The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01
put in the next three to I've years.
that Minnesota end South Dakota


that Minnesota end South Dakota
will increase in like proportion;
Montana Is just opening with its
millions Of acres, and should present
conditions prevail as to market pric.
IS that state alone will add to the
country's supply 1OO,0OO,OOO to 2OO,.
100000 bushels within the next ten
!, years. Given the present normal de-
mand by the home market for home
wheat and in ten years our output
will not be 65OIOOO,OOO bushels as
now, but 1,OO0,0O0,00O bushels.
Senator Bailey: There is only one
thring | want to ask you. You said a
while ago that no great Republican
leader ever advocated this kind of
reciprocity.
| Mr. Devine: Yes, sir
| Senator Bailey: You know that the
president of the United States nego-
tiated this treaty? Uaughter)
Mr.. Devine: Yes, sir.
Senator Clark of Wyoming: In the
past, he says.
Mr.. Devine: l was speaking of the
great leaders of the past.
; Senator Williams: In that connec-
ton, just one question. Would you
be in favor of any sort of reciprocity
treaty with Canada at an?
Mr.. Devine: cannot conceive Of
any basis or in any way In which
this country could enter into reel
procity with Canada and not serious
ly cripple the farming interests Of
every state in this country.
Senator Williams: Would you be
in favor of reciprocity treaty with
Brazil, say?
Mr.. Devine: Yes, sir. II that reci-
procity was upon articles that we
are not nor can not produce success
fully at home.
Senator Williams: Which would
have something to do with sugar and
rice and tea and tobacco? That
would effect the southern farmers,
would 1t not? It would not affect
you?
Nation Wide Protest.
Mr.. Devine: If any reciprocity
proposed would injure the people of
any section, cotton or tobacco, wheat
or wool. my section or any other sec.
ton, would be opposed to It.
Senator Bailey: 1t is not the best
reciprocity in this country the agree
ment with those 300,O0O,00O of people
in continental Europe, who would
have been glad to take all our agri.
cultural products and exchanged for
them some of those manufactured
goods on which the duties are very
high? -,-
Mr.. Devine: believe, senator,
that this reciprocity measure touches
the last thing that should be touched.
We got it last, and strange as it may
seem, it is the first thing to go. Ger.
tainly the farmers of this country
have not basked in the sunshine Of
special favor, and they don't seem to
have the ear Of the chief executive
at this time. It is not at all where
the ak should fall l believe and our
people believe, that there are certain
interests in this country that could
submit to pruning, but that to prune
the farmer at the very hour when
after forty years of effort and at
a personal sacrifice to build up the
home market under our system Of
protection, and in which believe, is
unjust, un-Anerican, and even rep
rehensible.
Senator Stone: If Canada should
be annexed 20 the United States it
would put us out of business, would
it not?
MIR. Devine: We do not want it;
we North Dakotans do not want Can
ada annexed. We like them. pretty
well just where they are. l do not
think that we would be obliged to go
out of business should we annex
Canada, but / do say If you applied
this reciprocity to the manufacturing
interests as it is now applied to the
agricultural interests, commercially
nation would be wiped off the earth.
Senator Stone: l do not think
there is any prospect of it, but some
people talk about 1T.
Senator McCumber: Mr.. Devine,