Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-11
Changes Affecting Wheat and
Flour Bring Loud Protest
From MiiIers and Farmers.
SEE GREAT INJURY IN
CANADIAN COMPETITION
Declare That Bill Gives Dominion
Market of $4,000, COO People and
United States Only 5000, 900.

The loud cries which Louisiana sugar
interests have made because of the propo-
,sition to make it free of duty in three
years have become faint and infantile be-
side the terrific roar which the Sixty-third
Congress is already beginning to hear
from the northwest as the farmers and
millers read what the ways and means
committee intend to do to wheat and
-four
The big northwest with it's millions Of
dollars invested in the wheat industry.
covering a number of states and having
quite significant number of votes in the
Senate and House. Is sending forth today
the ultimatum that the Underwood tar
in bill might as well have been written in
Canada-because it does nothing but give
the Dominion market of ninety million
people and gives to the United States a
market OF eight million people.
1T is the most absurd proposition
ever heard of, saw or imagined is the
way Representative Anderson. republican.
of Minnesota. the big wheat and flour
market state. puts it.
Briefly. the miller's cry and the wheat
growers sorrow in this proposed tariff
revision arise because the Underwood
tariff bill puts a duty on wheat and
places flour practically on the free list.
Canada biggest Competitor.
The bill puts a duty on -four which is
imported from those countries which tax
American flour. Now, as Canada is about
the only big competitor that American
millers have. all that the Dominion has
to do will be to take the tax off Amer
lean flour.
Then the American miller who wants to
get Canadian wheat will have to pay
duty for getting II across the border. but
at the same time Canadian millers will
be shipping barrel after barrel Of flour
into the United States without a cent of
duty. All OF which is a situation so dis
tasteful to the farmers of Minnesota.
the Dakotas. Indiana. Missouri. Kansas
and to the millers all along the great
lakes that the democratic party Is COINS
to have a terrific time quieting them.
Representative Hammond of Minnesota.
a democrat who halls from a nominal'y re-
publican district represented so long in
Congress by Mr.. McCleary. and a member
of the ways and means committee Is re-
sponsible for this wheat and flour provi
sion in. the bill. and he did 1t from the
impulse of the democratic theory con-
corning tariff. He Is sticking to his posi-
ton and is proud Of the fact that he was
able to retain any tariff on wheat and
flour In face of the demand for reductions
on foodstuffs.
These democratic cuts. which hit the
farmers. will be the ruination Of tn
democratic party is the way that Rep.e-
member of the ways and means commit
tee. puts II. THE farmers have already
been facing a % per cent less income for
their products this past year. and they
are bowling mad on these schedules,
which let Canada and Argentina and
other countries send in meat cattle. farm
provisions etc, free.
/. Manufacturers Badly Fooled.
Manufacturers" continued Mr. Green,
ARE badly fooled in some instances in this
bill. You will remember that the word
was passed out that legitimate industries
need never fear from the Cnderwoot!
tariff. Now all the manufacturers be-
ueved that the word legitimate in that
connection meant an industry free from
the faint of trusts. but the democrats
don't look at 1t that way at all
Representative Burton Harrison of New
York, free trader and one Of the franz
ers of the present bill, made 1t known
very clearly to one manufacturer that
the. word legitimate In the democratic
lexicon Is to be applied only to industries
which do not need to be propped up by
protection. So that is why SO many man
ufacturers who went away from the hear
ings during the recess with smiles ON
their faces are now looking sour.
Meat Is In the same category with
hour. The Iowa men are declaring that
Canadian meat and cattle will be eaten
hereafter to the exclusion of all othe.
brands. But. say the free-traders, 1.-THE
cost OF living will go down-and besides.
remember what the President said about
putting the Americans in competition
with the rest of the world
Every republican expects that the bill,
will be passed as il now stands. far
as the principal items on the free list are
concerned. They'll jam ii through" said
one of them to a Star reporter, and
there will be no chance to even suggest
an amendment
TO GATHER STATISTICS.