The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-31
NATION CROPS
OVERCOME PANIC
SECRETARY WILSON SAYS ouR
PROSPERITY DOES NOT REsr
ON WALL STREET PRICES q
FARMERS KEEP AWAY
From stcsk Speculation, He Says,
and Put Money IN More Land
poirts 70 Lack Of Rail
road Trackage.

u Washington, March 30.---Tho plxss.
4 perity of Che United states cafiriot
BE destroyed BY the Wall street fltig.
| ries, In the Judgment cf Secretary 81
i Agriculture Wilson.
4 II has been asserted by ffnar,c III
Iwho have come to Washington ana
consulted win the president that only
good crops during The coming season
would save the country from serious
business and financial depression
There will he such crops, acc rlina
to Mr. Wilson.
No longer can there be anything
like universal crop failure, sail the
secretary today. There is no reason
70 anticipate anything unusual one
way or ther this year The weather
has SO much to do with it that ia
cannot say whether we viii RET atl
average on banner crop. WIZ viii rot
one of the other Some PARTS w lha
country may have more rain tIsan
usual and some may have lesss rain.
But on people now understand more
about the growing OF crops. how fs
prepare the soil, how to SOW sceI
seed, and how to cultivate planfs ami
harvest graln. ! suppose II We have
too much rain In the. corn belt wn
would have less corn. but WA wo.sl
have enough for the country: t'rorga
not as much N export All in previous
years. Z
How important crops age Ii, tsfe
Seilntfy will be appreciated ws;en Il.
~ lsnown that The Salne III farm ss,'t, 4
duct aass xsaf yssas sl FRd aBs
1xas Sssa5 1asfoslo akoye tlle N siIsla 81
1903 4,3s .tsl6, 900 above 1904 &2s7,
100000 above 1893. and $2077 0en fsa.,
above the census figures ok 1899. The
effect of crops oa the nations pos
perity Is evidenced by the fact tlst
surplus farm products were espgrsrtl
during the last fiscal wear II the
valne OF 97G.o0o.6o0 far over In 'ops-
Ing The exports OF othg raw and
products. The ba'ancs
,f trade has continued to run In favor
)f this country by an enornous
because of the tremendous
'xports Of farm products.
Farmers chary of Rail Stocts.
The fiurries that are occurring In
Wall street" said Secretary Wilson.
are not affecting the farm population
I all. Many of The farmers do not
now anything about them. and IL
hey do. they think there is simply
of stocks with with
hey are not concerned. Yon capnns
ct the farmer 10 touch anything of
hat kind now, because he does not
now what the consequences may be,
sad reflection on our fair all
locks at this time Ii The fact that
orihwestorn farmers who have
ladc. and still are making money
now so little about railroad securi-
les and have so little confidence in
lem that they won't touch them.
lsiead they are sending hundreds
millions of dollars across the bar
er into Canada to buy land viii h
10 know won't run away That is
le saddcs' reflection connected with
M Industries just now--tbat on
eoDle have no confidence IN s'ocks
I'd bonds Of corporations they know
rihing about. The stocks move 50
ipidly up and down in the markes
at MANY Of the people do not want
ouch them. II is a question whet
Q northwestern farmer viii do with
s money. He Is making more every
ar and now has got TO the point OF
living to church in his carriage
The secretary referred 10 tfe Mas
laws as examples of tie
nd OF legislation which should te
lced upon federal statue bool S.
lese laws require the publication of
e amount of stock put on the mar
4. BY observing this nrsctica pen
? with money know what they are
alng N. and thus have c-nfiiface.
Railroads Need More Trsekaqe.
The secretary dcprecsted the fail
{ Of railroads o Furnish trapsno.ta-
N fer crops. pointing cut inst manv
Is were fun Of grain as a result Of
lack Of transportation In rousc-
ancc money that would have bee1
II for these crops Is not IN c'rc'it
D. Eefore the crops OF the coming
Ison are ready the secretary ex-
rs hat the bins will be euut-ct.
he wants facilities provided
ich viii insure the moving OF craps
nediately after they are harvested.
tead Of extending their lines in'0
' regions. the secretary wculf
e the railroads Increase their
ckage In crowded sections OF the
nfry so as TO care for the i'm
lse quantities Of freight now Of
d Tor transportation