The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-04-07
The Farmers VIII 4
Pay the 1 Freight
Manu- featuring interests May Con
fnue to Ride On the Crest
Of Prosperity ii

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Of Prosperity II.
The more the agriculturalist
Hearns of the meeting of the So
called reciprocity agreement with
Canada, the more convinced he
is that he is the one that was
xngled out to pay the penalty and
the freight, that the manufactur-
ing interests of the great cities
may continue to ride on the crest
u prosperity and high prices for
the product Of the factory. Canada
is now an exporter of farm pro-
ducts and her development along
this line is just beginning, the
products from her million of acres
Of untitled fertile land in case Of
the adoption of this trade pact,
will be thrown in direct compe-
tition with the products of the
farms of the United States where
land in many instances have been
farmed for 100 years. It will be
another case of the tttest surviv-
ing, and. it will not take much of a
school boy to tell who the under
dog will be. North Dakota is just
waking up to what this propo-
sition means to the progress and
prosperity of the state and the
protests that her citizens will send
to Washington should convince
the head of the government that q
disturbance equal to the Mexican
revolution has been started in the
northwest. On February % Sena-
tor Gronna delivered speech on
this subject which elucidates
the matter better than almost any
thing we have read. In part, the
Senator says:
TheFtrade agreement which is
now pending in the Senate places
the following articles on the free
list: Live animals; poultry, dead
or alive: grains: peas and beans;
oonJ except into Canada for dis
tillation; hay and straw; fresh
vegetables; fresh and dried..fruits;
dairy products; eggs; honey;
cottonseed oil; seeds, including
flaxseed; fish of all kinds, except
when packed in oil; fish oils; salt;
mineral waters; timber and lumber,
not planed; paving posts, railroad
ties, and poles; wooden staves;
pickets and palings; gypsum,
crude; mica, manufactured. and
mica, ground; feldspar; asbestos,
not further manufactured than
ground; fiuorspar, crude; glycerin,
crude; tale, not for toilet use;
sulphate of soda; soda ash; extracts
of hemlock bark; carb 0 n
electrodes; brass in bars or rods,
and brass in strips, not polished; /;
cream saparators, and parts for
repair; rolled Iron sheets; cruoible
cast steel wire, value not less than
8 cents per pound; galvanized
wire. 9. l2, or - gauge; type
casting and typesetting machines
and parts; barbed fencing wire;
coke; rolled round wire rods, in the
soil, of iron or steel, not more than
three.eights Of an inch in diameter
not less than No. 6 wire gauge;
wood pulp and print paper. With
4 4 fine fine irony, il i provided that
lemons, oranges, lines, grapefruit,
ehadd dooks, pomsles and pine-,
Spples glowns in panada; are not to'
b admitted free Of duty to- the
United States, I am certain I
never mot anyone who had ever
beard of anyone guilty of trying to
raise', these tfnita ia 0anada sss.1is 4
4 & The ga !, agreement also reduces
more or lssls the, ,dutiea On q num-
ber Of manufa cturers. II u ap.
parent q 6rat glance that the
prodaotsst Ito be- admitted frs9 are
fam, ( - - ts tar; : .,,,