The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

: dilu 4 HdtcF Only udu i've COluHluHlCtta
tons from my state asking or sus-
costing that should support this pro.
posed treaty. The farmers in North
Dakota know from actual personal
/ knowledge the difference between
the prices which they receive for
their grain upon the American side
and the prices which the Canadian
| farmers receive upon the Canadian
side of the line. | stated last Febr,l-
airy that at the town of Portal. OH
/ December 81, 1910-and that was be-
fore there was any talk of Canadian
/ Reciprocity wheat was worth there
/, that day Sc cents bushel across
the street in North Portal which is IN
Canada, wheat that same day was
worth IS cents bushel Barley that
day at Portal was worth 63 cents,
and at North Portal. across the street.
| it was worth 50 cents Flax that day
was worth In Portal S2.33, and at
North Portal, across the street, 1t was
worth $1.S9. (These figures We're fur
nished by the American customhouse
ofticer.) The wheat that is raised up-
on both the Canadian and American
sides of the line is exactly the same
kind of wheat
There is practical lesson as to
this question. What is it that makes
the remarkable difference in the price
of the grains, chemically the same
in quality, insthe part of this town
In the United States and the other
part Of the town Just across . the
street in Canada? There is only one
answer. 1t is the wall OF protection
established along the middle of tina,
thoroughfare under previous Republi
can administrations, and now Re
publican President who, not long
ago, through his powerful influence,
gave the country free hides, proposes
to quadruple the dose by giving the
food producing people of this coun-
try free wheat, free barley, free flay,
etc, etc. Some one has said, ooh, the
President is only experimenting. II
that is So why in thunder don't he
do part of his experimenting on some
other class than the farmers? He
bumped them with free hides, aud
that ought to be enough until he ey-
periments on some other set of fell
lows. But then President Taft has al
ways lived in town, and since man.
hoods years has always been law
yer, and good one. Had he ever liv-
ed on farm. had he mingled more
with the people of the west, had he
ever followed plow.i built a stack of
wheat, sowed bushel of barley,
bound sheaf of oats, rode mower
and inhaled the sweet perfume of new
cut hay, MIXED COW, helped to skin
crank Of a sausage grinder while
mother stuffed in the pieces CT tender
loin: had he done all these things and
some more too that are part of rurall
life. such as going to the country
spelling school and enjoying the new
er-to-be-forgotten kissing party, we
might not now have before the coun-
try the spectacle of a Republican
President and a rampant free-trade
Democratic speaker of a Democratic
congress saying to the farmers of the
nation: you are getting rich too
fast, we propose to put check on IT,
Just help yourselves if you can" We
beg to suggest to the esteemed and
able editor of the Hawk-Eye, that I'M
til it is shown by experience that
President Taft's free-trade move as to
farm products will not injure the
food producers, 1t is unreasonable 70
ask Republicans to accept such a.
policy or such leadership.