Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — CANADA FORGING AHEAD. [ARTICLE]

CANADA FORGING AHEAD.

Thomas C. Shotwell, one of the greatest market reporters in America, writes from New York, under date of March 20th, and says’ “The tariff tangle with Canada .which President Taft has taken in hand is of importance chiefly because of the multitude of American farmers that are crossing into the Canadian northwest. Most conservative estimates of their number place it at 150,000 for 1910. Some say as many as 250,000 will cross. These are all expert farmers and their places in the United States are being filled by untrained men from Europe and from the cities. Canada is gaining rapidly in agricultural importance and within a few years the United States will have to call on the Dominion for wheat. Production of wheat in the United States is not keeping pace with the population. A tariff war would complicate the problem of getting food. Even now Canadian farmers are getting higher prices for their cattle on the hoof, and Candian housewives are paying less for meat in the butcher shctJS than farmers and housewives are receiving and paying in the United States. The tariff on cattle and wheat must be removed as between the two countries before long.”