New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-16
ever grain or pork or any pork product or beef 10

ever grain or pork or any pork product or beef 10
grown for export. These causes are:
neutrality-suspicious. az measured by consump-
ton-not by demand but by ability to get tho
produce consumed The demand. that IT, the de-
sire TO buy and to consume. is great as II ever
was and could the means money be found where
with buy, the consumption would oe greater
than the production now IL. great AS II IL. lf
every woud-be consumer could buy his five bushels
of wheat per year in place Of having an over
production we should have the reverse and moro
grain and more pork and more lard ana more
cheese and beef would be demanded and
would be absorbed and consumed. and prices would
advance at once and would keep advancing until
the consumption and the production found level
Is this not clear and true?
Second-The second cause OF the low prices IL the
lessened consumption In place Of five bushels OF
wheat per capita per year being consumed by those
who wish to IT, cannot find that the consump-
ton is three bushels or. in fact not much more than
bushels, and as 1t is with wheat. so II Is with
oats corn pork. cheese. beef. lard and In fact.
every farm product that is exported one moment
only need be used to show what this means
Say two and d half bushels of wheat where the
should be five. and YOU have at once tho
potent for the woes Of not only our
farmers. but the farmers Of the world. for tho
same markets that make our farmers prices
make those Of the farmers OF Russia. India. Ar
gentna. Turkey. Bulgaria. Ausro-Hungary and
the whole world that exports farm products
Here then. you have the TWO causes. and tho
only two that obtain overproduction as compared
with consumption. and inability 10 buy COM
pared with production. In this warfare our farm
badly off as the farmers of most
OF the other grain-exportng countries for In those
countries the farmer Is forced 10 abstain from
consuming any Of his product that be export
I'd. and is forced to live potatoes cabbage ca
rots and the like bulky and perishable products.
while every one of our farmers can eat as much OF
his wheat corn. cheese pork. he sees At.
and he exports only the surplus The farmer OF
the Argentina. Russia. India. Bulgaria. Turkey.
servia. Bosnia. Egypt and Austro- Hungary uses
none. but is forced to sell all he grows 10 get
money wherewith TO pay rent and taxes and in
terest What he would Ike 10 consume and what
should be a surplus have all TO 20 to meet the in
evtable demands OF the landlord and the State.
and the money! lender. and he and his family have
to live on the chan and the husks
II the ryot Of India lared TO eat what he grows
of exporting millions OF bushels Of wheat which
helps to glut the markets OF the worG India woui
be required to import sOo.Gooo bushels Of grain
VIZ ,I x naot ~ Snpth .mer"a ana ,b AZ
gentna. could the natural needs Of IN" people
TO grain for consumption be- met 10y supply. there
tries Russia. Austro-Hungary. Epypt Bulgaria
bushel but themselves would be importers OF hum
dreds of millions OF bushels OF 81 ain and CORE
spending millions OF dollars worth Of pork and
beef and mutton and cheese and lard and the like.
As IT is as TO consumption I'm the grain-exporting
countries so IL Is to the grain-importng coun-
tries Not one OF them gets anything Ike what its
people need. They take only what their people IN
their impoverished condition can pay for and that
at the lowest possible price. France Great Britain.
Belgium. Holland. Germany, Italy. spain ana Por-
tuga need three or four times as much as they
can get and their people would cheerfully buv
three or four times much az they do II they hal
the money wherewith 10 pay for II. Here. then. -
the cause The effect our farmers feel and Will
feel for all time II we do not produce larger home
market and thus free ourselves from being de-
pendent on the markets Of the world. whore Va
are brought in direct contact with the poverty OF
the other parts OF the world Bryan. Altsed. Till
Company may try 10 show that this pow
erty Is caused by the demone ton OF silver but
"A ready answer and truthful one In that this
poverty l. not "A con Alton. not ono obtaining
only since 1873 since 1916 when England estab-
lished the gold standard. but II has always oh
tained and always will obtain so long as III,
nations OF Europe will allow themselves To he
eaten un by the cost of their great armies and
navies and their ornaments and wasteful support.
Chicago. Aug. 10. 1896 THOMAS DOUGLAS.