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

aud elevator facilities OF course
| recognize the fact that the price
of these staples is sometimes af-
ected temporarily by the grain
gamblers, whom | wish TO God
were in the bottom Of the sea.
Democrats know that this is true.
and in order that my republican
friends may be convinced that /
am right | will quote from high
republican, authority.
Hon. James Wilson, the present
Republican Secretary of Agricul-
ture, in a letter written by him to
the National Grange on February
9, 1911, among other things said
There is a difference of 10 or
more cents a bushel on wheat and
other cereals between the markets
of Winnipeg aud Minneapolis, but
this difference is fully explained
by the lack of transportation aud
elevator facilities and by the great
or difficulty that the Canadian
farmer now has in point of econ
omic carriage from the Northwest
to Liverpool, where by the sale OF
the worlds surplus the price of
wheat is fixed for the world.
Again, Mr.. Secretary Wilson
says:
The United States produces sur
plus wheat above domestic require.
ments. This surplus production
is sold in foreign countries. The
price of our exported surplus is
governed by the worlds require
ments, being regulated by the law
of supply and demand, and the
price of wheat in the United
States, while we are exporting, is
governed by the price at which the
surplus is sold, as a general propo-
%sition. Occasionally wheat corners
may interfere with the law of sup
ply and demand and temporarily
affect the price,
If this be true, then how can
the farmer be hurt by reciprocity
with Canada?
Mr.. Chairman, the farmers of
this country are intelligent. They
know chat when you talk about q
tariff on their wheat, corn, oats,
and other cereals being a benefit
to them that you are only seeking
to deceive them. They know, OIL
at least many of them do, that
the tariff was put on these things
as an excuse for putting a higl
tariff on certain manufactured
articles which they are compelled
to buy.
Mr.. Chairman, the enemies o
this bill and also of the reciproc
ity bill, and who are all protec
tionists in some degree-ranginG
from an insurgent republican
whose opinion on any proposition
Is best represented by an "x,''
stated algebraIcally, to a Pennsyl-
vania standpatter-accuse US of
bringing in the farmer free-list
bill, so-called, to pacify, and in a
way compensate, the farmer foI
the injury which will be done him
by this reciprocity with Canada.
OF course that allegation is not
warranted by the facts. Reciproci.
ty with Canada will not hurt the
farmer; therefore he needs nc
compensatlng law.
Reciprocity with a country that
buys more of the products of oul
farmers each year than we buy oil
them can not hurt our farmers,
And the official figures show thai
that is what Canada does. In five
years, ending June 30 last
We sold in Canada $3.50, All ,87(
Canada sold to us . 393, 918,6 81;
In our favor 1892, SOB, 7Ot
f 1t seems to me that no tariff
ought to stand between us ant
such a country, for the more trad
we can have with them the bette
1t is for us.
J Let us take some of the princi
pal products of our farms, and i
= applies especially to our Missouri
farms, aud see whether reciprocit,
! with Canada can injure our farm
ers.
Governmpnt stetlstics show thu