Remarkable Prosperity of American Farmers
A STATEMENT which ought to mean financial prosperity for the cause of present truth, is the following from Mr. William E. Curtis, in an article concerning crop values in the United States: “Secretary Wilson shows that the total value of the farm products for the last year was $6,415,000,000, and that ‘every sunset during the last five years has registered an increase of $3,400,000 in the value of the farms of this country, and every month has piled this value upon value until it has reached $102,000,000,000. That portion of the national debt bearing interest is equaled by the increased value of farms in nine months, and the increase for a little over a year balances the entire interest- and non-interest-bearing debt of the United States.’ In other words, there is not money enough in this country to pay for the crops of its farms this year, and there would not be, even if all the bonds of the United States now outstanding were added to its gold, silver, and paper currency. As the secretary says: ‘The farmers of this country have had the most remarkable series of years of prosperity that has ever come to the farmers of any country in the annals of the world’s agriculture. Production has been unequaled, and its value has reached the highest figures ever attained. Farm crops have never before been harvested at such a high general level of production and value.’”