Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
DEffect OF Republican Policies in the Corn Belt
and Wheat Growing States.
Value OF LANDS GREATLY INCREASED
Prices OF Cereals in Lean" and Eat" Years
Market Demand Affected by Action of Ma
tional Admnistration-Ris in Values

1t has been quite customary for Dem
ocratic writers and speakers to attribute
the extraordinary prosperity of the last
eight years. to Providence, and to deny
that the Republican party could be 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 Provi-
dence''
In relation 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 1S93-1S90.
II is the Democratic policy to sneeringly
ask if the Republican party produced the
bountiful crops, or had anything to do
with the droughts, the rust, or other in
fiuences bullishly 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
itsS steduN anu Increase III 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 $50, 76S for their
corn of that Republican year as against
S491 ,O06,967 for their corn of the Dem
ocratic year 1896, which was fiat
year as regards naturally splendid
crop conditions, but lean year indeed,
as regards prices. The Republican year
1901 was thus a year in which prosper
ity 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
no prosperity in the Corn Belt despite
the especially bountiful size of the corn
crop.
Dollar Wheat vs.. Fifty Centwheat.
AT THE PRESENT WRITING
THE CASH PRICE OF WHEAT AT
CHICAGO is ABOUT $1.10. In Au-
gust, 1908, it was TN to 90A cents;
i'll August, 1902, it was 6SA to 76 cents;
in August, 1901, it was 669s to II cents;
in August, 1900, it was 71a to 76A
cents; in August, 1899, it was SO to TAN
cents; in August, 1898, it was 651a to
Is cents; in August, 1897, it was 75A
to SLOT; in August, 1898, 1t was 80 to
63h cents; in August, 1895, it was 5S%
to Y cents; IN AUGUST, 1894, 1T
WAS SIN TO 5Sh CENTS.
AT PRESENT. WRITING THE
CASH PRICE OF CORN AT CHI
CAGO is 56 CENTS. In August, 1903,
1t was 5O1a to So cents; in August, 1902.
70 re-. in
it was 53% to 571a cents; in August,
gust, 1899, it was 301a to 80 cents; in
August, 1898, it was 29% to 38& cents;
in August, 1897, it was 26h to 32as
cents; IN AUGUST, 1896, 1T WAS
201a 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 ''staff of life," but
it is also, as regards its consumption, a
yard-stick of national progress. The
more people advance in civilization and
in prosperity the more wheat flour will
they consume. q The present great awak-
ening amongst the Oriental races is syn
chronous with the development of an
enormous trade in Pacific Coast wheat
-four through the ''open door" to these ma
tons of the Orient.
In the case of corr it is certainly
fact worthy of much attentive interest
that despite the high prices for corn dur
inc tha 10 CT throa ware tho lamond ayan
at these high prices has not abated. And
Notwithstanding We seem likely to have
this year crop Of 2,500.000.000 bush
els, corn is now about 56 cents per
bushel at Chicago. In 1896 the total
crop was 2,2S2, S75. les bushels, but the
price in August of that year was 20L2
to % cents at Chicago-not half what
it is now.
Per Capita Consu m ption of Wheat
Increases.
The Republican policy of building up
~ manufactures of the United States
krcing the factory besIue the farm
for the broader and better
farmer during the last eight
steadily getting for his
is noticeable in the case
rything he has to sell
knption making prices
matter what the size
eau of Statistics
assumption of the
kEcal year 1904
listory of the
follows shows
ined for con-
\pita in each