The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-28
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DEMONSTRATION
AND AL IT'S BAD REsurr
OOkEniS. al ARUGaDNt
NO CUBAN TRADE LEFT
PROMINENT MILLERS TALK OF THE
NEW TARIFF LAW EFFECT.
The Men Employed In Flour Mills
VIII Suffer from This Demo-
cratic Measure.

The State organ Of Democracy a few
weeks ago published a letter from the EN-
pire Milling Company, of Logansport, in
alleged REPUTATION of the assertion of Re-
publican tariff orators that the export
trade of the United States with Cuba had
been ruined by the repeal of the reciprocity
claus Of the Mckinley tariff law. The
letter bore the signature of d. & c. II.
Uhl, proprietors Of the Logansport mills,
and contained the astounding assertion
that the business of the mills had not been
injured by the repeal of the clause, and
further that the firm was shipping thou
sands OF barrels of -four to Cuba Among
those who read the astonishing claim of the
uhls was E. e. Perry, of this city, who
is secretary of the Winter Wheat Millers'
League, a national organization. Mr.. Per-
ry, with a desire to satisfy himself as to
the status of the export trade since the
new tariff law came into effect, wrote to
the secretary of the Ligonier Milling Com
pany. an industry that has a daily capacity
of 1000 barrels Of -four. Yesterday Mr.. Per-
ry received the following:
Your letter with reference to our trade
relations with the Island of Cuba is just
received. Our business with the West In
dies has extended oyer a long period Of
years, and L think 1 can safely say that
there Is no place ON the island that our
flour is not known. Under the reciprocity
clause OF the Mckinley law our sales
very large, but on the 9th day of August,
with the passage OF the Senate tariff bill,
We were shut out entirely from any further
business with our Spanish friends. We
have not had an order from this source
since that date, and any miller who claims
the new tariff has not affected his business
with this island Is either, in our opinion.
doing business with a band of smugglers or
Is affiicted with that disease termed rats
In the garrett That the present state of
affairs means millions of loss to the Amer
lean miller and farmer is a fact that no
miller Qair-minded or otherwise) can dis
pute, without making himself the laughing
stock of his profession. To us it has meant
a restriction OF our output, a lay-off for
many of our laborers, the necessity of
croWding ourselves into an already over
crowded market elsewhere and a loss of 1
cent per bushel to farmers on 200, 900 BUSH
els OF wheat bought since harvest, as we
have had TO widen our margin that much in
buying over the price paid in years when
we We're in possession OF this trade.
We expect. occasionally, a stray order
they must necessarily be small. far be-
tween and without profit to ourselves. The
fact that our total exports have fallen off
during the last two years $3.50, 600, 900, while
at the same time they have been larger
than ever before TO those countries with
whom we have enjoyed reciprocity, ought,
wisdom of the policy of reciprocity, and a
fact that ought TO doom any man to polit-
lcdl ODilElOn, nc matter TO WHAT party lie
belongs, who opposes the return to these
relations. There are men of both political
faiths in our company, but there is no diff
ference of opinion among us as to the dam
age we have sustained by the repeal Of
the reciprocal treaties. There is encourage
ment, however, in the fact that lots of our
farmer friends are awake to the fact that
our interests are Identical, and that what
ever acts to restrict the output of the
American mills and contracts the market
for manufactured product operates against
his best interests as well as ours"
Secretary Perry is also in receipt Of the
following from the Merchant Milling Com
pany, of Wauseon, o., regarding the abro-
cation OF the reciprocity treaty:
Replying to your favor of the 22d inst.
we can say this In regard to the treaties
with Spain: hat prior to the passage of
the reciprocity treaties we enjoyed a salts
factory trade with the West Indies, and
particularly with Cuba; that Immediately
following the passage of the reciprocity
clause under the Mckinley bill our trade
was more than doubled; that since the
abrogation of the reciprocal relations be-
tween the United States and Spain, in
other words. since the passage of the VIII
with the West Indies have wholly ceased.
1.-THE moment the Wilson bill became a
law Spain imposed such a high import
duty on American -four entering Cuba
equivalent to A.TS per barreD that 1t
effectually prohibited our exporting a bar
rel of four into the West India islands.
Hoping you may be able to do some MIS-
sionary work for the American millerS IN
the State Of Indiana, We remain. etc.