The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-02-02
CANADA aims At
HIGH LIVING COST
Articles of Food
are Placed on the
Free List.
DUTY OFF TIMBER
Kinds Will Come Into
United States Free of
Charge Hereafter.

Des Moines, lowa.-United States
Senator LATE Young, up for election
to Delivers eat by the legislature, in
a long editorial today denounces the
treaty with Canada as a scheme OF
the harvester machine trust and east
ern capitalists. He says he will fight
the measure in the Senate as it would
reduce prices to central western
farmers for their food products.
G~louchester, Mass.-Flags on the
fishing fleet here are flying at half
mast today, with the union down, in
protest against the Canadian reel
procity treaty and the fishermen OF
the country will make a big fight
against it.
Details Of the Treaty.
Washington, d. C.-Within less
than ten months after initiation, by
Taft, of negotiations with the Cana.
dian government, there were laid
simultaneously before the American
congress in Washington, and the Ca
madam parliament at Ottowa a reci-
procityprocity arrangement which.
if approved by the legislative
branches of the two governments,
will surely do much, in the opinion
of the negotiators. to enlarge and
liberalize trade beween the countries.
Usually such arrangements take the
form af a treaty, but in this instance
this is not done, and the result is
that time will be saved in the con
summation of the government, which
can be made effective by a simple
majority vote in each of the two leg
islatures.
The principal purpose of Secretary
Knox appears to have been to secure
a reduction in the high cost of liv-
ing" by greatly charging the free
list. so far as it relates to food-stuffs
coming from Canada. On the other
hand. he secured a notable abate-
ment of duties on a number of Amer
lean farm machinery and imple-
ments. 1t is a notable fact that no
less than ninety-one per cent of Ca
madam goods imported into the I'm
tied States will be benefited by con-
siderable reductions in duty.
The intention of the commissioners
to remove all duties on printing pa
per and wood pulp, was effected so
far as the dominion government
could do it, outside of the limita-
lions existing in the laws of the
Canadian provincial governments,
imposing an export duty on wood
cut on Crown lands in Canada, but
it would appear that the American
duty will lie only upo ma compare
lively small proportion of the Cana
dian pulp or wood cut on such
Crown lands.
President Taft sent congress a
special message with the agreement.
In it, he urged the passage of the
treaty. AS to the effect the treaty
would have on the cost of living in
the United States, the president says:
81 do not wish to hold out the
prospect that unrestricted inter-
change of food products will greatly
and at once reduce their cost to the
people of this country. Moreover,
the present small amount of Cana
dian surplus for export as compared
with that of our own production and
consumption would make the reduc-
ton gradual. Excluding the element
Of transportation the price of staple
food products, especially cereals, is
much the same the world over, and
the recent increase in price has been
the result of worldwide causes.
But a source of supply as near as
Canada would certainly help to pre-
vent the speculative fluctuations
would steady local price movements,
and would postpone the effect of a
farther world increase in the price
Of leading commodities, entering in.
to the cost of living, if that be avail.
able"
President Taft concludes by call
ing Canada "our good neighbour" he
says:
"She has cost us nothing in the
way of preparations for defense
against her possible assault, and sht
never will. She has sought to agre,
with us quickly when differences
have disturbed our relations. Sh,
shares with US common tradition
and aspirations. I feel I have cor
rectly Interpreted the wish of tn,
+! American people,"
Some Examples of Reductions ii
Duties.
1t appears that among the article
now dutiable that go on the fire
list are cattle, which are now duti
able at a rate of from two dollar
each.
Every Canadian hog pays SIS