Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-17
R|D|CULES
 CEREAL DUTY
Blind Senator Says Tariffs on Corn and Wheat Are De-
 lusions and Snare
AlDRlCH AND SMCOT
 ARGUMENT ANSWERED
Special to Review by Tar.l

mers should be willing to stand high duties on farming implements" sa IS Messrs. Aldrich and Shoot. who are in charge of the tariff bill. Tn fact, the farmers should be the last ones to complain of advanced rates. Ha -s we not taken care Of the farmer advancing the duty on corn and wheat"
 But does the duty of 25 cents ! tushel on wheat help the farmer, CT is the alleged benefit" tmerely myth? Senator Gore answered this query by submitting to the senate the market prices of wheat in the highly protected American markets and the prices in free trade Canadian mark cts.
 According to the logic of Senators Aldrich and Shoot wheat should com i mand higher price, in the United States than in Canada.
 [ At Winnipeg on June 12," said
 Senator Gore. July wheat was uoted
 at sl.30A. at Duluth s1.30H and at Minneapolis sl.31iz. Now, sir, mark i the change when you leave the Cana ' dian line. July wheat was qouted :n [ New York at s1.26 in Chicago at from i s116 to sl.22, notwithstanding our protection of 25 cents a bushel. But, l sir. the contrast sharpens as we pro, ceed. July wheat was quoted in St Louis at sl.16, IA cents less than as | Winnepeg. notwithstanding the duty of 9 cents. and in Kansas City. the market in which l feel the deepest iu- ! terest, July wheat was quoted at SLIP. | Is cents less than the Canadian wheat ' in Winnipeg, notwithstanding your |, splendid protection of 9 cents per ! bushel.
 Farmer, S;louid Not Complain. MT. President, the tariff on corn and the tariff on wheat are a delusion and a snare; and whenever farmers
 complain that duties have been ia- | creased on the necessaries of life, tn. great statesmen of this senate will complacentty assure them that they ought not to murnur: that the far.
 mer was not neglected; that the duties were inereased on agricultural products.
 These increased duties on farm
 products are intended to dazzle and
 deceive the farmers of this country. | l hope that this debate will not close
 until some senator on the other side
 has explained why it is that the man who is engaged in manufacturing i'm plements in the United States can not compete with the foreigner, when the man who is engaged in producing farm products in the United States
 must compete with the foreigners Of
 all the earth Farm labor in the | United States is paid from 90 cents q day all the way to s1.75 a day. This
 Is from two to twenty times as much
 as the wages that are paid to their
 competitors throughout the farming
 nations of the world. Our wheat.
 producers must sell their wheat h,
 competition with Russian wheat,
 which is produced by labor that is paid from 10 to 15 cents per day; be
 must sell his wheat in the marke; places in competition with wheat tha;
 is produced in India by pauper labo-
 that is paid from to 10 cents per day. The cotton farmers of the South
 must meet in the markets of the earth
 the cotton that is grown in India and
 in Egypt. and grown by ryots ans,
 coolies who toiI from the rising to the
 setting sun for the miserable pittance of from 6 to 10 cents a day.
 I Forced to Buy From Trusts | If the farmers of the United States | must compete wltE the haif-ied- ha.f-
 clad pauper laborers of the earth. then why should they be compelled tc
 buy their implements from tariff protected trust. sheltered against all foreign competition?
 The senate has not extended. en..
 the senate cannot extend, any benefi- cfal protection to the farmers of tue
 United States. I am well aware that the tariff on corn has been increased ty this bill from Is to 20 cents per
 busheI Mir. President. confess l ei- ! joy joke, but the tariff on corn Is
 an overdraft on my sense of the ri- iucu1ous
 Think of it, In 1906 we produced 2,s27 .000,000 bushels of corn and i'm ported only 10000 bushels, and that principally for seed. For every 100000