Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-15
ON NATIONAL GROUNDS.

ON NATIONAL GROUNDS.
The Grand Forks Times, IN we'll
conceived and logical argument puts
the gubernational campaign in this
state on national grounds. Says the
Times A tariff law does not direct
~ give the producer of farm products
all the advantages in prices which
mark the difference between demo-
cratic and republican administrations.
The real reason for the difference Is
III the preservation of the consuming
market for these products. Every
farmer understands that in order to
realize good prices for the commod-
tiles which he has to sell, there must
be a consuming market with suffi-
cient money to pay those prices A
farmer might raise thousand bush
els of wheat, yet if he had no one
to purchase that wheat, it would be
worthless as a direct money producer
But if he could find market for his
crop at one dollar bushel it would
be worth a thousand dollars. He can
understand, too, that in order to Gre
ate such market there must be
consumers who demand the wheat
and who have the money to pay the
price. The application is direct from
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The questions naturally arise, then,
who are the consumers of the pro.
ducts of the farms and what enables
them to procure the money with
which to purchase? A calm and SEN
sfbfe study of these two propositions
will 60 long way toward a decision
on the best way to vote in the pres
are largely the ultimate consumers of
North Dakota wheat-the idle rich
and the laboring men in the factories,
mines and mills. The first class can
be dismissed as insignificant because
Of the limited number, so that the
real consumer Is the laboring class.
In 19O5-the last statistics on this
point at hand-the wage-earners in
the United States numbered 5,470,321.
The total vote cast for president two
years ago was little over 100000
80 that approximately one-third of the
population are Wage-earners and con-
sumers of the products of the farm.
The wage-earner's ability to buy de-
Ponds upon his being employed, while
the price he can pay is dependent
upon the wages he receives. If he
is employed he can buy; if he Is idle
he can not. If he receives good wages
he can pay good prices; if he receives
Therefore, if the more than five mil
lion wage-earners are employed, they
can buy the wheat grown by North
Dakota farmers for bread; if they are
idle, they can not buy it and there is
no market If they receive good wag
es they can pay good prices for
bread; if they receive low wages or
wages only part of the time. they
must pay low prices for bread
If the success of the democratic
party means no employment for the
wage-earners, is it not self-evident
that such success means low prices
for North Dakota farm products?
Fortunately, it is not necessary to re-
ly on logic to prove an affirmative
answer. The democratic party has
ans wered it with facts. The govern
ment too no census statistics in
1895 and so there are no actual fig
ures to show the number of wage.
earners employed, But everyone woh
lived through that time knows that
factories and mills and mines were
closed everywhere and the wage
earners tramped the country looking
for employment enough to buy bread
while their wives and children we're
supported by charity. There were no
buyers of North Dakota wheat and
farmers sold it for fifty cents a bush
el Is not the placing in power of a
political party which produced that
result a danger to the people of the
state? s'1s-, *
Governor Burke, if elected, would