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WEEKLY filRVAlllS GAZETTE.
"corvallis, April 25, 1879.
From Macmilluirs Magazine
AMESICA BEflMVIYA.
(Continued from las', treek.)
The figures representiftjf th exter
fial trade of the country from 1803 to
1873 are instructive. The net im
ports of merchandise (that is the to
tal imports, less imported "ooJsafter
wards imported to foreign countries)
amounted to 890,000,000; the ex
ports of domestic merchandise in same
period were 005,000,000.; so that in
these ten years the imports of mer
chandise exceeded the exports (exclu
sive of specie ) ly the enormous to
tal of 225,000,000. During the same
period the exports of coin and bul
lion ( all the gold in the country hav
ing been driven out of circulation by
V the paper issues) exceeded the im
ports by 135,000,000., thus leaving a
balance" of 90,000,000. imports in ex
cess of exports of merchandise and
specie combined. But, as we have
seen during this very time, there was
an over-growing interest account to
be remitted to Europe for the 300,
000,000. or 400,000,000. raised on
loans, so that American exports ought
to have exceeded imports by at least
30,000,000. annually. Instead of
this there was 90,000",000. the other
way in ten years. This fact led Prof.
Cannes, in 1873, to the conclusion
that the condition of the external
trade of the United States was esscn
tially abnormal and temporary: "If
that country," said he, "is to con
tinue to discharge her liabilities to
foreigners, the relations which at
present exist between exports and
imports must be inverted. Her ex
ports must once c train, as previous to
18G0, be made to exceed her imports,
and this by an amount greater than
the excess of that former period in
proportion as her financial obligations
to foreign countries have in the inter
val increased. This it seems to me is
a result which may be predicted with
the utmost confidence. The end may
be reached either by an extension of
exportation, or by combining both
these processes ; but by one means or
Other reached it will need be. It is
simply the condition of her remain
ing a solvent nation.''
The news of the commercial crisis
in New York reached Prof. Cairues
as he was writing these words, so
soon to be completely and emphatic
ally confirmed by the subsequent
facts.
Up to the very eve of the crash in
America this gigantic excess of im
ports was being triumphantly pointed
to as showing the wonderful spend
ing power of the country. It was
not heeded that it was capital being
expended as if it were income. The
old fallacies in regard to the balance
of trade are no doubt exploded ; but
we may be in danger of an equally
misleading fallacy in believing that
the fact of a country's imports ex
ceeding its exports is to be taken as
a sign of prosperity. No such gen
eral statement can in truth be made ;
and if made, it can only be accepted
with the strictest limitations. The
phenomenon cannot be isolated in
tlus way. The relation of the ex
ports and imports must be considered
in connection with the profitableness
or otherwise of the general trade of
the country. We have seen that in
America the excess of imports was
the prelude of the greatest adversity.
The years 1874 to 1877 will be
long remembered as a period of un
paralleled suffering amongst all the
dwellers of the United States. Tin
great trunk railroads went to war
witli one another owing to the exces
sive competition for a limited amount
or business which they had all been
spending vast sums of money to con
trol. Hates were cut down to a point
at .which a great deal of the through
business was done at an absolute loss.
Transportation was reduced to an
absurdity (to the transporters), when
one hundred pounds of wheat was
carried by the lakes and canals from
Chicago to New York fifteen hun
dred miles for sixpence! Many of
the railroads too had undertaken the
business of colliers: one of them in
its report some years ago mentioned
the borrowing of 2 400,000. to secure
sufficient coal lands to give the road
employment in transportation lor
centuries, and after thai borrowed
12,00,000. more in England to devel
op these lauds, on the anticipation,
flo'donbf, that America was going to
construct 10,000 milesoi' new railroad
every year to eternity. Instead of
this the construction of new railroad
has scarcely been two thousand miles
a year since 1873. The consequences
to the coal and iron industries may
be imagined. All the dependent in
dustries of course became effected,
and there were never so many unem
ployed laborers at any one time in
the United States. They swarmed
over tho country a menace to so
ciety. The lowest point of general depres
sion was about coincident with the
lowest price of railroad stocks, name
ly iu the first half of 1877, and some
idea may be formed of the deprecia
tion in this class of property between
1873 and April 1877, when it is men
tioned that such stocks as Central of
New Jersey had fallen from 120 to 6;
Illinois Central from 116 to 40 ; Chi
cago and North Western (ordinary)
from 80 to -16; Michigan Central from
HO to 34. The cause was not far to
seek. The number of inhabitants to
a mile of railroad was 925 in 1807,
and only 577 in 1876. It was a ques
tion of survival of the fittest lines.
The weak ones had to go into liqui
dation. Th extent to which their
construction had been carried in ad
vance of their profitable employment
may be judged from the fact that the
633,000,000. invested in U. S. rail
way property before 1872 brought in
just the same net earnings as the
913,000,000. invested in 1877 !
To save expenses the wages of the
employes had been greatly reduced,
and the bad times came to a climax
with the wide-spread railroad strikes
in Pennsylvania in August, 1877.
And for a short time these strikes
looked most threatening to the cause
of law and ord r throughout the
States. The destruction of life and
property was very considerable, but
the difficulty was more easily over
come than was at one time expected.
For it is true, as has been so often
observed and, it must never be for
gotten iu attempting to judge Amer
ican issues, that the mass of real
American people is pre-tminently
law abiding and law-enforcing.
With decreasing profits of industry
iu every branch of trade, ami the iui
mensely increased taxation, there
was really only one course possible
to recover national prosperity. Thai
course was national economy. And
it was pursued. There is an old say
ing that "when America takes to
wearing her old shoes she can lay the
world under contribution." This is
what has happened. There is proha
bly no other nation that has the same
capacity for suddenly restricting a
profuse expenditure. New York, so
lately riotous, became a pattern of
(jiiiet living. People talked poor and
lived poor. It became a fashion. It
was like the case we sometimes see of
a widely extravagant bachelor sud
denly settling down to the cares of
married life with a thoughtful pru
dence astonishing to his most inti
mate friends.
The value of fancy goods, silk
goods, jewelry, and precious stones,
imported in 1877, was 5,"000,000.
less than in 1873 ; the consumption
of coffee in same period fell off
two and one-half pounds, and of
tea one pound per head of popula
tion. These are fair samples of what
was going on throughout the country
in diminished consumption of aril
cles of luxury. But this forced econ
omy told both ways for some time on
the general condition of trade. It
was a negative more than a positive
advantage.
Put, there was also a positive and
much more potent cause of prosperity
actively at work, though not so visi
bly. The crops of cereals from 1872
3 onwards, proved abundant and ever-increasing
(with the exception of
the Indian corn crop, 187 5, and a
partial failure of the wheat crop in
some of the northwestern Stales in
1870); and in 1877, concurrent with
the largest production up to that time,
the threatening position of political
matters in the east of Europe, ami
the falling off of supplies of grain
from Russia, gave the American farm
ers a great chance, of which they
were not slow to avail themselves.
Emigration from .the Atlantic and
Middle States to the West took a
fresh start, which is well described in
the following extract, from the JYew
York Commercial and Financial
Chronicle, of 18th May, 1878 :
Sinae the beinninc; of 1878 there is heard
the ceaseles treail of a vast army of enii
grants on their march for the far West. Rail
road and U. S. Land Department officers
are everywhere besieged by applicants for
lands. The St. Paul Press gives the follow
ing summary of the government and rail
road land s des in that State for the three
months ending April 1st :
Northern Pacific 119,300
St. Paul and Pacific (main line). . . 44,35
St. Paul and Pacific (branch line). . 76,000
St. Paul and Sioux City 5G,000
295,656
The Western Minnesota land office 497,215
The Fargo land office (estimated). . 475,000
Total 1,267,871
The above, it says, does not include the
sales of large tracts to colonies, etc.; for the
last seven months, the total number of acres
disposed of in Minnesota and Northern Da
cota has been about 2,550,000 acres. We
may obtain an indication of the movement
in progress elsewhere from the railroad re
ports published monthly, the following being
some of the latest, showing the land sales
for the four months ending May 1st this
year and last year :
1878. 1877.
Atehison, Topeki and
Santa Fe 8416.853 79,436
Unioti Pacific 547,781 36.141
Missouri, Kansas and
Texas 87,032
Burlington and Mis
souri River in Neb. . . 971,217 55,417
Total for these roads. . .$2,022,81 170,994
These facts as to the increase in the de
mand for and the rise in the value of fann
ing lands throughout the West in connection
with the present active inquiry for and pur
chase of railroad and public lands, are evi
dences of the fresh start which has been
made in that section, and the promise of an
increased production which must be the re
sult of this large extension of the area cul
tivated and new labor employed. After
such a period of prostration as we have;
passe 1 through, this is the natural process
of recovery : largo crops permitting and in
viting increased acreage and putting idle
hands to work.
But this new life, which is thus being de
veloped from our own soil and drawn from
foreign markets, is giving other evidences of
its presence. Much has been written with
in the past two year3 of the extreme hope
fulness of the situation, owing to these very
causes. The sentiment, howe-er, has been
repeated so often without any improvement
iu business following, that we have, as a
people, finally lost all faith in these promises
of recovery. Still the truth is unchanged
and has been quietly and slowly working,
and is now beginning to prove itself by out
ward signs. In addition to what we have
s ;id above we have further evidence in the
business of our railroads. We published
the earnings for four months last Week of
twenty-hve roads, showing a net increase of
2,404.S23. This, we think, may be taken
as a fair indication of the general coadition
of railrord property at the present moment,
resulting from increase of freight in part,
but also to a considerable extent of the pas
senger business. Thus, then, we have for
these months a ten-per cent, addition to the
gross earnings of rail roads. And what does
this promise ? It promises dividends to stock
holder and interests on bonds which have
heretofore furnished no income to their pos-
Gov. Tilden in his message to the New York State
Legislature in January, 1876, mentioned that in 1870
the taxes Federal, State and local of the whole
country, amounted U146,000,000 against 31,000,000
in I860, or reducing the figures to a per capita com
parison the taxes were 3. His. per head in 1870,
airainst 1 per head in 1800. - Martin's Statesman's
Yvar Br-ofc.
sessors ; and that, again, means an increase
of purchasing power among the people ; and
that finally ends in an enlarged demand for
commodities and for manufactured goods of
every description. We do not say, and cer
trinly do not expect, that this is all to be
experienced in a day, or that every industry
is to be at once revived, because, railroads
are earning more. We tako tho railroad
system and other matters referred to simply
as a reflex of the improved condition of the
farming sections ; wo refer to the largo earn
ings, exports and crops, the increased inqui
ry for land, and the additional acreage which
is going under cultivation, with tho new de
mand for tabor thus made necessary in every
department of the trades effected, as the
sure signs of improvement already apparent,
and an earnest which every one must, recog
nize of further and more rapid progress in
the future.
And here we may lake notice ol
the fact that although the making of
all these new railroads had been, gen
(rally speaking, a most unpleasant
experience to the capitalists, both na
tive and foreign, it brought an im
mense area of country within flu
reach of markets, so that there was
the very great compensation of one
set of people in the country gaining
what another set in and out of the
country lost. It wa not like ti e case
of England lending hundreds of mil
lions sterling to' defaulting govern
incuts, where the loss was absolute,
like so many sovereigns cast into the
sea, never to lie recovered again.
Aiiv rica had this advantage in being
a debtor country, that other nations
contributed to tier losses, whilst she
.done reaped all the benefits of the
resulting low prices. The railroads
exist, and must be a gain to the coun
try for all time. The very low rates
of transportation, which looked so
disastrous from the stockholders' point
of view, permitted vast masses of
breadstuff's and provisions to be made
available for consumption, that other
wise would have been wasted. Mr.
Poor, the railroad statistician, esti
mates the saving in movement of two
hundred million tons freight, by the
improved facilities made in the rail
road system, during the last twenty
years, at. 200,000,000. per annum;
and the director of the Bureau of
Statistics has lately stated that the
total traffic on four railroads the
Xew York Central, the Lake Shore,
the Pennsylvania, and Fort Wayne
is, in his belief, considerably great
er in value than the entire foreign
commerce of the United States, im
ports and exports combined.
Here, then, were the elements of
the' most certain prosperity. The
largest production ever known, the
lowest crarrying rates ever known,
and, owing to circumstances in the
east of Europe, exceptional! y good
prices for grain and provisions. This
year's production has again been
greater than anything known before,
and a very few figures will illustrate
the marvelous growth in three of the
great staples.
Average of
Five Years.
Proi tctio.v. 1800. 1870-75 1378.
Wheat " Qrs. 22.000.0M 3:5,000,000 50,000,000
Indian Corn " 104,000,000 120,000,000 102,000,0:10
Cotton Bales 4,800,000 3,300,000 5,200,000
And as a consequence of this increase
in the production of Indian corn, the
number of hogs packed in the West
now exceeds an annual average of
five million taking the past five years,
compared with twenty-two hundred
thousand, the annual average for the
five years 1857-6 1.
The temptation to the prophetic
soul to project imagination into the
future, and conjure nn a vision ten
years hence, i almost irresistible. The
proportion sum looks so easy. It
forty-five million men produce fifty
million quarters wheat, one hundred
and sixty million quarters corn, five
and a quarter million bales of cotlon,
in 1878, what w ill fifty-five million of
the same men produce in 18S8?
( To be Continued.)
From the Portland Commercial Reporter.
Another Chapter in the Hinder
Contest.
Owing to the prominence given to
the discussion of self binders, and
also the interest at stake, we give the
following from the Chicago Farmers
Review, March 1st, and another from
the Minneapolis Tribune, February
22. The Review is from the farmers1
standpoint and the Tribune from the
millers':
Readers of the February Farmer's
Review will remember our somewhat
detailed histoiy of the opposition to
the use of wire binders that began
last winter at the meeting of the
Minneapolis Millers' Associa.ion, and
which developed into a sort of gen
eral crusade on the part of the millers
in other States where wire binders
have come into common use in har
vesting the wheat crop. In the arti
cle alluded to we made reference to
the magnet as giving promises of af
fording an effectual way out of the
difficulty, exafrerated though we be
lieved tliat difficulty to have been.
It is gratifying to us to now be able
to slate that the millers of Minnea
polis are the fit st to investigate the
use of the magnet, and to chronicle
its introduction into all the mills of
that great milling center.
It si ems that t he manufacturers of
wire binders, conscious oflhe injury
that threatened their business if the
charges of the millers were not
promptly met and disproved by faces
illfounded, and inspired by parties
whose motives were at least question
able if not downright dishonest, set
themselves about preparing for a
campaign against the opposing par
ties that should be not only offensive,
but aggressive if need be.
At this stage of the contest, very
happily for both parlies, the magnet
was brought forward and gives
promise of becoming a most effective
peacemaker. The binder men, famil
iar with the use of the magnet in the
mills of the old world, seized upon it
as a most effective and peaceful wea
pon with which to disarm their op
ponents. The device was by them brought
to the direct attention of the Millers'
Association of Minneapolis, by whom
it was accorded a fair trial, as we
judge from the following extract
from a late issue of the Pioneer Press,
of St. Paul and Minneapolis:
The Millers' Association in session yester
day (Feb. 7th), were treated to an exhibi
tion of a magnetic process for extracting
wire from wheat. It consists simply of two
gftnga of common horse shoe magnets, four
in one and five in the other. These gangs
are placed iu a spout through which .the
wheat passes, and, by the severest tests, it
was demonstrated that every particle of
wire was arrested. Numerous pieces, from
tho siV.e of a pin head to an inch in length,
were counted and mixed with a quantity of
wheat, and being passed through the spout,
the exact number would be found upon the
magnets. The millers were highly pleased
witli the workings of the simple device, and
it will be, undoubtedly, introduced into all
the mills. The chief point of interest in
this matter is the fact that this is not a pat
ent, nor have its projectors any to sell. It
is a few dollars, they can themselves put
macneta into their mills, which will obviate
the objections hitherto urged against wire
binding harvesting machinery.
As a consequence of these experi
ments magnets of proper dimensions
were placed in several of the mills,
and their action closely watched by
all the interested parties and the Mill
ers' Association appointed a commit
tee to investigate and report results.
On the 22d tilt., tae association gave
to the papers of Minneapolis ar.d St
Paul the following :
At .a meeting of the Minneapolis Miller's
Association, held at their office this day to
consider the report ol the committee ap
pointed at a previous meeting, to test the
utility oi magnets lor removing wire from
wheat, the following report was presented
by the committee, and alter being tully dis
cussed, was adopted by the board of di
rectors :
Your committee appointed to investigate
the usefulness of magnets in extracting wire
from wheat, ask' leave to report. Magnets
were placed in the I illsjmry, Washburn
Arctic, and Holly mills, and have been in
us j for several days. Our opinion is, that
by their use the wire has be.:n chiefly, if
not wholly, removed from the wheat, and
that in this way the evil of using wire bands
can be lessened. We recommend that our
general agent be requested to distribute this
report as broadly, and through the same
channels as were the resolutions passed by
this Association, November 13th, 1878.
Signed. John Crosay,
C. F. HoBAET,
FltED. C. 1'lLLSBURV,
C'ommittes.
Though these resolutions are not
quite as strong as the facts would
seem to warrant, or as the binder
manufacturers might at first think
desirable, they are sufficiently forci
ble to assure the wheat growers of
Minnesota that their use of wire for
binding wheat is no longer to subject
them to fear of discrimination against
their product. These resolutions vir
tually amount to a rescinding of the
obnoxious resolutions of November
last which recommended :
That whenever practicable a difference of
ten cents per bushel, under corresjmnding
grade, be made in the purchase of any wheat
containing wire. Anil further.
That we most earnestly recommend the
discontinuance of the use of wire binders, for
binding wheat. .
From our own observation of the
efficiency of the magnets and the
above more conclusive experience of
the Minnesota millers we are satisfied
Chat all candid millers will agree,
when the opportunity of testing the
magnets is afforded t hem, that they
may leave the wire binders to stand
upon their own merits for tiieir claims
to superiority 'in the contests of the
harvest field. If binder attachments
using twine, or paper, or any other
material, prove better adapted than
wire to the purpose of binding grain,
or if improved mechanism or the use
of wire supersedes the binders of to
day, it is not for us, nor for the farm
ers to regret the advance that has
been made. But it is a satisfaction
to know that the recent side contest
is at an end, and that it ends without
serious loss to either the farmers the
binder manufacturers or the millers.
Reference has heretofore been made
in these columns to the successful
working of a magnetic device, in
several of the Minneapolis mills, for
removing wire from wheat. The im
portance of this matter cannot be
overestimated, for on the one hand
the millers were suffering considera
ble loss by damaged bolting cloths,
badly cut by pieces of wire sharpen
ed in the grinding process, and on
the oilier hand the fact is, that of the
self binding harvesting machines
used by farmers, over ninety-five per
cent, are wire binders. The prefer
ence of farmers for wire binders is
very marked, and it was scarcely to
be expected that they would abandon
the use of the 75,000 machines of this
character now'owned by them, nor
that the wealthy manufacturing firms
engaged in their production would
abandon a field in which they have
experienced no opposition.
The Minneapolis Tribune, Feb. 22d,
says: In November last the Minnea
polis Millers' Association adopted a
resolution makwig a discrimination
of ten cents per bushel against wheat
bound with wire. As a matter of
fact, the resolution has been a dead
letlei , because there was no known
method of ascertaining whether wheat
had been bound with wire, and for
the further reason that the grain deal
ers in Milwankie and Chicago are, as
they always have been, but, loo anx
ious to get Minnesota wheat at the
highest market price. In this enter
gency the men who had invented
self binding harvesting machines,
came to the front with a simple mag
netic device for taking wire out of
wheat, which, as we have heretofore
announced, was a perfect success. It
has been tested in several of the mills,
and has been ordered for all of them.
Ten days ago the Minneapolis Mill
ers' Association appointed a special
committee to investigate the practi
cal merits of the magnets, and to
make a report thereon. On yester
day the committee made their report,
which, while warmly recommend
ing the magnets, practically rescinds
their resolution discriminating against
wheat bound with wire. The report
was as follows:
Your committee, appointed to investigate
the usefulness of magnets in extracting wire
from wheat ask leave to report :
Magnets were placed in the Pillsbury,
Washburn, Arctic and. Holly mills, and
have been in use several days.
Our opinion is that by their use the wire
has been chiefly if not wholly removed'
from the wheat, and that in this way the
evil of using wire bands can be lessened.
We recommend that our general agent be
requested to distribute this report as broad
ly, and through the same channels, that he
sent the resolutions passed by this Associa
tion on November 13, 1878.
John Crosby,
c. t. hobart,
Fred. C. Pillsbury,
Committee.
The report was adopted by the
Association.
To sav that we are pleased with
the friendly spirit in which the man
ufacturers and millers have met each
other in the adjustment of this im
portant matter, is due to the occa
sion. The magnitude of the interests
involved is sufficient to invest this
subject with more than ordinary
gravity. Not half of the wheat crop
of Minnesota could have been har
vested last season without the use of
self-binders. The heated term ripen
ed small grain so rapidly that the
harvest was crowded into a few days
c ' m pass, iiie self binders were
all important in that emergency, and
they were nearly all wite binders is a
fact patent to all observers. . s
they could not be replaced t hen, and
as there are no visible indications that
they will be replaced for several years
to come, any action calculated to
abridge their use would be in the na
ture of a public calamity. Wheat is
Minnesota s greatest staple anu wneai
raising is its prime industry. It is
for this that our Slate is rapidly be
coming populated, our railway sys
tem enlarged and extended, and to
this we must look for that wealth and
prosperity which is within, our reach.
The harvesting and milling interests
are too closely identified with each
other to admit of any cross purposes.
The farmer must be more careful
in keeping the wire bands from going
through the thresher; the manufac
turers through their army of agents
must leach them this lesson ; the
millets can catch the 6tray bits of
wire with their magnets, and all can
join in the chorus "Let there be
wheat."
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