Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-07

I need scarcely tell you, for all intelligent
men understand 1t. that the export price
the price in Europe-is the controlling fac.
tor Of our home price. The price of wheat
Duluth and Chicago. and when foreign
wheat reaches England, Holland. Nor
way, Belgium or France, for sale.
will the currency Of the country where the
wheat was raised have any material bear
ing on the price the purchaser Is willing
to pay? Does he inquire whether the farm
err paid his help In gold. cheap silver or de-
preciated paper? Will Russian wheat,
raised under a paper basis, on a silver
standard, bring better price than wheat
raised under our standard of money? Does
not the law of supply and demand operate
gold standard countries? United States
Consul Bornholdt Of Riga, Russia, evidently
thinks it does. This Is what he states In
his report Of October, 1896: "Despite a
bountiful harvest. the grain trade remained
In a depressed state; throughout the season
prices continued to decline; and the year
closed with the lowest prices on record for
nearly every kind Of grain and there Is lit
tie prospect of an Improvement, owing to
the large stocks remaining In the country"
In 1894. according to the report of Consul
Baker there was exported from Argentina
about 100000 bushels of wheat at the
average export price Of about IS cents per
bnsheI. During that same year. the aver.
age export price of wheat. at New York,
was CT cents bushel: ana owing to anti
Quated methods OF handling and high inland
transportation rates. the Argentina farmer
got much less for his wheat than the Amer
lean farmer. In this connection, the words
Of Consul General JerDigan, from whom
have already quoted, are very apt and ger
manc. '-." -. f''' "a
-A# The Wealth Of a Nation
Is the margin between the cost of produc-'
Ing an article and its price,. 1t Is this mar.
gin that constitutes the wealth Of agricul.
tural and manufacturing countries: The
merchant, bankers. and general traders arc
more concerned with the gains and losses
of exchange operations between countries
having different standards Of value, but
! the producer and manufacturer are more
concerned with the uniform international
value Of money.
"For one-half Of the world to use gold as
money and the other half to use silver,
necessitates a rivalry in commercial rela-
lions In which the cneapncss of labor enters
as potential element Of success Such
rivalry Is made energetic and effective by
the improved means of commercial inter-
course. The Occident and Orient are no
longer separated by impossible seas.
Steam and telegraph have brldged, as It
were. the largest sea Of the world. and the
prices which rule the Occidental markets
are posted in the capitals Of Japan and
China rs early as they are posted in the
exchanges Of London and New York. Can
there be stronger argument In favor Of
an international standard Of value than this
fact 2" '-.'-. &ee C5-
See, how the law of supply and demand
seems to have operated OH some Of our
other crops in the years 1894 and 1895.
The following table shows the amount Of
corn, oats, barley and potatoes raised In
the United States in 1904 and 1895, and
the average price received for the same: