Show THE COMING WHEAT MARKET russia will have this year one hundred million bushels of wheat for export anil and the prospect ia is good for a steady and rapid increate in creaco creace antho in the product which slie she can spare for the use of other countries she site has square miles of suitable wheat land yet tv to bo be brought brou glit under cultivation ti and steadily with the growth of enlightenment the broadening of industry and commercial ambition among ong her ter people slie she will become moro more and more a granary and bread giver for the world american farmers who are de do V by the tile low price of wheat who are made to believe that this low price ig is the result of some restrictive policy which curtails exports because it may limit imports should pause and study before it is too late in the markets of the tile world the american farmer will hereafter find a sharper and more intelligent competition than lie lias has ever before known the european market for breadstuffs bread stuffs will soon bo be closed to him except at such degraded prices as will palsy his hands and sicken every hope and aspiration of his mind he ile must look to the creation of a trade in the western hemisphere a trade which can bo be held measurably inviolable in ili his behalf by reciprocity treaties and protective tariff he ile is told that it ia is as well for him to feed ten thousand artisans in ili wales as to feed them in the americas and the fact that the foreign market price governs tile value of every surplus bushel of wheat in tho thc united states is cited as proof that his sales abroad are as good as his eales at home horne but that offers neither remedy for present ilia ills nor hope for the future the one salient proposition for the american farmer fanner to consider is this his safety and his reward are involved in the creation of a market which shall be adequate to consume his production and at the same time ahall practically exclude the wheat of other lands that kind of market must necessarily be here thi diver diversification sir of industries dus tries the enlargement of the consuming class the opening of bread stuffs trade trado with our immediate neighbors all affording special advantages to the tile american farmer and levying prohibitory atory or costly tariffs upon the product of other countries these are alie the means means by which the american farmer should achieve the certainty of a ready and profitable sale the payment of his ills farm mortgage and the redemption of ills class |