The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-01
Dece1nber Ioo4.

q miscalculat ton and will find either that
The has more wheat than he thought, or
that he has overestimated the require
tments of the domestic market. In the
latter case, should he have anything to
offer to the foreign trade he will have
to meet the price current lin the worlds
markets, whatever that may be.
Thus far he is well within his rights all
around, put While he may refuse to sell
to the foreigner himself, he cannot expect
TO DO the n-the-manger act and pre-
vent other Americans, who are SO dis
posed, from selling TO the foreigner. He
| must not expect that the government will
not only protect him in the domestic mar
kets against foreign grown competing
Wheat, but that it will go still further and
| prevent the American miller from selling
| Hour made from foreign wheat to his
foreign customers Yet this is exactly
| what Mr.. Arson, and, indeed, Senator
1 Hansbrough,, proposes to do
+ Inc American miller, seeing his foreign
trade In flour going to total and complete
ruin and being powerless to prevent it's
humiliation by offering flour made from
high priced American wheat, proposes
ana intends to import Canadian and other
outside wheats, grind them, either in
BOND or under the drawback privilege,
and export the product
lie Is simply asking the treasury de-
4 partment to give him it's ruling under the
law; to tell him how he must proceed in
order to comply with the law; to give him
the same rights as other manufacturers
! possess and have long operated under.
IN so doing he IS well within his privi-
leges as, an American citizen, and the
treasury department would be powerless
TO refuse his request because it is a per-
fectly lawful one. r..
| Mr.. Arson and his friends may protest
to their hearts content and Senator
Hansbrough can display his amazing ig
: norance of the rights conferred under
laws passed by his own party as long as
such an exhibit appeals to his constitu-
) ency, but, short of repeal Of the-acts
under Which all tariffs are levied, they
can accomplish nothing to prevent the
5 American miller from demanding and OBJ
, tanning all the rights and privileges
wh1ch the law Of the land affords him
and this is the entire sum and total mean
r ing OF his present effort.
The miller will obtain the definite rul.
7 ing from the treasury department tt
, Which he is entitled under the law. Il
cannot be denied him. He will then i'm
port Canadian wheat to such an extern
as may enable him to meet competition
: IN foreign markets, providing the price a
Whlch he can buy it is sufficiently low
, Every pound of flour he makes out Of this
grain must and will be exported.
- VIC treasury regulations should en-
r able him to mix the Canadian wheat witt
0 American wheat, the product of the Who'll
: oe1ng exported, the result would obvious
= ~ benefit the American farmer, for i
J., would take that much more wheat out O
: the country and thereby increase the pric
t On the remainder. If these regulation
should permit him to retain in this coun
g try, free of duty, the offal from the i'm
a ported wheat, it would again benefit til
r. farmer, because it would give him cheap
~ er iced for his stock. Beyond this ever
: bag of American made flour shippe
abroad this year will serve to retain tina
: much trade for the American miller an
Will consequently benefit the farmer mex
u year, IT he should raise a large crop an
% ind need for a foreign market -
i In brief, if Mr. Anson and his friends
e senator Hansbrough and statesmen {
l. similar breadth Of vision, could possibl
II comprehend the true relation which ey
% ISIS between the American farmer and tn
l. worlds flour markets, instead of inter
y posing objections to the importation {
Canadian or other foreign Wheats. to
is ground into flour for export they woul
III 90 everything in their power to accelerat
l. and encourage the movement; but whethe
IN they do or do not, they are quite powerles
m to prevent the American miller from ey
II ercising the Identical rights and priv
/ leges accorded by the laws of the Unite
States to all it's citizens alike. And thi
g Is absolutely all he asks or expects fro1
~ his government -, :
20 William c. Edgar,
lei Editor Mort NEu1or