Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06

his wheat In Competition With
Other COuntrics-Must Continue to
Buy Dear and Sell Cheap.
The large number of Republican
FARMERS in the western states that re-
pudiated the candidates of their party
Tor congress shows that it does not
pay FOR politicians to try to deceive
the people. SO many important state
ments set forth as facts in the Re-
publican campaign book have been
shown to be pure fiction that it will be
difficult to get the farmers at least TO
give any credencc to Republican state
ments in the future. The evidence of
apother attempt Of the Protective Tar
lH league, through its organ, the Amer
lean Economist, to deceive the Repub-
llcan voters has been discovered when
1t quoted part Of the speech Of Repre-
sentative McCleary of Minnesota, in
Which he declared that wheat was
selling for Is to 20 cents a bushel more
on the American side of the border
than on the Canadian side. Of course
he credited this purely imaginary adj
vantage Of the American farmer to the
tariff duty of % cents a bushel on
wheat provided for in the sacred Ding
ley law. The facts prove that the
price Of wheat on each side of the in
ternational border has been about the
same all this season.
j.. e. Bouvette, editor Of the Kittson
County Enterprise, published at Hal
lock, Mimi, the nearest town of i'm
portance to the Canadian border, was
asked to investigate the price of wheat,
and he furnishes the following evil
dence:
Office Of the Kittson Co. Enterprise; ]. E.
Bouyette, Prop.
Hallock, Mimi, Oct. %.
Robert Miller, Esq, Washington:
Dear Sir-Herewith I inclose letter from
II. HUFFMAN Of Manitou. Manitoba, just
across the Canadian border from this
place. Mr.. Henry HUFFMAN is buyer for
the Lake Of the Woods Milling and Ele-
vator company, one of the largest and
most substantial concerns in Canada.
You will observe that Mr.. HUFFMAN quotes
the highest price paid this season, some
time in the latter part Of September, at
65 cents, while the lowest was 81 cents,
or an average of 63 cents.
A. N. Holmer, buyer for the Imperial
Elevator company of this place, quotes
the highest figures paid per bushel for
this season at IS cents, on Aug. g. and
the lowest at 591s cents. Yours, ETC.,
]. E. BOUVETTE.
The paragraph in Mr.. Hubman's let
ter relating to the price of wheat is as
| follows:
"The highest price paid for wheat
here was G5 cents for 1 Northern; the
lowest was G1 cents; the average is GO
ceuts for 1 Northern. We get no No.
1 hard wheat here. About one-half
Of the wheat raised here is No. /
Northern; the balance is 2 and 3 North
| ern."
And yet Congressman McCleary de-
clares and the Republican managers
have the %effrontery to publish in their
official campaign book on page 147 that
the price of wheat was Is or 20 cents
higher on the American side of the line
| than in Manitoba and reads a long lee
ture to prove that the tariff on wheat
protects the American farmer.
AS the price of wheat everywhere
has been declining in consequence Of
worldwide crops, while the tariff pro-
tected products Of the trusts have been
advancing in price, so that Bradstreet
reports for October that the cost Of liv-
ing has advanced nearly SO per cent
since 1897, the year the present Repub-
lican tariff law was enacted. yet the
American farmer is selling his wheat
and other products at the worlds
prices, in free competition with other
countries having a surplus to dispose
of, and is purchasing all that he needs
to buy at the eXorbitant price the
trusts are enabled to obtain through
tariff protection. Thus the old demand
Of the farmers that they be allowed to
buy in the cheapest market and sell
their products in the dearest markets
has Deer reversed, to their evident and
great disadvantage, by the Republican
system of pro%tectionism.
A Stand Pat Pet Defeated.
The defeat Of Congressman Nc