The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-04
HOW THE FARMERS HAVE BEEN
BENEFITED BY REPUBLICAN
RULE Z

The farmers OF South Dakota and
their brethren in other states ave
prospered greatly under republican
rule in the state and nation, and at
the election in November will vote
to continue such rule. not caring to
experiment with ineffective democrat
ic rule in the lower house of con
gress, which always has been follow
ed by a period of depression and low
pricse of farm products.
Congressman Martin. In a speech
delivered in congress last May, call
ed attention to striking facts disclosed
by a table prepared by the deQartmen
o. cOi4lieIce anu IaDor, showing tho
purchasing value of a unit OF farm
products in 1897 as compared with
the same purchasing value in 1909,
expressed in almost all commodities
that the farmer must buy. Mr.. Mar
tin spoke in part al follows:
This period OF 1897 represents the
termination Of the experience OF the
country under the Wilson-Gorman tar
iff, the only democratic tariff for fifty
years, and the beginning of the era
of republican tariff under the Ding
ley bill and now continuing under the
Payne tariff bill.
II will call attention to a few
items only. Wheat has less variation
in purchasing value today as compar-
ed with other commodities than any
other article produced on the farm,
as the table shows.
1.-The market given-because some
market had to be selected-was the
market value in New York. A bushel
of corn, as shown by this table. in
1897, would purchase Z pounds OF
sugar. / do not give h fractions.
THE same bushel of corr will now
purchase 16 pounds of sugar. or 0
than double the quantity. A bushel OF
corn would purchase In Illuminating
oil, according to the table twelve
years ago, s gallons. At the present
time 1t will purchase IL gallons. Elk
pressed in purchasing value In coffee
in 1897 a bushel of corn would pur-
chase 3 pounds Of coffee. and in 1909
8 pounds of coffee. In barbed wire.
a bushel of corn In 1897 would pur-
chase Is pounds, and at the present
time 1t would purchase 33 pounds.
"A bushel OF oats in 1897 would buy
5 pounds of sugar, now 10 pounds. II
would buy 8 gallons of oil. now 7 gall
Ions. 1t would buy 2 pounds Of cof-
fee. now 6 pounds. The bushel of
oats would buy 13 pounds of barbed
wire in 1897. now % pounds of barb
ed wire. A sheep in 1897 would buy
nv pOuuuS OA SuSGEs now tHc SHcrp
will buy Sc pounds OF sugar. 1t would
buy 20 gallons of illuminating oil. now
1t will buy So gallons. The sheep
would buy 19 pounds OF coffee In 1897
and now IL will buy So pounds OF cof-
fee. Then 1t would buy 100 pounds
of barbed wire, now 1t will buy ia
pounds. The average hog I'm 1897
would buy 81 pounds OF graduated
sugar. now II will buy 192 pounds;
%Aa L~~ t. 1QnT w,o.YA L... 0E --n
Ions of Illuminating oil, now II will
buy 139 gallons; in 1897 IL would buy
AZ pounds OF coffee. now IL will buy
lis pounds of coffee: then 70 would
buy 227 pounds of barbed wire, now
II will buy 3S7 pounds. A comparisons
Of the purchasable value of the av-
erage horse I'm 1897 and 1909 sup
plies some most interesting figures. In
1897 the horse would buy TOO pounds
OF sugar, now he will buy 2,273
pounds, or more than a ton: he would
buy 1,754 pounds of barbed wire In
1897, now he will buy 1856 pounds,
and so on through the list.
:, Surely the farmer has at length
come into his own. These relative
conditions are likely to continue. The
s areas of native fertile soil in the
humid regions of the United States
are now largely appropriated. The
utilization OF new lands suitable for
agriculture can scarcely keep pace
with the increase In our population.
We must depend In large part upon
more intensive cultivation II cur farm
lands and the reclamation OF limited
areas by Irrigation inc swamp drain
age TO meet the needs OF the people
for food supplies"
South Dakota has prospered under
republican rule to a greater extent
than any other state In the union.
This Is why the people are thorough
ly satisfied and why the voters at
p polls on Nov. s will by an over
Of a continuation of wiss and CON-
servatfye republican rule.