Show V LY orn TRYING a TO r If FOOL O I THE TIlE of lh the internationally minded to got get th the United States politically tied up with Europe have haTo not yet ceased have the methods been be n gre greatly att altered There Thero Is le the same gamu ain ain- disregard at of facts which has hall hallmarked marked the movement from tram the tart start says saya the St. St L Louis Louie Times Just now too the co c 1 lIs' lIs is on tho the farmers He lie Is told that he can not find a market for tor his surplus except except ex In Europe and that thai not buy tu Until there has haa been Ii a a rehabilitation rehabilitation reha in which the te United States t te must officially participate fl e not as g gullible as ast t these 1 e internationalists lI suppose n He knows know that keeping out of the po political lU cal i entanglements tem of Europ Europa is the i steel safest t s' s poll policy Every d day y develop develop developments elop menie meats ments emphasise th the i of keeping out Even the pro prospect peet of 8 selling more supplies ab abroad 4 would not nog enchant the p patriotic American n farmer But there there Is b no such euch prospect The American rican farmer is a selling far tar more more t to i Europe n now t than sold Gold during the p war pro war period in quantity quan quantity quantity quan- quan and in price This This Is is the ont only fair fair method of measurement It Is Isa Isa isa a patent abs absurdity rd to point to toO what was sold during the war when millions millions millions mil mil- lions of Europeans w were re taken rom productive industry end and nd employed In works work of or destruction d Th They i were were r fed and onI cl clothed thed at at the e. e expense pe se of f their several governments government tar tar far bett better than they ever fed fed and clothed themselves themselves them them- selves a and and there there w woe was s also much government t aid ld of their dep dependents i d Instead of ot being consumers consumers' con consumers of ot American products the surviving soldiers and and others lately lately engaged d din in to war making are now producers competing with American era em rs The fact taCt that there ther la is DO no surplus sur surplus sur- sur plus pIlla wheat from Russia of course coarse gives Ilves a better better- market for wheat from elsewhere But reliance upon such inch a market continuing ng would be bo disastrous to American wheat pro pro- The greater the progress of ot rehabilitation the smaller the market for foodstuffs from America Nor is the supposition that the ox ex- exportable ex exportable portable surplus fixes the price of the American wheat crop borne out by the facts The Joint Commission of Agricultural has gone Into In into in- in to this matter and found that the prices of farm products in this country country coun coun- try are chiefly affected by the quantity quantity quantity quan quan- of domestic consumption This consumption is la not fixed however It varies wi with h the activity of Am American industries industrial prosperity meaning agricultural prosperity |