Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-20
of the reciprocity treaty.

OF the reciprocity treaty.
Hugh ]. Hughes used ham sand
wich to illustrate his talk. I'm this
sandwich" he said, "there is three
one-thousandths of a dollars worth Of
bread, four-one-thousandths of butter
and six-onethousandths of meat, MAX
ing 1.3 cents for the value of the ma
terial used in the making of the sand
Wich which sells for cents The pro-
duct that comes from agriculture rep
resents "a per cent and the man who
assemblies the sandwich gets 76 per
cent. 1t is not the cost of the raw
product, but the extravagant mode Of
marketing that fixes the price which
startles the ultimate consumer" Mr..
Hughes used charts which he pointed
to for illustration. cit is now, when
our consumption of food is nearly
equal to our production of food, that
the tariff becomes blessing to agri-
culture" he said.
Resolution is Passed.
The resolution passed was as fol-
lows:
I'VE farmers and business men Of
Minnesota, in mass meeting assem-
bled, do most earnestly and sincerely
protest against the ratification by con-
gress of the pending treaty with Cana
da in its present form.
I'm doing SO we hereby announce
and publish the following reasons:
"First- the treaty is unfair,
unjust and discriminating against the
agricultural interess of the United
States, giving these interests practic-
ally nothing in return for what it de-
prives them Of
"Second-That it will innure to the
disadvantage, loss and suffering OF our
producers without any prospect of
cheaper manufactured products to the
consumer.
"Third--That the removal of the
duty on wheat will accrue solely to the
benefit of the miller, that of barley to
the brewer, that OF f1axseed to the lin
seed mills, and that of livestock, hogs,
poultry and dairy products to pack
ers and middlemen, and while not ben
fitting the consumer will mean a great
loss to the producers
"Fourth-It creates an unfair COM
petition, inasmuch as it will compel
our farmers to compete in our own
markets with the cheaper produced
products Of alien competitors We con-
tend that our home market belongs in
the first instance to our own citizens
"Fifth-This pact, if agreed to, will
retard and set back the progress to-
ward higher and better standard IF
farm life, which has become so notice.
able during the recent prosperous
times; it will tend to bring on again
that struggle for existence, so we'll re-
membered by our pioneer farmers,
struggle in which many went under;
it will lessen the opportunities for
better education of our farmers chill
dren, and thus encourage them in
leaving the farm.
"Sixth-It will lessen the purchas-
ing capacity of our American produc-
ers to the extent of millions of dollars
annually, by depriving them of a le-
gitimate and fair price for their pro-
ducts. All of this will represent
corresponding loss to the commercial
interests of our country, as the farm
er's profit invariably finds it's way in
to all the channels of trade. Our
commercial and, manufacturing inter-
ests stand to lose as much in this way
as they will gain by the expansion of
their business.
Farmers Make Country.
"Seventh-Our American farmers
by their thrift, energy and frugality
have made this country what it is:
they have made it possible for the
great commercial interest to become
wealthy and powerful; without the
farmer this would have been impossi-
.ble. In view of this our commercial
interest should now stand by the far
mer. To do otherwise lays them open
to the charge of commercial greed and
selishness.
"Eighth-The term reciprocity as
applied to the Canadian treaty is a
misnomer. Reciprocity means an equi-
table trade or exchange between two
countries Of products which one coun-
try produces and the other does not,
or which it produces only in sufficient
quantities. We produce everything in
this country that is produced in Can