Russian
barley has been sold on Change in Milwau-
kee was verified in a business circular issued
! by E. P. Bacon q Co, one of the leading and
most widely known commission houses in
Milwaukee, have not received the circular,
but it's publication and distribution might
convince our people. With a firm like that
of E. P. Bacon & Co. it is matter Of busi-
ness, and not campaign document"
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Charles GritZner MangIes His Wrists