The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-10
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people to eat what we produce. 1t is
not an experiment. - Where the introduce
ton of wheatsi -four has. been made to
the black race-theyi are ready and eager
to eat 1T, The Indian will go further
for flour than for anything else, unless,
do him any good and the flour. will. The
Asiatic nv s d -
RICE EATERS WANT FLOUR.
If they can get 1t at fair price. How
can people who have been living ON 10
| to 10 cents aJday, buy flour that must
be carried across the Pacific ocean. II,
instead Of. AZ. bushels per capita, We
tried to sch them sone, we would have
to eat corn pone ourselves. Our aver
age surplus of wheat Is perhaps, $780,
figures were about 81, 100000 bushels IF
We taught the Orient to make market
for one bushelopersc apita for, our. wheat
It would send 4bo,0oo,eoo bushels
mention the Straits Settlements and
other thickly settled portions of Asia.
There is fine farming country in North
and West China; but 1t cannot get it's
pi oducts to market advantageously
1--WE may fear that Russia, on the COM
pletions Of the Trans-Siberian railway,
may compete for that Oriental market.
The question of transportation, however,
settles that The average cost of trans
| porting ton of freight a, mile on the
imperial Russian railroad lis LIS cents,
| aiiu uiilAlS tlldl the government WOuiu
carry grain to this market at its actual
| cost, the cost of transportation alone
from the. wheat fields of Russia would be
s42o per barrel. We can snip flour from
! our west coast to ports like. Yokohama
and Nagasaki for Is cents hundred
weight so cents a barrel and; IS a ton.
And 1t is not likely that the Siberian rail-
road will haul grain or flour at less
than the naked cost to the government.
| What applies. to this wheat of our
Northwest applies to the cotton of the
Guiding iron and steel If we have out
grown In our agricultural production,
Our home market. for which we Lave
| nursed our steel industries, let US DO
particularly for our agricultural inter
ests. Take the matter of nails. Last
year you got them for 81. rs key; this
year they are 1925. Lumber prices have
necessities on prairie farms. You must
have shelter; you must have fuel. Fuel
has advanced; everything made of iron
has advanced but your product has not
advanced, and until you can get new
people to eat your wheat you can go on
hoping, but 1t will be hoping against
hope.
REsPoNsIvEsTo SMALL SHORTAGE.
Now. if the Mailing. off in the worlds
wheat production from 100000 600 bushels
to 1890, GOO bushels raises prices from
| 10 to 20 cents. sit seems to me that find
| ing market for 5eGO0,000 bushels in the
ing in wheat prices. In the first place,
| that grain would naturally go from the
/ Pacific coast states first. and the entire
! system of handling: grain on the Pacific
| slope is different from that used east of
| the Rocky mountains. After the grain Is
cut and threshed, as 1t has to be shipped
twice across the equator before it reach
/ es its market. it has to be put through a
| sweating process. ut has to be shipped
/ in sacks. it not being practicable to dump
it in bulk into 1.-THE hull of vessel, as we
! ,l,;,~ r @joa IN q
| Lakes. This Pacific coast wheat is prac-
tically all bought by three concerns. two
of them in Liverpool; and closely con-
neeted with the White Star line of steam
ers, by which 1t is: chiefly hauled. On its
arrival In Liverpool this wheat is sold
l will not say to the highest bidder. for
this coast wheat acts like a wet blanket
on the entire wheat market. The last
ship is leaving our coast about the time
the first Is reaching the Eur9pean mar.
practically all afoat at once. Thus a
| European miller can go in a minute and
find out how much California wheat there
is. / think it breaks the market twice
as much as that which goes via the At
! lentic, for when it reaches European ports
it has to be sold. The. boats can not be
can not be put lin elevators. but must be
carried to a warehouse. 1t has to go at
In Europe for what the market there
/ will give for it.. And !! care not how you
/ price of what you sell cat home. You are
| competing y Eth. any% man of any people
who is raising wheat. care not whether
it be on tho, steppesE of Russia, the ryot
fields of India or the wheat growers of
| the Argentine republic. most of them
I from Southern Italy. You are competing
your own country will consume all 1t pro-
! duces. no intelligent man will maintain
for half century at least The increase
| of the productive area and better cultfva-
| will in fact increase the WELD
About 10 years ago, soon after the Rev
dictionary war. the rsmovals of the peo-
pie from the farms Of Great Britain. were
was appointed to keep the peopse on the
land. 1t has become in measure. per-
manent; for this was the origin Of the
ain, which offers premiums to this day
for individual fields of particular crops.
And right here. l hope you will excuse
me for depressing from the subject of
markets, for I want to take whack at
| the farmer. He ought to do better him
self. 1 want to see him do It, and If he
| l held my peace Every intelligent farm
| er knows that he is entitled to twenty
| bushels out of an acre OF well cultivated
grain land. You say this is special cul-
ture. I want to see it general. 1t costs
| little more to harvest twenty bushels to
the acre than 1t does half that amount.
| Then you have thes decrease in the acre
age. and the decrease of the crowding on
If You will examine the figures you will
see that as the cost of transporting
| your wheat has decreased the price of
| wheat has decreased with it.
! Compare the cost of transporting a ton
of wheat from here to Liverpool or Ant.
werp and you will; observe that the price
ference in the cost of transportation. The
European consumer can take the other
is to find new customers and enlarged
commercial relations. We must expand
our markets: The country has always ex-
panded and 1t always Will. We must have
customers to buy what we have to sell
/ If we are to go on increasing and expand
Ing we must have people to consume
what We produce
ON THE CHANDLER BILL.
One of the senators from New Hamp-
shire has intre duced bill for the appoint
ment of a commission to consider ways
and means for the extension of, our ORR
| entail trade. The new senator from North
Dakota too, has bill aimed at tho same
purpose; but both of them, It seems to
me, wander wide of the mark. The one
provides for a commission of two from
the Pacific slope, two from the Atlantic
states and one from the great Middle
=. West. Now the Pacific coast can market
practically 100000 900 bushels of grain. 1t
is the Middle West which has. the
widest interest and will derive the great
est benefit. If we were to begin with the
Orient commerce Of one copper cent per
> capita per, day. on their population, it
would amount + fo FL China chi alone e 4 co.,
these opportunities at our doors. Euro
pean products must find their way by way
of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean,
around India, practically across two
oceans and the Mediterranean. We
have but one ocean to cross. Some friends
insist that they are going to help us by
good If we had some ships. but of the
Oriental carrying trade for the last year,