Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-04-14
Nd. PROTESTS
RECIPROCITY
OPPOSES RATIFICATION OF CA
MADAM lAcI At GRAND
FORKS MEETING.
SEE AGRICULTURAL OPPRESSION
Delegation Named 70 cssV the Pro
test.-Resol.tlonosADa. Passed 70
Be Presented toFpres1dsnt
TAFT.

Grand Hoyks, April 6-Coincident
With the opening Of the extra session
at Washington called to consider the
ratification Of the proposed United
States Canadian reciprocity treaty,
over 500 farmers and business mon
Of North Dakota HAt IN this city Il
enter q protest against tho enactment
of the agreement Afteg number Of
forceful addresses had been made
against reciprocity. resolutions were
passed protesting against the enact.
ment of the pact by congress and .
communication to President Taft. ask
ing that he reconsider the matter;
was drawn up and approved.
H. c. HansboSough, w. E. Purcell,
T. Twitchell, J. A. Buchanan. r. T.
Kingman. N. G. Larimore and r. G.
Cooper were appointed . delegation TO
go to Washington aad they are to be
accompanied by representatives from
each county.
Treadwell Twitchell, of Fargo. was
called upon and for over IN hour
presented arguments against rati1car
ton of the pact. He stated that one
Of the most important reasons for
North Dakota farmers protesting
against the agreement was that graiA
would be produced Ut no less cost, but
would have to be sold at great re-
duction.
Minneapolis Man Speaks.
Following Twitchell's address. p. Y.
Collins. editor of the Northwestern
Agriculturist Of Minneapolis, advanced
. number Of arguments for opposing
reciprocity, stating that the benefits
derived from it would 60 TO the IN.
terests and not to the farmer. He
stated that the pact was not recipro-
cal and that in this connection Taft
had ''out- Democrated the rankest free
trade Democrat in history" Tho
speaker stated that under the treaty,
Canada could dump $4,000, 900 pounds
of butter on the United States and
thus drive out of business the butter
makers in Minnesota and North Da-
kota
A. Chamberlain Of Bookings. s. D.,
delivered an address.
A. ]. NJ. Devine OF Minot, former
governor Of the state, was the final
speaker.
The Resolutions.
Following are resolutions adopted:
ri. That IL is unfair and unjust
to agricultural interests, offering to
them no semblance Of reciprocal equiv
alent in return for what IL purposes
to give.
a. That # will bring suffer.
ing and disaster to very large mum.
Der of our producers with no hope that
the price Of bread will bo lowered -
the consumer.
q. That the duty on barley
will accrue in benefit solely to the
brewer, mourning great loss to the
producer. !.
~. That It places our farmers
in the position of competing in our
home markets with alien people, upon
conditions most advantageous to our
competitors.
"5. That the Canadian producer,
with his cheaper land, requires smaller
investment, while his new virgin soil
returns greater yields with cheaper
tillage, making the per bushel cost Of
his product much less than ours.
IS. That is 'blazes way for
emigration Of thousands Of our people
and millions Of our wealth to ! foreign
field.
THAT IL will reduce farm val
ues, increasing the burden Of the debt
or and destroy the incentive for great
er development OF farm production.
and lure to the alien q benefit Of un.
told millions Of our wealth that should
and would accrue to this and future
generations II employed in the delevop-
ment Of those vast untitled acres that
lie between the Mississippi river and
the Pacific within our own borders.
"S.-That it will lower the standard
Of farm life, reducing It to one OF
drudgery. lessen opportunities for bet
ter education Of farm children and
drive from instead Of encouraging
them to remain upon the farm.
"9.-That 1t will lessen the pur
chase power OF our own producers ana
by so doing, commercial interests will
suffer greater loss than can possibly
be overcome by any gain In trade with
Canada.
"10.-That in trading our home mar.
kets Of over 100000, peopls-mar.
kets that are abundantly supplied BY
our own producers, markets that have
been largely made and earned. and
which by every right and heritage b,
long to our own producers for that Of
10000 Canadians with its doubtful
increased advantage to commercial and
manufacturing interest, this IL NOT
only unfair and unjust but reprehens-
ible.
Two Boys Burned 70 Death.
Fort William, Ont, April 10.-While
Mrs. Joseph Frost was temporarily
absent from home her four young
| hovs act fire to the house while play.