The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09
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salt.
On account of the high price of livms
the ground is being Investigated. Scien
tifc methods being applied to the
ground Scientific lessons have beer
given to the farmers. Still the higf
price of living does not go down.
| Now is the idea that the ground is &C
blame correct?
The people do the eating. The people
the buying and selling. The people make
the statistical averages which enables
them to make forecasts.
The forecasts were made some years
ago that the wheat grown would not be
sufficient for the people in America ow
ing to the increasing population. But
what good did this knowledge do? Not
a bit of good.
The whimsical idea that the ground
was to blame did not prevent the fore
casts from arriving.
The increased production per acre
did not meet the demand. Something is
wrong. What is it? The ground or
the people2
| Last year one of the largest wheat
crops ever known in America was har-
vested. That report speaks well for the
ground. Nothing wrong with the
ground
Yet last year wheat reserves fell so
low that wheat had to be shipped bacil
from east to west; and for the first
time in the history of America, during
peace, Wheat had to be imported from
Argentina
How is this? Why and wherefore?
OF course on one wants to blame any
body But it does look like the man
agement of that last years wheat crop
(the largest ever grown was decidedly
bad, and the people, (not the ground)
done the managing of the wheat har-
vested
So let us give the ground a rest and
turn our attention to the people
What became of all that wheat ?,
74ooooooo bushels of wheat grown in
America last year, and wheat had to be
imported from Argentina
If there are enough people in America
to eat all that wheat, somebody ought
to find out where they come from.
Now to statistically know the amount
of wheat grown in America and the
two Canadas-Europe and the Orient
viii not close the emigration bureau.
To know that there is shortage in
the worlds grain supply will not reduce
the high price of living.
All kind of eatables are high, but the
country is prosperous, at least in scien-
tifc equipment There are more rail
roads in the United States than can be
easily counted. 1t cost money to build
railroads, SO at this time when there is
a shortage in the worlds grain supply
and the forecasters threaten the people
with starvation, it is the time to draw
the line at building new railroads in any
portion of the United States.
The scheme of raiiroading Alaska
will increase the population
A railroad can not be built without
labor and capital.
The persons who want to railroad
Alaska, be they named Guggenheim,
Schiff (these names are foreign) or
Morgan, Guggenhein, who have the
Icapital-but they must import labor
Capital is useless without labor, and
the capitalist wants cheap labor, and the
emigrant is the cheapest and most tract
able.
Why import population to pander to
capital, at time when the food supply
is not sufficient to feed the people now
in America?
The supply of foodstuffs does not
meet the demand of the appetites of the
people now walking on American soil
in this year 1910.
Scientific culture of the ground can
not raise the average in wheat as fast
as the ocean liners can increase the pop
ulation
In twenty years American averages in
wheat moved up two bushels. What
has been the average of moving people
in the last twenty years? To put it
small, say 100000 people came into the
United States in one year; 100000
people got in in twenty years; at that
small estimate, two bushels of wheat
would not go the rounds of 100000
mouths. So it is easily seen that scien-
tifc culture of the ground is a mere
cllild's play with existing facts.