Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — "PROTECTED” FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

"PROTECTED” FARMERS.

Here is an instance of how the tariff helps the farmer: 1 On August 27, the wheat known as No. 1 northern, sold in Winnipeg, Canada, $1.04i4 per bushel. On the same day, the same grade of wheat, called here No. 1 hard, sold in Minneapolis for $1.00%. On August 27, No. 2 northern wheat sold in Winnigeg, Canada for $1.02% a bushel. On the same day the same wheat sold in Minneapolis for 92% cents a bushel. No. 3 northern sold in Wjinnipeg that day for 98 cents. The same wheat differently named sold in Minneapolis on the same day for 88% cents. Oats that sold in Winnipeg for 42% cents sold in Minneapolis the same day for 30 cents. A similar difference . prevailed in the price of barley. '

In a word, Wheat sePs in the American market from 4 to 10 cents than in the Canadian market. Yet there is a duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat that, tries to get into America from Canada: Why. doesn’t the American farmer get the advantage of that duty? Because we export wheat instead of importing it. An import duty does riot and can not help the price of an article of export—unless the producers of that exported article are in a trust that is strong enough to fix prices. The farmers have never formed a tru^t. It is now. in order for some jingo paper over the border to ask for a high tariff on wheat to protect the free and manly Canadians from the “pauper product” of American farms! —Chicago Journal.