The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-02
DEMOCRATS FAVORED
CANADIAN FARNERS

Statistics showing in detail how
Democratic tariff legislation has per
mitted the Canadian farmer to en-
large his sales in the United States
to the injury of the American pro-
Queer. were recently placed in the
Congressional Record by Congress
man ]. Hampton Moore, of Pennsyl-
vania, who, by way of introduction
said:
our commercial relations with
Canada are always interesting n a
study of the tariff question. We had
reciprocity with Canada once and IT
worked beautifully for the upbuilding
of Canada. After it had been in OPP
GRAFTON for a short time we learned
that Canada was getting our money
and we were building up Canada's in
dustries by taking her products. We
protected ourselves under the Nc
Kinley and the Dingley and Payne
laws SO that we were able to hold our
W money in circulation in u own
country. and still not give up every
thing to Canada.
When Mr.. Wilson was elected Pres
ident in 1912, however, all this was
changed. By the passage of the I'm
derwood tariff law, October 3, 1913,
we put Canada back into her old po-
sition, not by a reciprocity act, so
called, but by reducing tariff duties
and charging the free list. The pre-
tense upon which this was done was
to secure for the American consumer
a decreased cost of living. Reduce
the tariff rates, put cattle and pota-
toes, and so forth, on the free list,
and the American consumer will get
cheaper food said the followers of
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Underwood. That
was the way the Democrats looked
at it then. How the Canadian brother
looked at it we are not told, but We
know what the Canadian brother did.
If he did not say Thank you, Mr..
Wilson, for keeping us out of war;
he certainly ought to have said
Thank you, Mr.. Wilson, for opening
the American market to Canadian
producers for that is exactly what
Mr.. Wilson did when he insisted upon
the passage of the Underwood tariff
law, which was to compel the Amer
lean manufacturers and producers to
whet their wits against the wits of
their foreign competitors.
1.-The Canadian brother was on the
job and never let go from the moment
the Underwood bill was passed. Did
he reduce the price of cattle to the
American market when the duty was
taken off cattle? He certainly did not.
If the American brother was fool
enough to take the duty off and make
cattle free into the United States, the
Canadian brother was wise enough to
put it on the price of his cattle which
he sold into the United States. This
is exactly what he did. SO that while
the United States treasury was minus
the duty and the American cattle
raiser was minus the protection he
had hitherto enjoyed. the Canadian
cattle dealer obtained a higher price
for his cattle in the American a.
ket. and Lne dear consumer, for whom
MI. Wilson and Mr.. Underwood had
pleaded so earnestly, paid more for
beef and got less of it for food than
ever before.
1T was substantially the same with
potatoes, that great American staple,
which in recent years has given the
state of Maine an exceptional agri-
cultural reputation. The Democrats
took the duty off potatoes. which the
Republicans had sustained for the
two-fold purpose of protecting the
potato grower and of keep
ing the treasury in funds, and the
Canadian potato grower. always ON
the job as usual, Immediately flooded
the American market. The potato
growers of Maine. being right up
against the border of Canada, were
first to feel the shock and they GER
tainly felt it until the Democratic adj
ninistration through its ingenious
Department of Agriculture. discover
"a wart' on the Canadian potato.
which permitted of an embargo on
Canadian potatoes. which operated as
successfully in covering up the free
trade defects of the Underwood tariff
law as the European war has served
as a tariff wall to protect American
industries generally. despite the ad-
ministration at Washington and its
heresies."