Show AGAINST AMERICAN FLOUR there Is ie 1 probably no american Amer luan miller or farmer so ao fond of a protective tariff as applied to imposts that he would not favor a material tariff reduction on the part of if foreign nations when our products ducts come to be regarded by bj them as imports for instance the agrarian agitators in germany nave have succeeded in putting an import ef per barrel ot of the ibs on american fluur the re sult suit of which Is the practical exclusion of this product from german markets nor to is there any early prospect of a re luction in this rate a fact which has led some of our diplomatic agents in that country to advise the sending ending of commercial representatives to the great porta of the fatherland with a view to converting their leading men to a more liberal view of international and a uster appreciation of their own coun try arys a needs A curious feature in this connection Js is the fact that while this almost pro bibi tive impost exists as to flour americal america Ameri cap wheat may be imported into germany subject only to a duty of per ibs this ts id less lees thin than half the figure laid against the flour and in ia clearly out of all proportion but its purpose is not far to seek and its in justice Is apparent at A a glance hoohing at it from the german standpoint merely the discrepancy cannot be explained in favor of the consumer for he would just as soon buy the flour as the wheat it cannot be in favor of the home producer for what he raises in this line is ia originally wheat not flour it can only be in favor of the home miller whose monopoly of the grinding even of imported cereals Is thus preserved the proposition furnishes matter for discussion on both sides of the tariff question in america the reformers may point out the favoritism favoriti pm to the comparatively few millers the high protection lets may rejoin that the blunder is 18 in catering to the delusive cry for lower taxed or free raw materials |