Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-30
1908 ...... .1e3, 100000 471.ooo,ovo
1909 ....... 100000 $4,000, -
1910 .Notigures available.

1908 ....... .163, 100000 Al .OOO,O VO
1909 ....... lila, 100000 $4,000, -
1910 ....... .Nofigures available.
Not Near Limit Yet.
This table shows that in wheat pro.
duction we are not near the limit. but
that the farmers CT the United States
have been able every year to provide
bread for a rapidly increasing popula.
ton, and more than that they have
been able, decade by decade, to in
crease the amount of wheat for ex-
port.
Within the past few weeks the
prices of wheat, oats and corn have
fallen off remarkably. Does anyone
doubt that the cause of this decline is
the danger of the adoption by con-
gress of the presidents reciprocity
treaty? If the fear of the removal
of the tariffs on these cereals has re-
duced these prices so greatly, how
much more will be the effect when the
vast stores of these Canadian grains
is actually dumped upon our mark
cts?
The Lumber Question.
But we are told that the tariff on
lumber has been taken off also, and
that the farmer can buy his lumber
$1.25 cheaper on the thousand feet.
Lcok and see how little this amounts
tc. The average farmer does not buy
10000 feet of lumber year; but sup
pose he does, then his saving by this
Taft reciprocity bill will be $25. Sup
pose he has 500 bushels of wheat to
sell, the price is now off 20 cents a
bushel, his loss is 500. On 1000
bushels of corn by the present reduc-
ticn, his loss is 5000, and on all other
products of his farm his ratio will be
about the same-$25 gain to $500 loss.
In dairy products his loss will be
even greater, and greater still to the
orchard and garden farmer of the
United States.
The president tells US that this
treaty will be of value to our great
farm implement industry. This in
dustry needs no assistance; already it
is said to be selling it's farm ma
chinery at lower price in foreign
lands than to our farmers at home.
No Bright Spot.
Look where we may there is in all
this reciprocity treaty no bright spot
for the United States farmer. All is
dark. The cost of living was high and
Cur farmers seemed to be prosperous.
At once the conclusion was reached
that the farmer was to blame and that
he could stand the punishment and so
be punished.
What will the farmer do? Since
self preservation is the first law of ma
ture, he will try to take care of him
self. We must see that under our pro-
tective tariff system he is not the only
citizen who has no protection. 1t is
no f1Owery figure of speech to say that
the prosperity of the farmers is the
basis of the prosperity of the nation.
1t is a solid fact proven by the his
tory of every nation. This reciporc.
ity treaty will make Canada rich. 1t
will make her six millions of people
to multiply to sixty millions. 1t will
double her per capita of wealth. 1t
will pay off her debt of more than
$40O, 100000, but at the expense of
AOul !. IL 6 OHILcu OldlcS, VI COuk DC.
Our money will go there to buy her
cheap wheat. Our capitalists will 60
there to buy her cheap lands. Can
adam statistics show that recently
they already have bought $222,800,-
900 worth of these lands, and it is
quite probable that it is their in
fluence which is aiding in the pas
sage of this treaty. Our farmers will
go there, as they already have be-
gun going.
At Our Expense.
Canada has right to grow, and it
will grow, but it is an awful crime
that those at the head of the govern
ment of the United States should be
willing that Canada's growth shall be
at the expense of the United States.
and at the expense of our national
growth and glory-the United States
farmer. What can they do? Do as
the German farmers have done. Stand
together for laws for their protection.
It is the agrarian party in Germany
which in protecting itself has made
Germany the best fed, the best en-
ployed, and the fastest growing ma
ton in veal and wealth, in power and
of all nations in Europe.
Joseph Carter.