The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-02
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NEkS AND NOTES

Edmore Herald: Professor Boyle,
one of the paid instructors OF our
state university is down at Washington
talking and lobbying in favor of law
Canadian eciprocity-which IL
passed means the very sapping of the
life blood of the farmers of this state.
The other day while talking before
committee of the senate, he made the
statement that the farmers Of North
Dakota are in favor of reciprocity with
Canada. Now there is just one Of two
things and that is that either DR..
Boyle is very ignorant of the condi-
tons and, feeling Of the North Da-
kota farmers or else he is wilfully
Icing. We venture to say that 90 per
cent of the farmers of this state are
against Canadian reciprocity under
present conditions, and If Mr.. Boyle
knew what he was talking about he
would know 1t. The farmers of this
state are practically the ones who are
paying this man as an instructor in
our leading state institution. and the
question naturally arises. who gives
him authority TO leave his post of duty
and go to Washington to lobby against
the interests Of his constituents. The
next question arises, who is paying
Mr.. Boyle to spend his time and money
at washington. Can Ii be possible that
he is so overly enthused over this
matter that he is willing to travel
thousands of miles at his own expense
to get a chance to tell the senate his
views, or is some unknown person
or corporation paying him well to mis-
represent the farmers of this state ?
We believe that DIR. Boyle has out
lived his usefulness as an instructor
in the university, and that he should
be relegated to the, rear.
Grafton Record: We have read care
fully the testimony given before the
senate finance committee by DIR. Boyle
of the state university. we did this
In order to find out how badly the
doctor had been treated by the com
mittee and just what information he
had to give to the members that
would enlighten them on the subject
of reciprocity. We did not find that
the committee treated~the doctor with
any lack of courtesy, but that the
members did question him closely al
to the theories he advanced and the
sources of his information In some
instances the North Dakotan made ar
excellent showing, (when in the realm
OF theory and at other times he was
forced to admit he was at sea. His
whole argument boiled down was thai
the price of wheat Is fixed at Liver
pool and that no matter whether there
was tariff or NOT our wheat had IL
compete with the wheat of the
Canadian northwest whenever it got
into the worlds market. His theory
was that the law of supply and de.
mand ruled. and was purely academic
and contained nothing new to student.
of economics. When 1t came to prac.
tical matters, DR.. Boyle showed tha
he was out Of his element. His ex
plantations OF why wheat sold for Ii
cents a bushel more on this side O
the line than just across in Manitoba
stamped him as theorist and unac
lquainted with business conditions. on,
OF the statements made by him--tha
the Winnipeg grain board had beef
compelled by law to desist from
hedging" in futures" is denied b,
Winnipeg papers, while some of hi
other reasons are equally erroneous
On the whole DR.. Boyle brought moth
ing to the attention OF the conmitte
that would justify them in recommend
ling for favorable consideration by til,
senate the Canadian reciprocit,
treaty, while he did demonstrate tina
he was an over jealous young man i'm
bued very much with his own i'm