Morris tribune., 1905-02-11

purchase Dakota and Minnesota
as cheap as or cheaper than the
a verage cost of the mixed Canadian
wheat and soft Southwestern wheat;
thus involving the wheat raisers of
the Dakotas and Minnesota in the
necessity of competing in the market
with the soft wheat of the South
western fields.
We believe, and 1t if our very con-
fident belief, that the wheat raisers
of Northwestern United States al
most to man believe that the ruling
ofthe secretary referred to is for the
most part in the interests of and
benificlal to the millers of Mime
apolis and Duluth and the whole
salers and jobbers of said cities and
St. Paul and the Railroads operating
between said cities and Canadian
territory; and we believe that the
ruling referred to is necessarily de-
trimental to the best interests of the
farm ers of this State and the Dakotas.
We further believe that our pres
ent Tariff Laws relating to imported
Canadian wheat should not be and
cannot be properly construed or
ruled as to permit the millers Of the
United States to import Canadian
wheat, aud manufacture the same in
to flour only, retaining and selling
the by products Of such manufacture
in the nome markets, and then re-
claim the tariff paid on the imported
Canadian wheat thus manufactured,
or even ninety-nine per cent thereof.
We believe that if the by-products of
such manufacture are retained and
sold in the home market, or in other
words, if our present Tariff Laws are
justly susceptible of being thus con-
strued. the millers should in that
case be permitted to 1ecoup or re-
claim not:exceeding hreefourths of
the tariff paid upon Canadian wheat
imported and manufactured into
-four exported where the by-product
of the manufacturer are retained and
sold in the home market
We desire further to say that the
sjgners hereof are but a part of
several hundred who met here to day
in mass meeting to consider and take
action upon the matters and things
herein referred to and all who were
present at such meeting voted their
endorsement of the statement and
sentiments herein set forth.
With great respsct for yourself and
the Legislature Of the State of Min
nesota We submit the foregoing.
At the Legislature
Morris, MINI, Feb, 10, 1905.
Morriss Tribune:-
Since you we're good enough to
publish last Saturday what | wrote
last Friday relative to the recent
ruling of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury which ruling affords to the mil
lers the opportunity to evake the
tariff on imported Canadian wheat
very much to the detriment of the
Minnesota wheat growers and is
therefore very obnoxious to them. I
want now to say to you and through
you to your readers that although |
knew nothing Of the fact when writ
you before, [ learned late Saturday
night that Senator Thorpe of Wilmar
Minnesota, had introduced into our
state senate a resolution of protest
against the obnoxious ruling referred
to. [ understood you will to morrow
publish Senator Thoap's resolution.
At the very earnest request of Sena-
tor Thorpe and Senator Schain d few
of us were present yesterday at the
State Capitol where the committee of
the senate having the resolu ton in
charge gave herring as we'll to those
to the resolution as to those
in favor of it and at times the dis
cussion of the merit of the resolution
got to be very earnest and very in
teresting but anyhow the result
reached was that the committee
voted practically unanimously to re
port the resolution to the senate
to pass; and Will
here the sentiment of the
house of representative was
sufficiently taken to satisfy those of
is who were there that the resolu
ion on reaching the house will be