The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-30

more the commission men Of Duluth
will paw me today, net for a cargo of
wheat TO be sold in Duluth than they
would pay me. net. If l instructed
them TO sell it in the worlds best mar
ket outside of the United States. and
| IL it were summer time and with your
cheapest transportation. Tell them
how much larger premium they could
| have given me prior TO this agitation
! for the free admission into the United
States of Canadian grain. Cover bar
| ley If you will. Give the figures. You
can get them. You cannot theorize
away the fact that Duluth. Minneapo-
| lis and Chicago, not Liverpool, are
making the price on all spring wheat
raised in the United States If we are
wrong on this proposition, the figures
which you can obtain from the Sec
rotary of the Duluth board OF trade
will prove Il. IL we are right every
business element in Duluth should aid
those who seek only a square deal,
remembering that we have contributed
largely to the growth and prosperity
Of your city.
Your criticism of No. is not ger
maine, the trusts are still protected.
For No. 10. You fail to challenge
the correctness OF my statement. ] un-
derstood as well as you do, that woods
for furniture making, railroad ties
piles. and telegraph poles, for the rail-
roads: telephone poles for telephone
companies; slaves for -four barrels,
whisky barrels and beer kegs, win be
admitted free. These things may pos
sibly aid us a very little.
What we want understood is that
some of the farmers of the northwest
fully appreciate that IL in not the in
tent Of this lumber reduction to aid
us in building cheaper houses, barns
or granaries, and that We are not 60
ing to get material benefit from a re-
duction Of this character.
II Secretary Knox statement Of the
purpose OF this agreement was a cor
rect one that is sought to reduce as
cost OF food stuff TO the consumer"
then the next reason follows.
AS to the correctness Of the last
conclusion each man must decide for
himself. Greater production means
lessened cost to the consumer, more
labor and intensified farming. To se-
cure these things the young must re-
main on the farm. To have them stay
there the government should lend It's
aid, not as philanthropy but as a meas
ure of national economy. BY a policy
which protects the products of the
farm, farming can be made a paying
vocation, the young man would be in
duced TO remain upon the farm instead
| Of migrating to the city, the land would
be better and more intensely farmed,
and as a result, the production would
be increased and that at a lessened
cost to the consumer.
The republican party stands for a
protective tariff covering the differ
ence lin the cost Of production at
home and the cost of production
abroad. Why should the American
farmer alone, be singled out. his prod
ucts all placed upon a free trade
basis, and be required TO compete I'm
his home market with the more cheap
ly produced products of the newer
and cheaper lands of Canada.
After reading your editorial I am
forced to conclude that all farsighted-
ness and wisdom is not of Duluth.
You owe il to yourself and your
American customers, to help along
such lines as will make for the pros
perity OF the nation, but especially
does your paper and Duluth owe to
the farmer Of the northwestern states,
your aid in retaining to them, your
neighbors and customers. who have
aided materially in building up your
city a fair deal I'm the division of the
country's prosperity. Yours truly,
Treadwell Twichell.