Show ANOTHER SEES THE HE LIGHT I 1 statistician brock figures the gain to american farmers I 1 BY THE UTE LATE legislation FOR SILVER vain gain teithem on corn wheat and other crops who the eyo eye opening Fi guris that sustain the ilio tribunes but nes position washington dispatch sept to st louis globa democrat the demands on oil the bureau of 0 statistics were never so numer numerous oui and pressing its as now it seems seeing asif as if everybody wants figures the subject may bo be the tarl tariff ri or reciprocity it may be ba tile the condition ot of agriculture a comparison of exports and imports or tile enhancement of values from tho the sliver silver legislation requests for tho the figures pertinent to the subject whatever it may be pour in fit upon tile tho chilot statistician from all directions major brock sat before a desk well loaded with inquiries when ho he said it Is a matter of surprise to me as well as of interest to witness the 1 ho demands just now from the ho people all over our country but more particularly from the western states stales for statistics tile the requests are much more numerous from missouri than any other single sante and from missouri JC kansas ansas iowa nebraska minnesota find dakota thin than any other equal section of tho the united states the requests are arc mainly from tho the farmers and business men who frequently says in fit their communications that they are studying these economic questions their inquiries lira are directed mainly to our exports find and imports and tile the values of commodities that wo we import and export the loading leading countries with which we trade what they buy of us what we soil sell to them of late these inquiries have related largely to the fluctuations in the price of silver and the comparativo comparative prices of farm pio products ducts with tile the rise and fall ot of sliver silver bullion and the bullion value of 0 tho the silver dollar these inquiries indicate that tho the western people are reading up for themselves I 1 think it shows a healthy intellectual condition where the people inquire and study political and economic questions and are anxious to read what are ordinarily called dry public documents are people beginning to figure how much they have made out of tho the new silver law was asked yes said maj brock the silver question and how legislation has hag affected prices of other products product seem to bo be of equal interest just noy now to tho the tariff question which Is an ail over ever present question wo we are often asked what have been tile the quotations of silver for V a SO series of years and with this como come quotations about prices of wheat corn oats etc there seems to be an ail impression that there Is some commercial relationship between the price of silver and of other products do your tables show the comparative prices of silver and other products yes of 0 many and tor for many years and by consulting them anyone any one can bo be convinced of tho the paramount Im importance important ce of careful legislation do you know that finances trade and prices largely depend on careful well considered logis logs lalio nand the firm conservative execution atthe of the laws that are enacted with refe reference reice to trade prosperity largely depends on confidence in tho government and the administration administrate i of ot affairs look at tho the healthy and prosperous condition of trado trade all over the country now and the steady advance in prices of 0 farm products many of our legislators think it is duo to the silver bill and others to the confidence of the people in tho the present administration of the nations tan financial affairs probably it is duo to both let the causes be what they may there is clearly a business boom in nearly all lines and hence the groat great demand for money as R G dun co state in their circular today to day an unprecedented vollme of business busIne sg with a strong demand for money but speaking of silver continued the statistician is it not singular that from the passage of tho the bland silver bill february 28 1878 there hes been a steady decline not only in the bullion value of tho the silver dollar but in the leading farm products in 1878 tho the silver dollars value was in 1880 it was csc in 1882 it was in 1884 it 16 was 86 in ill 1885 it wis was fcc in it was and in march 1880 it was for the same periods the export prices of wheat w corn went down from sac to cotton from to 1 do you dato date the change from march 1880 since tho the present administration has come in and its well defined views have been understood and the careful legislation upon tho the silver and other questions has taken place thero there has been a steady increase in tho the value of tho the silver dollar and ot of tho the leading products the price of the silver dollar has advanced since march 1889 and silver has advanced aie in value per ounce so that the silver money of the united states tho the day of september was worth something over more than it was march 1889 farm products have advanced also do you think tho the sliver legislation of this Cou coutress gress has caused these latter advances well I 1 think it Is an important factor the careful management odthe of the fin finances an s Is another factor and the confidence of business me men n in tile the policy arid and measures of the administration another however those are personal opinions I 1 will give you facts and figures and you ou can call mako make your own deductions ono one thing Is certain farm products havo have advanced greatly the average a value 0 of the wheat crop bout tho the united states as given in tile tho agricultural report for De december coniber 1889 was per bushel corn oats there ims been an ail advance rince linco of per bushel on wheat on oil corn and on oats this in tho the aggregate makes a very largo increase in those products supposing you apply this increase to I 1 he productions of missouri based on last years crops and see what ehlt a gain there is tile the wheat crop of missouri in was OCO CO bushels corn bushels oats bushels wo do not know yet what are tile the quantities of this years crop and benco uso aso last years figures there probably is not liot any gleat difference as tile the crops in missouri aro are quito aul to regular and her farmers aro are generally rewarded with cooil crops apply these increased values to teso three crops of wheat corn and oats and you have an increase in the value of wheat of Sd in t the he of corn of 2 and in tile tho of oats ot of or atonal in increase C acas in value of these three crops of I 1 the drovers journal chicago of september ath 1890 1 states that cattle per pounds wore selling at soc and hogs bogs from aft to C per der pounds higher than a 0 year ago applying applying this increase to the tho value valno of cattle aej atal hogs as given in tho the agricultural reimt rt ol of january 1800 1890 and the aagre aggregate at increase in value of cattle and hogs bogs of missouri la Is on tho the battin find and ol of on oil tile ilia value of 0 tile tho hogs this gives missouri farmers on in aggregate increase ol of on tile wheat corn oats cats cattle anil and hogs it will bo be seen this does not include many other products which would nearly if not quite double evou even this largo sure sum if you please take tho the fire uvo status of illinois missouri kansas nebraska and iowa applying iho same rate raio of in ID creaso has taken place from friendly legislation on silver and in other respects to their combi combined nod product of last year as given in tho the department 0 agriculture and there tharo is an all increase 0 1 in tho the value of corn over the price quoted december 1869 of 40 on wheat and on oil oats an increase of on cattle and of on oil or a total gain in tile tho five states of on these five products of the farm these rive five states produce as 58 per cent of tho the carn corn 26 per cent of 0 tho the wheat an and d 40 percent per cent of tho the onto in tho the united st asell it this rate of is applied botho to tho products of corn wheat and oats in tho the united states the gain in price from december ast 1st 9 to september 1890 represents a value of and the gain on oil the other products prod ucla of tho the faring farina would bring an increased value of over a billion of dollars |