Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — Our Trade with Canada in Farm Products. [ARTICLE]

Our Trade with Canada in Farm Products.

For the year ending June 30 our imports from Canada amounted to $40,522,■OOO, and our exports to that country were $52,219,000. . Trade of that kind ought not to awaken any fears from the protectionists, since they believe that the profit is with us whenever we sell more to a country than we buy from it. According to the notions of the protectionists themselves, there is no reason to interfere with our

Canadian trade; yet, under the pretense of ' protecting our farmers. -McKinley shuts out Canadian potatoes, which next spring many of the farmers themselves will be forced to buy for seed, and pay the MeKinley duty of 25 cents a bushel. A few figures will show the folly of McKinley's attempt to Shut out the few Canadian farm products which we buy. While we import about 11,000,060 bushels of barley from Canada, we sell the Canadians 8,000,000 bushels of corn, against only 174 bought by us from them; and we sell them 1,800,000 bushels of wheat, against only 129,000 bought from them. The Canadians sell us $1,388 worth of flour; we sell them $3,411,000 worth. We buy a few thousand horses and cattle in Canada, and s9l,ooo,worth of meat products; on the other hand we sell Canada 28,500,000 pounds of bacon, 16,390,000 pounds of pickled pork, 60,000,000 pounds of canned beef, and 12,000,000 pounds of lard. Is it not a piece of transparent humbug to pretend that our farmers need protection from the farmers of Canada?