The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-18
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When nation loses national pride
it is on the downward grade.
Now is the time when the howl comes
up, the high price of living
Be this howl ever so long drawn out,
no one seems to know how such state
of food affairs can be remedied.
The high price of living! Who or
what is to blame for it? The animate
or the inanimate?
Presumably foodsturs are inanimate I
The consumers of foodstuffs are ami
mate.
Yes indeed, so animated that they can
howl in chorus-the high price of living.
1t has taken some years to reach the
climax when everybody is bowling, and
during those years there has been a
steady Improvement in new methods of
farming, scientific culture, of all things
under the sun Except MANI has been
steadily carried on. Yet it is cited in
statistical articles on the high price of
living that new methods in farming, or
scientific culture, have not made the sup
ply equal to the demand.
By some it is stated that the demand
is twice as large as the supply. This Sc
rious fact has aroused vital interest, and
the people are trying to solve the prob
lem the high cost of living. Even finan-
ciers are concerned about the high price
of living on account of their vivid re-
membrane of 1871, 1893 and 1908.
In a panic everybody is liable to get
hurt, and nobody likes to be hurt in any
way.
If the people would forestall another
panic they will have to get mentally
busy.
Why should the demand for food ex-
coed the supply, when the improved
methods of scientific farming has in
creased the Yield per acre?
Any one wanting to know about it
statistically can read the article by Ag-
mes c. Taut The University on Wheels
in Golfers of September 10.
There it is down in black and whites
OF course we all know railroads must
have foodstrffs to load them down. So
they are the hackers of the 'Evangelists
of the Gospel of New Methods"
Agnes c. Taut makes the statement
IF scientific methods were universal in
stead of exceptional, you would not be
SO acutely conscious that population is
increasing faster than foodstuffs"
Now are you "acutely conscious" that
population is increasing? To be sure
you know the high cost of living.
Now seriously ask yourself: Are yot
acutely conscious of the increase oil
population in the United States? Where
race suicide is said to be eminently uni
versal?
Now if Colonel Roosevelt's dictum i,
true, where does the increased popula
ton come from?
Where does the population whose de
mand for food exceeds the supply come
from2 How does it get on to American
soil?
| Just get busy and find out
We are indebted to Agnes C. Taut fot
the information that america is rapid,
approaching the era when she will ca
all she can grow. Yearly the total o
food stuffs exported grows smaller
i When foodstuffs cease to go to Europe
as they almost have this year, what vii
, bring the gold back? Only the sale o
manufactures"
And the question may be asked: I
the food supply in America does no
equal the demand, upon what countr
will America depend for food2
Is it wise to import a population t
undermine the prosperity of America
Is it wise to bring people into Americ
, when the food supply does not equal tn
demand?
The American people should not de-
lude themselves with the idea that tn
country needs developing.
The country needs protection fror
, capital.
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