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raised within the United States, at .t
ill in-
the rate
oweri
red
d uce rat
ver se ratio to the distance from mar-
ket centers."
These suggestions for curing ever-
it Y DR CHARLES L. STEWART,
present rate difficulties were not,
of
Agricultural
Economics,
University
of
Illinois.
In Charge
very fortunate, although there is
in turned from the co-operation would may a leading part i some experience having 0 bearing
III I , ' I
with the im- in the solution of the problem before upon the second proposal. Lubin's
H oly Lnini impro.
the Califernia farmers. Ile had con- third proposition, however, made a •
pel:II a • of the small and owning eentrated rather upon the contention: much closer upproach to a satisfyily
fanner as ',ask factor in dennwrucy
that the railroads should cut their solution. This was a bold effort ta
and det , , Joined to master agricultural
a athad rat es from 80a0 to $!300 and !Wenn• for agriculture the effecti,
that the growers should be allowed to ' protection which industries enjoyed
These words by Madame Olivia book quarter car lots. Although a re- under the tariff. This proposal in , ,•
Agrerti in her splendid tame en-
luct•nt co-cperat•r, he was a very e:- i above the level 1 , f sectionalism am!
titled "David Lubin: A Study in Prac- festive co-e perator, tin his own ex-' reached the plane of nation:11P,
tical Idealism" tell much of the story IWIll, making a trip tO Kum,: to This plan was t.1 at-et the protection
of the great American Jew who can study the auction method of selling ! afforded the manufacturers and in
be properly acclaimed the first inter- fresh fruit in the Convent Garden i dustrial Labo rers
N by a tariff on im
, nationalist in agricultural statesman- market, and recommending it to his': port? by granting the producers o!'
Nearly
all
of
that
which
fol-
•I0
brother co-operators at a time when it the staples a bounty on export s 1.•
book.is
larsed upon this relllarkabk did wonders in putting the co-opera- i the form of a government subsidy to
.
tier movement in California horticul- i reduce the cost of ocean carnage j
i from the shipping points to the for- ,
turn upon a sound business basis.
I Lubin M Farmer Faces Marketing
Here in I he first phase of Lubin's ' eign receiving markets. This
Problems.
already a wealthy merchant agricultural car. r we find Lubin I setting premium on exponent :dop-
1.,zhIn,
ill ,
e( 8,,crionento, purchasedand oiler- sliming ideas broadcast, driving hinny was to be in the form of cash,
two and a half sections of pints, but seldom seeing his irti patiently with little regard as fir-i
sled a',• ,,t
producing wheat, carried out in the form in which he proposed, for the smiths , of the fund
.
',David Lubin Prophet of Equality
fi
Season's greetings
With Best Wishes
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the balance producing (rafts. The year proposed them Yet time after time, • er the question at' a legal basis for'
5, when Lubin started as a fruit as his biographer justly claims, those making the procedure accord with j
18 ,
eraswer,
was the first year in the his- same ideas would be taken up a little the United States constitution. i
Progr ss With the Bounty Idea.
t my of California in which the crop later on, sometimes modified and not 1
'
the demand in the limited infrequently marred in their detail, ,
In June, 1894, Lubin's bounty idea
e••■•• eded
market developed for it east of the and then carried into effect.
was adopted by the Republican Con ,
Lubin lacked the training to make vention of California. The California
It.s.kies. Two big firms of commission
i
merchants had a virtual monopoly of the perfect technician, but he had the State Grange endorsed it So also did
the fruit trade made possible, mainly spiritual position and the moral force! the Granges of Oregon, Washington,
by a railroad policy of accepting only to compel action in the quarters , Illinois, Missouri, Virginia and Penn-
I
Small farmers where anion was needed.
sylvania. Samuel Gomp•rs, president I
, carhd shipments.
Grapples With Farm Price Problems.i of the American Federation of Labor,
were hard put to it. Lubin took an
For
a
period
of
several
years
be-'
was favorable, and the labor win.-
active part in organizing the Fruit
,•
Growers Convention in San Francisco ginning about 1893 Lubin devoted . , were not unwilling to see prot,,ti. I,
in September, 1885. From this meet- himself to problems which resemble .l extended also to farmers. The pre.b•
ing is said to have woe
me the impulse in many ways those which now have
of the Chicago Board of Teal
for the organization of the California the limelight in agricultural thought.
tl saw much in t he bounty '
PP 8ren.-- Y
Lubin had noticed that Liverpool j a proposal.
"Lubinism" avas a recog-
Fruit Growers Exchange, which, as
1
:Madame Agresti says, "initiated a prices for wheat were good, but that sized issue by the .spring of 1890.
new chapter in the economic history when he came to sell the wheat from
Then came a series of breakdowns
of the West no less than in the market- his Colusa County ranch the offers t•llicit took Lubin back to Europe. !ty-
ing of farm produce." It was not seemed pitiably low. Ile went to San turning in December of that year Lit-
Lubin's first thought, however, that Francisco and questioned the Secre- bin
•
found that the South Atlantic
tary of the Chamber of Commerce. ship builders had endorsed his pro-
answer' The
"Charters" was
_ —
ed,ut
in such1 a way as to C011-
b
'
nee
I
pos
t,,,pin
in
to
how sp
DHHIIIIIIIIIIHHOIIMHHIIDIIPE rotary went on. the
! vert it into a suleddy for Americae
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i , hired in ships for carrying grain; shipping, for the bounty WIN to be
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=-. how the charge for space varies ac-, ,,,,id only on products curried in
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cording to the relation between sap- ! 1merican bottoms. Lubin found a
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ply and demand; how a shortage of heavy fight on his hands.
- - -.F.
ships at a shipping point at the time
The Central
Labor Union in annual'
tr
7=3
—
• they are needed will raise the conference passed a resolution stat-
w h en
cost of the so-called "charters"; how i
- .=z
that "so long as our manufac
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this cost is deducted by the buyer turers are protected in what they pro-.
from the price quoted for the grainj,„ en . D y a tariff on inverts, justice,,
—
Phone Randolph 0732
"
et
'
central
wheat
mark
on t the W M. Id 8
tufty and expediency demand as all
Livethool.
offset an equal protection to agricul,
Lubin's reasoning on the farmer's! tare by a bounty on exports." Fifty-
positien in foreign trade under our!
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clergymen of Philadelphia fel...
protective import tariff system led mead a Lubin Club pledged to sup.' /7—
him to conclude that it was the farm-. port the proposed for evenhanded!
I
er who paid for the protection which protection as between industries and
7=3.
the manufacturer and the industrial agriculture. In 1897 a none-too-well,
worker enjoyed. The farmer's staples developed amendment to the Dingle
being exports could not be protected ' Tariff Bill offered by a Utah senator
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by a tariff on imports, and the cost
in favor of the Lubin plan met
of high protection to industries was
severe defeat.
placed on the shoulders of agricul-
at this point Lubin transferred
tore without any compensating ad- his interest to the project which oh-
vantage. This Lubin held to be wrong
sorbed the rest of his life, namely,,
from the standpoint of equity and of that of a centralized international
policy for any condition that per - attack upon the problem of low prices
".!
manently impoverished the farmer
of farm products. The price of the
would, in the long run, undermine the
staples, he argued, was determined
Ct•
prosperity of the nation,
by world conditions, low prices in
43
Lubin's Three Propositions.
certain countries caused use prices
To bring about Federal compensa- in other countries. The narrow point
CHERRY 2446
lion to farmers ter that confiscation of view, continues his biographer,
1107 CHARLEVOIX BLDG.
of a good portion of the producer's was to accept this as a fact and to
just earnings which Lubin believed seek a national advantage, to apply
to be caused by the protective tariff, the poultice of protection in the form
he advocated in their turn three in - of expert bounties to till. evil due to —
tcresting propositions. The first was international inequities in price for'- ,--
for postage-stamp railroad rates on nation. So Lubin's thinking slipped
farm products, the vastly multiplied up to the universal plane, not because
postal deficit to be covered by taxa- he was either very young or very
. I thin, The second proposal was that old, but because of sensitiveness to
.N:
, ! . "The disabilities arising from long- the universal which a life of deep re-
distance competition be overcome by ligious thinking had inculcated, amt
..,
.' j. providing for the transportation of because of stimulating contact with
,! farm products in their natural state, I agricultural economists in countries
.importing fmalstuirs and raw ma-
. .
2.51515.2525752.25.06 1525z525.2525a j tenets. Some will say that Lubin
, went off at a tangent; it is more cor-
110 ,,,GHT AND SOLD
/
j rest to say that he turned to the sec-
oud focus, or shall we say the first
Jocus, of his ellipse of price reform.
'Lubin and the International Institute.
I Several years of study in San
-
I
Francisco
preceded
I.ubin's
interna-
--
, tional campaign to strengthen the
conservative clement in democracy,
; the land-owning farmer. For this. re-
I curdles of whether he w as centering s. ___ _
IJ his effort? 011 export bounties or on
1 0I an international agency, wits tht goal ,,
of his purposes.
Ire Budapest in 1896 Lubin had at-
9
-5 tended a (.inference on the causes of
Erb : and remedies for the decline in the
wor I'
i s price of fern) staples, and in
II
Iiij an address gave the first outline of
D. SZULEC, Pres.
, the proposal which was to crystallize
j into the International Institute of
most I ! Agriculture. This proposal was not
"Whir,. Servicr,
Pr,',,,i .1 be f ' G1 : I:rt.:illy different in orizinal concea
G lion from the plan fee an Intel!, I
'' o
tbrigri a nt iz A
atsi :,inic, , i atvi hatich o hf e Aegrer ,i iciut,ltdur , !,
"Builders of Quality Homes"
, Professor Dr. Max String, of Belli,
University. In 1904 he returned 1 ,
%V e arrange L oans an d discount !'l
Europe determined to get interim
Land Contracts at satisfactory
Ideas , action through converting seine
r ates.
• ruler to his views, and, after adding i
!England and France to his own coun-
' try as possible countries to inter , , 1
later, he turned to Italy, a natieo in sr.
We weintain ■ Notary Public,
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which economic thought has In.
and Fire Insur-
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highly developed, and universal r, - r
once Bureau.
ligion
long
established.
As
Mad
on•
j
I Agresti says of the Italians, no pJo
plc more fully and more generendj.
act on the assumption that in tin
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Space will not permit a rehear-
-
of the tactics by which Lubin
•I
d in interesting King Vier- I
•mtel III and his advisers, esti. , i
r years WecIrler's Kosher Restaurant has stood for quality an
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•
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,I to pave the way for the king's
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nu t
r of Jan. 29, 1505, to Giolitti,
inniesting an international institu-
, tion for the benefit of agriculture,
,:and how Lubin went from country
!.. Imuntry to impress the instaut..
Suffice it is to say that
May 20, 1905, the delegations of ■•■
goeernments met and gave out the
organic treaty of June 5, 1903, I.;
and that three y--:.rs
, !,fi,•ation,
r the institute was well on
Lubj• 's ideas went much beyond
th,,se !licit the institute has enm-
bodiedn the first 20 years of its
succes- 1.ubin sought a parliament
for agii,.ulture net wholly govern-
mental in its support but includin
also definite relationships to nation-
al economic organizations concerned
with ozncultural problems. To date,
howeo..r, all efforts to make the in-
:taut.. an agency for correlating ef-
fens of national economic organiza
• ns have failed. The growing pres-
of the international conference
eel, at marketing pools may mark
more hopeful era in the realiza-
n of the undeveloped portion of
Lubin's great plan for the institute.
In fact the institute, marvelous as
have been its contributions in the
field of international reporting of
crop and other economic facts, is
still ton firmly held in the grasp of
I diplomatic and other governmental
ve our hosts of patrons. You can always meet sonic of your
friends here.
We Cater to Weddings, Parties and Banquets.
FOR INFORMATION CALL CHERRY 1404
The Season's Greetings.
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