The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-16
Erect Of Repub' lea, P Iicies in the Corn Belt
and WneA Growing States.
VALUE OF LANDS GREATLY INCREASED
Prices of Cereals in l"Lean' and "Fat' Years
Market Demand Affected by Action Of Ma
tional ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Values.

" HuS Dfti Iulli 'liNli'llliTN IhT v'Hl-
ocratic writer's aud speakers to at &,u;c
the extraordinary prosperity Of th4llst
eight years u Providence. and g. tcny
that the Republican party could b. kpc-
cinlly allied with Providence.
In answer to this contention Prc}cn
Roosevelt. in one of his camSign
speeches in 1900. made the witty rckark
that the Democratic party had "fscd
with about everything except lSvi-
dencc."
In relation 10 the remarkable inctasc
in the agricultural prosperity OF 1.-THE
United States during the years ofltc-
publican rule subsequent to tho last
Democratic administration ClS93-lt0.
!. is the Democratic policy to snc"r1sly
ask If the Republican party prolicct he
bountlful crops, or had anything Il lo
with the d%roughts. the rist. or othetin-
huences bullishly affecting the priced Of
commodities the farmer had In al.
Such sneering remarks. however. tn-
not suppress the fact that while tire
have been many yicisSitudcs during he
last eight years in crop conditions, tet
there has all this time been a moro or
less steady and big increase in the Ssh
income from American farms.
In loOl, for instance, owing TO Dot
winds and drought. there was a fin
year in corn, and vet the farmers Of TIE
United Statos got S92l .55J. 7GS for thir
corn OF that Republican year as against
S491 .OUj,06T for their corn of the Dsi-
ocratic year 1896, which was Il TAT
year." rs regards naturally splendid
crop conditions. but a Leaf year ind'el,
Ms regards prices. The Republican var
1901 was thus II year in which prosie"-
ity for the Corn Belt farmers was IT,
served, despite Il great natural diSasav
TO the corn crop, while the Democratic
year 1896 was a year in which there Wis
no prosperity in the Corn Belt dcspte
the especially bountiful size of the c,tn
crop.
Dollar Wheat w. Fifty CcntwhcatI
AT THE PRESENT WRITING
THE CASH PRICE OF WHEAT AT
CHICAGO is ABOUT S1.l0. In AZ
gust. 1909. it was TIA 10 90A GEMS;
in August. 1902. it was GSii to 10 cent?;
in August. 1901. it was Gi's to - cents;
IN August. 1900. il WAS ia, 60 1Gk
cents: in August. 1899, it was 90 to Tar
cents; in August. 1898. i. was G5ia b
20 cents: in August. 1897. it was 75t
To SLOT; in August, 1SiA;. 1. was - ,
.2iM cents; in August. 1899. it was 5S1
tn a. cents: IN AUGUST. 1894. II
WAS 51h TO ISL. GENTS.
AT PRESENT WHITING THE
CASH PRICE OF CORN AT Cit
OAGO Is 6G CENTS. In August. 1901,
it was 50la TO ~ cents: in August, 1901.
it was 80 to 60 cents; in August. 1901.
IL was 53A to 81. cents; in Angus,
1900, 1t was 37i4 to AK cents; in Al.
gust. 500. it was 30Ls to :3 cents: ID
Aug 1898. IT was 20a, to 33A cents;
in August. 1897, it was 2Gla to 32%
cents: IN AUGUST. 1896, 1T WAS
20Ia TO - CENTS.
Yard stick of Republican Prosperity.
The general drift OF these price fig.
uies. covering q period of about cigh,
years, has been Of course significant no!
merely Of the size of the crops Of these
particular years. hut Of the general
steady increase in market demand
Wheat is not only II staff of life" but
it Is also. as regards its consumption. Il
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.
ening amongst the Oriental races IL syn
chronous with the development OF an
enormous trade in Pacific Coast wheat
tour through the open door TO these ma
tiOns of the Orient.
In the case OF corn Il Is certainly n
fact worthy Of much attentive interest,
that despite the high prices for corn dur.
ing the last thee years, the demand even
ut these high prices has not abated. And
notwithstanding we seem likely to have
this year a crop of 2,J00,WD.iT0 bush
els. corn IL now about ~ ,pnts per
bushei az Chicago. In 1896 the total
crop was 2,2S2,S75 $50 bushels, hut the
price in August OF that year was 20La
to % cents at C~hicago-"not half what
il il now.
Per Capita Coasu m rtion of Wheat
Increases.
The Republican policy of building M
the manufactures of the United States
Of placing the factory bcsiuc the farm
accounts for the broader and better
market the farmer during the last eight
years has been steadily getting for his
products. This IL noticeable in the case
OF practically everything he has to sell
Increasing consumption making prices
relatively better no matter what the size
OF his crops.
Figures Of the Bureau of Statistics
show that the wheat CONSUMPTION of the
United States In the fiscal year 1904
was the largest in the history of the
country. The table which follows shows
the quantity Of wheat retained for con-
sumption in total aud per capita in each
fiscal rear from 1890 tn and including
1904:
Wheat and wheat -four retained for
home consumption:
Fiscal Total Per Capita