Show DOINGS IN Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey of Texas told a delegation of farmers at a recent hearing before the senate finance committee that there was a conspiracy at fostered by the great daily newspapers of the to put the farmers' products on the free list and maintain the duties on everything the farmer buys from the city This was one of the incidents of the hearing before the senate finance committee on Canadian The representatives of many state granges were present to protest against the Canadian reciprocal trade The speaker heard was John A. of Lancaster He denied the statement that there was likely to be a shortage in food production in the United The he would continue to produce enough fod products to supply the people of the United He cited the increased density of which in ten years has increased from twenty-six to the square mile in 1900 thirty-one to the square mile in While the army of consumers grew in such proportions there was no he that there would be any falling off in the ability to feed them had a population of to the square France Germany Belgium Netherlands and Italy the people of the United States are going to run what of these other countries short in their food said McSparran- I have insisted that the Canadian trade agreement The speaker not benefit the because while putting raw products on the free list it maintained the duties on manufactured food comes in said the flour is to oats are on the free but oatmeal and other manufactured products of the cereal are still Cattle are but dressed beef still pays a duty of a The operation of the Canadian reciprocity he would hurt the American farmer by bringing him into direct competition in his production with the virgin soil of the new undeveloped farming country in This would be particularly harmful to the eastern who had to tain a higher scale of living than obtains in a rural So long as the eastern farmers had to meet this competition in the development of western farm lands in the United States they were too patriotic to according to the we have no obligation to develop said are going to and kick f Senator John Sharp Williams inquired whether the conditions referred to by the speaker were not natural and inquired whether the speaker thought a legal relief should be extended to overcome the difference in natural the laborer who consumes be required to bear the burden of of natural conditions as between the farmer in the United States and in inquired Senator The speaker replied that it depended on the system worked If protection was good for the manufacturer it should be enjoyed by the The farmer should not be required to sell at free trade prices and buy at protective admit that you have the same right to rob the consumer that the manufacturer but neither of you should have the right so to observed Senator |