The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-05-13

cotton. steel and other schedules
in their order.
1t seems to me that every citi-
zen who believes IN a government
Of the people, by the people, aud
for the people ought to be proud
of this record.
Now, Mr.. Cairman having felic-
itated my party upon this splen
did record made and to be made
in a few weeks, l must get hack to
a discussion of this bill.
The opponents Of this bill and
the reciprocity bill, and they are
practically the same people, talk
about injuring the farmer by TAX
ing the tariff off his products. |
am loath to believe that there is
any man on this floor who Knows
so little as to actually believe that
a tariff on wheat, corn or other
cereals adds to the price of these
things to the farmer.
| am reminded that our erst-
while distinguished Speaker the
gentleman from Illinois, Mr..
Cannon did the other day, in q
speech on the reciprocity bill, III
a sort of alf-hearted way deny
that the price of the farmers
wheat was fixed in foreign mark
cts. OF course men sometimes, III
the interest CT consistency, take
positions they otherwise would not
take, for if he had admitted the
other day that the price of our
wheat was fixed in foreign markets
he would have given his whole case
away. But the gentleman from
Wisconsin, Mr.. COOPER did read
into that speech an admission OF
the gentleman from Illinois, made
in a speech on this floor in 1894.
that the price of our wheat j:
fixed in the foreign markets. The
colloquy was between Mr., Simp.
son, of Kansas, and the gentle.
man from Illinois, Mr.. Cannon
as follows:
Mr.. Simpson. Will the gentle.
man permit me to ask him a ques
ton?
Mr.. Cannon. Certainly.
Mr.. Simpson. Does the gentle
man not admit that we are nov
competing IN Europe with the diff
ferent countries of the Old WorlC
for the sale of our wheat?
Mr.. Cannon. Certainly witt
Roumania, Russia and India.
Mr.. Simpson. Then the gentle
man will admit that the price WI
receive there fixes the price of GU.
article not only in the United
States but in the foreign markets
Mr.. Cannon. Certainly; al
prices are regulated by the prevail.
ing market, wherever it is.
Now, if that statement was true
and it was-in 1894 it is true il
this good year of our Lord 1911,
l stated two years ago in a speech
which l made on this floor wher
we were discussing the Payne.
Aldrich bill that ''no man is pro.
tected who is compelled to sell hi
products in the open markets Of
the world" This was and is
true statement of a fact.
Let us take wheat, for an ex
ample. There has never been {
year since | Can remember wher
the farmers of this country die
not raise a surplus. OF necessity
they must find a market for thiI
surplus. This market can only b,
lfound outside the United States
States. The mom9nt the farmers
wheat passes beyond the limits o
the United States the pretended
tariff on it can be of no effect
His wheat goes to Liverpool, ant
when offered for sale there it come
in competition with the surplu
wheat of Canada, Australia, Rus
STA, India, and every other coun
try that raises a surplus OF wheat
and the price 1t brings is fixed il
, this open market. And the pric
= fixed i'm this omen markat control