The Lamar register., 1912-10-16
AMERICAN FARMERS
ARE NOT ''BUNC0ED"
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" IL the title of publication In
dustriously circulated among farmers
by the Tariff Reform bureau of New
York, a free trade annex Of the Demo
cratic party.
1t asserts that American-made farm
implements are sold in Canada at
lower price than they are obtainable
by American farmers. The purpose
of the statement 10 to prove that the
American farmers are made to suffer
through the operation of the protect
i've tariff laws.
The statement is false. Plowh
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 a
so-called anti-dumping law in Canada
whereby an American manufacturer
cannot sell In that country at q lower
price than At home.
OffIeIai Faots and FIgursa
In addition to this, they are also
ignorant OF the fact that the United
States government. through its board
of trade relations In the state do
partment, has made a thorough inveS
tigation which disprovss the false a.
sertion. 1t issued under date Of May
Is, 1910, . document entitled Com
parison Of Prices Of Agricultural I'M
plsmsnts In Canada and the United
States" which shows that Canadian
farmers pay more for American farm
machinery than IL paid by the Amsrt
oan farmers. Here are some Of the
figures:
N-inoh. stssl-bsam walking plow-pssos
in North Dakota, -; price In Manitoba.
~
Winch susky pillow with nft-priss IN
Ohio. 10: price In Ontario. IS.
1-inoh North Dakota suiky piow-prios
in North Dakota: $50. price In Manitoba,
-.
Ohio and Michigan. Sit; price In Ontario.
s-foot, 1s-inch disk harrow-prics In
North Dakota. t3s: price In Manitoba 80
lo-foot. 70 single disk Kentucky drill
price In North Dakota, Sl2s; price In
Manitoba. $40.
Ridinr cuitivator, portable axle-pros
in Ohio and Michigan. rs; price in o.
tario. SIS.
Hay loader. rake bar-pries In Ohio and
Michigan. $50: price in Ontario. 80
First grade farm wagon-prioe In North
DAKOTA soS: price in Manitoba, sos.
Evidence Offered With Proof.
Evidence to the same effect is given
BY the Gale Manufacturing company
Of Albion, Mich, which was specincaL
ly charged by the free trade advocates
with selling goods more chsaply to
Canadian farmers than TO American
farmers.
The secretary and general manager
of the company. under date Of August
30. 1912. wrote to the Tartn Reform
club denying the charge and threaten
ing to sue for damages unless the as
sertion was promptly retractsd. The
nrm also wrote to the Republican ma
tional committee as follows:
"Plows, planters. ouldvators and
other farm machinery made In the
United States cost 26 per cent. more
in Canada than In this country. You
can stand on this statement, and II 1t
IL 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 346 In
Windsor, less than a mile away across
the Detroit river, and a cultivator
which sells in Detroj. for $50 cannot
be bought in Windsor for less than
$40.
As soon as free trade statements
are subjected to the cold analysis of
their falsity is shown.
1t IL an old proverb that a lie will
travel seven leagues while truth isg
putting on its boots. 1t is important.
therefore, that farmers who have
heard the untruths of the free traders
should promptly learn the real facts in
the case.