West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-03-24
A MILLION BARRELS OF FLOUR.
How Reciprocity Has Made Trade
With Cuba.-Plain Facts For
Ever Farmer.

The good results of eBc rcciproci
fy treaties recently negotiated bv
eur Government with foreign coun-
tries is well illustrated by the effect
ct the treaty with Spain in the -four
trade of Cuba. For a number OF
wears past the exporters of -four
from the United States have been
carrying on Il sharp competition
with the Spanish exports of -four TO
Cuba Although there was II large
discrimination in favor of Spanish
-four imported into Cuba, the duty
ON which was fifty per cent less
than the duty charged on American
flour. still our exporters were able
10 divide the market. Spanish
-four was II product of Russian
wheat imported to Spain and
ground by the millcrs ut Barcclon I,
and other ports, and then rcshipped
TO Cuba us Spanish -four and adj.
mltted at low rate of duty. The
annual consumption Of flour in
Cuba has am 'untel to. about 500
600 blrrels, OF which about one half
or 100000 btrrcls. have been
shipped from the United States.
rms was the state of trade up to
July lst 1890. At that dase Japin.
lSh flour imported into Cuba vas
made entirely free, and 20 per cent
was added To the dnty already
charged upon American flour.
making the duty on the latter So g.
per barrel. The result of this
ehange in the tariff Of Cuba gave
the market almost exclusively TO
Spanish -four. and the imports
from the United States decreased in
the year ending July l 1891, to
llf,O00 barrels, which represents
emily high grade Of -four Which
was necessity to bakers Tor pastry
purposes. BY tie treaty negotiated
la. Mlly last and recently put in
operation 1t was provided that after
the lst OF jam Try 1882, the duty
on American flour should be re-
duccd from 1861 10 81 per hundred
Kilograms. or TO about 80 cents per
barrel. Notwithstanding Spanish
flour Is admitted free into Cuba.
the result of this treaty provision
has been that Spanish flour is now
entirely excluded from the market
and the American product has been
substituted In It's place. so that
hereafter the Cub IN market will be
exclusively under the control OF the
Unlted States. y second result Of
this action viii be TO largely in
crease the consump, son OF flour in
Cuba. Experienced importers Of
Havana now calculate that the
consumption Of -four in Cuba will
reach l,000,C 600 barrels, all of
which will go from the United
States. This is Il practical lesson
IN reciprocity, which our farmers.
millers. anal exporters can readily
comprehend.
We clip the above article from
the JoHTRai headlines and all,
which is entirely ut variance With
the policy Of thai paperon The tariff
issue. There is not one line in the
above article which is not IN flat
contradictory oftLe Journals argu-
ment on the tariff issue, hence we
publish it for the special benefit of
our farmers aud We trust every far
mer in Preston county will study it
clrcfully and compare it with the
reasoning and argument OF the
journal OH this important issue,
that they may judge Of the J0RImaFS
undying solicitude in behalf of the
American farmer.
First-The JoRyRcl has aiwars
coutendcd that the American
farmer and laborer could not com.
pete with the Paupor labor o.!
Europe or account Of tho differ.
ence in wages and the mode Of liy-
Jag, and hence IT was necessary for
Us to have % High Protective TarlT.
The American farmer Will now
observe that the JoHyual admits
that although the Spanish -four is
odm!ttcd fr-c inD Cuba, and while
there is "a tariff Of NINETY cents pcr
barrel imposed upon tho American
-four tic American farmer IS able Co
force the Spau:shf farmer out n The
CuU1u market by uudcrsclliug hfm
thus giving The American nour hc
a,5lVsirc market 81 Cuba. GIN tha
American farmer comprehend What