New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-11

railroad ties, beams and other articles which caA
be sold to advantage only in the United States
fell, the fall Being, in most cases, equal to ths
amount OF the Increase in the duty. Eggs are
selling in Toronto just at IL TO IL l-2 cents
per dozen wholesale. The price in Buffalo il
Is cents. The reason why the Toronto price il
only IL cents is because the Canadian shipper
has to pay the Mckinley duty plus the transporta-
ton charge. Remove the duty and the Toronto
price will go up to within fraction Of the price
at Buffalo The experience of the Canadian
farmer is that the agricultural schedule secures
the American market TO the American farmer
without doing any damage to the American
Consumer.
1t is easy to multiply illustrations. On the pas
sage Of the Mckinley bill the barley men at Buff
falo and OswegO protested that it would ruin thek
business, and some matstcrs said the same thing
The act disorganized their operations for time.
but the only serious after-clap has been the COL
lapse Of barley growing in Canada The farm
srs are getting 40 cents bushel, for they
! nave to pay the Mckinley duty Of 80 cents On.
20 cents is not living price. The Government
urged them last year to grow two-rowed barley for
the British market. The six-rowed barley com.
monty raised on this continent does not suit the
British brewer. Two-rowed seed was distributed
gratutously, at less than cost from Ottawa, and
this spring a great many farmers sowed it. The
crop has turned out failure. The climate does
not suit it. The berry is light, hard and steely"
and the samples sent to England can only be sold
as feed. The farmers must return to six-rowed II
they mean to raise any more barley and be content
to accept the American price, minus the Mckinley
duty. Toronto barley dealers visited the
United States during the summer and
found that in consequence Of the new
protective duty much larger area had
been sown to barley than ever before. Here the
barley area has been greatly reduced. Canadians
still hold that their barley is superior to any other
but those in the business say that quite coed q
barley as the average Bay of Quinte can be raised
in Southern Dakota. However that may be- the
Canadian farmer can vouch that the cry about tho
American beer-drinker paying the duty is not true
Potatoes have been selling this year at Quebec az
low as to l 0 cents per bushel. II the Mckinley
duty OF 25 cents were removed, the price would
rise with bound Horses are virtually unstable
in Canada. The introduction Of electricity on
street cars has reduced the demand, and the Nc
Kiney act has brought prices so low that the farm
ers are in despair. To cut it short-all the coarse
and bulky wares raised by the Canadian farmer
have declined in price, because he must sell such
articles in the United States or not sell them al
all and in order TO sell them he must pay tho
United States duty at the frontier just he has to
pay the toll-gate into his market town.
There is no escape from his predicament except
by pulling up stakes and moving across the line,
and thousands are doing so. The books Of tho
United States consulates throughout this Province
show that never in its history did so many farmers
and farmers cross the line during the same
space Of time have crossed it since the Mckinley
act became law. They go to the consulate to obtain
certificates allowing them to pass their implements
and household goods free as settlers effects The
consuls have no means of ascertaining the number
Of gripsack emigrants, of those who carry nothing
except personal baggage" but if the economic
value OF every Canadian be 81 900, and there is no
better sort of emigrant the Mckinley act is adding
proIgiously TO the wealth of the United States
from this source alone.