Show A correspondent ask us why Ar gentlnc Is such a menace to the United Uni-ted States when the whole of South America raises less wheat than one Stale in the Union We have hoye answered an-swered that que lon several times but it Is all right to answer it again Argentine Ar-gentine has onethird of the area oc the United States Including Alaska It has C000000 of people mostly all engaged en-gaged in agriculture Only a small proportion of tho wheat which is raised in the United States Is shipped abroad but the prlco received abroad makeo the price at Home and i would bo easy for Argentine to raise as much Wheat next year a n1 that the United States ships away That would havo the effect to greatly rafluce the price In European marknis Irqucc l that b lns iiJflt1 done tho price of wheat all over the United States would be reduced correspondingly corre-spondingly Then In southern Brazil which Is I magnificent wheat country there Is an arta peopled mostly by Germans u lance as the German empire em-pire In Europe and there Is no reason why they should not within five yeW be able to send as much wheat Into I f the worlds market ns Argentine The I is that I menace of those two countries they can whenever they plenae supply sup-ply the Old WorldWith Hour enough to greatly reduce the value of whet In any State In the Union Indeed we think It will be B very few years only when It will Do unprofitable for the United States to ship any wheat to urope but there will be a very much I greater demand by that time in Asia and the Islands of the Pacific |