Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-21
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Bells Plaine. April 41.-There 10 30
general interest IN the proposed reel
procity treaty with Canada, and so
much ignoranee o6ncerning the details
of It and 80 many misstatements made
purposely or thru Ignorance Of how
said treaty will afrect agricultural
Iowa. Congressman Good is send
the proposed treaty, as we'll as a sta
tistical pamphlet giving the facts and
figures. All this would fill pages OF
the Times-Rcpublioan. so the writer
proposes to copy and print in this col
umn some OF the figures which will
particularly interest the owners of
Iowa soil and the products thereof. No
argument pro or con will be offered
now and hers Only it is to be hoped
some OF our lows farmers will read
these figures and do their own arguing.
What follows Is by no means COM
plete copy Of everything we are inter-
ested In.
Table A gives tho following which
we cent into Canada for the fiscal year
ending March 81. 1910. All of the fol-
lowing articles will be- admitted free In
to Canada under this treaty-cattle,
horses. hogs. sheep. all other live ami
mails. poultry. dead and alive, all grains,
straw, hay. vegetables. fruits and mel
ons, dried fruits. butter. cheese. milk.
cream and eggs. honey and seeds.
These articles we produce. and If they
are admitted free into Canada from
the United States. we must admit free
the identical articles If produced in
Canada.
with here and there an exception
the following Of which we buy more
than we sell will he free 0 fduty in
both countries-lumber not manufac-
tured further than sawed. posts. ties,
and Telegraph and telephone poles,
wood pulp and rrint paper. Indirectly
we buy and sell. What follows here
are the duties both countries will col
lect. All fresh and sailed meats, IN
cents per pound: lard the same; can
ned vegetables the same; meat, flour
and semolina. SO cents per barrel; rye
-four the same: oat meal and rolled
OTIS, so cents per 100 pounds: corn meal,
Y cents per IL: bran. mill feed and
middlings. 12k cents per 100: grape
vines. 17H per cent; gooseberry, rasp
berry and currant bushes the same;
farm machinery. nearly all kinds. IS
per cent duty: a few articles, 20 per
cent Canada will charge us 2a cents
each on fruit trees while the United
States will collect from 81 to 50 per
1000.
Table B of this pamphlet gives the
following concerning articles which
were imported into the United States
from Canada during the year ending
June 80. 1910: Cattle. 5.16S head:
horses and mules. 2.s15: hogs. 2O5;
sheep. l03,51s: wheat, 1898 bushels;
rye. 46 bushels: oats, 94s479 bushels;
barley, 1920 bushels: buckwheat. 1885,
GIL bushels: hay. ss.507 tons: straw, g.
Sos tons; potatoes. S7.13S bushels: on
ions. 2.4as bushels: apples. 4s.s1a
bushels; other fruits to the value Of
s2o0,s53: butter. ss0O3S pounds;
cheese. 1ss.s50 pounds: milk 11.7o0
gallons; cream. 731,7s1 gallons; eggs.
49, $40 dozen: timber. boards. plank.
ETC.. in round numbers. $4,000, 600 In
value. on which We collected In round
numbers 31.25o.0oo: Of wood pulp in
various forms We shipped In about
soc. o0o0 900 pounds. the duty on which
was about $450, 900. We bought Of Cam
ada 143.s30 barrels Of nour and paid
81 5000 duty. We imported Of wagons.
"a rm machinery, ETC., in round numbers
$4,000. 50 =
Table D gives our exports to Canada
from 1906 to 1910. HERE'S an item or
so:
We sent into Canada in 1905, 1888
cattle 31.s15 horses. 6ss61 sheep. In
the year 1910. 1898 cattle. 2451s
horses, and se,5s1 sheep. !
80 tot'
The above incomplete list of facts
and figures is worth studying Cen
eral Hancock was laughed. at from one
end Of the country to the other. when
he said. 1.-The tariff Is local ISSUE" but
It IS true. We know IL here In Iowa
today. Again the Iowa farmer has no
interest but what we all share Once
more. this proposed reciprocity treaty
surely is backed by President Taft as
public measure of the greatest good
to the greatest number. with all this
In view. we can discuss 1t from sell
fish point. Certainly It is our duty to
look out for our own interests. but
again the Iowa farmer has to realize
the property of other states. has much
to do with our local prosperity. A
million railroad employees buy more or
less Of 1owa's surplus. with many
more million wage earners having to
buy our products. II they are prosper
our, and have dollars to buy our sur
plus. 1t is certainly a factor in this dis
cussion. Arrange for your debating
societies. Resolved that Canadian re-
ciprocity is bad thing for Iowa"
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