The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-04
Andy Laughlin Discusses Some
Features Of Canadian Reciprocity


to $3.50 for the finest of beef, price
away below the cost Of production. Is
cents a dozen an average for eggs, "a
cents a high average for butter, glad
to get 35 cents for potatoes and so
cents for wheat
If the saving Of wastage is not con-
sidered it costs 3S cents to produce
every dozen eggs, AZ cents pound
for butter, A cents a bushel for po-
tatoes and IS cents for wheat, and the
only profit to the farmer is the saving
of wastage and increase in the price
| Of his farm, and these vultures of
economists are now trying to kill en-
igration into our state and boom Can
ada so our land will go down and
theirs up.
James J. Hill is for reciprocity, OF
course. For a year or more the twin
city press would have head lines SINH
lar to this: "Mr. Hill left the city
In his private car for Washington"
Then from the Associated Press:
James ]. Hill is in Washington in
| conference with President Taft" There
has been quite a number of such visits
| recorded. No question but that Field
ing, the Canadian minister, one of the
brightest financiers of the world, Lord
Strathcona, the owner and dictator
Of the entire railroad and banking
system of our northern sister, Premier
Lauries, President Taft, a lawyer, Mr.
Knox, another lawyer, Banker Morgan
and Mr.. Hill drafted and dictated this
pending reciprocity treaty. w. w.
Jermane in a Journal dispatch in
praise the schedule said the govern
ment expert who fixed the farm sched-
ules was brought up an experienced
miller. Is it any wonder he put wheat
| on the free list? Glance at a map Of
the Great Northern railroad and notice
the number of branches stopping at
the Canadian border and remember
that the Morgan Hill interests will in
wade the vast territory across the line
as soon as the treaty becomes a law
so the bonds can be sold, beginning.
no doubt, with the Winnipeg end of
the Midland, then if not convinced,
80 to the proper court Office and read
the record of the famous suit of Jesse
P. Farley VS. ]. ]. Hill ct al and one
will see why Mr.. Hill is for the reci-
procity treaty as it was introduced
into congress.
Canada has a Two-man government.
Strathcona and Fielding, and it is
a good one, in many respects better
than ours, and this treaty is surely
drafted in favor of western Canadian
settlement and development.
President Taft and Secretary Knox.
both lawyers, in their late speeches.
both tabooed the fears of the farmers
that taking off the present tariff of
| rs cents per bushel on wheat, flax
and barley would affect the market
and price Of cereal grains, that the
price of wheat is regulated in Liver
pool, etc. Any farmer who has watched
the trend of the wheat market knows
the absurdity of such statements, for
the price of wheat in Duluth is now
and has for the past ten years been
generally higher than an export basis,
| and frequently away up in the air.
| Take the quotations of last Saturdays
market as in The Forum and The Min
lneapolis Journal Winnipeg. No /
northern 81 cents; Duluth, same. s9%
| Since the treaty agitation these prices
are nearer together than usual. es-
pecially after the late drop Of 81 cents
In two days. AS an average the price
of wheat has been lower north of the
line. Duluth prices are still above
port value Liverpool prices cut no fig
ure, except as a lever for the bulls"
and bears to work the market like
the handle Of a pump. The market
reports now give the chief course of
fiuctuation at snow storm in the south
west There is not wheat enough grown
in that wonderful territory to much
more than bread the city of Chicago
for week, yet the surplus of that vast
held, the experts have never quoted
but three or more counties-controIs
the price of millions of bushels. In
nosing around the chamber of COM
merce in Minneapolis the other day
while waiting for the train, I smelIed
few mice, and these are my con-
clusions.
That the intrinsic and milling vaIue
Of wheat does not fuctuate every day.
During the good old times of the
Cleveland frees trade, when / sold nv
crop of wheat for 80 cents a bushel
paid the same price for some loaves
Of bread at the bakers, that / did a
few weeks ago when wheat was s1.16M
in Duluth. The only difference was
that there was a few more holes in
the last loaf than in the former, caused
by the so-called improved methods in
-four making which enables the bakers
to sell more air and less nutrition. Now
there is niger in the woodpile"
when you talk about the high cost of
| living. Next believe the wheat ring
are stuffing the worlds visible sup
ply figures at least 10000, 600 bushels
and that all such figures are only
compiled for another pump handle for
the bulls and the bears. All these
figures on the visible supply are hum
bugs. No surplus has accumulated,
SO as TO be carried over long. No
wheat has been dumped into Lake Su
perior or the ocean to get rid of II.
Nature regulates the worlds supply
and the total average worlds yield does
not vary more than one peck to the
acre and generally not more rnan a
quart. The United States does not
produce wheat enough to feed her own
people If other conditions were rightly
maintained. There are thousands Of
the citizens of this glorious republic
wintering now on guaya roosts.
IL congress had adjourned five years
ago and not met in ten years and the
president have taken a trip, to Africa
and staid there, and his successor
taken trip to the coast for his health
and staid there, the whole nation would
be more prosperous, and there would
be no visible supply of wheat for
hoodoo and fair price of wheat makes
the farmer prosperous and unless he
be prosperous every branch Of indus
try lags.