Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1912-10-11

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there would have been a bonus Of
SO, 900 per mile to the builders, and
1t costs from $1,000 to s13, QOos per
mile to build roads up in that coun.
try. 1
The writer has learned from the
most reliable sources that Western
Canada raised over ,2OO,000,0OO bushels
Of wheat in 1911; but in the first place
they did not have enough sthresh-
ing machines to take care Of it, and
second, they did not have enough rail
road facilities to carry the product
to the terminal markets. .;s Al, 81 ~ .
We have seen times in, Minnesota
and the Dakotass when the FARMERS
found themselves in the same plight
but the threshing machines came and
so did the railroads. The Great North
ern railroad is willing to furnish hthe
railroads as soon as grain can = Be
carried without duty, across the. dine,
and in a few years Canada could: sups
ply the world with breadstuffs, buft
there is a barrier of Csc per bushel:on
wheat, 25c on fax seed, soc on barley,
and 15c on oats. This is. what Taft
and other good friends of:the' farmers
sought to abrogate::, / venture to say,
that had The pact passed, or If itldoes
pass, five years after that. time the
American: farmer will. see the prices
of his grain dwindle to lower figures
than ever before. A friend of the
writer, formerly grain buyer':i;at
Summit, s. d., Kristian Jydstrup,
writes from Stetler, Alberta, where he
now buys grain, that in the country
tributary to that town, they raised
last fall from twenty to sixty bush
els of wheat per acre, and from fifty
to one-hundred-twenty bushels Of. oats
per acre, and good crop Of rye and
barley. Can our farmers compete
with this? As regards prices, he pays
from 39c to CSC per bushel for wheat.
Farmers take notice of this. 55,sa +: y
Wheat is mostly sold to bonded
elevators. but the difference in the
price that the American farmer gets
and the Canadian farmer has to take
is great. Permit me to quote what q
former respected citizen Of Kandi.
yohi county, writes from Souris, N.
Oak, which is six miles from the
Canadian border line. He writes:
1.-THE Anchor Grain Co., Of. your city
GMinneapolis), has grain elevator
here, the only one that buys Canadian
wheat under bond. Of course they al
SO buy wheat from this side Of the
line. The difference in the price ranges
from 13c to. &c per bushel less fol
Canadian wheat when sold here than
for wheat raised on the American
side. They get proportionately a bet
ter price here for low grades, than OF
the Canadian side, where they seem tc
be harder on grading :
:. We speak of wheat, as though that
was the only commodity endangered
4 by this proposed treaty. The fact ol
the matter is that there is q much
greater disparity in prices between
Canada and this country in barley
and fax. The Canadians are export
ing to this country thousands oil
bushels of barley and flax-seed, and
paying the duty on same, and saving
money thereby. 3:'s' r.. 49, -. -
Temporarily, the. Canadian rail
roads and manufacturers came. to
the rescue Of the farmers on this side
of the line. ignoring the benefit 81
4 their own farmers in the same man:
! ner that our big interests and gov
: eminent ignored our farmers. =.
4 They elected government on Sep
tember 21st; supposedly opposing the
reciprocity treaty that had been p1t
through congress by President TAFT
i The farmers on the western prairies
If Canada voted right from 'thefi
standpoint They elected members 81
/ jarliament favorable to the ratifca
lion OF the agreement, but were
5overpowered by other interests, who
would just as soon see the farmers in
4 heir country remain as scape:goats
A One Of the arguments which seemed
70 take well against the ratification
n Canada, was fear OF annexation
md that they would eventually be
come a part Of our corrupt system
and be under the domination Of thu
merican trusts. Many who did op
pose the ratification Of the pact OF
he Canadian side, are now beginning
8 see the folly. Of their ways. Grea
pressure is now being brought 70 bea'
upon the Canadian government 7
ratify the agreement, and Premie