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Show & V " ' ' " "' ' ' I Democrats Favored Canadian Farmers Bfl Washington, Aug. 31. (Special cor-' Bfl retpondonco) Stntlsllcs showing In HJ detnll how Democratic tariff legls- HB latlon Iras permitted tho Cunadlan BB farmers' tocnlargo his sales In tho BM United States to ttho Injury of tho H American producer, woro recently BB placed in tho Congressional Record BH by Congressman J. Hampton Moore, ' ' of Pennsylvnnla.who by way of Intro- ductlon, said; Hi "Our commercial relations with BJ Canada nro always Interesting In a Bm it study of tho tariff question. We had Bj reciprocity with Canada onco and It BK worked beautifully for tho upbuilding Bfl of Canada. After It had been In BB operation for a short tlino we learn- BBf ed that Canada was getting our mon- BB cy and we were building up Cana- BB da's industries by taking her prod- BBf ' ucts. We protected ourselves under BB tho McKlnley and tho Dlnglcy and HB Payne laws so that we wero able to BB hold our own business, keep our own BB money In circulation In our own coun. BB try, and still not glvo up everything BB i to Canada, BB When' Mr. Wilson was elected BB ' President in 1012, however, all this BB was changed. Dy tho passage of the BB Underwood tariff law, October 3, HI 1913, wo put Canada back into her Hj old position, not by a reciprocity B set, so called, but by reducing tariff Hk duties and enlarging tho tree list. HK Tho pretense upon which this was BJ . dono was to securo for the American BBk consumer a decreased cost of llv- Bf lug. Reduce tho tariff rates, put cat- HK tic and potatoes, and so forth, on KB the frco list, and tho American con- HJL sumcr wllltgot cheaper food, said tho Hag followers of Mr. Wilson and Mr. 1 Underwood. That was tho way the HJ Democrats looked at it then. How Ha7 tho Canadian brother looked at it I wo aro .not told, but we know what the Canadian brother did. If he did not say thank you, Mr. Wilson Wil-son for keeping us out of war, he certainly ought to havo said tnank you, Mr. Wilson, for opening the American market to Canadian pro- , ducers, for that in exactly what Mr. BB ' Wilson did when he Insisted upon the BB , passago of tho Underwood tariff law BM . " which was to compel American man- BB ufacturcrs and producers to whet Hi- their wits against the wits of their HM foreign competitors. BV "The Canadian brother was on tho BJ' job and never let go from tho mo- Bl, n'ent the Underwood hill was pass- BM cd. Did ho reduce tho prlco of cat- tlu to tho American market when BV tho duty was taken off cattle? Ho BJ certainly did not. If tho American BJ brother was fool enough to tako tho BJ' ' 'uty off and make cattle free into BJ" he United Stutes, tho Canadian BJft brother was wise enough to put It on BJ1. tho prlco of his cattle which ho sold BJ ' into tho United Slates. This Is e- BJf actly what ho did, so that whllo thu BJ; United States treasury was minus HJ tho duty and tho American cuttle BJ raiser was minus tho protection ho BJ bad hitherto enjoyed tho Canadian BL cattle dealer obtained a higher price BJl for his cattle in the American mar- BJi ' lect, and tho dear consumer, for whom BJ Mr. Wilson and Mr. Underwood hud BJ pleaded so earnestly paid moie for BJ)' beef and got less of It for food than BJl ever before BJ'' "It was substantially tho same with BJ; potatoes, that great American sta- BJiJ pie, which in recent years has glvon BJjl thu Slate of Maine an exceptional BJ?j agricultural reputation. The Demo- BJl ' crats took tho duty off potatoes that BJ I tho Republicans had sustained for tho two fold purpose of protecting the American potato grower and of keop-Ing keop-Ing tho treasury in funds, and tho Canadian potato grower, always on tho Job as usual, Immediately hooded hood-ed tho American market. Tho potato growers of Maine, being light up against tho border of Canada, wore first to feci the shock and they certainly cer-tainly felt it until tho Democratic administration through its Ingenious Department of Agriculture, discover-n discover-n wart on tho Canadian potato, that permitted of an embargo on Canadian potatoes, which operated as successfully success-fully In covering up tho free trade defects de-fects of tho Underwood tariff law as tho European war has served as a tariff wall to protect American industries indus-tries generally, despite tho admlnb tratlon at Washington and its freo trado heresies." i |