The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-03-02
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There is a Hindu fable regarding
the hen and the crow, which runs
like this:
A hungry crow approached hen
Matching a nest of eggs. "Why do
you sit on these eggs all the time.
when It is so beautiful and there Is
SO much to sSe?" asked the hungry
crow.
Because want some pretty
chickens and by sitting here all the
time, | may get them" replied the
hen.
why | just saw bunch of pret
| ty chickens down the road, which. II
you went after. you could have with
out all this trouble and this life of
solitude" replied the crow.
Whereupon the hen left her nest
in vain search of the chickens ana
the hungry crow made meal Off
| che, eggs.
The moral of this is particularly
appliable to the drive" now being
made to get the American farmer
to abandon the American manufac
turer and go in search of world
markets" Those who are trying to
persuade the agricultural interests
to start on this vain search of
''ready-made" and attractive world
markets are merely scheming TO eat
all the eggs themselves by getting
their hands on the American mar
ket.
So long as the farming interests
| continue to cooperate with the in
| dustrial interests, both will prosper.
! But IL the farmer is misled into
joining the movement, to let in a
flood of foreign goods. in the belief
that 1t will enable him to buy in
cheap market and sell in a pro-
fitable world market, he destroys
not only the prosperity of the manu-
facturer. but he destroys his own
prosperity.
1t can not be gainsaid that for a
brief time the farmer, in common
with every other consumer of manu-
factured products, might make some
small saving in purchase of many
commodities, by opening the Amer
ican market to the importation of
commodities cheaply made in for
eign countries. But the savings thus
made, at the best, are only transient
for as soon as the importing inter-
ests succeeded in driving American
| SOOuS OUT VI the maj htl .
| they would raise their prices and
the farmer, as well as other con
sumers, would be paying as much
for foreign made goods as they
formerly paid for American made
goods. the additional profits going
into the pockets of the importers.
During this process the American
farmer would be killing the best
| al !, al, IL of
supplied by the millions of we'll paid
American working men and women.
1t is not theory,--it is a fact
demonstratable by cold figures
that there is no market in the world
at all comparable to that of the
United States. When the working
classes of the United States have
steady employment, they live better
than the working classes of any 9TH
er country in the world and buy
more literally of those products
which the farmer furnishes. II is a
matter of common knowledge that
the American working man, when
he has employment, eats white
! bread three times a day and red
meat at least once day,-a diet
(which the working classes of no
European country can afford.
Government data issued by the
Department of Commerce cohclu-
sively proves that the price of Amer
lean farm products varies, not ac-
cording to the volume of exports OF
those products (that is, by the
amount the American farmer sells
in the foreign market) but by the
amount of those products consumed
in the United States. The rise and
fall of farm prices is in almost dl-
rect proportion TO the rise and fall
of domestic consumption OF those
products When American working
classes are profitably employed they
are liberal consumers of farm pro-
ducts and prices advance. When Che
working classes are not employed
and they are compelled TO cut down
on their living, the consumption OF
farm products declines and with the
decline of consumption there is a
decline in prices.
Nothing would be so fatuous
Tin fact it would be suicidaD as
for the agricultural interests of this
country to align themselves with the
movement fathered and financed by
importing interests and free traders
to attempt to capture the markets
! of the world by letting the world
capture the markets of America.
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