Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-13
INCREASE OF PRODUCTION
PER ACRE ON FARMS
In Raising a Prophetic Finger, Mr..
Brown Lifts Curtain Of Future and
Gives a GLIMPSE Of What VIII Hap
pen II the Proper Remedy is Not
App,ied-Wages Must Increase.

must increase production per acre by
more intelligent methods Or We must
face the relentless certain day when
We shall not produce food enough 10
supply ouf own necessities. said
President William c. Brown. of the
New York Central Railroad. In an ad-
dress tonight before the New Eng
land Railroad club. The wages OF
labor, he declared must continue 10
edvance in fair ratio with the steady
increase In the cost of living
Many representatives of New Eng
land railroad interests were gathered
about the banquet tables ut Hotel
Somerset.
Serious Warming.
Mr.. Browns speech. coming as II
does at the height of new food tide
Of national prosperity. was intended
for a warning of the most serious i'm
port Il gains added force by ITS
reitt ration of the recent admonitions
of James J. Hill. another great rail-
road man. as well as those visiting
students of our internal affairs; and.
il is especially timely in view of the
fact that the employees of all the rail-
roads east of the Mississippi are
formulating demands for an increase
cost of living.
Mr.. Brown said in part:
Most Portentious Cloud.
THE most portentious cloud dis
cernible upon the political or economic.
horizon at this time is the ttady, re-
lentess increase in prices OF every
thing that goes to make UP the cost
of living.
with a succession of beautiful
harvests the price of grain has stead
lily advanced until the prices Of 1903
1909 show increases over those OF
1898 as follows:
Com. an increase of 111.2 per
cent: oats an increase of S5.1 per
cent: wheat. an increase of So per
cent: potatoes. an increase of 7o.'
Ter cent: hay, an increase OF i97 per
cent
with a normal incrs ase and no dis
ease to deplete our herds, values have
increased marvellously. NOtwith-
standing the advent of the automo-
bile. horses and mules show an in
cresse in value OF 100 per cent; the
prod-cts of the forests make an
equally marvellous showing. Anth-
racite and bituminous coal have nd
vanced % and ~ per cent respective
ly: lard, 113 per cent; pork. 50 per
C Mt. and tallow, > per cent.
Gold Piles Up
This unusual phenomiDoI OF stead
ily rising values in the face or long
succession Of bountiful crops is one
of the most important. as well as m
teresting problems that confronts the
political economist tod3y. The crop
grown in 1905 has been almost con
sGmtd. The coal mined last year has
been burned, but the gold prod -ced
wear after year piles up. and as Il
sccumulatcs it takes more gold TO
buy a bushcI Of wheat. 2 suit of
clothes. a pound Of 5ecfs;cas. Sack
of ficuT or any of the other nccess'-
tics OF life.
Consumption overtskes Production
Another force working for higher
COST Of living. more insisfcntly. more
powerfully and with a sinister Signi-
icance. compared with which al 9th
SIS. become negligible factors. ard
this Is the alarming rapidity with
which consumption OF the products Of
the nations farms is overtaking pro-
duction.
statistics show that the failure 20
increase the product % our farms m
anything Ike the ratio of increase IN
consumption. is cxertinz more than
three tines the eject upon cos; 81
living that the increase Of gold Is
having
If the converting lines Of produc-
ton and consumption IN the UNITED
Stats continue 10 apDrozch c1ch
oihrr ~ they have during the past
ten vars. before the middle Of The
decade. rpcu which 40 have inst en-
tered has bccn reached. the last Tts-
sci loaded ~ith the agricultural pro
ducts 81 this country. viii have icit
our shores. ihc exporting srsia Gle