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Show GRIEVANCE Farmers of Northwest Declare They Would Be Ruined Washington, May 12 Cnnadinn reciprocity re-ciprocity would cost the farmers of tho northwest 540,000,000 annually, according to A. H Wilkinson, a Minnesota Min-nesota farmer, who addressed the senate sen-ate finance committee today. Tho price of United States' farm pioducts would shrink that much, ho declared A vital grievance of the farmers, ho aaid, was that they were not consulted consult-ed as to how they would be affected by tho proposed reciprocity. "Do you believe that a trade agreement agree-ment would have been entered into that would have injured the steel trust or tho shoo Industry $40,000,000 a year without consulting them9" he inquired To prove the opposition of tho farmers of the northwest to reciprocity, recipro-city, Mr Wilkinson Invited the senators sen-ators who favored reciprocity to visit that Bection. |