Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-02-01

nave given ibis m6GC0T II 0roAt Oo6t
Of attention and find that the people OF
the Orient can only get about enough
wheat for pastry. II in the place OF the
average man eating four and half
bushels per capita, these Cinnamon
could got the wheat, and only eat one
bushel per year, giving them three
fourths OF a pound each week, it would
require 12U,O00,0O0 bushels to feed them,
and We would have to 60 back to Rye
and Indian" except for Sundays.
Naughter.) Rye and Indian used to be
pretty good stuff in New England fifty
years ago and it is yet. Some will ask
you, how can Chinaman earning thirty
or forty cents day afford to buy flour.
II Chlnaman spends one cent day
for -four it would create demand
greater than We could supply.
We must have ships to carry our grain
to the markets OF the Orient at fair
profit, but we did cot carry one per cent
OF that trade during the past year. We
have been busy all these years helping
the iron man, the tin man, the wool man,
etc., and all classes except the men on
the farm. Some say it we belp the iron
tnan, the TIN man, the wool man, We are
therefore helping the farmer and max.
Ing a greater market. We have mar
ket and will always have as long as we
can sell produce cheaper than the other
fellow won't questieD the intentio
Of any one who wants to build up the
industries Of the country. The pur-
chaser never asks If the seller is pro-
tected. Whatever the price of wheat in
Market Lane, deduct the price of freight
and cost OF handling and you would
have the erioe OF wheat in North Oak ota.
II you could send wheat to liverpool
paying 90 freight, in twelve months the
price OF wheat IN the United States will
have decreased for the reason that it
would bring the wheat Of other cceln-
tries into oonpetltlon.
In 1887, with q demand for twenty
three hundred millions OF bushels and
having only twenty hundred millions
with which to supply the demand. prices
went up, For the past tacee years the
Argentine Republic has given us no
trouble, ss their crops have beon light.
This moeth they are harvesting q crop
vsriously estimated ct frsm '50,O0Q;0OOt to
70OOe,0a0 bushels. Australia wss q
customer Of ours to limited extent
last yesr. This year che w.Gl have
from 7,90G00O to 10000 600 bushels to
sell. Under these conditions we may
find ourselves, az We did in the 'lattee
part ct 1896 and 10 la9e-ags,nst q low
price OF wheat, so low that it well not be
profitable to cultivate 1t. And wheo
this is 60 this section suffers, because 90
many people are interested in the soil
and 10 ahls one crop
Comic back from the coast several
years age where l had been seeing what
could te done about getting = good
market Tor our wheat, cav oar felde
full OF shocks. low prices at home and
then thocght that our own country wss
not receisang help from our public men.
Nothing has been done to help the
farmer by tAe public men but they are
all anxious to be counted as friends OF
the agriou1t0ral masses, yet nothing has
been done BY them that would have
tendency to i0orease the price OF grsins.
I believe that We could export One.hsif
Of slR the grain We raise. yet We do not
export more than one quarter now. II
we exported our entire crop We could
not supply tie demands OF the Orient.
They have the money to pay for the
goods, are honest in business. II the
Chinese government would protect the
individusl and the tax payer was not
squeezed ss long as there ls anything to
be equeezed, then they would be as
good people as the Japanese. 1t
would take us fifty years to reach the
demand by our export grains.
There ls bill in congress to promote
the building Of an American merchant
marine. It gives bonus TO ships Of
American build according TO the meas
urement OF the chip, steam CT sailing
vessel, for trips OF 1900 miles or more
and not more than slxteen trips year.
The payment is on the measurement OF
the ship and the distance out and back.
am entirely unable to see why the
American people should pay bonus on
chips coming back from GermaGy or
France carrying cargo Of champagne
or kid gloves, or any other OF the pro-
ducts of those countries, or the oom-
merce of any other country to our owe.
Certainly they should not as loug as
wheat is SO cents a bushel and has no
assistance from any quarter.
Whatever bonus is to be paid would
apply it to the product OF the American
field and forest-and the mine. it the
American miner is disposed to kick up