New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-05-24
Lying to the Farmers.

| One of the things the American
Protective Tariff league and its ennis
saries have been teaching tho farmers
| OF the country has been that thu
establishment of reciprocity witt
Canada under the terms of the agree
ment pending before the senate would
result in robbing the Northwestern
argriculturists of their dairy and egg
market. 1t sounds plausible enough,
and there have been many deceived by
the statement. It 10 easy to imagine
the vast area of Northwestern Canada
given up to diaries and poultry farms
the produce from which will be
showed across the border TO the de.
triment OF the markets Of the American
farmer.
Investigation Of few facts, bearing
on these representations shows them
to be OF . piece with some Of the other
spacious arguments Of the high tariff
crowed. For instance:
Canada last year sent l63, 900 pound
pounds OF cheese to this country, but
imported from the United States 215,-
600 pounds. In the Same year, with q
duty of cents q gallon Canada sold
in this country $4,000 gallons of
cream, and yet there was no effect on
prices. Cream is not . COMMODITY
that can be shipped long distances,
and the proximity of the American
farmer to the market should protect
him from serious competition in that
article.
The utter absurdity of the charge
that the poultry raisers would be
severely hurt by reciprocity is shown
in report issued last Saturday by
the bureau of commerce and labor,
dealing with the trade in eggs between
two countries. Form this it appears
that in the year ending March 81, 1911
Canada exported 164,s3 dozen eggs,
of which 39,917 came to the Unites
States. On the other hand, the United
States poultrymen sold to Canada
757,3l6 dozen eggs, more than were
imported by that country from all the
rest of the world. Indeed, China was
Canada's second biggest source Of
egg supply, sending s7,O75 dozen, and
all other countries sending her only
1858 dozen. That is, Canada import
ed 1928, 4S9 dozen more eggs than she
exported, and got iii 1899 dozen more
from the United States than she sent
to this country. Now every dozen
eggs sent from this county to Canada
and there were 1896 dozen-paid
duty at the boundary line OF 3 cents.
With the removal of that duty the
Canadian market for the American
product should be materially increased
Just for example: The duty Of 3 cents
dozen on Isl, 316 dozen eggs anount-
ed to s22, 719.4s. Suppose the price Of
eggs to be 80 cents q dozen, Canada
paid enough duty on the eggs she i'm
ported from the United States last
year to have bought up all but 1900
dozen Of her imports from China, or
about 76, 900 dozen.
AS to the prices OF eggs in this
country and Canada. the report says:
The wholesale prices of eggs in four
American cities and four Canadian
cities on certain date we're: Buffalo,
N Y; 36 cents: Ogdensburg, N. Y, 30
cts, Lancaster,N. H., p cts Burlington
VT, p cents. Toronto, Ont, 40 cents;
Prescott, Ont, % cents; Sherbrooke,
Que, 81 cents; Montreal, Que, 35.
cents. This would make a general
average of 80 cents per dozen in the
American cities, and 344 cents in the
Canadian cities.
There is just one big idea back Of
the opposition of the American Prof
tective Tariff league to reciprocity,
and that is that it means the end of
the special privilege iniquity that has
been fostered by the Republican party
and that was repudiated by the people
at the last election. That idea has
led to the dissemination of deliberate
falsehoods, trying to line up the
farmers against reciprocity. "Uncle
Joe' Cannon was recognized, while
he was speaker, as the opponent OF
everything that 10 oked like reduction
of the tariff. He is opposed to re-
ciprocity now Is he less an advocate
OF high tariffs and special privilege
now than he was when he held the
gavel? Not bite, yet some of the
Minnesota congressman seemed to
think he was, and there are indications
that the two Republican senator's from
this state think so.
The receptions OF the high tariff
crowd have worked with some of the
farmers, but not with all of them.
The campaign of deception has been