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Show WILSON SAYS TREATY MEANS MOREMARKETS Secretary of Agriculture TalKs In Detroit on Reciprocity. ONLY ENLARGEMENT OF FIXED POLICY Declares Proposed Agreement Agree-ment WiU Be of Benefit to Both. ' SBTaVOIT, Mich., Jon . SttraUry of Arl culture Wilson, addreaalnf the boar of commeroa her aa th Cana-dlu Cana-dlu acranmuit todar, jainetptodty U ft moramMit for mora markets fox tha Prod net of (tirerslfled indontry from flald and factorjr and th ealarremenl of th poUcy of half a otntsry tha haa Bad our bom naxket and brooch th farmer's euatomere oaarar th (laid. "Canaita Is our second beat customer .",4d k. 'W bar sold to hr ia the last fir year about 500,000,000 worth ef (ooda nor than we bought front bar, mostly factory foods. We feed tha factory people from our fields. Thaw i a prosperity for the farm if other iadnatriea lanjruish. Th America Ameri-ca watchword should be. aaore fao-toriee fao-toriee aad more diversified industries, . as it has been for half century. Th farm will feed th factory." Sacrotary Wilson said that fifty years sen the Amawiaha fan.. . .1 L niarket la which to sell his surplus pro-duet. pro-duet. Hs arranged for a home market by proteetiag an diversified iaduatnea. This brought him tha home market, the bast ia the world. But now population haa outgrow production on tha farm ia son esse and threatens to outgrow It ia others. AdanW oa Both tlda. "Th Canadians see the advaatages that are coming to th I'nlted States," soatmued Mr. Wilson, "aad look at them just aa our peopl look at tha advaatages ad-vaatages that will earn to th Canadians Cana-dians Wis men look at both aide. In th development of region, with climate cli-mate aad soils ao comprehensive aad varied aa ar found en both sides of tha liaa that separata a from Cannda. tha interest of all (lasers of people, most bo taken into consideration, tha producer because he eraalaa wealth the eoaaumar Warn he make a market for it, and th carrier becatiee he take it from th field to th market. In th making of this treaty tha chief execu live aad those aeaoeiatcd with him have coasiderod th interest of all claaaae of tho cemmaoitv. " Mr. Wilaoa told how tho homestead law gavs the rich glaciated soils of th, Mississippi valley te the farmer with the result that tha eastern farms were aeglected whea tha young people left them aad waat weet to help build up th greet state ia tha Mississippi valley. "Tha statesmen of that day regarded it wit to oxtaad eivilientioa over the country, " be aald. " No man nf sense ess be found to condemn the statesmen of fifty or sixty year ago,' who opened p these lands to settlement. And vet It waa iajurieue to some eastern farmers farm-ers who were ant able to accommodate themselves, to tha changed conditions which, acvertbeleaa. put it ia their power to furnish many things for the growing factory towns of the eastern states that enabled them to maintain their farms ia excellent fertility. "The American farmer brought about th building of th Ameriraa factor, because he waated a home market. He haa voted steadily for half a eeaturv to giv protectio to the extent of the difference in coat ia prodnctioa between thia couatry aad any country that desires de-sires to sell ia our mark eta. Waa that right or wrong! "Tha question peadiag with respect to reciprocity seems to be ap to the farmer. Is ha willing to have the government gov-ernment enter in a trade agreement bv which the development of the I'mted Statea aad tha development of th fa eadisa people shall be farthered, or is it desirable to limit our intercourse with the Caaadiaas to the actualities of the preeeat davf It should b remembered, remem-bered, that Canada ia one of our beet euatomera. More than half of every thing we sell goes to English speaking people. If w can extendthat trade en that th busisees of both countries will increase, it ie a consummation devoutly to be wished by both." |