The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
FARMERS GAIN WIDER TRADE.
The More Markets Opened, the Bet
ter Prices Are Certain
to lie.

II is often asked how expansion bene-
fits the farmer; how good prices and
steady prices are to be obtained for
his crops if our foreign trade is ex-
tended; how, in short, the policy which
our country has just begun to enter
upon is going 10 affect him in the flu
ture.
Expansion is the natural, economic,
inevitable outburst of a growing ma
ton, which cannot sell advantageous
~ enough all of its products at home.
Not only 90 the other nations of the
earth wish to buy our fooo prod
but they are feeling greater and
greater need for our machinery and al.
the other products of our mills, IN
order that they, too, may enter for
the race of progress. Their demands
have possibly been anticipated by our
captains of production, industry,
transportation and finance; perhaps
we have been ready for them just a
little before they were ready for US.
At all events, we have the goods; and
they have the use tor them ana the
money to pay.
The foreign market is diversified and
steady. Uncounted millions, almost,
stand ready TO draw upon us for sup
plies; they simply need to be reached.
American goods simply have to be
shown. When their superiority is
seen millions of dollars worth of bust
ness can be done. This cannot mean
anything except that those who raise
and sell our food products, those who
manufacture and sell our machinery
cotton goods, and any one of the thou
sand and one other goods, are going, if
there is anything in the law of demand
and supply, to have a wider and stead
Ter demand, to meet higher and stead
Ter scale Of selling prices. There is
this other thing in it all; it is, in a
word, the tremendously beneficial eff
feet of the growth of "A foreign demand
upon local demand. The figures show
that the increase of our export trade
in the last two years has been simply
astonishing; still more so has the
growth of our imports of raw mate
rial or of material used by manufac
turers. 1t is inconceiyable that oul
monthly excess of $4,000 900 of ex
ports over imports should mean any
thing, to the biggest city or the small
est, to Maine or Texas, to Washington
or Georgia, but an increased demand
locally, everywhere, and growing stead
Ter everywhere, for the products o
the farm. Does il mean nothing to thu
neighboring farmer that those of GU
cities that the census Office has alread,
reportedupon have increased their pop
ulation from rs to so per cent? Sure
ly ii means that, within the rang
where this additional and growing
population must buy advantageously
the prices of farm products that the.
must have will rise.
1t may be said in general way tina
ii is impossible for one group in tn
body polite to enjoy prosperous con
ditions unless every other one does
Things industrial and commercial ad
just themselves fairly for all con
cerned; they do it ultimately and soor
because they do ii automatically. TIL
rich man cannot prosper unless thos
who earn their daily wages do, no
can the working people prosper III
less some in the community assume
the heavy responsibilities, and, just a
inevitably, gains the great returns @
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