Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-25

transportation, facilities for hand
i ling, demand for manufacturing
\ warehouse capacity, or other cause
the price of grains differ on the two
sides of the Canadian line does not
prove that the tariff duty has any
thing to do with the different
prices, because the price of the SAME
commodities in different states at
the same time on this side of the
line have differed fully as much.
Let It be remembered that in the
comparison Of prices on wheat, for
example, that the prices have often
been higher in Winnipeg than on
this side of the line. For instance,
in 1907 May wheat sold in Winni-
peg for 70 cents and in Kansas City
for 70 cents; and the same year De-
cember wheat sold in Winnipeg for
$1.01 and in Kansas City for 90
cents. and this year May wheat
sold in Winnipeg for SO cents and
Kansas City for 81 cents, and July
wheat has sold in Winnipeg for 95
cents and in Kansas City for s4k
cents.
The Nebraska farmer needs just
as much protection against the
North Dakota and Minnesota wheat
grower as he does against the Cana
dian wheat grower, but he needs no
protection against either. The cos:
of production in Minnesota, Dakota.
Nebraska, and Canada is substan-
italy the same, and on this ques-
ton, aside from the report of the
tariff commission to the same effect,
desire to read the testimony of an
other senatorial expert to sustain
me in my contention that the wage
scale in Canada and America is SUBJ
stantially the same.
On the oath day of May, 1909.
during the tariff debate, the junior
senator from Minnesota (Mr.
-Clapp), among other things, said:
"There is another thing to be
considered. Along this Canadian
border, with nothing but an mag
mary line across, it is idle in my
Judgment, and idle in my expert
ence and observation, to talk about
any great difference in wages on
one side or the other When man
by a days walk can go from mill
on that side to a mill on this side,
from a field on that side to field
on this side, that imaginary inter.
national boundary line will not
maintain any very different scale Of
wages long upon one side or the
other. And they are the same class
of men. When we talk about a pro-
tective tariff and think of the over
crowded countries of Europe, of the
cheap wage scale of Europe-when
we realize that the wage Garner in
Europe must and oftentimes has tol
borrow and incur great expense to
come to this country--there may he
wisdom in attempting to maintain
an artificial wall between his coun-
try and ours, but when we look 10
sparsely settled Canada, when We
look to class of men enjoying
wage scale practically the equal of
our own wage scale, it seems TO me /
that sooner or later the American
people have got to recognize the I'M
possibility of forever maintaining
an artificial wall where there is no
natural reason for the establish
ment or maintenance of that wall.
Sooner or later. Mr.. President, We
shall have to recognize on broader
plane this natural relation to Cam
ada. l predict here in the senate
-oday that the time will come when.
even with the protective policy as
irmly implanted as it is today in our
general policy, yet in our tariff re-
dllOu W Sdudud we Will IetpSuIAc
hat it must be limited largely up
IN the basis of revenue as required
~ that country and this"
l think the senator from Minne-
'ota is right. He is certainly corro-
,orated by the report of the tarif.
,oard, which made somewhat ex-
ended Investigation into the rela-
i've wage scale of Canada and this
ountry. If it be true, Mr.. Presi-
lent, as it is, that the cost of Pho
luction of farm products is substan-
tally the same in the two countries,
What can be the justification for
uty? +:
Notice of Appointment of Admins
traitor.
In the district court of the State
4 Iowa, in and for Hamilton coun-
Y, in probate.
In the matter of the estate OF W.