Morris tribune., 1905-02-11
Farmers and Business rlen Protest.

recent ruling of the Secretary of the
Treasury on drawbacks OF tariff on
Canadian wheat imported into this
country. The meeting was quite
largely attended, and was very en-
thusiastistio. Senator Thorpe has
recently offered in our State Senate a
resolution protesting against the
ruling of the Secretary of the
Treasury, aud the resolution adopted
at the meeting are in commentator
of his resolution. The resolutions
are set forth in full and are vigorous
and to the point. T. II. Mcguire
presided at the meeting, and Mr.. l..
G. Spooner spoke at some length in
favor of the resolution adopted.
Morris, Mimi, Feb. 9Th, 1905.
Hon. L. 0. Thorpe,
Senate of Minnesota,
st HauI, Minnesota.
We, the undersigned, citizens of
Morris, Minnesota and vicinity bust
ness men in p:.rt, have learned that
you have recently introduced into the
Sanate of this state resolution in
the nature of a protest against the
recent reported ruling of the Hon.
Secretary of the United States Trea-
sury to the effect, as we are informed,
that millers of the United States may
import Canadian wheat into the
United States on payment OF the law
full tariff thereon, which we under
stand is at the rate of twenty-five
cents per bushel thereof, and after
the importation thereof mix the same
with home grown or domestic wheat.
for example, the soft wheat of Kansas
or other Southwestern production, in
whatever proportion may best answer
the purpose of the parties interested
and them manufacture the mixture
into -four and other by-products, and
thereupon export the -four. which is
the product of such mixture of Cara
dian wheat and domestic wheat, re-
tanning and selling at home the by
products of such manufacture, and
upon the expectation OF such flour
reclaim, or recoup from the United
States Treasury in the form Of, what
the Hon. Secretary is pleased to term
drawbacks, ninety-nine per cent OF
the tariff paid upon the imported
Canadian wheat manufactured into
-four thus exported; and we desire to
represent that we are and it is our
very confident belief that subf.tantl-
ally all wheat raisers in the Dakotas
and Minnesota are, unreservedly and
unalterably opposed to that sort OF a
ruling of the Hon. Secretary, unre
servedly and unalterably opposed to
that sort of a construction OF the
present tariff laws or the United
States relating to imported Canadian
wheat. for that, such a rnling, such a
construction of our said Tariff Laws
will necessarily work great evil to
and be inmeasuraly DETRIMENTAL to;
almost incalcuably detrimental, to
the wheat raisers of the Dakotas and
Minnesota; and we desire further to
represent that we endorse and ap-
prove, and it is our very confident
belief that substantially all business
men and especially all wheat raisers
in the Dakotas and Minnesota en-
dorced and approve, your said action
you haye done in the Senate,
as above stated:
We wish you to know, that we
protest against the ruling of the
Hon. Secret airy, referred to, and we
also pre- test against his construction
or our present Tariff Laws relating
to imported Canadian what involved
ia such ruling, and we desire to re-
present to you, and through to the
Legislature of this State protest
against said ruling, and against a
of our Tariff Laws re-
dating to imported Canadian wheat
which will permit such ruling.
We desire futher to state, and re-
present that even though the ruling
referred to impose upon the milIers,
as condition president to reclaim
ing or recouping che tariff paid upon
wheat thus mixed with
domestic wheat and manufactured
into -four and exported the necessity
Of also exporting the by-products of
,uoh IN q ,1facf1ra Wa would still no