The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Greatness of our Country,

ie feIaIlEe SteljIeSS Ol l4LcIi wv PN'p-N'
18th view to fuller comprehension OF
leir ability to make a market. Ihey
re the best educated. best fed best hous-
a. best clothed and farthest travelled 10
O0O 600 of people III the world. Ii the laws
Interfere with their industries in any way,
favoring their com etitors abroad, inter-
feriug with their power to purchase 10
ward educa ton. nutrition. lodging, clolh-
Ing sand travelling, as we have seen lor
the four years past. their power 10 MAKE
q market is lowered correspondm@t!.
Prosperity has come naturally; pupisc
policies have been changed: the workers
Il employed: they buy more Hhera NY
the farmer gets better prices: he puts me
price of his crops into clreulatloh' .ne
current warns up all the veins OF COM
merce; the twenty millions OF farmers n"!
more literally of all household ana othet
Co modites the wholesale mefchahl
feels the quickening influence and puts
more agents on the road: the country mer-
chant whose stocks have been low for
years replenishes his shelves, and TINS
gives orders to the L anufacturer wfo
employs more labor and skill: the busy
workmen have money to buy the farmer
ard other products, all of which make the
good times we enjoy. The beginning Oh
all this was the change of pubic pollc!
that was ordered last November by the
people when they elected Gov. Mckinney
President. the keeping of our Joos III
home for our own people. and the Keep
ing of the money at home to pay out 10
cur own people
President McKinle-'s administration
has set about the introduction of prosper
ity among all classes of people by COM
plete change of public policy. That change
T. I, 4 4 lT
effect is better prices for farm products.
It is said that the scarcity of wheat
abroad is the cause of better prices here
Ccncede that for the sake of the argu-
ment. Why are other grains higher. with
beef mutton pork. wool and other farm
products? The voters who changed pub
lie policies a year ago have confidence IN
tie Change of administration. They are
the moving power of the republic. 1 1hey
do the bulk OF its business. They are ia
miliar with American history for q GEN.
.ury and a quarter. as affected by pro-
lection to home industries and the want
OF it. They are not ready to take step
toward the experience of the last four
years. The questions that were settled
year ago will stay settled while this gem
GRAFTON lives, and tie cost of sending our
jobs abroad and starving our workers at
Effect of Changes of Policy.
The effect of the changes of public pol
icy on agricultural interests is well Illus
trated by the changes in the prices of our
Farm stock and farm products. The de-
crease in the value of the horses has been
very great during the past ten years.
Superficial observers tell us that the sub
+ stitution of steam and electricity on street
cars for horses has made this change.
But there are other factors that have been
at work during this decade to destroy the
value of horses The United States
changed its public policies in the mean
time. Industries along all lines were par
nlyZed, because our workmen We're turned
out of employment They were not able
TO buy farm products, the factories be-
came idle. and the farm horses were not
wanted about the factories, in the towns.
nor saiiywlIere in the United States. as
much as formerly If the value of horses
were reduced during this change of public
policy. and the prices Of other materials
remained the same. we would be com
peeled to conclude that some other cause
than general depression had lowered the
price of horses. but we viii find in looking
over the productions of this great State
that everything else pertaining to the
farm decreased in value ut the same time
The farmers were left with large sur
plrses on their hands. Unfortunately for
US, our horses could not be put to any
great extent upon the worlds market, be-
cause we had been producing such horses
as pleased us, and not such horses as the
world demanded outside of the United
States The worlds market for horses
fixed the prices for us, and we had so few
that the world wanted to buy, that prices
fi1 fn t1b h % 4 VIZ
had been producing heavy draft horses
roach horses and saddle horses. European:
would have bought them at high prices
They have agents in this country, anC
have had them for many years, searching
for the kind of horses l have named. bu
are not able to find them as PLENTIFUL,
as they desire. We are undoubtedly abb,
to produce horses in the United State.
cheaper than any other country can pro
Guce them, because we have the cheapes
grains and grasses. good water and intel
ligent people to rear them. 1t is ques
ton for the farmers in the future as t.
how they shall breed and develop thei
horse stock.
Sugar Beets.
We pay S100,000,000 each year for su
gar, made to great extent from suga
beets grown in Continental Europe, sine
member that when President McKinle
was chairman of the Ways and Mean
Committee in the House of Represents
tives some years ago, he secured legisla
ton in the interest of the farmer, givin
encoura cement to the growing of suga
beets. The attention of American farm
ers was drawn toward that industr,
Arrangements were made to test the ca
pacity of our soils in all parts of the Uni
ed States. Some factories were built, an
within a reasonable time all the suga
An orleans require would have been mad
in the United States. Sugar. like bu
ter. consists of labor and sunshine. Th
price of labor would have been raised a
along the line. from tie growing of tb
sugar beets to the making of the bags {
barrels for its final reception. The farm
er would have been enabled to diversif
his crops and grow less o. what was lea.
profitable Work would have been give
70 those who piow the soil, sow the see,
cultivate and harvest, and deliver to tt
factory. Laborers. skilled artisans an