Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-10-04

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The fallAi. ii the most Inn
portant fagiG iii our national life.
Some one lgs said 70 him, 1.-THE hand
that guides re plowshare feeds the
| worId.n He y rel stakeholder In
any of tlo trusts, hut he feels the ex-
tortlon pradiecd by them all. / am
not farming on a large scale, but the
| misleadlng reports which have been
circulated concerning my oat crop jus
/ tIfy iHe In making reference to my
! own experience. The New York Trib-
une recently printed a dispatch from
/ Nebraska TO the effect TINT ! had just
/ sold forty-elght hundred bushels Of
| oats Mt 30 cents per bushel supposed
/ to be the yield of 100 acres), and that
/ the amount received for the oats was
/ more than double the price paid for
/ the land she Tribune article then
/ proceeded TO dilate upon the prosper
/ ity OF the farmer. using my experience
as an illustration, and asserted that
the farmers Of Nebraska were becom-
ing so opulent that they were joining
| the Republican party. The facts are,
/ first: That had five acres Of oats In.
/ stead Of one hundred and twenty
/ acres; second, That the oats have not
/ YET been thrcshed so that the yield Is
not known third. That oats are sell
/ ing for less than - cents IN Chicago,
/ instead OF 80 cents IN Nebraska, and
I fourth, That the land upon which the
+ oats were raised cost me over 500 an
/ acre instead Of So II, when threshed,
/ my oats yield forty bushels to the acre
/ ard | sell them IN Nebraska for 20
cents par bushel, the total income from
the five acres will be $40. or less than
4 eight per cent on the Investment Aft
I or taking out the cost Of blowing. SOW
( ing. harvesting and threshlng, the net
/ income from that FIVE acre tract will
not exceed four per cent. on the
I money invested. | do not mean 70
/ Judge others by my own experience,
but I mention the facts In the case TO
+ show how the Republican papers exag-
geratc the farmers prosperity, and
credit the Republican administration
! with good crops. making no allowance
I FOR the crop failures which occur from
/ time to time
prrlina Of Farm Products.
nut vlic on the ont question let me
/ call nttht'Hn % the statistics given In
I thr luveetnrut Guide already referred
to According 60 Henry Clcws & 60.
} TIE average prices received by farm
trs for oats during the seven years
I beginning With 1858 and ending with
4 1879 wtrc 81 rs follows: 1893, POI;
/ fea, 81; 1870. 1GG. 1906 1871; 1887,
5 - .: 1888 a55; 1850. 2f0 Accord
( Ina Go these figures oata averaged -
( cents q bush0 during tire four years
/ If Mr. ClcvclanI's administration, and
only - cents Hcg kushel during the
three wears ~ SIR McEinloy's admin
/ istrat0u ihc present year IS not yet
+ complete. hHt oats nrc NJ fhc present
I time below the average.
According ip The same authority the
Z average prices received by the farm
/ @ f4r epm, were as follows 1893,
I 500. 1891 4aTs 1895. 2B8; 1896. 2L6;
I 1+J7. 2U2.'fsgS 2S7: lS9D. 303, max
.ng an average ~ about 300 during
th ftir years ~ Mr.. Cieyelana'8 adj
4 mHlatJat.uu. and 81 during the three
years af Mr. Mckiniry's ndmln!stra.
( ti1n the fourth year IL rot got COM
/ plge but corn IA at this time above
{ rae average
Wheat, according o. the same au-
{ thaH;y brought 60 The farmers the FOL.
Z i9wiHs rtiesH. 1893. 5gS; 1891, AL;
I 1856 -ua. $500. T2G. 1897, sos: 1s9S,
I ss@ 1880 ssh showing a higher av-
Z Use dHrug Csc last three years than
! during tle fuBr preceding the fourth
year H not complete. but wheat Is
\ r8~g alnyc Che average.
According tu tAe Same authority cot.
I ton siaatejn received the following
I prices 1893 goo: 1897 40; 1895. T58;
I $3.50. tG, 1897. so, 1893, #75; 1899,
1 ~. showing q higher average during
/ tbr four years ~ SIR Clevcignd's adj
/ miu'ftrUua than during the three
( years uf SIR. MtiilHley's admiulstra-
I tiHn th0 fourth year IS not yet com.
p.rte. tut cotton "a now above the av-
egaga price
Taking fdese four staples 81 agrIcul-
\ tUse u win ha scrn that three out vt
have not ou The average brought
uurh return 20 lhe farmer. under
/ present administration. as under
/ a previous administration. and the
( fourth product wheat, IS more iniIu-
I tuced lhau aGg either farm product
/ 81 foreign conditions
Advance ia Mpryhandisc.
/ NtGet however fhe farmer attempts
I a. up his Income In the purchase OF
/ TIE Btressarlcs nf life he finds that the
( trusts Aavp raised prices lie must
I pay more for lufaher, nails wire. har-
ness. hardware. stoves ana agricultur-
/ 81 impimtuh Moro, also for oil,
/ sugar cl1thng furniture. etc, and ia
Z addition % Those drains upon his I'M
Z come lse must meet an Increase IN fed
4 erl iasblIou.
I Lei the pareut calculate how long
I ii viii take a farmer 90 become iude-
i UerIrBf under present conditions, let
! hIm f0Hhust tln let Of the Turner with
! tie iut Uf tAe M8u who PROFITS by gov
J ernmCutal fdyoritism and grows rich
I by the exploitation 81 his countrymen
/ through the fundamentally OF monop-
oily aud then let him answer the
I question, rs The young man. Absalom,
I safer Has the farmers son. or the
/ farmer himself my reason for giving
support t. Tie Republican party?
Next to Tie farmer In point of mum
bcrs ana Importance come the wage
carners What IS the trust doing to
increase the wfges shorten the hours.
improve The condition, or protect the
| rights OF the laborng mauY Is his
/ present prospect an inviting onof liz
ne receiving fair share OF the pro-
J ceeds OF his toll? And. IL not. why
not? Republicans assert that the
working man has a "fuli dinner pail"
| ask, In the first place, whether a
| full dinner pail Is all that a laboring
| man needs? 1t IL an insult 20 the
wage-oarner to say that his thoughts
| are entirely conferred upon his physl-
cal wants Republican speakers and
editors assume that the laboring man
| IL all stomach. They act upon the the