The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-01

milwaukee, NuRut project us, L can easily
see, but it does not, for it takes grain
from the north side Of the river on equal
terms with grain on this side. No, / am
wrong pit perfers to take grain from the
northern side, for the reason that you
viii not take Milwaukee manufactured I
goods without taxing them heavily while /
the north side imposes only a light tax
on the same goods. Naturally the COM
mercial relations between Milwaukee and |
the north side will be closer than between
Milwaukee and this side. Milwaukee al
ways wants more wheat than its immedi-
ate neighborhood can furnish. Then,
where the scarcity is the price will be
highest. The southern towns of this
county always produce more wheat than
your needs require. Had we direct means
of transportation to Milwaukee there our
surplus would be sold for the reason
that there the scarcity is greatest and the
price highest. Milwaukee fixes the price
of our wheat not your local wheat buyers
Why should the farmers from the north
side sell their gram here when it would
be simply unloading it here for shipment
again to Milwaukee? Who is to supply
the north side people with the wheat they
need-three fourths of what the farmers
IN the tributary towns have to sell, if
they rush pell NELL to this side with all
the grain they have to market? VIII
they abandon the home market for which
we are taxed SO heavily to sustain? Do
they not compete with us in Milwaukee
markets whose prices fix what you pay
here to us? No, Mr.. Schuette, you have
failed to convince me that your perfection
is not robbery, absolute theft,-so far as
the farmer is concerned. Your protec-
ton OF 20 cents per bushel on wheat is a
cheat,-a blind to wheedle Us into the
belief that we get something in return
for the tax we pay on our clothing and
we purchase.
But the laborer" says Mr.. Schuette.
''his wages will be reduced and he won't
be able to buy your wheat unless you
are taxed. He will go away; he'll starve;
he'll go farming and run you out"
Convince the laborer of that fact and
let him vote as his interests dictate says
the farmer who begins to realize that
political economy has in it no spirit OF
benevolence and deals solely with bust
ness principles. Il must confess that
cannot clearly trace the progress of the
$50 taxes have paid to-day to the peck.
cts of the laborer. You may convince
him that through some system of fnan.
cial legerdemain that tax ultimately
reaches his pocket. But you must pre-.
sent stronger arguments to him than you
have to me to show wherein he derives
any benefit, or else he must be a monu.
ment of credulity. It strikes me that
when every farmer in the land pays a tax
of $50 on $50 worth of goods purchased
for the benefit of the laborer, the laborer
must be soon lifted above the necessity
of working at all.
81 strongly suspect, however, that this
tax remains in the pockets of others
Good afternoon, Mr.. Schuette, 1 shall
vote for tariff REFORM"
This is the tariff issue localized. Sub.
stitute Canada for the north side, the
United States for the south side, Liver
pool for Milwaukee and the ideal protec-
ZIONIST for Mr.. Schuette and you have
the case in its completed dimensions.
In 1887 the United States shipped to
Liverpool about one-third of its wheat
product. Liverpool from the worlds sur.
plus, supplied those sections whose wheat
product was not equal to their needs
Canada sent its surplus to Liverpool
Why should Canada ship grain to the
United States which had more than ii
wanted while there was a scarcity in
Liverpool? Would Canadian wheat
dealers ship grain into the United States
for the purpose of shipping it out again
Would Sheboygan in order to reach Mil
waukee markets first ship grain to Man
itowoc? As Harpers Weekly makes
Uncle Sam say, Its agin reason"
ooh but" Mr.. Schuette will say, Mani
toba is quite close to the Minneapolis
mills, Manitoba would naturally sell its
wheat in the United States" What if
it did? Its surplus now passes through
the United States in bond for Liverpool
and there completes with our surplus.
What if instead of being shipped in bond
it was sold en- route and then reshipped?
Would it In the latter case have any
more potency of competition?
But it would sell It's grain to the Min
neapolis Mills; there it would be manu-
featured into -four and thus compete
with the home product" says Mr..
| Schuette.
That very thing is done now. Wheat
is shipped from Manitoba to the Mime
apolis mills, not paying one cent of duty
when the -four is shipped to foreign
markets. What difference does it make
to the American farmer whether the COM
petition is at home or at Liverpool when
| both markets are his and the price of his
grain is fixed by the latter? Is the farm
| er in the northern towns who sells his
grain in Manitowoc benefited because the
farmer in the southern towns sells his
grain in Sheboygan? Is he any less a
! competitor because he has a different
local market? Is the farmer of Manito-
voc county injured because the farmer
! in southern town in kewaunee county
sells his grain in Manitowoc? Would he
be relieved of this competition if the Ke-
waunee farmer sold his grain in his own
local market?
Why has the price of grain advanced
this fall? Clearly the shortage through
out the world. Where will Canada's sur