Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-03-08
HAS THE BEST KNOWLEDGE.


for Roosevelt for president is because
he, Of all the candidates, best knows
the needs of our state. We feel that he
is a citizen of North Dakota and re.
gardless of anything he may be quot
ed as saying about the reciprocity
agreement We can feel sure of fair
treatment in his hands. A very enron
eous idea has existed in the minds of
many North Dakota farmers that the
tariff should be reduced on all eastern
manufactured goods without any re-
duction on what they produce. This is
about the essence Of what LaFollette
would have US believe should be done,
but let us ask you, how long do you
expect the tariff would remain after
you succeed in getting the manufactur-
ers' tariff reducedf LaFollette knows
this cannot be done nor would it last
if it were accomplished. One thing the
American people must learn: that the
tariff is a give and take measure and
that all sections Of the country and the
different industries Of the same must
be considered in the enactment of a
successful tariff measure, and if there
is a farmer in North Dakota who is
dissatisfied with the existing tariff
measure, and we have heard of many,
he should sell his North Dakota farm
and remove to Canada, and we can as
sure him he will return a sadder but
wiser man: A clipping from a Canad-
ian farm paper: written by Mr.. R. Nc
Kenzie, secretary of the Manitoba
Grain Growers, perhaps illustrates the
comparison in conditions as to how
the farmers interests are cared for in
North Dakota and in Canada about 50
we'll as need be, which is as follows:
"While in St. John, small town
in North Dakota, three or four miles
from the Canadian border,' said R.
Mckenzie, secretary of the Manitoba
Grain Growers, today, /" I saw farm
er being paid 90 cents per bushel for
barley in the grain elevator there. If
that barley was brought to grain
elevator in Brandon, Manitoba, it
would realize 40 cents per bushel. An
eight foot Mccormick binder sells at
St. John for $4,000. In Brandon the
same machine costs $175. A little
figuring will show that in St. John,
1853 bushels Of barley will pay for an
eight foot Mccormick binder, while in
Brandon 437 bushels of the same class
of barley would be required. Eighty
one bushels of barley will buy far
mer's wagon in Dakota. It takes 2l2
bushels to buy the same kind of wag-
on in Brandon. The Dakota farmer
gets eight gallons of coal oil in ex-
change for one bushel of barley while
a Manitoban must be satisfied with
slightly over one for the same quanti-
ty.
Had reciprocity carried the price of
barley would be the same in Brandon.
way Nv 4 ohA 1AC1SAI 1dttS W teIIul-
nails being the same from both places.
1t is said that the Cockshutt Pillow com
pany, of Brantford, Ont, sell their
eight bottom power gang plows in Min
nesota around $500, where barley sells
from 81 to $1.15, while in Manitoba
they charge $3.50. In other words the
Minnesota farmer can draw 500 bush
els of barley to an elevator and bring
home Cockshutt plaw fully paid for,
while the Manitoba farmer would have
to haul 100 bushels to an elevator
in this province to get the same pillow.
The Minnesota farmer can get the
Cockshutt two furrow plow for 81
bushels of barley, while the Manitoba
farmer exchanges 212 bushels for the
same article. Truly, the Manitoba
farmer pays dearly for that brand of
loyalty and patriotism which IS repre-
| sented by the Canadian manufacvur-
err