Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-12-29
THE TARIFF BoAR.
m.-PAST REPORTS.
by Frederic ]. HaSkia.

lu3 u3GlW DOdT0 las Hoio OlOiO
meids Two general reports, one deal |
Ing wlsf wood pulp and news print !
Rapsr and taIs others with articles af
feciai By She proposed nscapnOoi'y |
agnaamlant with Canada. Tho iabter
report was made in answer to 1850
utiR Of the senate oshlng for snfOr
mation in tine possession OF the TARIFF
beard relading to arHcbss affected By
We reciprocity measure. This report
save to congress certain information
regarding wood pulp and news print
paper; farm products including live
stock; relatives farm values and farm
wages in the Canada and the United
STATES, and current prices in Canada
and the United States OF wheat, bar
ley, meats, poultry, eggs, dsiry pro
ducts, vegetables and other cOmmOdi-
ties produced On the farm.
The resolution of the senate called
fQ. information ON iron ore and the
products manufactured therefrom, on
coal and on lumber 1t also asked for
information ON the wool and cotton
schedules. The Tariff board replied
nat it had no information ON iron ore
and its manufactured products in form
available for transmission. 1t also ne
piled that it had not investigated
the coal question and that it had
postponed investigations into the lum-
Der Question until the bureau of cor
poratiOns had finished its work, SO as
to avoid expensive duplication.
The report made on the question of
pulp4and news-print paper, although a
preliminary one, was fairly full and
the facts reported thereafter in the
complete document did not materially
alters the showing made in the pre-
liminary report. The investigation i'm
u all matters pertaining to the farm
was reported to congress i'm fOrty-
eight pages, while it required seventy
nix pages to analyze the wood pulp
and news PRINT paper.
In considering the question of farm
products the tariff board roughly d.
TidadsO Canada into two parts, old Cam
ada and new. Canada. Old Canada en-
hraced the entire EASTERN section of
The country and British Columbia on
he Pacific. New Canada embraced in
IT. division considerable part of Nam
lAoba and the provinces Cf Saskatche-
van and Alberta. The conditions in
old Canada were like unto those OBJ
tanning in the earlier settled regions
d the United States. One of the fins!
lines of investigation was to find the
relatives prices of farm lands in the
United States and Canada. 1t was
tOund that in the New England Dor
der states the lands values were lowe
than those in the Canadian border
stStes adjacent thertO. In the border
safes of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota land values were higher
than those in any of the eastern prov
inces with the exception of Ontario,
where they were 81 higher per acre
Than in Michigan and Minnesota. On
rhe other hand, land values in Wis
consin were 81 higher than these in
Ontario. In Illinois ard Iowa land
values are little more than twice as
high as in Ontario.
It was found that occupied land in
Saskatchewan and Alberta was worth
S22 and $40 per acne respectively. The
Investigations of the tariff board re-
Wesled the fact that farm labor wages
are ON the same general level in Man.
itoba and Minnesota and in Saskat-
chewan and North Dakota. The wages
ir North Dakota and Saskatchewan
were found to be higher than those
paid in Minnesota and Manitoba. 1t
win be seen from this that labor con-
ditaoms show no greater variation be
tween the United States and Canada
than between the states Of the
United STATES themselves, and this
was taken by many to indicate that
there was 10 need of the imposition
of t., If duties ON Canadian products
coming into the United States.
The investigation into the price OF
wheat i'm Canada and the Un1ted
States showed that the Minneapolis
prices of wheat averaged some six
cents above Winnipeg prices, while
Minneapolis prices also averaged
about seven cents above Kansas City
prices The same general results were
shown in connection with the produc-
ton of other farm crops. In the case
Of hive stock the prices of horses in
Canada, except in Prince Edward
Island. Manitoba and Nova Scona