The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-02-21

tariff duty did raise the price 81 the
protected articles to the farmers and
consumers, they, the farmers, gained
a corresponding benefit il the sale
price of their products by reason Of
creating a home market therefor.
Has this been the effect prior to the
last year or two or is it about to
become the truth? That is, are we
about to cease to become exporters
of food stuffs? Was the above claim
made las I have often heard stated
simply as sop to the farmers?"
If so, and he in his honesty believed
it, would it be absolutely the exbibi.
ton of wisdom for him to believe
the utterances Of the same interests.
now when claimed by them to be for
his welfare? 49, j
1t is true that If a man cheats
you once that he is a--tool and if
he cheats you twice that you are a
fool? ...... ...aI
Is the line between US and Canada!
any more an mag mary line than it
has been heretofore and are the lines
between US and other countries any
more real than they are between us
and Canada? If so, why? Does Canada
by this proposed agreement reliu-
quish her export duties on logs and
lumber? If not, or they raise the same
to equal our present import duties,
for how much less per thousand will
we be able to buy lumber? Are
farm machinery, fence wire, builders
hardware, stoves ETC., put on the
United States nominally free list?
Are these put on the Canadian list
substantially free? Can the farmer
in Canada buy these articles with.
out the addition of a duty tax? Does
the proposed agreement take off the
duty on them so as to lessen the
cost to the United States farmer?
Who reaps the benefit? Will the
Barley Bug a Boo" ESQ called by
Mr.. .Hill) still be only a bugaboo
when Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta all make a business of rails
ing it, assuming that they will do
so, it being a short season crop? If
these provinces are not sufficiently
settled to cause alarm on that score,
are they capable of raising range
cattle at one dollar to two dollars
per head as it is said was done until
recently in our neighborlng State to
the west?
Could you conveniently send me
the address of some trust composed
of farmers, operating and engaged
in the business of farming? (I want
their picture Is it your opinion
that the sop" heretofore mentioned
as having been handed to the farmer
for 10 these many years. is about to
become real benefit on account of
the natural law of supply and demand
for food products and that the aim
of the present reciprocity agreement
is to strangle it before the farmer
realizes its existence as fact? Is
there any country that can (taking
into account its proximity land value,
etc. compete with our farmers to
their detriment so successfully as
Canada? Would you rather have
the tariff revised downward by its
friends or it's enemies? Could its
enemies give your immediate neigh
borhood, anywhere in the central
northwest, any less than its friends
are about to do? If so, how?
If 50, and there is no duty on them
will that have an effect on the prices
paid to farmers here? Horses ditto,
sheep ditto?
Mr.. Hill quotes figures to show
that the adoption of this agreement
will not reduce wages for labor, wage
inequality cannot exist" said Mr.
Hill, y when both labor and
capital are free to move into a con-
tiguous territory" Has there ever
been any embargo on capital coming
to this country? On labor except
in case of Chinese? Does the word
contiguous have any particular signi.