The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-12-21
FREE FOOD PRODUCTS.

that in his last annual address he
"called attention to the fact that the
Standard Oil interests and the great
American packers had gone into the
Argentine Republic to develop the live
stock interest so far as to secure
cheaper meats for the American
trade" He said, recent develop
ments have proved this to be true"
and he gave it as his opinion that 1T
will not be many years until live beef
cattle and dressed meats will be i'm
ported from the Argentine into this
country" Mr.. Sykes has reason also
to extend the field of his apprehension
to include Canada and Mexico.
The Des Moines Register and Lead
er, referring to the address of Mr..
Sykes, says: "Of course, Senator Cum
Minis is not making his fight for re-
vision one schedule at time with free
meat in view. But what the east is
figuring on may be plainly discerned.
The first move for tariff changes will
be for free foods. That is what the
Iowa farmer has ahead of him." How
the Register and Leader knows this is
not so clear. 1t knows, to be sure,
that the senator is under political OBJ
legation to the Corn Belt Meat Pro
ducerS' association, but it must also
remember that as governor of the
state in 1904 he pleaded earnestly in
his inaugural address for the free in
terchange with Canada of our manu-
featured products for the agricultural
products of the dominion. "Let me ask
the farmers of Iowa." he said, "Wheth-
er they think they would lose in the
exchange?" The farmers that year
answered that they thought they
would.
At the same time the Register and
Leader was putting forth in Des
Moines it's comment on the Sykes adj
dress, Eugene N. Foss, governor-elect
of Massachusetts,, was explaining at
democratic lovefeast in New York
why he had been ruled out of the re-
publican party in Massachusetts" If
Senator Cummins had been an am
bilious man in Massachusetts instead
of Iowa he would have kept company
with Mr.. FOss. Speaking of 'reci-
procity with Canada" Mr.. Foss said
"After all, Canadian reciprocity is only
the first step toward free trade on this
.C.A...-..t. 80 trade on this CONT !
nent would give this country an i'm
petus for the next hundred years and |
would establish us permanently as the
greatest commercial power in the
world. The reciprocal relations with
Canada and Mexico should not extend
to every country in America" 1t is
quite evident Mr.. Sykes did not make
his statement broad enough.
At the same time the Register and
Leader was presenting the warning of
Mr.. Sykes and adding it's own, the
Des Moines paper was engaged in pre-
senting the warning OF Senator Lafay-
cite Young, offered in his maiden
speech on the floor of the senate. The
Junior senator said 81 might not be
willing to object to the rule proposed
by my colleague, which would prohibit
the Offering of amendments to a
schedule which might be pending, were
/ not afraid that the first schedule to
be pending would be the schedule
covering farm products" The point
may be worth the attention OF the
Corn Belt Meat Producers association
and the Register and Leader, partlcu-
larly as Gen. Byers, who hopes to win
the senatorship in the legislative con-
test by the favor of the senior senator,
has based his public petition for pre-
ferment on the claim that he has al
ways entertained opinions in harmony
with the opinions of Senator Cum
Minis.
The farmers of the middle west will
hardly receive adequate protection,
either in tariff rates or in transpor-
tation rates, unless they qualify them
selves for independent and intelligent
action in their own behalf.
The Atlantic coast country does not
produce sufficient food supply for its
own consumption, and therefore it is
contributor to the prosperity OF tbs
portion Of the country. No one IN
politics out this way is willing 70 stand
by assertion that the farmers are Nil-
duly prosperous, although Mr.. Cum
MINIS in 1905, testifying before the
senate committe on interstate con!-
merce, did take the ground That they
were not entitled, upon any fair ad-
justment of rates throughout the
United States. to the rates granted
to them on butter and eggs into The
eastern markets.
The increased Cost OF food supplies,