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A Canadian View

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The condition of the farming community in Canda and the Unitad States ia admitted on all hands to be unsatisfactory. Prices have tallen of late years and the valuo of farm lauda has consequently declined and ia decliniug. Siuce 1880 the population of the statea haa increasfed by about 12,000,000, but the growth of the wheat acreaga has not kept step. Oa the contrary, there were 88,000,000 acres in wheat in 1880, and there is only about the same number now. The stoppage of the development in wheat raising is no doubt due in great part to the stress of the low prices and small returns resulting from foreign competition plus the greater application of scienoe and invention to agriculture and the conveyance of its producís. Same writers aro of opinión that prices - - h to fall lowei as new wheat reglorm aro opened up in South Amri and northern Af ric. However that may be, the Americaa farmer has come to the conclusión that he must obtain relief by hook or crook from congress. In the end the Alliance will probably throw overboard soms of its cruder theories and unite in a dsmand for lighter taxation, which would reduce the cost of production and to that extent bring relief. The agricultura! schedule of the McKinley tarifl is a sop to Cerberus, but the oneroua duüw on certain linea of manufacture hará augmented store pricea, whereas as yet there has been little or noincrease in the price of barley, eggs, peas and othar truck. The AUiance speakers out west have not f ailed to note thia circumstance. They are also kenly alive to the abeurdity of the home market idea with which, before the era of combines,

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Ann Arbor Register