Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-10
UNITED STATES STATISTICS.


Exports Farm
Year. tural products. Value. Population.
1897 1927 lbs gs '6o3'a13 ......-. % 19l,S7
1870. 8Si iSS4sS sie5s $50 a27 S. 81 81
lSS0, S5,961, 900 2,212,540,927 So 155, 1888
1861. 629, 1916, sos 2,460, I07, asa O. go, $50
1e0O.. S35,S5s,123 3,764, 1T, FOG &c, 303, 3ST
In 1870 then, we exported 1874 per
cent of the total value of our farm
products, and in 1900, % per cent.
Thus. out Of every $500 worth of farm
products sold, we sold, in 1900, 500. so
worth abroad, while, in 1870, at the be
ginning of high protection-to some
body-we sold only $3.50 worth
abroad. The protected home market
of the farmer appears to be getting
farther away from home
A similar result can be shown in
other ways: While population has in
creased only 800 per cent since 1850,
or 142 per cent since 1880, the value
of our agricultural products exported
has increased 670 per cent since 1850,
and 22S per cent since 1860 This in
dicates clearly that our farmers are
more dependent upon foreign markets
to-day than in 1850 or 1860, during our
low tariff period. Again, taking the
averages for the first five and for the
last five years given in the Statistical
Abstract, we learn that from 1871 to
1875 we exported 3.13 per cent of our.
corn and coinmeal, while from 1898 to
1902 we exported S.22 per cent. For
the first period we exported 1920 per
cent OF cur wheat, and for the second
period 36.12 per cent These figures
products are not crossing the ocean
rapidly in this direction at the beck of
protection" In fact, they are back
pedaling," and getting farther away.
The farmer must now use a long-dis-
lance telescope to see his protected
home market"
The protected home market" is, 10
fact, a fraud and swindle on the
farmer High tariffs never did and
never will do anything but decrease
the home market for farm products in
a country like ours. What is best for
the country as a whole will increase
the population most rapidly and thus
increase the size Of the home market.
Statistics show that both our popula-
tion and the value of our farm prod
ucts never increased as rapidly as dur
ing the so-called free trade" period
from 1850 to 1860. Under this low tar
if both our home and foreign markets
increased as never before. This was
our most prosperous period for the
whole people, as Mr.. James G. Blaine
admitted in his Twenty Years of
Congress-" 1t is astonishing that the
farmers have forgotten this decade
and have not voted for their own in
terests ever since as the manufacture
ers have always done.-Byron w. Holt
The Administration and Wall Street.
There is a chance that now the Wall
street pirates are disagreeing and GO
ing to law about the disposal of the
swag, that the public may have their
eyes opened about the way they have
been swindled. The history of the or
ganization of the shipbuildng trust, as
told under oath by one Of the partici-
pants, is a picture, doubtless, of the
peculiar transactions that have at
tended the organization OF numerous
other trusts The sale of the Bethle-
hem Steel Company to the shipbuild-
ing trust was participated in by the
kings of finance in Wall street, and
the proportions of the steal were as
gigantic as the supposed fortunes CT
the participants. The public, who were
swindled by this gold brick game,
have only themselves to blame, for
careful inquiry, or, for that matter, a
curs0ry glance at the properties includ-
ed in the corporation, would have
opened the eyes of the veriest tyro in
financial affairs The constant warn
ings sounded for the past year of the
water-logged condition of the stock
market by the honest newspapers of
the country should have prevented
their readers from being yictimized.
The attempt of tine administration,
through Secretary Shaw, TO bolster UP
Wall street in its depredations on the
honest investor by pouring millions of
the public money into the favored
banks. which are VIGOROUSLY allied
with Wall street pirates, is beyond
belief. If President Roosevelt and his
cabinet did not understand the con-
ditions in the stock market, with all
their sources of knowledge, they are
totally unfit to manage the affairs Of
the greatest government on earth. If
they. or Secretary Shaw, were appraised
Of the pitilessly beset plight Of the
trust makers and responded to their
cry for help, they must answer to the
victims and to the nation.
Unfortunately. Wall street has an in
direct influence on the general business
Of the country, ana it is much to be
feared that the effect is already shown
in some of the principal industries, and
that reduced business and falling
wages may be looked for, for q time
at least