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soon reach 10O,OOO,OOO bushels per an
mum.
The Canadian wheat product ut our
northwestern gate, if admitted to our
mills free of tariff tax, would practi-
cally double the wheat receipts of Min
neapolis, double the size of our milled
product, mad correspondingly increase
the employment of labor, and blessings
which flow from this industry into ev-
cry avenue of our commercial life.
The maintenance of Il prohibitive tar
itf tax of % cents per bushel upon the
wheat Of Manitoba imported across the
Minnesota boundary is of no benefit to
any American interest, agricultural or
otherwise, and it is Il crime against the
greatest manufacturing industry of our
commonwealth. 1t forces the high
grade wheat of Western Canada to
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British markets. where it is becoming
the foundation Of a British milling in.
dustly which is today robbing Mime
apols millers of their best export mar
ket.
1t robs thousands Of skilled workme-:
of the opportunities for employment to
which they are entitled by natures
gifts and advantages. 1t robs the twin
cities of the commercial and industrial
greatness which is theirs by natural
right.
Minneapolis ranks today fourteenth
among the manufacturing centers of
America in the volume of production.
1t is ahead of Detroit, Louisville, Jer-
sey City, Allegheny, Paterson, Worces-
ter, Lowell and Fall River, or Of any
Atlantic coast city except New York,
Philadelphia, Boston or Baltimore, and
it puts out three ifths of the manufac-
tured volume credited to Boston and
Pittsburg.
Minneapolis has 1900 mills and fac
tories and perhaps 1000 shops, making
a total of $500 manufacturing es-
Enlistment.
The capital in these manufacturing
plants aggregates not less than $780,
100000. No less than $3OOOO,OOO is
represented in land and buildings and
$20,0OO,OOO in machinery.
There are employed in these $500
manufacturing establishments up
wards of $4,000 hands at over $1S,OOO,-
600 in wages per annum.
The fixed charges on these plants ag-
gregtae S1O,OOO,OOO and the cost of raw
materials $10O,OOo,OOo year.
The wholesale value of the annual
product for the city and it's near by
suburban points exceeds $15O,OOO,OOO
every twelve months.
In other words, notwithstanding the
fact that one-half Of our natural trade
territory has been walled out by tariff
notwithstanding the fact,
moreover, that the raw materials to
the north Of us in the shape Of wheat,
barley flax and timber, are excluded
from our mills and factories through
the same unnatural cause-we have
built up a manufacturing industry
which rivals that of Buffalo, Cleveland,
Cincinnati and Baltimore.
With free trade relations between
Manitoba and Minnesota our Industrial
output would increase SO per cent in
side of five years. The 10000 hands
employed at $1s,0OO,OOO wages would
swell to $4,000 on pay roll of $27, OOO,-
900. The $1OO,OOO,OOO of material con-
verified into $15OOOO,OOO product
would in five years become $15O,OOO,OOO
worth of materials converted into a
product valued at 1925, 100000 per an
mum, and Minneapolis would rise in
a leap to the manufacturing rank of
Boston or Pittsburg.
In order to get solitary factory
this city, like some of its sister COM
mercial municipalities, has been known
in times past to raise large bonuses.
Reciprocity with Canada would be
worth more to the future of this city
in five years than all the bonuses that
we could tax ourselves to contribute i'll
a century. And all that is required Of
the people of Minnesota to achieve this
development is to vote to send n solid
reciprocity delegation a few years to
congress.
Minneapolis can never hope to rise
out Of it's present rank into that of the
first-class commercial and industrial
centers until it is given by law the
opportunity to avail itself of all the
resources bestowed upon it by nature
and it's commercial location.
1t is entitled to free access to the
great agricultural territory in sight
through it's northwestern gateway. In
that territory nature decreed for Min
neapolis great market. To that terri
tory the twin cities are 400 miles near
er than their nearest competitor, Chi
cago, and transportation advantage
of 400 miles in reaching a market only
400 miles away from our mills. factor
les and jobbing houses would insure
us the trade; especially when Chicago
has no direct lines of it's own into Man.
itoba and northwestward.
Ten years Of reciprocity with Can
ada, with free raw materials from
Nfop;fol,o On+o rim opd tho northwest