The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-05-18
BOYLE DECLARES
MANY FARMERS
FOR OR RECIPROCITY Re
The Specialist Who Went to
Washington Was Unknown
to Senate
vas SENT BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE BY RAILROADS

CummIlltE BI RhllROADS
One Senator Confirmed in His rs. ~
Against Reciprocity By Boylse
Presence in Washington Confound.
ed By Facts Row ON Record.
Washington, May 18-The fight on
the reciprocity measure is now CEN
tered largely around North Dakota.
Prof. ]. e. Boyle Of the University
of North Dakota, who has been here
Tor several days endeavoring to get q
nearing before the senate finance
committee, yesterday gave out a state
ment that the farmers Of North ,Da-
kota are not opposed to the measure
to any great extend and that the
farmers delegation here Is not rep.
resentative Of public sentiment in the
state. This statement has only added
to the ridicule which Prof. Boyle
has brought upon himself since he
reached the city. Information has
been received here that Boyle caused
statement to. be made in the public
press before he left Grand Forks to
the effect that he had been summon
cd as an expert by the finance COM
mittee. The absurdity of this state
ment can be seen when It is stated
that only two senators-those from
North Dakota-had ever heard of
Boyle before he appeared in Wash
ington. His statement that the farm
ers Of the state are not very much
opposed to reciprocity when COM
pared with the petitions against it
signed by thousands of North Da-
kota FARMERS, taken with his other
methods, makes his position ridicu-
lous.
Represents Railroads
It is reported here that Boyle was
brought here by the railroads Of the
northwest and that he is being paid
by them. It is the belief that these
roads, which would be benefited by
hauling Canadian grain to American
markets, realizing that the fight be-
ing Hlade by the farmers was vim
ming votes for the defeat of reciproci-
ty, have brought Boyle here to at
tempt to represent to the committee
that the farmers are misrepresent-
ing the facts. One senator who ad-
mitted he was undecided about the
bill, said that II the railroads had
to bring such men az Boyle to Wash
ington to hit the agriculturalists Of
the country, he was ready to vote
against the agreement.
The fact that Boyle is a profess
sor In the state university has been
seized upon by the advocates Of reci-
procity as an argument to show that
the thinking people Of North Dakota
are for the agreement A member of
q farmers delegation from another
state inquired Of North Dakotan
IL the people of his state paid for
having such ideas as Boyle holds
taught to the farmers boys.
Washington, May 1s.-The address
Of Governor Osborn Of Michigan favor
ing the passage Of the Canadian reci-
procity bill, featured yesterdays hear
ing before the senate finance commit
tee on the reciprocity and free list
bills.
Governor Osborn expressed the
opinion that Canada could not COM
pete successfully with the United States
in the growing Of wheat or in any Of
the other ways in which those opposed
to the treaty fear. He said, however,
that he looked at the pact in broader
way than an economic and fiscal one,
and that the great benefit this coun-
try would derive from the passage Of
the bill would be the drawing to-
gether Of the two nations for the fu-
ture better friendship which would
ensue."
Il either side would benefit in a
commercial way from the treaty. the
United States, he said, would be the
country. He believed the wheat rails
ed In Canada was inferior to that Of
this-country and that the wheat belt
Of Canada was small area as COM
pared with some Of the other great
wheat zones Of the world. It would
be a elbow in the face of Canada, /"
he added, II the pact were not agreed
to-.
When Senator McCumber Of North
Dakota read figures tending to prove
that Canada was q formidable .oppon-
ent of the United States in the amount
Of wheat and other grains produced.
Governor Osborn said the statistics
probably were from railroad and
speculative reports" intended to boom
northwestern Canada. He said he
would favor entire free trade with
Canada and Mexico. but not with any
other nation. The United States is
becoming world market. he said. and
needs the raw materials which It
might obtain from Canada.
Governor Osborn told the commit
tee he had no political object In ap-
pearing at the hearing; that he would
not be q candidate again for governor
Of Michigan, and that he was not rep
resenting any interests but was pres
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