Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
AMERICAN FARMERS LEADERS
IN ENRICHMENT OF NATION.
DOLLARS BY THE BILLIONS
Annual Value of Farm Products In
the United States Greater Than
the Output Of the Worlds
Mines.


ing the years up to 1905, the total
amount of capital invested in manu-
featuring in the United States is $12.-
csc, 265,673 During the year 1905
there was produced of manufactured
products $14 1902, 147,0S7.
The same authority gives the In
formation that the farm values of the
United States reached the enormous
sum Of $2O,514, 001 1886, and to this,
which is the land value, must be add
ed $13,114, 492,056, which represents
farm improvements. 1t is needless
to give the value of miscellaneous
stocks, etc, but 1t Is sufficient to say
that during the years 1905 and 1905
that the annual production OF the
farms of the United States amounted
to $4,000, 100000. 1t will be seen
from this that while the value of
farms and improvements is very near
ly three times the amount invested in
manufactures, that the production OF
the farms annually is only about one
half of the value of the manufactured
products; but when it is taken into
consideration that the farm supplies
more than so per cent. of the articles
that enter into the manufactures, it
shows how important is the Amer
lean farmer
Last year the wealth produced by
American farms was five times great
err than the value of gold and silver
produced in the United States for the
year. 1t is estimated that the gold
produced in the world since the dis
covery Of America by Columbus up
! to the present time is approximately
| $11,36S, 100000 During the same pc
! riod the production of the silver of
the world was $12,420, 100000. Thus
1t can be seen that about every four
years American farms bring wealth
into the world greater than all the
gold and silver that has been pro-
duced since Columbus time. The
wealth of the United States is now es-
timated at $112 900 100000. American
farmers are adding to this wealth at
the rate of between $6,000,000,000 and
1000, 100000 yearly. The total wealth
of Great Britain and Ireland is placed
at $60.200,0000 At the present
wealth producing capacity of the
American farmer, in less than ten
years the wealth he produces would
aggregate more than the total wealth
Of the, great kingdom Of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. The total wealth of
all of Italy is estimated at $4,000, 000,-
900. Every two years the American
farmers produce enough to buy the
kingdom of Italy, and every year
American farms produce wealth suf-
ficient to purchase all of Belgium.
Outside of the 10 original states
in adding to it's possessions expended
SS7.039,76S. This includes the Louis
lana purchase, the Mexican purchase
Alaska, the Philippines and all United
States possessions, covering 2,037, ella
square miles Of territory. The corn
corp Of the American farmers each
that was necessary for the United
States to pay for all it's great posses
sions. The cotton crop alone for 1906
was seven times enough to reimburse
the United States for its expenditures
on account of the requirement of the
vast territories purchased 1t is need
less to further make comparisons, the
American farmer is the great wealth
producer OF the union. Upon his worl
is based nearly all the manufacturing
and 1t may be said nearly all the com
merce.
while the farmer is a great wealth
producer and is one of the most in
dependent of American laborers, h,
has perhaps just reason for complain
as to compensation received for hi
efforts. While the results of hi
labor has given employment to al
army of millions of workers, tn
American farmer has also been sui
ject to the operations of combina
tons that directly oppose his best in
terests. These are the great trust
that control the marketing of wha
the farms produce, None will den
but that distributing agencies ar
necessary, but when these agencie
become oppressive and make extol
uonate charges for the handling o
the produce of farms, they become in
situations that are oppressive. Blu
the American farmer to a great exten
appears TO be responsible for tn
building up of such combinations. L
his prosperity he has ignored simpl
principles recognized in business an
which are important to him Pres
dent Mckinley in one of his addresse
made the statement that to locate tn
factory near the farm means tn
greatest economy and the highes
prices for farm produce; in othe
words, the factory makes the HON
market For years farmers in the al
ricultural sections of the Unite
t States have not alone contributed I,
T. ward the support Ct the stock gan
blers and the managers of the trust
but have assisted In making possibl
!. the building up of mammoth aggreg
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