The Detroit times., 1911-05-19
M RAE sPEAks.FOR
RECIPROCITY IN
WASHINGTON
Reads Statistics Covering Whole
Field Of Production Before Senate
Finance Committee 70 Per
Cent Of Michigan Favor It.
In Reply to Fire Of Questions he Says
He Has No Interest In
Print Paper.
trrom . special corr..po.a..t.,


ity with Canada because he believes
the agreement will reduce the price
of his product. From the tables com
piled by The bureau Of trade relations
of the state department Il appears
that the United States will remit
duties to the amount OF s4,s50.0o0 by
the reciprocity agreement, and Can
ada will remit duties TO the amount
OF s2.5eo,ooo. OF this s4.sso,ooo,
more than $1,6o0,0o0 comes from du-
ties on lumber. and nearly 100000
accrues from duties levied on imports
of fish. This leaves q balance OF w.
900 which the farmer might al
lege would be taken out of their
pockets.
There must be subtracted from
this sR,75e,00o, the duties levied on
pulp. fertilisers. WHISTLES, tobacco,
salt, railroad ties, wooden slaves,
cedar posts, mica and coke. The pitt.
fully small amount left, when COM
pared to the great agricultural com
munities of the United States, leads
one to ask, why all the oppositionf'
Both Canada and the United
States are wheat exporting nations.
European mills have had access to
the Canadian wheat supply, and have
been enabled to wrest from the
American miller q large percentage
of his export trade. The increase In
Canadian mills IN the last tan years
has also been startling. In 1900 Can
ada'B export Of -four was 771,000 bar
rels: In 1910 II was 3.064, 900 barrels;
In 1900 The United States exported 1S,-
100, 900 barrels: In 1910 United States
export of -four had fallen to s,041,0o0
barrels.
"The wheat crop OF the United
States has been practically stationary
throughout the past ten years, rang
ing from $50, 100000 bushels to 7bo,-
OO0,0 bushels annually. The pres
emit production OF Canada IL from 1907
000, 900 bushels 70 150.000,0o0 bushels.
It Is safe to assume. that Canada's
surplus wheat In the Immediate fu-
ture will range from 40,000,000
bushels to 100 100000 bushels. It will
find O market somewhere-and ~wili
compete with whatever surplus Uni.
ted States may have to sell. The Ca
madam surplus will be less of price
depressing factor II handled through
American mills than II dumped di-
rectly into the markets OF the United
Kingdom and Europe.
Canadian corn raisers can never
be a serious competitor Of American
farmers because the restrictions Of
climate and soil are too great
handicap.
IF the entire s2,75o,O0o of tariff
duty which may be removed from
farm produce by the reciprocity
agreement were to be taken from the
price OF the American wheat crop
alone next year, 1t would mean a re-
duction Of about one-third Of cent
a bushel
.Tn 1910 United States brought
from Canada goods to the amount OF
s97 ,S92.6S4. or this amount $45, 1885,
746 was already free, leaving So, 103,-
Gas dutiable. OF this So, 103,9 1888 now
dutiable, this agreement removes, or
reduces the duty on SO per cent OF
the total The movement OF some
farm produce from the United States
to Canada is greater than from Can
ada to the United States. and hence
the American farmer himself bene
fits by the change.
.This remission Of the duty on lum-
Der amounting to $1,600,000 means
more to the American farmer than
he has been willing to concede. The
enterprising farmer who cares to I'M
prove his buildings will profit more
by the removal Of the duty on the lum-
Der that goes into his new house or
barn, than he might lose by the one
third Of a cent a bushel reduction in
the price of the wheat crop"
'Tn 1890 the export trade of De-
troit was s5,422 ,996; In 1900 exports
amounted TO s17,66s,535; 1910. $40.-
970,509. In other words. Detroit's ex-
ports for last year were eight times
as much as In 1890. These figures
mean that Detroit manufacturers are
today securing the civilized world and
bringing back $40,970,509 year to be
paid largely to Michigan workingmen,
who In turn furnish market for
Michigan farm produce. II this $780,
O0O. 900 of new money now brought In
TO Detroit by the enterprise of her
manufacturers were to be suddenly
cut of. IL would be an Infinitely
greater disaster to the farms of Michf-
gan than the removal Of s2,750, 900 OF
tariff duties on Canadian farm pro-
duce.
"The total production OF beans In
the United States for 1910 Is given as
5,064,490 bushels.
Bean culture approaches a natural
monopoly. There are three localities
on the North American Continent
where the soii and climate combine
10 produce the highest quality OF
white beans. Livingston County, and
the adjoining counties In Michigan. IL
one region. The state OF New York
contains another region. Ontario pos
sesses the third. Each OF these areas
ts, when compared to the United
States, so small as TO be almost IN.
significant IL In true that beans are
raised in other parts OF the country.
but Michigan beans are literally tho
standard of the world.-1f- the duty
were 81 a bushel the bean raising
area OF the bean industry could not
be materially Increased because
climate and soil conditions absolutely
rule. The tariff could not stimulate
bean production beyond the limita-
lions OF nature.
"One vear with anofher fha Amert