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Show A QTKT!ON OK WUKAT. l'Mltor Times: Inyour verycrlnpand concise con-cise article on Saturday laat relative to Indian and American wheat you say India can Bupply the world, if si. why Is it that they have some of the most awful famines in India, and as the population th( n Is rtenso and iveds a great deal for Its own use, how is U p issililo fur that country to Nupply the world!1 Hid you use the term advisedly J. F, Uiiahb. The Tim km always docs in ruattors of fact spunk n'lvisedly. l'aradoxiciil as it may Kcum, there can be and there has been fainino and abundance, in India at tho sanio lime, just as there might have been a famine in Utah and aliundanee in Illinois before tho advent of tho Union rucilie railroad. India is an immense country, having an area of about I liOD squaro miles, and the uttor absence of railroads rendered it impossible impos-sible at tho timo our correspondent refers re-fers to to relieve tho starving districts from thodistanoo. This, however, does not conflict with our statement that both in extent and soil tho country is capable of raising wheat enough to supply tho world, including her homo demand. The homo demand is, however, how-ever, very limited as compared with the United States. Tho native Indian is entirely too frugal to indulge heavily in Hour. Hice is good enough for him, and so all tho wheat he can raise is practically available for export. We do not take tho same roso-hued view as somo of our contemporaries do of the prospect of disposing of our surplus wheat in Europe. We will sell some and a great deal more perhaps than we have for years past, but unless a war ensues, which is not at all probable, the quantity will be far below that estimated esti-mated by the grain gamblers and speo ulators. Yet it is a satisfaction to know that the demand on our wheat is increasing, in-creasing, and that in tho frco coinage of silver we have the means at hand to shutout our chief competitor, India, from the foreign markets. |