The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-04-27

anu the QOmestlc market OF the future
is beyond conception.
AS to the foreign market, it will
always take what we cannot use our.
selves. We are farming better every
day, and the business of farming will
be more profitable as time goes on.
We have some of the best food lands
on the globe, and are just beginning
to appreciate what they will pro-
duce."
"Have you any idea," said Score
tary Wilson as he turned to his desk,
picked up pencil and made some fig
ures on slip Of paper-"have you
any idea of the money Uncle Sans
farmer capitalists bring into this coun-
try every year? The Steel Trust, the
Shipbuilding Trust and all the other
trusts are peanut stands in compari-
son with it. I don't mean what our
farmers sell at home, but what they
sell abroad. The amount is 80 enor-
nous you cannot comprehend it.
"Iu the decade ending 1900 it was
more than $1,000, 900, 900, or on the
average more than 500, 900, 900 year.
In 1901 our farm exports amounted to
more than s90O,OOO,OOO, or almost
s3,0OO,00O for every working day
of the year. That means s]25, 900
an hour, $4,000 a minute or $33 per
seconds
Every time the W, Oh ticked on
every one Of the days throughout that
working year s33 worth of our goods
were dropped into the lap Of Europe,
and three $40 pieces started on their
way back to the United States.
''That was in 1901" Secretary
Wilson continued. ''Last year our
exports were almost as large, and so it
is going on yesr sitter year. You may
talk about your great combinations Of
capital, your gigantic monopolies and
enormous trusts, hnt, after .M, Uuoi5
Sans most profitable asset is the
American farmer.
"Give me some Of the items Of this
business of the farmers trust, Mr..
Secretary" said I.
''The farmers are not a trust"
said Secretary Wilson, "and to give
all the details of their enormous bust
ness would require too much space.
Still [ can give you some of the items.
Take cotton, for instance. We rot
high prices for that last year. Our
exports amounted to about II, 900, 900
pounds day, not including Sundays,
and our receipts we're about 81, 900, 900
day, or gross amount of $317, ,O0O,-
600 per year. This was all cold, clean
money brought into the country scr
stuff sold abroad.
Our grain exports were $500, 900
a day. We sent 204, 1000, 900 bushels
of wheat and almost half Of that went
in the shape of -four. We exported
s17S,0OO,000 worth of meat and enough
beef and pork to have given every
man, woman and child Of the whole
world one-half pound and enough ad-
ditional to have made mess Of hash
for every one Of them the next day.
Those figures show you something Of
agricultural interests. The, Ameri-
can farmer is The backbone Of the
country. he is the biggest institution
in it,"
"But last year and the year before
have been the exceptions, Mr.. Score
tary. The crops have been much bet
ter than ever before
"That is true to minor extent" !"
replied Secretary Wilson. ''But for
years the farmer has been briaging
over foreign gold from Europe, Aus
tralia and Asia to even up our losses
in other branohes Of trade.
SIN the last thirteen years our aver
age excess Of exports over imports
amounted to about s275, ,OOO, 900 per
year, and during that time the annual
balance Of such trade in favor Of the
farmer was s337, 900, 600; chat is, the
farmer had not only to give the bali
anoe Of tradein our favor, but he had
TO pay s62, ,00O, 900 in the shane Of an