The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-05-27
MINNEAPOLIS M1LLERs WANT
DUTY FREE CANADIAN
VIBRATOR THEM
SELVES

DUTY FREE CANADIAN
WHEAT-FOR THEM
SELVES
We print the following extracts
from an article in the Minneapolis
Tribune of May 1S:
after listening for more than an
hour to the plea of James Ford Bell,
vice president of the Washburn COM
pany, urging support OF the move
for enactment of legislation to make
possible the milling OF Canadian
wheat in bond by United States
mills, the University of Minnesota
Board of Regents in executive ses-
sion yesterday turned down MIR.
Bells proposal.
Mr.. Bell proposed that the univer-
sity call the plan to the attention OF
people of Minnesota through county
agents cooperating with the univer
sity; and that the concensus of opin-
ion so focused be brought before
the House before the permanent tar
if measure comes up the latter part
of this month.
While some OF the regents were
inclined to consider the proposal one
which would be of advantage to the
United States, the board declared
that the matter was out of its prov
ince, and so voted against it.
Advantage Claimed
'Nlr. Bells proposal is that Unit
ed States millers shall be permitted
to import from Canada any amount
of wheat for manufacture into -four,
provided that for every 100 pounds
SO imported, they export 100 pounds
of -four, the millers to be bonded by
the Secretary of the Treasury until
the requisite amount of -four shall
have been exported. Advantages to
be gained through this plan were
pointed out as follows: Retention
for consumption here of fertilizing
elements; reduced cost of -four to
the consumer because of lower cost
of manufacture through full opera /.
ton; benefit to labor by increased
operation; benefits to railroads be-
cause of the long wheat haul: in
crease in the export of American
-four"
During the last campaign, when
the bankers of the country, assisted
by the big millers, grain gamblers
and big business generally with the
enthusiastic support of the republi.
can newspapers, we're doing all in
their power to elect Harding and g
republican, senate and house, and
while the farmers of the country
were complaining of the low price
,of wheat and other farm products
they were solemnly assured by al
OF these selfish interests through
their kept press that the low price Of
wheat was caused solely by the vas
flood of Canadian wheat coming into
the United States duty free under I
wicked democratic tariff law.
The Standard has heretofor,
shown that this claim SO made b.
the republicans was and always ha
been false; that the Canadian mil
lers need large quantities of GU,
softer varieties of wheat to mix will
their own hard wheat in order t
make certain brands of -four to NEE
the demands of their customers. ant
that the American millers likewis,
need vast quantities of the hare
Canadian wheat to mix with softe
varieties of American wheat to maxi
certain brands Of -four to meet tn,
requirements OF their trade: tina
the amount Of wheat imported from
and exported to Canada is substan
TALLY the same when an average i
taken for ten or twenty year pc
Rod: that the difference in. exchang
or value Of Canadian and America
money for the past year or two vii
account for any sudden or marke
increase In importations of Canada
wheat during that time: also. this
as the price Of wheat is and Away
has been Axed in the market Of th
world at Liverpool, England, ii
D matter Of tariff on wheat is Of n
( consequence, because our vines
9 would there come into competitio
8 with not only the Canadian whea
but also with all the other wheat
8 the world.
i However, all OF these. selfish Il
n terests, supported by the republics
: newspapers, in order to- corral Il
o farmer vote for Harding, then clair
n ed that the farmers were being rui,
g Led by this vast food OF Canadis
e wheat which was being rushed. du
q free across the line into this countr
n and that as soon, as the republican