Show THE AND A US MARKET A larger home borne market for bread Is in the only thing that will enable the amerlean tanner farmer to to maintain ills production of the 11 t t 6 european market Is ie certain to decline as europe recovers production and when russia comes comee into the market with a normal surplus the above is quoted from an editorial in a recent issue of senator arthur coppers cappers topeka capital it is the utterance of a paper located in the center of the wheat belt owned ennd and edited by a man who has intimate knowledge of agricultural economics and who is thoroughly in sympathy with the farming interests of the country the gradual recovery of the agricultural ri productivity of europe Is ie indicated by the steady decline in the export of american farm products notably wheat and other cereals the lesson of which is that the american farmers should get away from the idea of raising crops for export cut down the wheat acreage espeli lly and give their attention to products for wb cb there is a sure market the above is quoted from the editorial column of the iola ida kansas hansas register owned and edited by charles charis F scott former member of congress and one of the best posted men in the middle west test as well as an editor who is given to straight thinking and whose location in the agricultural heart of america makes it necessary for him to treat agricultural problems from an economic rather than from a political standpoint it is encouraging to note in these two editorial comments the absence of the drivel about the necessity of the american farmer capturing foreign markets in order to prosper a drivel which has bas been filling the editorial columns of those papers whose sole interest in thet thes farmer is 18 t to 0 make him a cats paw to pull international chestnuts out of the tire fire there never was a greater absurd absurdity it y than the proposition that the prosperity of the american farmer depends upon foreign markets if foreign markets spell prosperity to the american farmer why is not the foreign agriculturalist prosperous it if the american farmer can get rich selling to consumers in europe and be cannot get rich unless he be coee why are not the european agricultural ri producers affluent why are they not mot owners of homes equal to those of the american farmer possessors of laborsaving labor saving machinery investors in various enterprises owners of motor vehicles and possessed of all the other material comforts which the average american farmer possesses Sec wallace in a statement just given to the press points out that during the last three years the exports of american farmers have been greater than any previous period in the history of our country yet during those three years prices for farm products were lower than any previous years in the history of our country how do the internationalists tiona lists who urge that the american farmer line up hack back of their campaign reconcile these two facts it is known to all thinking men m en that the reason that the farmer got less tor for his crops in 1921 and 1922 than tor for any previous years was due to the lack 0 of the home market caused ed by unemployment in this country of over wage earners during those two years he be had bad a perfect abundance of foreign markets and they only spelled poverty to him it is fortunate fortu nafe that the american farmer fa is hardheaded hard headed and cannot be stampeded by international propaganda which would have him sacrifice america on the altar or of european greed and hatred in the delusion that by doing so BO he could enrich himself and obtain for his products a larger and more profitable outlet than he be enjoys at tome home I 1 the hope of the american amer ea n farmer fanner I 1 is hi his 8 home market with the well paid cons constantly scantly employed american wage vage earner as his hie customer ile he cannot hope in any circumstances and under any condition to compete n europe for european markets with the products raised hy by the russian and the peasants of southeastern europe ho he cannot hope to compete in the european markets with the products of south america raised on an vast tracts of cheap labor and shipped to europe hy by european owned vessels laid down at european ports for low money loney than it corta ite larmer of coustry to lay hia LIE products down at his hie nearest railway station |