Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-10

Canadian cereals the United States far
mer ought TO be in clover. When. how
ever. he studies the two tariffs by the
light of the statistics of imports and
exports he may well be puzzled to see
how the Dingley tariff helps him or
hurts his Canadian fellow agriculturist,
although it is possible the Laurier
tariff may benefit him to some extent
and he naturally will not care much
how it affects the farmer on the other
side of the lakes.
Under the Laurier tariff American
corn in Canada is free Of duty. Last
year 5,S75.47O bushels were shipped, on
every bushel of which there was paid
/ ~ cents. But in the same year the
Canadian farmer sent into the United
States 1,O17 bushels of corn, on which
the duty was only Is per cent ad val
orem, not over 3 cents a bushel. To
protect the American farmer from the
/ food of Canadian corn. Mr. Dingley in
! creased the duty three-fold, and the
corn grower on this side is TO be pro-
tected by a duty of Is cents a hushel.
As the total imports of corn into the
United States from all the world last
year were 4.33S bushels and the exports
| 90 992 $50 bushels. the gain this trebling
the customs protection will be to the
American farmer will require keen eyes
TO discover.
Mr.. Laurier has reduced the Canadian
tariff on American wheat from Is cents
to 12ls cents per bushel. Mr.. Dingley
I has increased the American tariff on
Canadian wheat from 10 per cent-say
II cents per bushel-to % cents per
bushel. Last year the United States
exported to Canada 3,5S724S bushels Of
wheat and took from Canada 2,107747
bushels. The total exports of wheat
for the years were 6O,65O,OSO bushels.
and the imports from all the world
2.11OOOS bushels. Just how much Spro-
lection" the American wheat grower
will get from the Dingley tariff may be
figured out from these statistics.
Canada has reduced the duty on
American flour from 70 cents to 80 cents
creased the duty on Canadian flour from
Is per cent TO % per cent ad valorem;
that is to say, the Canadian duty has
been reduced one-ffth and the United
States duty increased two-thirds The
tremendous protective" effect the
Dingley increase will have can be gath
cred from the fact that the total of
SIS barrels of -four came from Canada
last year. the aggregate from all the
world being 1894 barrels, while there
were shipped 500, SO7 barrels to Canada
and the total exports were 1850, S64
barrels.
But there are oats and barley. On
these the Canadian farmer cannot com
plain of his own new tariff while he
may grumble at the unfriendly tax TO
be levied on his grain at our custom
houses if the Dingley bill becomes law.
The Laurier tariff does not change the
present rates, while the Dingley bill
raises the rates on oats from Is per cent
ad valorem to Is cents per bushel.
When the American farmer looks again
at last years statistics he wonders how
much benefit he will get out Of this
raise. The total imports of barley into
the United States were S37,3S4 bushels,
while the exports were 7.6SO,9S1 bush
els. and of oats the total imports were
47.5O6 bushels and exports 13,O12,590
bushels
1t looks very much as if both the
Canadian and American farmers had
been buncoed by the tariff-makers of
the two countries.