Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-11-18
HOW THE FARMERS HAVE BEEN
BENEFITED BY REPUBLICAN :
RULE

The farmers of South Dakota and
their brethren in other states have
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 on
gress, which always has been follow
ed by a period of depression and low
pricse of farm products.
Congressman Martin, in a speech
de ivered in congress last May, call
ed attention to striking facts disclosed
by a table prepared by the department
"a commerce ana laDor, showing he
purchasing value of a unlt of farm
products in 1897 as compared with
the same purchasing value in 1903,
expressed in almost all commodities
that the farmer must buy. Mr.. Mar
tin spoke in part as follows:
This period of 1897 represents the
terLl-nation of the experience of the
count-y under the Wilson German tar
iii, the only democratic tariff for fifty
years, ana 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 mod than any
OtneT aTLlcle pTOuuCeu On Cne farm,
as the table shows.
.'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. I do not give the fractions.
THE same bushal of corn will now
purchase 16 pounds of sugar. or more
than double the quantity. A bushel of
corn would purchase in Illuminating
oil, according TO the table twelve
| years ago, 5 gallons. At the present
time it will purchase II gallons. Elk
! pressed in purchasing value in coffee
in 1897 a bushel of corn would pur-
chase 3 pounds of coffee, and in 1905
! 8 pounds of coffee. In barbed wire,
j a bushel Of corn in 1897 would pur-
+ chase Is pounds, and at the present
time it would purchase 3S pounds.
"a bushel of oats in 1897 would buy
5 pounds of sugar now 10 pounds. 1t
would buy 3 gallons of oil, now z gal
Ions. 1t would buy 2 pounds of cof-
fee, o 6 pounds. The bushel of
oats would buy Is pounds of barbed
wire in 1897. now % pounds of barb
ed wire. A sheep in 1897 would buy
40 pounds of sugar: now the sheep
will buy IS pounds of sugar. 1t would
buy IS gallons of illuminating oil, now
it will buy 81 gallons. The sheep
would buy 10 pounds of coffee in 1897
and now it will buy So pounds of cof-
fee. Then it would buy 100 pounds
of barbed wire, now it will buy 173
pounds. The average hog in 1897
would buy 81 pounds of ~granulated
sugar, now it will buy 49, pounds;
the hog in 1907 would buy 65 gal
Ions of Illuminating oil, nov 1t will
buy 139 gallons; in 1897 it would buy
AZ pounds of coffee, now it will buy
lie pounds of coffee; then it would
buy 227 pounds of barbed wire, now
1t viii buy ass pcunds.A comparison
of the purchasable value of the av-
erage horse in 1897 and 100 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 q 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
conditions are likely to continue. The
vast 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
We u depend in large part upon
more Intensive cultivation Of our farm
lands and the reclamation Of limited
areas by irrigation and 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
~ satisfied and why the voters at
the polls On Nov. s will by an over
whelming majority declare in favor
of a continuation Of wise and con-
sentative republican rule.
Hot Sprigs Tfmes-Herald: Soule,
the democratic candidate for con-
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