Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-03-29

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States are so nearly alike that what
ever adjustm ent takes place inagricul-
tural interests will be SO very slight in
final results to the farmer that only
a rumbling quake. without damage. will
be felt when that imaginary CONNER
cial assure between the United States
and Canada slips together.
The Herald speaks of the ease with
which Boston milk concerns would
"caImly reach over into Canada and
fill their cars at WILL" at such time
as was experienced by the New Eng
land farmer last fall when he was
trying to get better prices for his
milk. The Herald apparently disre-
CARDS the fact that Boston is $50
miles from the nearest Canadian
farm and 300 miles from any number
of Canadian farms that would supply
milk by the carload; that this same
Canadian farmer is only SO miles from
his own markets of Montreal and
Quebec and that transportation
charges and problems would make it
almost impossible for the Canadian
farmer to in any way become a COM
petitor.
The Herald insults the honest belief
of many an intelligent farmer on this
side of the line who favors the
treaty, as we'll as those on the other
c;jo ubo do MT f,uor - ,pbor - o,ro
that anyone is shortsighted who can
not see the vast advantage to the
Canadian farmer in the composition
of the proposed schedule. Anyone
who follows the Canadian papers can
not fail to find some pretty strong
arguments against the treaty, as a
detriment to Canadian agricultural
interests, and the writer of the fol-
lowing which appeared in a letter
to the Montreal Star is worth quot
ing:
"Under reciprocity the Canadian
border farmer will be menaced as
never before. That conviction is
steadily growing as the question is
being looked into in all of it's aspects
Fill up the markets of our big manu-
featuring centres with American
ust-handled produce. and reciproci-
vealed. | hope the Star will send a
farming districts and then tell the
Canadian agriculturists what he finds.
A greater public duty could not fall
to newspaper at this juncture.
Gan Old Subscriber,
"Stanstead Plain, Que"
If the Star should send a represent
ative here and he should go home and
tell what he found he would tell the
Canadian farmer that he was paying
80 1-3 per cent less for cream separa-
tors made in Vermont than the YER
monter was paying; that the Canadi.
an farmer was buying United States
plows for 40 per cent less money than
the New England farmer and that
this was the fruit Of protection from
Canadian competition. That the
United States farmer by surrounding
himself with protection wall had
made it possible for combines and
combinations to corner everything
within that wall and charge him ex-
orbitant prices for his machinery
and pay him what he pleased for his
product. That in reality the wall
was making a prisoner of him instead
of being merely thing to keep
others out. That he was really in
the position of the boy who got into
Jail but wrote home to his mother
that he had a steady inside job where
the rough world could not get in to
buffet him about. 1t was true.
Incidentally he might tell the publ
sher of the Star that he was buying
printing presses made in New England
cheaper than the Herald or the Monitor
was able to buy them--and also that he
was able to buy almost identically the
same type composing machine, hand
led by a subsidiary company in Can
ada, for less money THAI it could be
purchased for here.