Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
The worlds wheat Crop.

The Worlds Wheat Crop.
The wheat crop of the world for 1905
is estimated from data in the Liverpool
market, as compiled by Dornbusch's
List. at 1881, 100 600 bushels, which is
$50, 100000 bushels more than the crop
of 1904. The estimate CT the crop of
the United States for 1905 is 656000,-
104,000,000- bushels. There was very
little of the crop of 1904 remaining
when the crop of 1905 began to be mar
keted, and the worlds crop Of 1904 of
2,S42, 100000 bushels is probably very
close TO the actual needs of the worlds
consumers. There was very small
surplus over home requirements raised
in the United States in 1904, which in
dictates nearly an average per capita
consumption of $40 bushels, or 3414
bushels for the average family of five
persons.
The United States therefore has, at
least, 104, 100000 bushels TO dispose of
in the markets of the world, which
market also has further apparent sur
plus of 435, 100000 bushels.
This accounts for the drop in the
price of wheat in foreign markets and
also in this country, and would indi-
cate that from now until the prospect
of the crop of this year Is certain the
price here viii have to be on the ship
ping basis; that is, the Chicago price
will be the Liverpool price, with the
transportation and other charges Ge-
Quoted.
There is no protection from the tar
If therefore for the grower of wheat
In the United States, although the tar
If law provides for % cents bushel
on wheat imported, but as no wheat is
imported, and on the other hand our
surplus, over what is consumed here,
rust be sold abroad, the price both at
home and abroad Is fixed by the
amount offered on the foreign market
and the general demand for it every
where.
Those farmers who are holding wheat
for a higher price should be prepared
to hold it until the prospects of the
coming crop are known in this and
other countries. If the average pros
poets are poor the price will advance,
and If good crops are promised the
price will remain low.
The pretended protection for the
American farmer, that the Republican
policy of protection offers, is therefore
q delusion and a snare to induce him
to vote to continue the policy that pro
tects the trusts and combines, but
leaves the wheat grower and the cot
/ ton, corn, hog and cattle grower to
compete with the 'pauper labor" of all
countries that produce those necessities.
The farmer that votes for Republican
candidates for Congress and Republican
candidates for the Legislature in those
States where United States Senators
are to be chosen is voting to increase
the cost of everything he buys, with no
corresponding advance in the price of
what he sells.
The Democratic policy Is to so re-
wise the tariff that the protection which
the trusts now enjoy would be elimin-
ated, and thus through the threatened
competition of foreign products compel
the trusts to reduce the price of their
products to a reasonable basis. That
would not exactly put the trusts on the
same footing as the farmers, for the
trusts would still have some protection,
while tha farmers have none but the
latter would gain because the cost Of
what the farmer buys would be less. In
fact all consumers would benefit alike
under the Democratic policy and no
one would suffer except the plundering
combines and trusts and the Republican
politicians, who are in league with
them, and who the trusts supply with
campaign funds to keep the party that
protects them in power.