Show DI RECIPROCITY Farm products are protected to a considerable extent nt as an mush so as at the tho farmers themselves them have demanded yet ot there thore la Is an outcry ry In Kansas Kan 8 and Iowa owa that the tha gentle granger is Ie got get getting gotting ting Ung the worst of or it and that the sched chod schedules nice ules should bo be revised forthwith Ap Apparently without knowledge of the th benefits conferred by the McKinley bill the DIU ley bill or the bill bell some acme of GC Ute the f farmers armors have beon been d away by the flamboyant speeches of or the politicians a At a recent election In Massachusetts ett Eugene N K Foes a Re Republican publican p for the greater part of ot hie his life II C wee was on the Democratic ticket largely bOC H the people of ot the Old Bay Day state believe Mil they the would derive substantial advantages advantage if red reci reciprocity with Canada should uld bo be e tab Perhaps there then are advantages to be gained pined by b the people of ot the tho New maW Eng England land states Ita by b reciprocity with tho the Dominion but Jut what ef of the effect e ot upon the western farmer fanner An tin Iowa paper the tile Carroll Herald else atae up the tho situ situation aUn aUen far tile the benefit of or the Hawkeye tillers Wiers of ot the soil Tit writer happens to know kaow some something something thing about aben Canadian R resources and m the east easter er or OM old dominion and aad IH la ti newer R er western we to provinces prOTIa The Tho beat t I Irae rae ta le the world warM are raised rale oa ea I Prince Prides Marg Island They have water direct to the wharves of Boston Now New York and aM Philadelphia Freight to in therefore hardly bardl a Prince George land landu are worth a fourth of f the valve value Iu of Iowa forms farms With fr free frN trade how many MIIa Iowa lioness bor a would hawk haul the tb traffic of f our oar board cities One 0 of ot tile the beat t potato ot to growing tl W of Ireland Is le leaota aota It l Is touched on Oft very we by water It ships lUtes of ot of or potatoes every nerT year yes to England How many maar Iowa low potatoes would reach UIo tM seaboard eoal cities under free tree trade tr In that commodity The Tho of Ontario and Quo Que Quebec bec beo ee are aN rich la In I agriculture They The produce hardy small fruit eggs en butter batter and milk garden truck cattle eattie and hogs begs The Tho lands landa are comparatively cheap and nel the opportunity op opportunity opportunity of oC multiplying productivity prod productivity to Is ample A free freo market In Sa the t e Lasted Called talt States would en encourage encourage Q courage this expansion enor enormously How low much of or such com eem 1 would go 10 to New ew land JaM from Iowa In la case the tM tariff reformers have their way wayT These T e are considerations which our farmer friends should ponder before be before fore Ole they allow themselves to be bee carried e away by the vagaries of or uninformed and anti reckless poll pell The Iowa farmer fanner lent the only ag agriculturist Interested ted in Canadian competition com competition petition It would be bo felt all allover over the tIN country particularly in the tho states ate west of or the Allegheny mountains For many years this thle country bas haa raised a large Jar surplus of or agricultural products product and In n many respects the farmer ha bu not derived the full fun benefit beneAt of ot the protective Te system At the pre pres present ent ant time the population has increased until there to Is but little mUe left laft after alter the tha homo home market to It supplied J Jost st when the farmer fanner is about to realize his profits to the fullest extent HP vp jumps the devil in the shape of Canadian reciprocity and the Iowa granger IZ 11 1 fooled tooled to the top of his hie bent Funny how things happen in rural communities |