The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-16
WEDNESDAY, APRIL le, 1918.
TARIFF IS CONSIDERED
BY NO. OAK, N|LLERS

~ opposed 20 every basic principle of
the tariff as a protective measure"
F. A. Beare. Jr., Of New Prague,
Mimi. a leading miller has made the
following statement
Under the proposed vicious tariff
adjustment, Canada. having nothing
to lose and everything. to gain. would
from the United States, thereby max.
ing our populous central. eastern and
southern states the most favorable
market in the world for the Canadian
milling capacity, which now far ex-
ceeds Dominion consumption. Our
mills, Disseminated against as regard
Canadian wheat, would be easy COM
petition for Dominion competitors.
who could supply a competitive article
secured by our mills to enable them
to take q growing share Of the bust
ness and with their handsome profit
grow tat and eventually destroy US.
for earning as We do a narrow manu-
featuring profit Of 2 per cent or 3 per
cent. we could not hold out against
them.
Occupy Position Canada Does Now.
During the process OF humiliation
OF home industries our farmers. whose
wheat would have to go into products
to be sold in competition, at home M
we'll as abroad. with free products of
Canadian or other cheaper wheat,
would sooner or later be in the same
position with the Canadian farmer
who now has to accept the prices that
brings on the markets Of the
20 cents. sometimes SO cents per bush
ell less than the domestic prices which
have heretofore prevailed in the Unit
ed States. AS far as our farmers are
concerned this country might Just as
We'll admit Canadian or other foreign
srown wheat free of duty as to a duty
or 10 per cent. providing any foreign
milied flour is admitted free.'
When Taft's reciprocity plan was
considered, most United States mill
ers believed the effect would be to
moderately reduce the wheat market
here and advance tn Canadian market
about equally without any material
effect on the milling industry Of either
country. The outrageous plan now in
contemplation by congress would
gradually reduce our wheat market to
v OF lowest markets abroad and
during the process destroy an import
ant home industry in which competi.
ton exists to fullest possible degree
and against which no slightest charge
OF monopoly can Justly be made
Will Benefit Canadians.
"This would be done to the vast
benefit of grain growers and millers
in Canada and other foreign coun-
tries. and without material relief to
domestic consumers Of bread, for,
although -four prices in this country
fuctuate closely with the wheat mar
ket: the retail price of bread today.
with wheat approximately 20 cents per
nushel lower than a year ago. is al
most universally unchanged. Further
more. why should Canadian mills,
protected by 10 cents per bushei
against United States millers, not ask
the market price for their flour when
selling it against crippled competition?
II believe a duty on Canadian wheat
of 10 cents a bushel would amply
protect U farmers while at times
benefcially s%teadying our market from
fluctuations induced by speculative in
fuences. but the duty OF wheat should
be relatively greater than on
ifour,' especially in case Of a wheat
growing n not a very populous coun-
try like Canada. And under the con
ditions prevailing in this country at
present. a higher duty should be MAIN
tanned on the manufactured article
than on the raw material for COMPETE
ton is rife among many thousand in
dependent domestic millers."
The Grafton Roller Mills Of Grafton.
N. D., have made the following state.
ment:
Regarding the proposed free flour
and duty of 10 cents on wheat, we re-
gard this as unjust, as it would turn
most Of the flour trade Over to Cana
dian and other foreign mills. The Ca
madam mills could make -four and de-
liver 1t here for IS cents a barrel less
than the American mills and could
flood this country with flour. With 10
cents per bushel duty on wheat and
free -four and an average crop in Ca
NADIA, the mills in Europe could i'm
port Canadian wheat and grind it into
flour and ship it back to the eastern
states and none Of the American mills
would compete.
when the New York banks, hold
ing the final banking reserves of the
country, r called upon by the rest
of the country, as they have been in
every great crisis, to uphold with them.
The mills in Canada would have a still
greater advantage. 1t would mean ruin
to the American mills and, as It il
customary to protect the home manu-
facturers. we cannot understand how
they could pass a bill giving all the
From the farmers standpoint.
should this bill pass. our wheat prices
would be much lower in this country.
Our wheat market usually higher. but
with this law we would always have
to be on an export basis and as we
are usually from several cents to IS
and 40 cents per bushel over the ex-
port basis, the farmer can figure what
he will get out Of it. 1t will not re-
duce the price Of bread, for If the for
eign mills cut our price Is cents per
barrel they will get the trade and this
difference would be too small to allow
the baker to make lower prices on
bread"
Railroad men present were: Herbert
Morse and R. J. Cassan Of the New
York Central fast freight lines. and
Charles H. Smith Of the Chicago. Indi-
n & Southern railroad. All Of them
are travelling freight agents.
Some of the prominent millers
present at today's c%onclave were NJ. ].
Mulroy Of Minot. Hommerdrum Of
Harvey. G. w. Jennison Of williston,
]. A. Dunn Of Park River. J. C. Dam
user of JAMESTOWN. N. A. johnson Of
Valley City. F. q. stearns of Wal