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Show 00 Head of National Grange Opposes "Canadian "Can-adian Reciprocity Washington, Feb. 21. Farmers registered protests against the Canadian Can-adian reciprocity ngreement in the hearing today before the senate committee com-mittee on finance. Former Gov. N. J. Bachelder of New Hampshire, master of the National Na-tional Grange, made tho opening argument ar-gument and anuounced that if the committee had the time to hear them, he would be followed by masters of granges of the Btates of Indiana, Delaware. Dela-ware. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts as well as representatives in the various dairy, horticultural and other associations, Including directors direct-ors of stale experimental stations. The witnesses received valuable as-I as-I slstance from Senators Hale, McCuni-1 McCuni-1 her and Smoot, who evidenced sympathy sym-pathy w.th their attacks on the agreement agree-ment and aided them with questions. Senator Stone took tho lead in cross examination and as a result some In-! In-! terestlng colloquies were beard. , I In the opening statement, Mr. jjacli-' jjacli-' elder asserted that six million farmers farm-ers were united in opposition to tho ajgreemont and he said he voiced their ' prorosts agairist ireetrade In farm products while protection was continued contin-ued on manufactured articles which the farmers are compelled to buy. 1 He declared Canada was the only country which the farmers had to fear and that froe trade with that country' meant that the farmers would derive no benefit whatever from the tariff law. He denied that cheap food would result from the consummation of tlie agreement. |