Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

restricted for years in their work.
Why? Steel and iron are their raw
materials, and unless they can get
their raw material, their steel and their
iron, substantially on the same basis
OF prices which prev ails in the markets
of the world they are handicapped.
BY these exorbitant schedules you en-
able the trusts to hold up these hun.
dreds of smaller manufacturers and
prevent them from getting the raw ma.
terial that they need to engage in the
worlds competition, which they are
otherwise better equipped for in many
lines than any manufacturers in the
world.
SIN these and many other schedules
your tariff has ceased to be q protect.
i've tariff, because instead of further
ing and increasing the demand for do.
nestle production it has decreased it.
Instead of encoura ging industry it re-
taros industry"
Mr. Lind then launched into the sub
ject Of Canadian reciprocity. This
part o. his speech covers four pages
of the Congressional Record and is
we'll worth reading by anyone inter.
sted in the quest ons of the day. Ee
said in part:
'This region not only will raise
immense quantities of grain, but is
capable of developing and maintain
ng as high degree of pro spe' ity and
civilization as we have in Iowa, Wis.
consin, Minnesota, and the two OAK
,otas. 1t is bound t. come, and in q
shorttime. The young men from Iowa,
the young men from Dakota, the young
men from our State, the young men
from Illinois, are going there, went
there last year and the year before,
not by thousands but by tens Of thou
sands, to participate in the develop
ment OF that magnificent domain.
"Do you blame them for going?
Did you not do the same when you
came out to the prairies in Illinois
when you ventured to Oregon? Did not
my father do the same when he came
to Minnesota? Some Of you before me
ventured to 60 to the frontier prairies
of tn, Dakotas. 1t is in destiny-al
though l almost despise the word
after the way it has been prostituted
of late-but If there is any permissible
use for it in connection with politics
I say it is in the destiny Of this con.
tinent that that section shall be part
and parcel of ourselves, economically
at least. Applause
''Wby stand in the way? Why will
you not permit those of our own blood,
Of our Own language, of cur own
ideals, and our own manners-in fact,
I heard it said that my colleague from
the Red River district strayed into
Canada to e'ectioneer last fall, and
did not discover that he had strayed
until he was told. daughter. say,
why will you not permit those people
to trade with US, to be part OF Us
economically 30
A congressman from Massachusetts
didn't like to have the standard of his
state compared with Canada and asked
questions about Quebec. He was
given this re,ort from Mr.. Lind:
II am not familiar with the rate OF
increase of the population in French
Canada. I have never had an oppor-
tunity to investigate. My acquaint-
ance with Canadians has been wholly
in the West, and that is the future of
Canada, as it is of the United States. "
[Applause.
Congressman Davis of Minnesota
interrupted and suggested that Lind's
speech was being made in the interests
of the Minneapolis millers instead of
the farmers. Mr.. Lind replied in part:
~ started to say, and the e mile.
man will not deny the fact, that the
wheat in his section, in Iowa, ard in
the southern portion of Dakota is
somewhat deteriorating in quality.
"What has made Minneapolis flour
great? What has given it worldwide
market? Is it not it's superior quality
and the faithful maintenance Of th at
quality? But, to maintain that stan
dard, we must have the stronger wheat,
that wheat rich in gluten which comes
now only from the prairies OF the
Dakosas and from the northern part
of our Safe and in decreasing amour,
but which we must obtain from Mani
toba and from the other Canadian
Provinces in the future.
eff for possible present temporary
cain you think that your millers
should be prohibited from maintain
ing the quality of their goods main
tanning their worldwide market,
where will your farmer neighbours and
mine land when "Pillsbury Best" has
ceased to stand for what it NJ W stands?
You know, as know, that our local
wheat commands the price that it does
only because our mills can as yet OBJ
tain enough ct the stronger northern
wheat to mix with it.
But l trust my frie1 d, that you and
my other colleagues from our State,
who are men given to economic thought