The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-07-10

Canadian west from becoming Ameri:-
canized and he gave to the road land
grant of 10000, 1000 acres, which land is
now being sold to buyers from the
United States. In referring to the
great yield of wheat in the provinces
of western Canada, Mr.. Knappen said:
Last year Manitoba raised about as much
wheat as North Dakota and with the three ter
| ritories of Alberta. Saskatchewan and Assini-
boia produced 100000 bushels. The Mani
toba wheat acreage will show an increase this
year of only % 900 acres, but the territories will
double their acreage. If the yield should aver
age twenty-five bushels to the acre. as last
year, western Canada should produce 75,000O0O
bushels OF wheat this year, which is getting up
pretty close to the average Minnesota crop:
But when this is accomplished with less than
100000 acres think of what is coming with
many times that acreage.
The cry now is for the removal of
the duty on Canadian wheat. With
the rapidly increasing consumption by
the world of wheat products and the
slowly decreasing wheat acreage in
the American wheat belts there is a
tendency to change the status of things
and make the way clear for free wheat
from Canada, and some are insisting
on removing the duty from Canadian
cattle aud let the fat cattle and the
stock cattle of western Canada come
across the line into American markets
free of duty. It is just as Mr.. Bede
says of wheat. 1T is world product
and its supply is fixed by the supply
and demand of all countries. AS we
export wheat, it is of no advantage to
US to force the Canadian wheat to 60 to
Europe via Port Arthur or Montreal
instead of)Duluth. And as diversified
farming is steadily driving the wheat
area further north, we must soon admit
Canadian wheat or close our mills"
Speaking of the matter of free wheat
from Canada the Pioneer Press says:
| If allowed, by it's free importation, to seek
| its cheaper natural outlet it would be carried
| to Duluth, and thence seward or to Mime
| apolis, to be first ground into -four, and then
| transported by American rail and water routes
to the seaboard for transportation to Europe.
So that the sole effect of the duty is to deprive
| American transportion lines and mills of the
tribute which this great volume Of ex port wheat
would pay to them.
! The Pioneer Press also thinks that
it would be a good thing for paper con-
sumers if the duty on Canadian wood
pulp was removed and thus force the
paper trust in this country to come
down off the platform.
Mr.. Knappen in closing his address
said: "That our selfish policy is now and
has been for years immensely success
full measured by the balance of trade
and the growth of our exports must be
admitted. But that it can long con-
tinue so cannot be succe ssfully con-
tended. Now is the time for US to
take steps to hold what we have. To
do so will be good business and good
international politics, fair dealing and
wise craftsmanship" .
/ At a banquet of Minnesota bankers
given at Winnipeg last week S. r.
Flynn, president of the National Live
Stock bank of Chicago, voiced pop
ular sentiment when he said: 1T
seems strange to all of US, that two
countries should lie side by side, divid-
ed only by line that cannot be found,
and governed the one by a monarchial
republic and the other by republican
monarchy" Mr.. Flynn expressed the
hope that the British Empire and the
United States would be drawn closer
together, for the English-speaking peo-
pie of the world stand for allsthat is
best in society, in commerce and in
religion. = : Every stripe ofour. flag"
the speaker continued, sis plank,
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and every star q principle; and look
forward to the time when the Union
Jack and the Stars and Stripes shall
float from flag poles side BY side"
One of the straws which shows how
the windN Of commercial union with
Canada is blowing is the fact that Ca
=
madam coins are getting to be worth
their face value in this country, It
used to be that Canadian dimes were
worth only two cents and Canadian
money was cursed time and time again
for its rowing, disposition, but we are
crossing the line 50 much Of late and
trading more frequently with Canada