The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-09-24
Effect Of Republican Policies in the Corn Belt
and Wheat Growing States.
VALUE or LANDS GREATLY INCREASED
Prices OF Cereals in "Lean" and "Fat" Years
Market Demand Affected by Action of Ma.
tional Administration-Ris in val,ae

!, has been quits customary for Dem
.,r,tir writer's and speakers to attribute
sbo extraordinary prosperity Of the last
Sabt wears to Providence, and to deny
Mol the Republican party could be espe-
.olIv allied with Providence.
In answer to this contention President
ponsevplt In one of his campaign
."pprbps in 1900, made the witty remark
that the Democratic party had fused
nth about everything except Provi-
Aence"
In relation to the remarkable increase
IN the agricultural prosperity Of the
United States during the years of Re-
oublican rule subsequent to the last
democratic administration 1888 1890,
n is the Democratic policy to sneeringly
0sk if the Republican party produced the
ho1ntiful crops, or had anything to do
with the droughts, the rust, or other in
anences bullishly affecting the prices of
commodities the farmer had to sell.
gucb sneering remarks, however, can
NOT suppress the fact that 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, 1853 for their
corn Of that Republican year as against
G491 ,00G,967 for their corn of the Dem
ocratic year 1896, which was "fat
year," as regards naturally splendid
crop conditions, but lean year indeed,
u regards prices. The Republican year
1901 was thus a year in which prosper
ty for the Corn Belt farmers was pre-
served despite a great natural disaster
to the corn crop, while the Democratic
year 1896 was a year in which there was
10 prosperity in the Corn Belt despite
the especially bountiful size of the corn
crop
Dollar Wheat vs.. Fifty Centwheat.
THE CASH PRICE OF WHEAT AT
CHICAGO is ABOUT $1.10. In Au-
gust, 1903, it was TN to 9OA cents;
IN August, 1902, it was 6S11A to 76 cents;
In August 1901, it was $685. to II cents;
n August, 1900, it was 71% to 7GA
cents; in August, $780, it was 50 to TAI u
cents; in August, 1898. it was 651a to
Is cents; in August, 1897, it was 75A
to $107; in August, 1895, it was 80 to
63B cents; in August, 1895, it was 5834
to p cents; IN AUGUST, 1894, IT
WAS 51h TO 59h CENTS.
AT PRESENT WRITING THE
CASH PRICE OF CORN AT CHI
CAGO is Sc CENTS. In August, 1908,
It was 501a to So cents; in August, 1902,
It was so to 60 cents; in August, 1901,
1t was 53X to 57h cents; in August,
1900, it was 37A to AN cents; in Au'
gust, 1899, it was 30h to 80 cents; in
August, 1893, it was 20N to 1917 cents:
In August, 1897, it was 261a to 32&s
cents; IN AUGUST, 1896, 1T WAS
2Oh TO Is CENTS.
Xard Stick of Republican Prosperity.
The general drift OF these price fig.
sres, 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 "staff of life" but
Is also, as regards it's consumption. a
yard-stck Of national progress. The
more people advance in civilization and
IN prosperity the more wheat -four will
tney consume. The present great awak-
Sning amongst the Oriental races is syn
erroneous with the development Of an
enormous trade in Pacific Coast wheat
aour through the "open door" to these ma
ions of the Orient.
In the case Of corn it IL certainly q
sact worthy of much attentive interest
snat despite the high prices for corn dur
Vns the last three years, the demand even
81 these high prices has not abated. And
Notwithstanding we seem likely to have
wis year a crop Of 2,5OO,OOO,O0 bush
u.s. corn * now about SO cents pei
Oushel at Chicago, In 1895 the tOta
crop was 2,2S2, S75, 1855 bushels, but thu
prce in August of that year was 2O7z
20 cents at Chicago-not half what
It is now!
~~F Capita CoReum pta0n Of Wheat
1acFeaOe9.
4, 1he Republican policy Of building al
Nne manufactures of the United States
VI placing the factory beside the farm
accounts for the broader and bettel
market the farmer during the last eight
SeorS mas been steadily getting for hi
products. This is noticeable Ia the casC
practically everything he has to sci
Increasing consumption making price,
"iS,tiVely better no matter what the sizt
4" his crops.
=, Figures of the Bureau of Statisticl
y yIo," that the wheat consumption of the
United States in the fiscal year 1901
"Ss the largest in the history of thu
xtSCuntry' The table which follows show
e quantity of wheat retained for con
sumption in total and per capita in eacl
1904: LOO" :" anu
wheat and wheat -four retained fol
acme consumption:
Fiscal n Do,..