Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-17
A Few Facts About Reciprocitv.

Editor of Monitor As the Monitor
has not come out flat footed either
for or against reciprocity I infer
that you will not be averse to publish
ing few facts in favor Of it. Those
opposed to it are making great efforts
to brighten the farmers by telling
them that reciprocity with Canada
will greatly reduce the price of farm
products, that Canada will flood our
markets and that prices will have to
come down. What do statistical
facts say about it? In 1910 we sold
Canada 1923, sol, 300 worth of orr
products and bought from them sIO4.-
199,675 worth of theirs showing a bal
ance in our favor of Sll9, 3O2, 1874 and
this balance would nave been much
larger but for the high tariff wall
built by the moneyed interests and
trusts between the United States and
Canada. Government statistics show
that for the five years ending June
80, 1910, we sold Canada Sl4, 172. OTIS
worth of horses, $1,578.179 of cattle.
$l7,0l1, 0l7 meat and dairy products.
$3l 1886, $50 of breadstuffs and bought
of them 81, 549, 2l0 worth of horses,
81. 1913, 1876 cattle, 1904. 191 meat and
dairy products, and S6,679, 1884 worth
of breadstuffs, making a balance in
our favor of nearly $4,000, 900. The
opposers of reciprocity have made so
much talk about our egg industry
being ruined by reciprocity that the
government has looked up Canada s
egg industry for the year ending
March 81, 1911, and finds that Canada
exported 1854, 835 dozen and imported
893, 324 dozen, of which 557, dozen
went from the United States, showing
that with free trade in eggs we should
| have in Canada one of the finest
markets in the world. The Canadians
are great egg eaters and as the
statistics show do not produce enough
for home consumption. The farmers
! in Maine the past season have sold
potatoes in Canada at forty cents per
barrel more than they could get in the
home markets. If we can sell Canada
seven and one-half millions per year
more than we buy, over a high tariff
wall, could we not sell them a much
larger amount with that wall re.
moved, and isn't it desirable to in.
crease our markets as much as pos
sible, but the high protectionist saws
we must have high tariff duties in
order to get sufficient revenue to run
the government, but would like to
ask the gentleman how he procures
any revenue from a tariff so high that
it becomes prohibitive-as many OF
them are at the present time-and
who are the benefciaries of prohibi
tive tariff? / hardly think he will
have the gall to say that the con
sumner gets any benefit from it wher
the fact cannot be controverted that
: the monopolistic producer is the true
and only one benefited. Certainly
the government derives no benefit, fol
none of the products are imported ant
: the home producer can fix his owl
, price to the consumer. Ia 1910, 1O3,
1893 Americans emigrated to Canad;
; ard within the last ten years owe
400, 900 Americans have settled al
: farmers in the Canadian northwest
are We to continue saying to them
YOU cannot sell US a dozen of egg
unless you give us five cents, or
bushel of wheat without giving US 81
cents. We might as we'll have
, tariff wall between Vermont and New
, Hampshire as between US and Canada
The farmers of the southern ant
: southwestern states sold Canada las
year ST, $50, 900 worth Of fresh ant
canned fruit, 81, 100000 of cotton see'
oil, our gardeners sold them $685.. 00
worth of vegetables as against Cana
da's sales here of $4,000. We sold then
Sc, 600, 900 worth of corn as they raise