Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-04-07
mo PROSPECT OF TARIFF REVISION
Senator hansbfOugh Declares That the House
Has ThrOtted The Proposition
North Dakota Senator Says Country is In the Grasp Of
an AutocfaCy Of Standpatters'

of the manufacturers that the
materials have been used In articles
Of export being accepted by the treas
ury department as evidence sufficient
to justify the granting Of the privil.t
eye. This is a gross preversion Of
the law, especially in the case Of
wheat. The millers claim that they
must have the Canadian wheat, to be,
blended with domestic soft wheat, for
the manufacture of flour for export.
This is a shifty and thinly disguised
subterfuge, by which even the tariff
revisionists and readjusters of the
treasury department should not have
been deceived. i.
q Unable to Locate the Imported /,
81 Product. III ssy *
J Furthermore, the grades Of hard
wheat are always higher in price than
the grades Of soft wheat, and the
high-priced wheat Is never used In
export -four, which must be sold In
the worlds markets in competition
with the cheap flours Of the world.
Yet under the treasury departments
remarkable policy it is all-sufiicient
il the miller swears that he has used
a high-priced wheat with which to
make q low-priced flour. The depart.
ment will go through the form of
supervising the operation, but it will
never be able to follow given guam.
THY of wheat through miles of ele.
vator shafts and spouts or to- locate
it even by chemical analysis in the
completed articles.
And SO with congressional tariff
REIMBURSEMENT now practically out Of
the question; with every demand Of
the manufacturers acceded to; with a
firmly established treasury depart.
ment policy that discriminates against
five millions Of grain growers and
thousands of miners and other pro.
ducers of raw materials; with
treasury deficit back Of us and one IN
front of us; with the house Of repre-.
sentatives in the grasp Of an autoc.
racy OF standpatters, we find our
selves joyously and blithley gliding
down the toboggan slide of prosperity
with our vision complacently fixed up.
on the mythical man in the moon.
The situation is altogether very beau.
tifm to contemplate and shows what
a great country like ours can endure
for the time being. My faith in the
policy OF protection is mistaken. It
Is the modern application of the
policy that disturbs me-"
No Chance for Reciprocity Treaty. !
What do you think of the possible
ty Of reciprocity with Canada?
There will be no reciprocity treaty
with with Canada, and so far as Canada
IS concerned, none is necessary,
Canada an 9d is now receiving greater bene-
fits under under Secretary shaw's train
policy than would be possible under
any reciprocity treaty. Last year we
exported $1,000, 900 barrels Of -four.
Il the secretary's order had been in
force last year nothing would have
prevented the millers of the country
from TOT claiming that all this -four was
made Of imported wheat. About four
bushels Of wheat are required to.
make 2 make a barrel Of -four. Suppose they
could have claimed that there were.
used used two bushels Of imported wheat
TO the barrel. This would mean a re-
bate Of duty of $4,000, 900.
Could there be devised any scheme.
OF reciprocity Of greater advantage to
Canada Under the drawback law.
as now interpreted, Canada gets free
trade for her greatest product. We
get nothing in return from Canada.
but we have the glorious privilege Of
making cheap -four for foreign con-
sumers at the expense of the Ameri-.
can grain grower. It Is not surpris-
Ing. therefore, that Canada, about the
time that Secretary Shaw announced
his tarif revision policy, rejected vice
President Fairbanks invitation to
reassemble the high joint commission.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian
premier. knows = good thing when he
sees It.
The sodawater season at the Rich
holt fruitery will resume business for
the season Of 1905 tomorrow. The