Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-02-04
0Weeplng Victory for the Min
neapolis Millers.
Editor Morris Tribune :

-, poiis journal, speaking
'ne recent opinion of the present
a'Cofney General of the United
states to the effect that it will be
Pe'"isslole for the Secretary of the
ieasury to rule that the Minneapo
AAs mlllers, land of course other millers)
may import Canadian wheat to be
mixed with domestic wheat (inwhat-
ever proportion may best suit the
hlliiers wlshes) to be manufactured
lnto Hour for export and when export
co. be repaid by the United States
government the tariff paid on such
canadian wheat when imported, very
properly says "This decision is Q
sweeping victory for the Minneapolis
mlilers" although it is less than two
years ago that the Minneapolis
journal was saying that the then
proposed abrogation of the tariff on
imported Canadian wheat would be
OF greater use and benefit to the
grain growers of Minnesota than to
the millers of Minneap His.
For several months past, dispairing
of getting rid of the tariff or I'M
ported Canadian wheat by direct re-
peal or amendment of the law at any
early date, the Minneapolis miliers,
and other allied interests, have been
moving heaven and EARTH" so to
say, at Washington, to get from the
Secretary of the Treasury, in the in
terest of the Minneapolis millers. the
very ruling which the present At
tornev General now advises him it
will be permissible for him 10 make.
The proposed ruling, frarght with
so much evil to the best interests of
the constituents of Congressman
Volstead, has been all along strenu-
ously opposed by him and until al
most the last moment, he has hc ped
to prevent such ruling by the
Secretary of the Treasury who,
seemingly wishing to avoid a per-
sonal responsibility in the matter, re.
ferred it to the present Attorney
Genera for his opinion or as the
Minneapolis Journal calls it his
"Decision;" and be has now advised
the S 'cratary that it will be permits
sible for him to rule in favor of the
Minneapolis miIlers; and at once the
Minneapolis journal, quite unable
to refrain its hilarious feelings in the
premises, exuItantly exclaims This
decision is sweeping victory for the
Minneapolis miIlers;" and so it really
is; and in the same measure, it is a.
body blow to the wheat raisers of the
Dakotas and Minnesota and they, if
true to themselves, will straightway
get together in their respective local
tiles, and adopt suitable and explicit
resolutions of protest to be forward
ed to their respective representa-
tives at Washington, protesting with
much vigor and great earnestness
against this proposed ruling: and the
farmers of Stevens County ought to
get together for that purpose with
out delay and make themselves
heard and felt upon this matter.
Whv,even the last democratic Attor-
ney Gen. Of the United States refused
to be used as an instrument to perpe-
trate upon the wheat growers of the
northwest this Infamous iniquitv for
when this Identical proposition, the
law being exactly the same theu as it
is now, was by a democratic Secre-
tary of the Treasury put to him for
an opinion, decided just exactly
opposite to the way the present Attorn-
ey General has decided.
He perhaps foresaw what the pres
ent Attorney General refuses to see
which is that the very reasons urged
by the Minneapolis millers for want
ing this iniquitous ruling are abso-
lutely untrue.
The millers, through their repre-
sentafives at Washington, have urged
that they desire the Canadian wheat
to mix with the domestic wheat of
the northwest-of the Dakotas and
Minnesota which is the same kind of
wheat though not of SO good quality;
but the truth il, the milers want the
Canadian wheat (which is a gluten
Gus wheat) in order to mix and blend
the same with the soft wheat of Kan
sas, and Nebraska which is al
starchy wheat, not glutenous wheat.
which the Minneapolis milIers are