Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-16


. ocratic writers and speakers to attribute
the extraordinary prosperity Of the last
sigir years to Providence. and to deny
thar the Republican party could be ssps-
cially allied with Providence.
In answer to this contention President
Roosevelt, Ia one Of his campaign
speeches in 1900, made the witty remark
that the Democratic party had fused
with about everything except Provi-
fence"
In reht ton to the remarkable Increase
IN the agricultural prosperity Of the
United States during the years Of Re
publican rule subsequent to the last
Democratic administration QS93-1S9O.
Il is the Democratic policy 10 sneeringly
ask il the Republican party produced the
bountiful crops, or had anything to do
with the droughts, the rust, or other in
6uences buliishly affecting the prices Of
commodities the farmer had to sell.
Such sneering remarks, however, can
not suppress the fact chat while there
have been many vicissitudes during the
last eight years in crop conditions, yet
there has all this time been a more or
less steady and big increase in the cash
income from American farms.
In 1901, for instance. owing TO hot
winds and drought. there was a lean
year in corn, and yet the farmers Of the
United States got 1921 .555.7 6S for their
corn Of that Republican year as against
G491 .OO6,967 for their corn Of the Dem
ocratic year 1896, which was FIAT
year" as regards naturally splendid
crop conditions, but a lean year indeed,
as regards prices. The Republican year
1901 was thus year in which prosper
lily for the Corn Belt farmers was pre-
served, despite a great natural disaster
to the corn crop, while the Democratic
year 1896 was year in which there was
no prosperity in the Corn Belt despite
the especially bountiful size of the corn
crop.
Dollar Wheat VS.. Fifty centwh-at.
AT THE PRESENT WRITING
THE CASH PRICE OF WHEAT AT
CHICAGO is ABOUT SL1O In Au-
gust. 1903, it was IN to 9OH cents;
IN August, 1902, it was 6S14 to I6 cents;
Ia August, 1901, it was 665s to II cents;
Ia August, 1900, it was Tx to 1GA
cents; in August, 1899, it was 60 to AN
cents: in August, 1898. it was 65R to
rs cents; in August, 1897. it was 15A
to SLOT; in August. 1895. 1t was 90 to
63M cents; in August. 1898. it was 5SA
to ~ cents; IN AUGUST. 1894, 1T
WAS 5115 TO 5Sh CENTS.
AT PRESENT WRITING THE
CASH PRICE OF CORN AT CHI
CAGO is Sc CENTS. In August, 1903,
1t was 501a to 80 cents; in August, 19O2.
It was so to go cents; in August, 1901,
1t was 53% to 571a cents; in August,
1900, it was 37H to Az cents; in Au-
gust, 1898. it was 301a to 33 cents; in
August, 1898, it was 29% to 33Z cents:
In August, 1897, it was 261k to 329s
cents; IN AUGUST. 1896, 1T WAS
2O1a TO 25 CENTS.
Yard stick of Republican Prosperity.
The general drift of these price fig
ures, covering a period Of about eight
years, has been of course significant not
merely of the size of the crops of these
particular years, but of the general
steady increase in market demand
Wheat is not only a ''staf of life" but
It is also, as regards its consumption.
yard-stick of national progress. The
more people advance in civilization and
In prosperity the more wheat -four will
they consume. The present great awak-
sning amongst the Oriental races is syn
erroneous with the development Of an
enormous trade in Pacific Coast wheat
Gour through the open door" to these ma
lions of the Orient
In the case of corn 1t II certainly
fact worthy of much attentive interest.
that despite the high prices for corn DUR
fnS the last three years, the demand even
at these high prices has not abated- And
notwithstanding We seem likely to have
this year a crop of 100000. 900 bush
els. corn is now about SO cents per
bushel at Chicago. In 1896 the total
crop was 2.2S2. $50. 165 bushels. but the
price in August of that year was 2013
to 25 cents at Chicago-not half what
Il IL now.
Per Capita Corsu m ptien Of Wheat
Increases
The Republican policy Of building up
the manufactures of the United States
Of placing the factory besiue the farm
accounts for the broader and better
market the farmer during the last eight |
ysars has been steadily getting for his
products. This 10 noticeable in the case
Of practically everything he has to cell |
consumption making prices
relatively better no matter what the siss
of his crops.
Figures Of the Bureau Of Statistics
show that the wheat consumption Of the
United States in the fiscal year 1904
vas the largest in the history Of the
The table which follows shows
the quantity Of wheat retained for con-
sumption in total and per capita In each
ascal year from 1890 to and inciudins
1904:
Wheat and wheat -four retained fer
home consumptiol:
Fiscal Total rsr cepita
Year. Bushels ousneS