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Show WEALTH FROM CALAMITY Yes, just that wealth from calamity. The war in Europe is a calamity a world calamity but from it will come great wealth for the American farmer. He will reap the greatest benefit of all. When the war is over Europe will a-waken a-waken to the fact that it is destitute of foodstuff. Fields will be untitled except by aged men, women and young boys, and the little produced by them will supply but a fraction of the demand. It is then the American farmer will : step into the breech with his hundreds of millions of dollars worth of farm products. pro-ducts. The demand will be great and prices' j will be correspondingly high, and the i farmer will reap a golden harvest, such ; as he has never known before, j And the farmer will spend liberally ' in turn, and the merchant, and the pro- j fessional man, and the mechanic, and . all of the people, even unto the humble 1 editor, will share in the newly accumu-1 lated wealth that is to come to us from ' across the seas. j ! Tremendous crops are reported, the government estimating corn at 2,676,-1 000,000 bushels, wheat at 892,000,000, oats at 1,1:37,000,000, barley at 197,000,-000 197,000,-000 bushels, and other crops in proportion. propor-tion. i When the great surplus of this crop is marketed in Europe at war prices it will pour so much wealth into the : pockets of the farmers that our country will be flooded with gold, and the liberality liber-ality of the farmer in his own prosperity prosper-ity will radiate to all branches of trade. I Patience is the watchword today, but tomorrow a different story will be told. j And with patience we should combine ! enough common sense to keep us free from all entanglements in the present conflict. |