The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-03-28

to Alaska unless 1t be the proposal
to build a windbreak out in tn.
arid belt consisting of hundred
rows of trees a mile apart, extend
ing from Canada to the Rio
Grande. Due to deficient rainfall
these trees will have to be watered
by hand, If they are to survive, and
only the good Lord knows where
there is water to be had for that
purpose out in the semi desert
country.
It appears to me that we are go
ing at this recovery program in the
wrong way. say that because we
are overlooking several fundamen-
tai laws of economics which can
not be ignored without disaster to
every man, woman and child in
this country.
For instance, the other day SO
carloads Of Canadian cattle ship
ped to So. st. Paul, which were a
part Of regular daily shipments di-
verted from Winnipeg the past few
weeks, faced a loss as the market
declined and were held over pend
ing their disposition by Canadian
shippers. Prices on the So. st. Paul
markets have been from so to 100
percent higher for several weeks
than in Winnipeg, which has en-
abled Canadian shippers to pay the
So per hundred tariff tax, plus the
freight charges, and sell profitably
in the Minnesota market. Last
week the top So. st. Paul price for
steers was approximately $12 a
hundred. The price in Winnipeg at
the same time was $3.50 per hun
dred, the differences in price being
altogether due to the American
tariff. It is my understanding that
daily shipments of cattle from
Canada to So. st. Paul the past
several weeks have averaged IS to
IS cars which, Of course, have re
suited in lowering the domestic
price to the home cattle raiser.
Canada Is not the only country
shipping cattle to us. I find that
Mexico is also very active along
that line. Then, too, South Ameri-
ca shipped us over 81 million
pounds of canned beef during the
last six months of 1884, and several
hundred thousand hides thrown in
for good measure.
In my letter Of three weeks ago,
I stated that we had imported so
far this year 4,118,000 pounds of
butter. Since that time the i'm
ports have increased to more than
7,112,000 pounds, most of 1t coming
from New Zealand and Argentine
is produced under most favorable
conditions in that their cows are
on green pastures IL months Of the
year. They are able to ship their
butter here, pay the cost Of the
long haul and the 14c per pound
import tax and yet undersell Am
erican butter. And then we Won
der why the butter market is on
the downgrade.
AS I see it, the only solution lies
i'm imposing an additional &c per
pound tax which will bring the
total import tax on butter up to
zoe per pound. This Is being adj
vocated by farmers and creamery
operations all over the country, and
I am now preparing the necessary
legislation.
During the last six months OF
1884 our imports in grains were as
follows: barley, 6,559,O00 bushels;
rye, 1861, 900 bushels; corn $685.
600 bushels; oats, 5,559,000 bushels;
wheat, 100000 bushels.
I sometimes wonder what the
foreigner thinks Of our way OF do
i'm business Under the AAA we re-
duced the American corn acreage
and allowed Argentine to increase
her imports to us in proportion to
our acreage reduction We have
killed off hogs until the number
now on our farms is 1860 below
the 1882 peak. Cattle and calves
showed a decline Of 1920 during
1884, and naturally, prices to the
consumer are soaring due to cur
tailment Of the domestic supply.
But the farmer is not the only
one who is being hit thru an made
auate tariff. The industrial East
Is suffering with us. The shoe in
dustry is practically bankrupt,