Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12

bushels Of Canadian wheat from coming
across the border. as 1t were. by the
force Of gravity and OF turning this
traffic to artificial channels to the At
latic seaboard. If this tariff dixie were
broken down 1t is inevitable that very
much OF 1t would come across into our
country. And would it decrease the price
Of our wheat? BY no means, for that
would be fixed by the worlds price. For
every bushel that would come in at
Manitoba. so long as we raise a surplus,
another bushel would go out at New
York. The center Of the wheat growing
area OF North America on the north and
south line is in the vicinity of Minneap-
Oils. 1t is also the central point for the
making Of -four The natural destination
of great quantities Of wheat of the Ca
madam northwest Is Minneapolis. The
difference in the quality Of the Canadian
and American wheat is such that by
blending the two grains better flour is
produced than could be made from either
alone, and II we did not restrict its i'm
portation tremendous impetus would
be given to the f1our-making industry and
TO the trades dependent upon it. The
clearing Of the transactions would create
q business Of an important financial
character: much Of the purchase price
would be likely to find it's way into the
general channels of trade and our Amer
business which would aid in their malD
lenance and result in the remunerative
employment Of labor.
1T may be said that the prosperity of
Canadian railways would correspondingly
decline. They would undoubtedly lose in
the transportation OF wheat, but they
would gain in other directions. The eff
feet of the proposed arrangement upon
the growth OF Canada would be magical;
new interests would spring up, and her
railroads would be called upon to serve
much larger population.
The Trade in Barley.
What has been said about wheat is in
effect true Of barley. some of the pro-
ducers of which. in our country. have ex-
pressed alarm at the terms of the bill.
Of barley and exported 1856, 1896 bushels.
Of which only 266.O96 came to the United
States. She is thus seen to be a great
consumer Of that grain. and upon the
basis of her present large production her
surplus is negligible In the same year
our production Of barley was 17O.2S4,O 600.
and our exported surplus was 6.5SO,OOO, of
which 115.O0O went to Canada. 1t may be
that she will rapidly increase her produc-
tfon OF barley under the stimulus of our
free market. but in order to do that her
farmers will have to withdraw in cor
responding degree from the production
of other articles which will also be ad-
mitted free Obviously they cannot stimuli
taneously increase their production of
wheat, barley, potatoes and other agricul-
tural articles included in the bill, except
as the number of her farmers increase
If by the mutual withdrawal of duties
more Of her barley should come into New
York from Ontario more of ours would
be likely to cross the line at Wisconsin
and states further to the westward, and
the useless hauling of Ontario barley to
western Canada and of our western bar
ley to New York would be done away
with, as would, also, the heavy freight
charge which is now q tax upon the gen
eral agricultural interests Of both coun-
tries.
immigration to Canada.
Doubtless immigration to Canada
will increase with a good deal Of rapid
ity. On the other hand. there Is seen
the same tendency in Canada as else
where toward the congestion of popu-
lation in the cities. The estimates up
on the census about to be taken show
that the population of Winnipeg has
increased threefold and Montreal has
nearly doubled in ten years and that
her other large towns are growing
rapidly. The most striking tendency
shown by our census Of 1910 is the
remarkable increase in the population
of our great cities compared with the
slow growth and In some cases the de-
cline in our most fertile agricultural
regions. The number Of people who
consume the fruits of the soil COM
pared with those who produce them is
rapidly growing greater. II the rich
agricultural lands Of Canada are quick
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