The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-08
WOULD PAY US BACK.

The tariff Is again to the fore. and in Q new place. It is the high price Of American wheat that is worrying our miiiers. united to the tarifr on foreign wheat Canada is only separated from us by a dry line. and 1t would be as easy to get wheat from that country as 1t is to get 1t from one of our States to another. but for the tariff. The duty Is 25 cents per bushei, and that makes a material difference to the American miller. One of them. who Is largely Interested in the milling business in Minneapolis recently said:
 If we had the so,ooe.ooo bushels that Canada raised this year, at the price it's selling at up there. think how our miiis mills are to live. we must have that wheat. That line is wall 800 miles long and five feet high. and It's maae of silver quarters. each quarter the dian wheat. That wall is greater misfortune to us than Joseph Chamber lain's Import tax on -four ever. threat ened to be. That wall stands ne.Wecm city in America has ever known. It stands between Minneapolis and a mil lion population: 1t stands between us and such a prosperity as we never dreamed of.
 That is the condition from . Mime apolis miller's point of view. If that great crop could be brought across the border. or a large part of 1t. even. It would boom Minneapolis and give her millers a decided advantage over their brethren elsewhere. provided. of course' that city could get monopoly or It. Even if 1t only divided with other milling cities near the line. 1t would give them quite a boom. Incidentally it may be remarked. it would break the wheat corner, if there Is one, ana would reduce the price of flour to some millions of consumers.
 That is the United States side Of the matter, but there is q Canada side, and The Toronto World has something to say about 1t. in these words;
 Unfortunately, however. for the Min neapolis millers who want our wheat: 1t is not part of the national Polcy Va make the mills of Minneapolis hum The mlllers Of the United States ao- yocate a reciprocal arrangement which will not be to the advantage OF sa3. Cana- of wheat raised in the Northwest every wear will furnish employment Tor tnou- sands of Canadian toilers, ana U may be necessary for us. If shs aa,su uniten wheat to levy an export duty Tn order that this raw material may be kept Tor our own mills.
 There we have it, plain and to the point. We are fiatly informed that our brethren across the line are not re- sponsible for our needs and do not in tend to supply them at the expense Of their own people, which Is all sound doctrine, we are compelled to admit. The intimation, or rather threat, that if our Government takes the duty of wheat Canada will put 1t on flour im- ported into her domain, is also sound and valid argument. on the self-defense theory. Tn other words. they say to us: If you get our wheat free of duty, we will make you pay for getting your flour across the line. Tit for tat, that's all.
 But The World offers a crumb of com fort to the mihers of Minneapolis, tell ing them if their wheat supply Is run ming short. to 'come over and establish plants to grind the raw material on Canadian soil" And 1t adds: Let Canada keep the profits the Minneapo- lis millers long for within her ownibor- ders, and for the benefit of her own people," If that isn't sound doctrine,
 .. o.n ,.oahlA to aaa the flaw in it. 1t is the. doctrine of self-preservation' and certainly no protected American on our side can find room for complaint After we have kept out their wheat for years by a prohibitive duty, if they now turn to and keep out our flour in the same manner, we must admit that we are only getting dose of our own physic Ity is the way of the world and the tariff. M