Show i- i PAH FARMERS SELLING A ABROAD nOAD 1 A Aast A vast ast amount of or nonsense has been T printed a about out American selling their products cheaper G abroad abroad than at nt home It probably has j t occurred to superficial thinkers that that thal Is hs Just what the American farmer is doing when he hc exports his grain or other farm tarm products The I. I of thinking same me superficial wa way would impulsively point to Liverpool quotations as aH e evidence to tho the contrary contrary con con- tran because prices arc higher on American cereals for instance in Liverpool L than In Chicago But the Liverpool quotation is not the farm farm- cr s price ho he does not get it rhe The I Liverpool price 1 Ls Is the pi inke Ice paid the i farmer plus elevator charges commissions com ora- ora missions and railway transportation to the tho j sc ca ea coast plus more moro cleva elevator tor torn and n switching charges geR and anti tho the cost of ocean ocean fr freightage and handling at Liv Lh All An this work Is la not being done i for r nothing and it costs money to toland land the tho grain Iraln to mills miles distant distant from the tho field where it was vas produced i. i Itis an accepted maxium that the tho home market is the best hest market It Jt bel beM beit t market n because It Is the tho nearby market free from all j ih-j expenses ex ox- ex- ex of or long distance transportation Tho proof that It Is th the tho 1 bost and hof t P profitable market is foun In tin over tenths nine-tenths of Am American 4 are sold In that thit market and a astill still larger percentage of other farm tarm products Is the American farmer g ga- ga i- i Ing lilG to sell sen his crops in the poorest at lower prices St IC ho he can find finda a better belleI market at higher prices The Tho qU question answers answers Itself Olt But ho does docs sell a small fraction of fC tho the product of ot his his' rural factory rural factory In the poorer market abroad at lower Jower thOl he g gets for fot the bulk of or hi hIs hh pro 10 4 ducts at home Why h Because it il Is the tho surplus beyond beyond the hc requirements of tie tho homo home market So the tho farmer fanner naturally rea reasons ons that lint the more this home market can he be enlarged d and have hae consumption increased b by now new manufactories R and commercial an another and other enterprises cs tho the better for tor him Meanwhile he sells his surplus abroad 11 at nt a n dl discount count because he lie mu must t get ct rid of or all stock And Anti the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic platform and orators and pres have never a 0 word of oC condemnation of oC tho the Am American farmer armor fo tot for doing 11 It Which shows what mere partisan politics will do when reason ronson and logic are arc on a vacation I |