Colossal Wheat Combine

Russia's Proposal to the United

Statfs

One of the most sensational of recent disclosure?! Is tint marta by J D Whelp ley in the August ForimgMy. It b entitled 'k An Interesting Wheat, Corner, 1' and Is described as " a heretofore secret chapter In the diplomatic history <f th' United States." Tae writer euppUee *' exacb copies" of documents on file in the department at Washington, and gives details of the Russian proposals on the authority of the Russian officials who conceived them. Tae startling announce 1 znent runs aa follows :—

*• On the mcining of November 4, 1898, the Ra's'an Minister to the United States, Mr Kofczebue, acting under Instructions from his G-warnmt nt, pro" posed to the Hon Richard H Olney, then the American Sears'ary of State, that Kaaak and the Uuited States should enter into a combine to corner the surplus wheat of tba world for the purpose bt raising the pice of that cereal 100 per cant, As explained by the Russian Minister, this G vernment trust was to be created primarily for the benefit of the farmers of Russia and the United States, but It was believed lhafc it would result in time to be of equal benefit to the wheat prodncpfs of the entire world.' 1

She amebican answer

Secretary Oicey passed on the proposals ti tha Secretary of Agriculture, Mr J Sterling Morton, who declined them rather emphatically, declaring that " the relation of supply and demand is the sole regulator of value." The matter was st ones dropped by Russia as a diplomatic overture, but nhe has been busy aceuma' latirg facts and a rpuments against the belief in •' supply and demand" as a decisive criterion. She has shown that. while the area and quantify of wh«at grown advarced 5 per cent b.twecn 1882* 1893, and the wheat eating populations aclyaneed 11 per cent in number with a Btuady Increase ; f wheat consumption per head, tho price of wh^at dropped 50 per cent. Li other words, although the demand exceeded the supply, prices fell one half. WHAT IT WOtTIR MKAN TO ENGLAND Ri^sh still h< pcs to bring round the U iced States to her way of thinking If she sn ceeds, Mr Whelpley thus hints at the stopendc U3 cjnsequenoes :— Tha pos abilities of such a Government »htat trust <*,a is proposed by Russia are Startling Tae wheat crop of the world in 1898 was 2 879.000.0C0 bushels. The price realised by the farmer ia abont 50 cents a bubhel under ordinary conditions. Russia proposes to add nearly a billion and a half of dollars to the value of this wheat crop of ths world. To the United States, producing 70O.(J00,O0O bushels, this would mean a gain of about ?5O,OGO,C0)dol to the agricultural dk tricts, To the Rnsisan farmers, producing about 400,000,000 bushels, it would mean a yearly gain of 2:0 000,00^01, which would be nearly all net profits, as the consumption of wheat by the farmer bears sm»ll proportion to hi« production. Qn the oiher hand, to England, importing 125,000,000 bushels i f wheat, it would mean an increase of over 60,000,000d0l a year in her bread bill. Tha farreers of the United Kingdom wouli be benefited to the extent #»f 3),Q00 OOOdol by the increased price for their wheat, but the RusSo'American wheat trust would deal the Eng'fsh peop'e the hardest blow of all. UponFrar.ce and Germany it would a'so fall heavily. A NEW DIVISION OF MANKIND So sericus, in fact, would it be to the wheat'importirg countries that it would soon constitute a bond of international sympathy, which would ally the great wheat, importing countries aq against thjse exporting. In the first g'oup would come England, F arc?, Ge:imr,y, Bel giom, laly, Fwilzarlaud. the Netherlands, and irany other smaller countries. In the opposing group would be Russia, Austria, Rumania, and all of North and Sonth America. Tha vista of international politics opened np is indeed astounding. Ie trugfjess a reversion to the mo:t primitive facts. Tha Puwera that have the surplus stock of the world's food in their hands, it they stand together, need not proclaim war j thty only need to proclaim-—famine ; and the rest of the world must yield—or fi>ht for very life.

The writer does not expect the United States to consenb to combine during tho lifetime of the present generation. But, he joints out what an inducement i 3 offered to the faime s of America and iheir agrarian p&riy to respond to the advances of Russia.

As Others See Us.

New Zealand is far ahead of the other colonies of Australasia, and, in fact, of any other country in the world, io. its treatment of the unemployed. It has a well considered plan in operation, by which the unemployed are gathered up in cities at Government labour bureas, and are forwarded to one point or another where they are wanted on Government railways or other public works. At these points they are not kept in camps, to be scattered again when the work ia through, but they are assigned farms, and their tasks are so arranged that they work alternately for the Government aad on their own land, The Government advances them money to clear their land and build themselves houses In all parts of the colony the penniless out-of work is by thia system being converted into a thrifty landowner.

It ib not to the unemployed alone that the Government gives laad. It has entered upon a deliberate policy of break ing up the large estates which were form, ed in the early days It purchases these estates if the owners are willing to Bell ; if not, it condemns them. The land is then improved with roads, properly sur veyed, and is resold in small farms

A specimen case ia that of the estate of Cheviot, of 80,000 acres, which, under the old regime, supported a single family. The estate was entirely de vott d to the grezing of sheep, but New Zealand statemen think that a man is better than a sheep: This estate has now been divided into a hundred or more prosperous little farms, and where there waa once only one family there is now a population of 2,000.

Kew Zealand's latest experiment is not its least important. It now treats its worn out working men and women not as paupers, but as honourable pen sioners Every one who baa been in the colony 26 years, is a citizen, and has an income of less than £35 a year, is entitled to Is a day This is not merely a more tender form of charity than that which prevails in other coun tries—-it is distinct recognition of the lowest toiler's right to a share in the wealth he has created—The Oaxtonian Quarterly

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