Show 0 V k t t ST L I 1 g 5 it I 1 I 1 t T 9 1 I 1 1 u 1 I 1 L THEM 10 DOWN WN 1 SAD aad CONDITION OF T THE HE BRITISH PRODUCERS awa iogal nd ar avrY sl wh chuo 31 mexico itow forgo calina aan japan and nd A Rec necy necessary essary ur basis ura abe aad on an a cuvir conclusion to it AU am the nearly ruined british agriculturist much to dispel his hisrael will not botand ind alie anchovy bolY in the speechifying speechify i ing u 9 at the note to was farmers Far mera club the dominant no doleful throughout prices have fallen taueu so 60 low that even a turn of luck in one branch branah or another makes very little difference on the whole e thus in the north of england where the harvest was tolerably good and the hay bay crop up to the average the price or of meat was BO 60 low that it would not more than 11 pay the growth of corn in the south souta it Is 1 the same dismal story all round as aa the chairman added that barley wheat oats cats and potatoes are selling at so low a price as to be clearly therefore the only chance of saving the industry from complete ruin Is to adopt some means for so eo cheapening pry production as to leave a margin of profit even at present prices how that can best be done rests with the government to say it has committed itself to making the rescue of agri agriculture cul its first effort in parliament and judging from what ministers have let drop from time to time it may be taken for granted that the fiscal burdens on land and railway freights will be substantially ly diminished even then however it appears to be very doubtful whether this salvage operation will by itself accomplish its purpose the farmer must endeavor to operate cooperate co on I 1 the lines suggested by lord and lord claude hamilton at the late conference if the middleman could only be swept away thus allowing consumer and producer to come into direct dir r touch the agricula agri agricultural cult auml problem would be happily solved london graphic so it to is with agriculture everywhere except in silver standard countries the of sliver silver doubled the value of the unit by which all commodities are measured at the same time it threw the agriculturist in gold standard countries open to the competition of those producing on the cheaper basis of silver silven As retail prices did not fall all so I 1 rapidly as wholesale and as debts taxes and some som e other things have not been reduced at all the result has been a almost ruin to both the english and the american farmer the effect has not been quite so disastrous to the manufacturer fac because more indirect and tardy and in a measure he has been able to protect by combinations and trusts but he is now beginning to feel it both directly and indirectly the building of mills and factories in japan alsa Is a told cold fact that he cannot ignore that the factories in hose countries produce on a silver basis is ig another fact that cannot be denied that this gives those countries an advantage in exchange should be apparent to every business man who is not completely combis blinded by bi his bis prejudices these facts being conceded that the restoration of silver is the only true remedy in a necessary conclusion |