The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
cash INCOME FROM FARMS
Effect of Republican Policies in the Corn Belt
and Wheat Growing States.
VALUE OF LANDS GREATLY INCREASED
Prices Of Cereals in "Lean" and "Fat" Years
Market Demand Affected by Action of Ma
tionaI Administration-Ris in Values.

1t has been quite customary for Dem
ocratic writer's aud speakers TO attribute
the extraordinary prosperity of the last
eight years to Providence. and to deny
that the Republican party could he espe-
cially allied with Providence.
In answer to this contention President
Roosevelt, in one of his campaign
speeches in 1900 made the witty remark
that the Democratic party had fused
with about everything except rrovi-
dence'
In relation to tho remarkable increase
in the agricultural prosperity of the
United States during the years of Re
publican rule subsequent to the last
Democratic administration 1So3- 1870,
It is the Democratic policy to sneeringly
ask if the Republican party produced the
bountlfnl crops, or had anything to DO
with the thoughts. the rust. or other in
tiuenccS hulliShy affecting the prices of
commodities the farmer had to sell.
Such snecring remarks, however, can
not suppress the fact that while there
have been many vicissitudcs during the
last eight years in crop conditions. yet
there has all this time been Il 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 lean
year i'll corn aud yet the farmers Of the
United States got 1921 300. 76S for their
corn of that Republican year as against
$491 .006,967 for their corn of the Dem
ocratic year 1896, which was a fat
year" as regards naturally splendid
as regards prices. The Republican year
1901 was thus a year in which prosper
ity for the Corn Belt farmers was pre-
served, despite Il great natural disaster
TO the corn crop. while the Democratic
Year 1896 was year i'll which there was
no prosperity in the Corn Belt despite
the especially bountiful size of the corn
crop
Dollar Wheat VIZ. Fifty CentWheat.
AT THE PRESENT WRIT NC
THE CASH PRICE OF WHEAT Az
CHICAGO is ABOUT $1.1O. In Au-
gust 1908, il was TN to 90A cents;
ill August. 1902. it was GS14 to &c cents;
in August. 1901, it was GG5s to Il cents;
in August, 1900, il was 71$4 to 76A
cents; in August. 1890. it was 60 to 741a
cents; in August, 1898, it was G51a to
Is cents: in August. 1897, it was 75A
to S1.O7; in August. 1896. it was 80 to
63k cents; in August, 1893. it was 5S34
to y cents: IN AUGUST. 1894, II
WAS 51h TO 1919 CENTS.
AT PRESENT WRITING THE
CASH PRICE OF CORN AT CHI
CAGO is SO CENTS. In August. 1908,
1t was 5012 to 53 cents; in August, 1902.
1t was 80 to 60 cents; in August, 1901,
It was 5}Sl to 5T1a cents; in August,
1900. it was 37A to AK cents; in Au-
gust. 1899. it was 3O1a to 33 cents; in
August, 1898, it was 29% to 3334 cents:
in August, 1897, it was 26lA to 80 rs
cents; IN AUGUST, 1896, IT WAS
2Ol2 TO % CENTS.
va s.;o,, - p,,,.
IT, 1900, l,;et - 49, e.
ures, covering q neriod NJ about eight
wars has hoon IF conrse s;pn;fcant not
merely of tho s;ze Of tho crons If tbo.e
narticuIar vears hut of tho general
steady increase in market demand
Wheat is not only "stoff of ,;fe" hut
il is also. as regards ira consumntion q
ward stick &c ra1ionol nrorross Tho
moro neopie advance in civilization and
in nrosner;tv tho moro wheat nour will
they consume. 'rhe present great awak-
ening amongst tho Oriental races is syn
chronous with tho dcyelonment Of an
enormous trade in Pacific Coast wheat
flour through the ..opeu door to these ma
tons Of the Orient.
In the case of corn If is certainly n
fact worthy or much attentive interest
that despite the high prices for corn dur-
ing the last three yeors. the demand even
at these high nrices has not aboted. And
not withstondinp we seem llkelv IN have
this year crop of 2,50O.OOO,OOO bush
oil pnrn 10 now about HH oantS NOV