The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-11-04
HOW THE FARMERS LAVE BEEN
BENEFITED BY REPUBLICAN
RULE

The farmers of South Dakota and
their brethren in other states have
p]rospered greatly under republican
rule in the state and nation. II al
the election in November VIII vote
to continue such rule, not caring u
experiment with ineffective democrat
ic rule in the lower house of con
gress, which always has been follow
ed by a period of depression ana 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 de1artm n
~ ~rD..D.eIce ana Iaoor, the
purchasing value of a unit OF Iaf"i
+ products IN 1897 as compared with
the same purchasing value in 1909,
expressed in almost all commodities
that the farmer must buy MIR. Mar
tin spoke in part as follows:
This period of 1897 represents the
termination of the experience OF the
country under the Wilson German tar
if. the only democratic tarlIt lor hitS
years, and the beginning OF the ell
of republican tariff under the Dlns
lev bin and now continuing under the
Payne tariff bill.
Il viii call attention to a few
items only. Wheat has less variation
in purchasing value today as compaf-
ed with other commodities imam 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, III
1897. would purchase 7 pounds OF
sugar. 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, ) gallons. AT the present
time it will purchase IL gallons. Elk
pressed in purchasing value IN coffee
; in 1897 a bushel of corn would pur-
chase 3 pounds of coffee, n IN 1919
: 8 pounds of coffee. In barbed wire,
: a bushel of corn in 1897 would pur-
: chase Is pounds. and at the present
? time it would purchase 33 pounds.
"A bushel of oats in 1897 would buy
= 5 pounds of sugar. now 10 pounds. II
would buy 3 gallons Of oil, now Z gal
Ions. 1t would buy 2 pounds of cof
y fee, now 6 pounds. The bushel OF
: oats would buy u pounds of barbed
wire in 1897, now % pounds OF barb
ed wire. A sheep in 1897 would buy
e 40 pounds OF sugar. now the sheep
+ will buy SO pounds Of sugar 1T would
buy 20 gallons of Illuminating oil. no"
y it will buy e. gallons. The sheer
would buy 10 pounds of coffee In 1897
and now it will buy 50 pounds Of cot
. fee. Then it would buy 100 pound.
n of barbed wire, now it viii buy II.
y pounds. The average hog in 1872
IS would buy 81 pounds Of granulatee
If sugar. now it will buy 1872 pounds
the hog in 1907 would buy 65 gal
a Ions of Illuminating oil. now it vii
huS ira y2lIonSt in 1SnT II NOnl6 hn,
r. AZ pounds of coffee. now it will Blu,
Id 116 pounds of coffee: then il woul(
ar buy 227 pounds Of harbed wire. nov
Of it will buy 3S7 pounds. A comparison
ID of the purchasable value Of the av
n erage horse in 1897 and 100 sup
e. plies some most int resting figures il
1897 the horse would buy 700 poun |
of sugar, now he will buy 2,27
pounds. or more than a ton: he woul
is buy 1854 pounds of barbed wire !
1897, now he will buy 1856 pounds
= and so on through the list.
a. Surely the farmer has at lenet
or come into his own. These relativ
MS conditions are likely to continue. TIL
x vast areas of native fertile soil In tn
es humid regions of the United State
are now largely appropriated. TIL
q utilization of new lands suitable fo
agriculture can scarcely keep pac
81, with the increase in our population
ay We must depend in large part upo
eIr more intensive cultivation of our farl
lands and the reclamation Of Unite
70 areas by irrigation and swamp drair
o. age to meet the needs Of the poop
r., for OF supplies"
South Dakota has %prospered undo
aM republican rule to a greater extel
10 than any other state in the unio
This is why the people are thoroug
i, ly satisfied and why the voters
ne the polls on Nov. 8 will by an owe
whelming majority declare in fav
not Of a continuation of wisa and 20
he seryatiya rr,le
Hot Sprigs Times Herald: Sou
is the democratic candidate for CO
urocc Says he ;s .proCros~iyf