Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-10-26
AMERICAN FARMERS
ARE NOT ''BUNCOED'
BUY FARM IMPLEMENTS CHEAP.
Err THAN CANADIAN FARMERS.
CAMPAIGN LIE IS NAILED
Investigation by State Department.
Gives Facts and Figures, and
Michigan Manufacturing Firm
Adds Evidence.

Farmers Buncoed by the High
Tariff" is the title of publication in
dustriously circulated among farmers
by the Tariff Reform bureau of New
York. a tree trade annex of the Demo
cratic party.
1t asserts that American-made farm
implements are sold in Canada at a
lower price than they are obtainable
by American farmers. The purpose
of the statement is to prove that the
American farmers are made to suffer
through the operation of the protect
i've tariff laws
The statement is false Plows,
planters. cultivators and other farm
implements made in the United States
cost twenty-five per cent more in
Canada than in this country.
The free trade advocates who try
to mislead the American farmer do
not know. apparently. that there is g.
so-called anti-dumping law In Canada
whereby an American manufacturer
cannot sell in that country at a lower
price than at home.
OFFICIAL Facts and Figures
In addition to this, they are also
ignorant of the fact that the United
of trade relations in the state de-
partment, has made a thorough inves-
tigation which disproves the false as
sertion- 1t issued under date of May
16, 1910, a document entitled Com
parison of Prices of Agricultural Inn
plements In Canada and the United
States" which shows that Canadian
farmers pay more for American farm.
machinery than is paid by the Ameri-
can farmers Here are some of tha
figures:
14-inch. steel-beam walking plow-price
in North Dakota 81: price In Manitoba.
SIS
I4inch sulky pillow with Ift-price In
Ohio so; price in Ontario. s56
16-inch North Dakota sulky plow-prfce
In North Dakota: $50. price in Manitoba
$50
17-tooth spring tooth harrow-price In
Ohio and Michigan. 81. price in Ontario
s-foot, 1s-inch disk harrow-price in
North Dakota. SIS: price in Manitoba, s45-
10-foot. 20 single disk Kentucky drill
price In North Dakota, s125; price In
Manitoba, S1A.
Riding cultivator. portable axIe-prfcs
in Ohio and Michigan. SIS: price In On
tario, $38.
Hay loader. rake bar-price in Ohio and
Michigan, $50: price in Ontario SO
First grade farm wagon-prfce in North
Dakota, sS5: price in Manitoba. $lo5- II
Evidence Offered With Proof.
Evidence to the same effect is given
by the Gale Manufacturing company
of Albion. Mich which was specifical
Iy charged by the free trade advocates
with selling goods more cheaply to
Canadian farmers than to American
farmers.
The secretary and general manager
of the company, under date of August
30. 1912. wrote to the Tariff Reform
club denying the charge and threaten
ing to sue for damages unless the as
sertion was promptly retracted- The
firm also wrote to the Republican ma
tional committee as follows:
..Plows. planters, cultivators and
other farm machinery made in the
United States cost Is per cent more
in Canada than in this country You
can stand on this statement, and Ii 1t
is challenged We can produce proof
The proof mentioned in this letter
consists of letters from retail dealers
throughout Canada quoting the prices
at which the products of the Michigan
factory are sold to Canadian farmers
These figures agree substantially with
those given in the government publ
cation For instance, a planter which
sells in Detroit for $40 costs $45 In
Windsor, less than a mile away across
the Detroit river. and a cultiyator
which sells in Detroit for $40 cannot
be bought In Windsor for less than
$3e
= As soon as free trade statements
are subjected to the cold analysis OF
their falsity Is shown
IT In an old proverb that lie will
travel seven leagues while truth isg
putting on its boots- 1t Ii important,
therefore, that farmers who have
heard the untruths of the free traders
should promptly learn the real facts In
the case