The Tariff Review Volume 49

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...by Free-Trade upon all Canadian grains and other farm products; Whereas, Said reciprocity pact did not make a proportionate reduction on machinery nor on any other products of Canadian and American manufactories, or other Canadian and American industries, whereby Americans, as a whole, would be given an equivalent advantage in the Canadian markets; Whereas, Since American farmers are obliged to buy their supplies in a Tariff-Protected market at American market rates, therefore American farmers are justly entitled to a fair Protection of the American market for their own farm products; Whereas, The difference between the export price on grain (which is the Canadian price and which would under reciprocity become the American price also) and the yearly average Minneapolis and Duluth price, amounts, to the farmers of Minnesota and the Dakotas alone, to over fifty million dollars a year, or about a million dollars a week, and a similar difference applies more or less to other States in proportion to their staple crops to be competed against by Canada; Whereas, The law having been passed by our Congress and signed by President Taft, leaves the situation entirely in the hands of Canada to pass a similar law now or at any time, without further action upon the part of the United States, whereby all the evils of this so-called reciprocity, with its calamitous loss to American farmers, would become an actuality, unless Congress first repeals its passage of the law; Whereas, The recent elections in Canada gave the party opposed to reciprocity only a small majority, which is in danger of being reversed at any time even in political exigencies in Parliament without another popular election; Therefore, We, the farmers of the Northwest, feeling that many members of the Six...