The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-09
PERRY COUNTY'S FARMS
 AN INSPIRATION TO STATE

Marion, June 7.-(Special)- )-Down here in "Jtney Jim's' country Big Bill Boil Weevi has made his appearance, and the people are frustrated. They jump when he comes by like my good friend DeWindt of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow CT company does when one of the trans portation agencies that "Jtney Jim favors whizzes past him. But the people are fighting like Germans to get the up- per hand of Big Bill" and they will sue ceed. They put on airs down here with their fight on the weevil; not content with picking them off by hand, they have a new-fangled machine that works with air and sucks them off the plants and from the ground. The machine, however is not proving more efficient than the picka of the purchasers of American rcn and steel commodities provided they can util- ize their credit in such manner as to- make payments possible
 A Difference in View
 Notwithstanding the somewhat quail fled approval of Secretary Bryan's prepo- sition which Frank A. Vanderip has given, there seems to be a suspicion that the proposition is in the nature of in1a- ton and it has already been publicly called cheap money proposition setting forth the philosophy which in the past was the basis of some of Secretary Bry ans cheap money arguments. Were it not for the qualified indorsement of the plan which is contained in the circular of the National City bank, there would be grave doubt whether Secretary Bryan was understood when he put forth the li ,,,,lyA Gao retary of State, but simply as colonel William J. Bryan, and he hoped that this distinction would be appreciated oy those who heard him. Yet it is said here that when a Secretary of State even trough speaking in his personal relation, brings out as momentous a proposition as this it is natural to infer that as the private individual things, so also the Secretary of State thinks.
 The truth is that In one way or an other the United States must take the place of England and of Germany in financing the needs of South America and as a general proposition it is not thought by leaders in the financial district to be an absurdity to suggest that the United States sell it's 3 per cent bonds. taking in pay South American bonds bearing 1 per cent, the funds thus secured to be utl- ized by the nations of South America in building up their industries, increasing their commerce and cultivating trade with the United States. How far the secre- tarys proposition met with approval is demonstrated by the statement made by President Frank A. Vanderlip that Colonel Bryan made the most interesting and stimulating suggestion that has come from the Pan-American financial conference. Perhaps careful scrutiny may lead to the conviction that it is-as Preside-t Vanderlip says it may be-somewhat utop- ian, but it is worth close scrutiny and as careful study as any of the propositions which have been brought forward since the war began and which are of interna- tional character.
 After all, the principal feature of this proposition is spoken of here as the fact that it was made by the same Secretary of State-aIthough in his persanal ca pacity-who said to Henry P. Davison at the beginning of President Wilson's ad- ninistration that the state department would not give it's support to the Ameri- can syndicate which was organized to participate with five other nations in financing the needs of the new republic of China, the intimation then being that the secretary looked upon the proposition as in the nature of dollar diplomacy.
 Our Population and Our DOmistic
 Industry
 FfOIi WdSHlIS tOu tOI1eS expert sDDln- ion that since the war in Europe began, on August 1 last, the population of the United States has increased by. nearly 1500,00C So it may be assumed that this country is the only one among the great nations which has not lost in population since August l, but has increased. The estimate agrees with one made several years ago by James J. Hill, who assumed that he was safe in predicting that by the year 1850 our population will be ap- proximately 15o,0O0,000.
 Early in July reports from Washington will show that there went out over the sea from the United States food of the money value of approximately $S0O, O,00O, ,O00 Should our population increase as rapid ly the next 30 years and proportionately as greatly as it has been doing since 1900, then it would be serious question whether we could export foodstuffs in large amount, since it would require an enormous harvest to feed population of 150 00O0,OO0 Although we are to have apparently visible trade balance at the end of the present fiscal year. three weeks hence somewhat in excess of $1,000, GOO, ,000 on the whole our foreign commerce is rot likely to be- in figures. very much larger than the foreign commerce of the preceding year. That is explained by the fact that our imports have fallen off so greatly as to occasion serious embarrass nnent for the government because of lack of revenue. Our foreign trade condition is abnormal. somewhat chaotic, and the evidence is strong that it will continue to be of this character for another year. The greatest of our imports will not appear in any statistical record, for we have been importing funds in amount and at rate far in excess of the experience of any of the great commercial nations of the world.
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