The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-10-08
THE APPLE MARKET FROM
A LOCAL MANS STANDPOINT

deductions derived from hearsay? Dc
you fully :alize the Industrial situa.
ton. not only in The United States
but throughout the world?
The last few years the clamor ot
the laboring man. the middleman, the
legislator and the politician has been
for the enactment OF laws against
capitalists and against trusts. The
great mass of the people condemn
John D. Rockefeller and the Standard
OIL trust It's fact that Rockefeller
can. practically at will. raise the price
of oil a cent a gallon and make a
million dollars. On the other hand
We had FIVE hundred independent com
panies in this country engaged in
making and handling that product we
would pay more for oil and gasoline
than We do now for the reason that
a multitude OF small concerns could
not take ca-e of the by-products as
cheaply. nor handle the business a.
economically as the Standard OIL
company does.
The agitation against capital and
trusts is knocking the hand that pro
vides thous lads with bread and but
ter. Keep knocking and capital
keeps pace with the knocker by with
drawing from Industrial enterprises
and is boarded up where ii does no
body any good That condition exists
today in a considerable measure. and
as a result, railroad building. manu-
featuring and great industries of al
kinds are at a standsun. or at low
ebb.
Mr Fruitsrower. how would you Ike
to have congress and the state legis-
Iature pass a law putting a prohibit
tive tax on your apple crop il you
raised more than one-half in 1915
than you raised in 1914? That Is
Just what they are talking OF doing
viii the cotton growers OF the South.
Two thirds Of the cotton grown in
our Southern states goes TO Euro. e
ordinary uracs. but there is no mar.
kot there n1w because Of the war in
the countries where II is manufactur
ID into a thousand and one articles
Tor human use. Some cotton is be
ing stored IN warehouses. for which
the owners ere taking warehouse re-
ceipts and borrowing money on them
where banks will lend on that kind
OF security. From two to three cents
a pound is being advanced to cotton
planters by banking institutions on
that sort OF collateral
With a money stringeney in the
South. a. rebellion in Mexico requir
ing our att .ntion. no exports to Eu-
rope on account of the war and with
Canadian .D,les admitted free OF duty
to the United States markets under
the present tarin bill our fruit grow
ers are up lyainst a pretty stin prop
osition. The American apple crop
this year is estimated at 2io.ooo.ooo
bushels or o.0oo car loads. and hoE-
ticuIturists In Colorado. as they are
everywhere else. are in a quandary
to know hov they are going to dis
pose OF their surplus produce to al
vantage.
The only people that are happy and
prosperous are the corn and wheat
farmers. the stockraiser and the dairy
man. People say why not 20 to Kan
sas with the Colorado apple crop thi'
year. The reason is obvious when Il
is remembered that the state OF New
York has this season Ss.ooo.oeo
bushels OF apples. Pennsylvania 49,.
SOC. 900 bushels. virginia ss.eoo.oeo
bushels. Ohio. Michigan and Illinois,
% zoo. 900 bushels Missouri. Arkan-
sas and Kansas 1s.4O0. bushels.
Arizona. Washington and