Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — The Great India Wheat Searc. [ARTICLE]

The Great India Wheat Searc.

Or. Paul Pioneer-Press. 1 that India is about to i drive the United States out of market as the principal source of, the worl ”s wheat supply has been laid upon the shelf. It is only a few years since that everybody was thinking and writing about it; and nd" argument, from a debate in. Congress to an address before a wat%r-wa>s convention, was complete without its array o' statistics to show -that the naked ryot would soon, unless sotcetliihg was done, force, 'tho American farmer to ;he w*all. What be has accomplished is to lower the pricb of the great staple tremendously; although.this is perhaps as much the work of the American speculator as of the Hindoo j peasant. But as for the notion that he j is to take the market irom us, and that j the days of our glory as rhe chief wheatraising nation of the world are past, all tha, is a mere bugaboo.