The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-02-16
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY
VIM. Walpole. ST., Gives Some Pertinent
Reasons Why we Should have Il

This great controversy over
reciprocity with Canada is not q
party question in no sense of the
word. A majority of our nation.
al legislatures, state governors,
manufacturers, merchants, farm.
ers, and President Taft are all for
reciprocity. Can it be possible
this great army of statesmen, that
is supposed to have the interest OF
the American people at heart, are
trying to pauperize their constit-
uents by enacting laws detrimental
to the manufacturers and producers
of this great country. Our state
legislature introduces resolution
in opposition to our relations with
Canada, can it be possible that our
lawmakers of the sunshine state
are honest in passing said resolu-
ton, can it be possible that God
endowed them with more brains,
wisdom and honesty than our pres
ident. our national lawmakers,
manufacturers and producers. that
favor reciprocity with Canada. 2
The answer is nit" The good
book says, by their works We
shall know them" If we are TO
Judge them by the aforesaid re-
solution, we feel justified in put
ting them down as selfish, narrow
minded, demagogues, that are
whipped into line by some stand
pat bell wether that have an AK to
grind and whose motto is "the
people be damned"
Before giving my reasons for
advocating reciprocity with Cana.
da, it may not be amiss to state
that l came to Dakota forty five
years ago and resided here ever
since, following my occupation as
farmer. l have seen this great
state advance from a semi arid
region to one of the grandest states
in the union; l have shared in her
joys and sorrows and will fight for
our interest and the interest of
my brother farmers within her
borders. l feel confident we can
compete with Canada in agricul-
tural products and out class them
in several manufactured products,
and when this cruel war is over,
those chronic kickers Gncluding
our legislature) will find out re-
ciprocity will reduce the cost of
living and be the entering wedge
for the reduction of duties on the
necessities of life; it will give a
fatal jolt to the lumber kings, coal
barons, national harvester mag
nets, the beef trusts, and Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, (the jews) will
have the time of their life dispos-
ing of their 'shoddy rags" when
we can buy all wool goods from
Canada much cheaper. We hear
some knockers say eggs will be
cheaper. Wheat and other grain
can be raised cheaper in Canada
on account of pauper labor. We
will all be ruined, farming won't
pay, and we will all have to 90
over the hill to the poor house.
Now if those doubling Thomases,
would get posted a little before
they make lambs tails out of them
selves, they would find Liverpool
sets the price on all farm products
the world over, and as for pauper
labor. we have more unimployed
Tor pauper labor if you please)
in New 7 ork or Chicago than Can
ada has from the Atlantic to the
Rocky mountains.
There is another item l will call
my brother farmers attention to,
that live in the corn belt of South
Dakota, lows, Illinois, Nebraska.
Minnesota and other corn states.
Canada has mostly all graded cat
tie. They can't afford to finish
them for export as they are in too
high alatitude 70 raise corn. Re-
ciprocity will give them : chance