Fielding Will Allow Tens of Millions. of Russian and Other Foreign Barley to Come in Free to Provide the Maltsters With Cheap Barley--In Normal Years the Ontario Barley Grower Will Have to Meet Enormous Foreign Competition if Taft's Reciprocity Scheme Passes. The Globe has been promising the Ontario farmer a wider market and higher prices in order to induce him to cast his vote for the Taft-Fielding deal. "You will have a market of ninety million people to sell to" is the cry that has been sent forth. We have shown that.such a promise can- hot be based on the facts as shown in the provisions of the pact as it Te- lates to important staple lines of the preponderance of advantage is 80 favor of reciprocity cannot be con- sidered as anything but a tissue of fallacies. Southern Negro Will Ship in Eggs We have shown that the Ontario farmer gets trom $250 to $3650 and even $400 a head for his heavy draught horses in the home market, and that in Montana and _ the average price, the pamphlet issued this year by the United States, is $80 to $108 a head. The moment reciproci asses, these Western States will flood our market and pric will drop at leas* $60 a he ave shown that the competi- tion of the Southern negro will be felt at once if reciprocity will drop at duces more lard than our Ontario as this lard is always sale- and pork is tor will undoubtedly be sent In here to be sold on our markets, and prices of our hogs will suffer. The Globe has been driven from one to another, re- treat. t made a stand on beans. It showed by looking up the blue book that we exported last year $24,000 worth of haere acts at variance with | the Globe's preten- sions that it mptly opped the hean argument. --, pie then has ery, viz., "'Bar- -- but one solitary le Te is admitted that the farmer will losa on his other staples, and hei should of a large profit his barl in o r ov ome certain Josses in many other directions. Doe e et 2 v6 Like the other Promises of a "wider market" the hromises in regard to barley are de- cept nstead of an itiner market he will get. as in the c of other staples, Increesed competition. Russia's Enormous Barley Crop. We propose to-day to state the actual facts in regard to the status of her Barley free of the d which is now 15c a bushel Our farmers = met (as yet) understand vha menace this is, and when they find that Presicent Taft and Mr. Fielding have, instead of providing them with permitted the free barley, In on ye Possible miilions of bushels from ustria-Hungary, Denmark, and other barley-prod cl likely to visit their displeasure on them o lection Nearly every- one thought it w ly a question of the free entry of barley between Canada a the Stat The facte eft e are entirely at variance with this, althoug the Globe and the other Government organs do every- thing in thelr power to e act facts of the barley situation. ssian Empire dominates the of the world. Her which ts more Cunada, makes world's barley market, and the great preponderance of her exports dominates the prices in the world's markets. reat her ascendancy {fs will be seen by the fol- pnt record, {mn bushels, of produc- tion 1309. Russia . 94 300. '000 378,000,000 284, $00, 09 Poland . 3,900, 01 18,000,000 12, Caucasus. 35,000.00 28,060,000 38,000. 000 Siberia 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 AulRusele 439,000,000 423,000,000 323,000,000 . States.162,140,000 170,000,000 166,000,000 Canade +» 39,000,000° 56,000, 48,0000,00 Russia Dominates World's Prices. grows and exports not only great quantities of barley, but she 7 barley, choice malting, now offers pA shillings per 400 lbs., as per a retter m Wm. Johnston and Co., @ to" Messrs. James Carruthers and Co. \fhin js equal to €9 santa cost, insur- ance, and freight. As the duty on Russian barley, now 15 cents a bushel, will be taken off under the Taft-Pield- ing deal, there will be no charge add this ee cost of freight, whl i cents shel. Chole h malting barley could, therefore, landed in Montreal at 73 cents, -- probably for a good shipments were made. How heliow. therefore, is the Globe's pretence *hat the Qntarlo farmer will get the pre- vailing American-price for his barley! he Russian product will form a bar- low as 20 shillings equal to 65 cents, Montreal, Jt will be realized that the menace of competi- tion of the Russian barley ts a real A Partial Failure This Year. This year there has been a partial failure of the American barley crop, and prices are unusually high. Under norma] conditions the United States will raise more barley than Ba needs, po Fa shown in the above figu Bt pr resent year high prices across the Mne the Can- barley grower would not bene- hat w A the world's,markets, and as the cost of Russian fifst-class malting barley is 73c, Montreal, the Russian- article would dominate prices in America. For the moment the American mar- kets were menaced by Canada's a0. 000,000 bushels. prices would go down There is a shortage of about 22,000,- 009 on the American crop of this year. But Canada has a crop 0 = " ae ~ * of a eral other forelgn countries, that will send in their barley here free of duty, a ancenkios vita te to the price of Russian bar- ley, laid down Montreal. United States aad an Ex- The increased producto of barley In sconsin and ot estern States in recent years has beg the United States into the position as an exporter of barley, over 6,000,000 bushels having been exported last year. This year the crop across th line is a partial faflure, and prices are relatively high temporarily. American dealers Know that Canada has never exported more than 10,000,000 bush- els, the balance of the crop being used for feeding and malting purposes. Bu if the Russian barley comes in, as it will if reciprocity passes, and Can- adian malting houses run on Russian barley, forcing out a larger proportion of the Canadian crop than American dealers expect, ces in American markets will fall, even In this vear of ore shortage. ssian barl being avaliablo by the cone of millions of bushels, would Some Empty Shell opener The Globe says, crop re- mains at 5(€,000,000 'eushels the 30c relief will mean $15,000,000 to the Canadian farmer. alone we could profitably spare Hdn Mr. Fielding and Hon. Mr. Paterfon for a week at Washington." was probably written by the preacher- -editor. Everyone In the bar- ley trade «knows that Canada, tn the year of 'her most abundant barley crop, never "aerted more than F 000,000 bushels, and !n most yeats the have been under 5,000,000 convince himself e week's talk in Wash- such moonshine. horse argiment, § all over again--an empty shell. Ontario Farmers Good Business Men. ntario ee have developed slaaniaty as busin n in recent years. When confronted with diffi- cult problems St te E their interests they have brou o bear upon them an aggregate of intelligence that has solved such problems to country's acknowledged in 4 the United States, to r m and sd force him to favor annexation, he was y jolted, it was admitted. But only for a while. Soon he b his head and by bn Yankees. aang oe one ---- patrio He by experi- menting that hi So use a te get a eatch of clover. Clover a good smmrket. bariey turned cut to be an excellent a -- ae grain, for f con chat bariey, mixed te eS grain, fed to the bacon ga t e On- farmer 96c to "hi. 10a Saal for besides, he has tario the barley. Then, not the axpensa of The box} od lad Ly oo ga | » 58 Pa To-day he i prospero --more prosperous than @ny Faria in the worlds Trying to Steal His Market. But hie source of profit' has. been ered. - Taft a discov an Fielding, in their 1, propose. to choke up the Venue through which h h @ finds he bushel for his negotiating the deal, the Kansas can get 90c to $1.10 a barley. Taft, in t pork, acon, etc,, at much lower pric e 'ho market, which has} ® ' proved sp "profitable to the Ontario m The Mall and Empire. Government Papers Try to Suppress Information About Russian Barley Coming in Free. " We think it is time that the thpi should cooalh to distort the facts as relating to barley and oher farmers' lines affected by the. necessary to the Taft-Flelding deal, or to suppress information which 1s farmer in forming a true judgment as to what will happen to him in the event of this reciprocity deal being enacted In law. The distortion of fact and suppression of information that would weigh against them is a charac- teristic feature of the discussion of this vital question eas carried on In the columns of the Government mouthpieces. The Globe quotes prices of cattle in Buffalo and Toronto at 6c to 6%c, Toronto, and Te to 7%c, Buffalo, but does not state that the Toronto cattle are grass-fed and the Buffalo beasts are corn-fed. The corn-fed cattle have cost more and flesh more. TAass- oa are selling at as good prices--if not better--in Toronto as in wu The Star quotes an Eastern paper as reporting eggs in Montreal at 24c a dozen, and in York at 30c, with the object of convincing the farmer uoted eg - the great Pages of eggs in great sto nts there are shipped hundreds of ee of -- from all auattorn. including from the Southern Prim ound candled stock In cases, are quoted in C Average ey e at country stores at Ontario vgn are selling n But these have to be candled--that is, a candle is held behind caak ese a0 as to ascertain cost now at ieast 21c. It costs Chicago to Toronto. If ge get posses. therefore, the price lic, and not 21c, as to-da mer will have to take a "good deal Jess for his product. Our industrial nepuiation is fully employed, and the demand tor eggs is buoyant, adv past fortnight. In the United States fully one-quarter o of me industrial papalate is idje, and, being out of n Cricago a eciining, owing to the ng de- 8 mand from industrial work Prices there have déclined to new low levels in the past week. Th tar should discuss the egg question with us, in order that the fa may get wide public! The forcing of the Taft-Fielding deal on this country will take millions of dollars out of the pockets of Onta farmer a big vital question to this country. Everyone is follow- ing = discussion closely. Subterfuge «4 distortion won* rs) e farmer wants ow the facts, so does the artisan and the business man, home a is to be ripped for Pid will all be v tiga affected if the great 'arme nd his purchasing power crippl Bus the Actual Facts be Known. as to barley. The Globe has been printing so-called information regarding barley, 'but, as in its now famous bean argument, it suppresses vital away from the cts Ve undertook to state the facts as to the status of barley should reci- procity p We stated tha ussian barley would be admitted free; that ussia dominated the world's barley market, and that this new competitlo menace the k only n or er ; 191 a ¥i 1908 Russia < Heb CONCERT "waa 394,000,000 378,000,000 284,000, rei WANG sce see eee wee wy, es ewes 13,000,000 13,006,000 12,000,00 ea cone e ieee . 28,000,000 28,000,000 28,000, 008 Siberia... 226 see eer cesecee < 00,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 All Russia Corre Te Oc ee 439,000,000 423,000,00 328,000,000 United States wie eR! Fa we R es 162,000,000 170,000, 000 166,000,000 Canada n eeet: myecmenn & AEROS B 9,000,000 56,000,000 48,000,000 The Star, in 'referring to the status of barley, says that "The Mail and Empire has h a dreadful vision' when it pointed out the menace of Rus- sian shipments of barley into the Canadian market. Such talk aan not alter armer is vitally affected, at the Board of Trade there ts a samp! foreign seller wants to sell 40.000 bushels of it here If reciprocity passes. The Russian barley dealer does not lose any time in or after the Canadian varley growers' market, which will be opened to him carries. Star also says: "Russian barley cannot pe Ha with ¢ 'an- adian grown article for malting riage It has been tri and rejected." Some war er? Does King Street run norta Who told the Star that ? h? and sout As well say it does as that Reslas barley has been tried by the maltsters and rejected. One of Russia's greatest specialties is fine malting parley. The great Eng ish and Scotch brewerles run on it, the famous Russia produces more choice malting bar- Guinness Stout Company uses St. Silly assertions, such as the Star makes, ley than any coumty in the world, do not alter fa We have shows that fine quails eoeeen malting barley, weighing 53 to 54 pounds to the bushel, can be la id do in Montreal from Ruasia at 73c. But this is cleaned, heavy barley. Offe s of uncleaned barley, such as armers aah are made at 65c Montreal This barley is of bright sample, dealige igh a realize better than news whether they are menac ced or when they learn that the paper woers is offered from produces ae 439,000, 000 bushels to our poet that this 39,000,000 farmer will be the best judge as to whether there Is anything in the market for barley 30c higher than now are im hogy of ful- filment. for t millions of bushels. doubt told the two old Canadian gentlemen with ng? varpet bags to go back and circulate the promises. e Yankees will get the Why !8 there such a renisbiy eager desire to "hus- " d with broadsides of bare from practically everything he sella, ani vale his home market proved, and Is prov ing. such a great profit-maker to him. The Globe Comes Out Its Be.° Siar echoed that It was a "vislon." Is e e. the Niagara Falls a bogey? Let any- clusion, and at oer one thinks a0 get that Tha ussia' Bar welght of water. e Glohe rroposes t B = ley ould to place the farmer 'inder Come in Free. lanche of Russian produce thar ic nit crush hin If there {s a menace to e out from its se- The Globe has come © the Ontario fa~mer in the free imports clusion on the barley question Ita, an barley and T produce, {s nearly two weeks since The Mall! the Ontario farmer wants to all 5 bou Such a vital question can- and ./mpire brought to the attention a . : . not be dismissed by small tal The of Ontario barley growers 'ne fact) vio) was directed to o the Board that Russian barl2y would come IM) of Trade and see a real Peg in the free if the Taft-Fielding deal was 19-Ib passed, anf that as Russia produced more than ten times as much barley malting dealers ac e ocean wis! to 1 s Canada, ani exported enormous; here if the "Taft- ee eee pact pass- w ered Montreal. would come up the B8t. | & y F olowing the usual gourse of the Gov- Lawren rnment mouthpleces when confront- home market. Previous to that time} eq with facts, oe back the Globe had been shouting out al- | or. misrepresentation. "Jt fs t goo most dally the advantages the farmcr tar. "* been tried weuld derive if the Taft-Fielding deal| eq This is downrlght misstat: nae carried, but suddenly barley ceased to/ cf fact. It might be as tps suid that be mentioned in its columns We | Manitoba No. 1 hard is not good flour: have been waiting for the Globe to re- sume the discussion on this Important matter. Now that it has resumed it, let us continue to discuss it, and the farmer will soon have all the facts be- fore him and will be In a positivn to form a tru: conclusion before he casts his vote, The day following our first state~ ment ss to the Hussian menace, the Globe -said it was @ "dogey/" making wheat, and that. it has teed tried and rejected. Rus: sian barley is a should be dlecussed fai &@s not printed it * The Mali and Empir "te pet erin privat 'arn -Grat dealer--"Show Enter Star reporter, onter--"W' rd bartey ? Grain dealer-- oses." Reporter--" But won nearly all the Warley it at hone Grain dea ler--"'No "Well, t. Graln dealer--"Possi ih ev ery other prosperous . en agal none for malt by the This will be goes to Tebow the utte the person who wrote are that a Barth West crop arley. Two large. srinnuer are running on Manitoba barley t houses is Fielding, We now assert that for a low variety of po } suppress menace of Old barley counties m It Is just Laila Bed production, fo _ € aaa preg 29,000,000 United States (bu 2,22 ee 17 Poland (bushels)-- 28,000, mie. ae ts) 0,000 All gale (bu will be seen tha three years the aver e re good malting ome. water Goalens aid was in over our barley, but for ith our barley 'now comes fro m barley, interesting news, s country, 1909. els)-- 66,000, ~~ 13,000,000 els)-- 28,000,000 4,000,000 els) -- 439,000,000 "123, 090,000 ge to 400, apes 000 more Rus- y Dd; this rly, and as ~ fog-vards it A Sample of Netiesotent Infor "nation. ween B Trade. Grain deal- er clerk. nf "The Star pape wishes to him in." hat about this Rus- "What about it?" * paneer eet hear it's no good for Grain dealsr-- -- information is -bigh c class for lanted neh wand fc went out. r the 'tormece did keep it pure, or it would not accli- mate Itself, at was grown in e rst two or threc --_-- was fine. But the six-rowed Mansury parley from Russ} > Se enneee "lore in 1889 is a freat 'ma 88. Thre ear quarints of all secd." C Rustia need Eee for feed It exports large quantitles to varlous countries, just as Manito ba whea su Cosgrave can tell me something about bly he could. = ay. brewer --s and chea had peoateate as information, an that it will undoubtedly come in through the Lawrence if the Taft-Fielding deal passes. The only thing left for the Globe to do, there- fore, {s to belittle our hom arke The farmer ts told that all oa de- Mand f oe Canadian malt- sters but ve Iittle. and amou ery cant | he louie ook elsewhere for his n,' says t t "the fareeurs of Manitoba and bar- ley cession of wheat crops. T barley Tipens before the eds from the weeds ripen. Very little attention Is paid to barley so grown. Only a very smali proportion is fit for malting purposes. The bulk of the crop is ised by the farmers in the North- West for feed, and the remainder !s n urope, Some is used by 'the distillers, rewers, r ignoranc this alleged oo formation up for the Globe. The fact large agg of the od malting malting houses at night and dar and several are running on Manitoba and North-West barley. by Cunning Trickery, Plays Into the Hands of the Maltster. Providing Him With ne Barley to Make His Malt. Fielding, who litical cunning, led" into voting for reciprocit The Figures Again. the to reprint h are as whie 1908. 48,000,000 she 0,284, 000 166,566,000 iaoahals s)-- .00 50,000. 378,000,009 284,000,000 12,000,000 28,000,000 4,000.000 328,000,000 t for the past Russian crop in and "Montreal malt houses ag uall Cc. m Ag this. tt not all. W within se euest is a farm that Js a offered for sale in Duchess Chics, New York "stata 'one of the banner agricultéfal counties of that state; "it is located one hundred and fifty miles from New York City. Poughkeepsie is not fer away, and {t is near the village of Fishkill, which has a population of about 1,000. 'The farm {9.400 acres in extent, all tillable. The trolley line Is near at hand. Water is supplied by fine streams. 'There is a fine house and good barn on the place. It Is offered at $31 per acre--half down. There are hundreds of 'farms for sale in New York State at prices which the Ontario farmer would is the reason of these low prices? There is only this, and that is, shrunken profits. ' e gigantic Beef Trust, of Chicago, has aided os 'aac the former pro- na local ae In the Interior of New York City with 180,000 population, 'there is not one butcher ine AY supplies ee meat have got to come from Chicago e local butch- er, who ats vided formerly the local market for the farmer, has been put out is asserted by drag Mr. a, first state of the Union in pee pig products. twenty-five years ago ne state In the value of its aprionnore products. Since that --_-- ti been & ley bill, which gave New Yor State the barley marke eal lag Senay decline in the value of farm provements in this state. across the lake from our Prince civ ae are rosperone ane ¢ our land values Ring ple of farmr ie Sounhs " $30 Shek ane Do mers "along the front" desire to go into this schem flerce seeapetition chat will surely iad down farm values in Ontario to the Tove of what they are acroes the line ? In Oswego County, right increased the revenue of the farms, avalanche of Russian ey would hold' down prices of d rising values wére the result. barley In Canada, and "sehen -- erare are no maltsters out ng And Some More. this ingenious deal that arte Here is what es Wisk the Globe to framed up, A scene such as follows can well be imagined. Scene--Inside office at Malt-house. : The New York State farmer Firat. Dromio and Secon tected American bar _ y ----. ba rs ro 4 production of barley has_ steadily my rarer Siecassne the ie dwindled, and his farm es have Fielding is a jim-dandy! He has the | eet t bilge it bok te ee pa Globe shouting gg barley 5° | him the conditions thet have proved up. Berner lee pH Beard "Veg: but Soci in to Pig New bn : ber \ ae 8 be ught in New we'd better sweep -- SF alos york geass be "the: hundreds at from the farmers' vote and ge e $60 an $12 a through. I Enter aioe politician. Both ae 'Hello n Duchess County, not far New york City, one of the principal old boy. glad to « agricultural counties in t tate. Laurier. Politiclan--" wilt, Wwe axed | MAOF forme are altered 15 ek 882 it tt 'or you, didn't we?" have before us a : e of 66° up o Dre yw yoe it upt Why | acres offers at $42 an acre; one of 50 Bot eal. It'll ee us an cres offe at $34 an acre; oxe of f ~ | 280 acres, with apple each or- untiaited # y of very cheap ba chard on it, offers at $50 an acre; one f 120 acres, three miles from town t Laurie # Polttictan-- = oe eae and railway station, offers at $41 an wis Dro retary or say vou | acre; one o 3 acres, with two fine bet] but bad for the farmec"! houses and two barns, offers at $66 ai rier eniiointea /aiaehis hush! acre; one of 400 acres, all tillable. Don't say a word about that, He ts offers at $31 an acre. supposed to get 30c a bushel more That's what'the Globe has been told| Our Farmers 20 Years Ahead of t amp a o him, and it's doing it." American Farmers. Bo Fomine --"Saprased to get higher a Ha, ha! h And fat Ri artelats laugh till they" te purple in the face. Lauri Politiclan--"Well, pose we can count on you Both omio Maltsters--'You can, vou ,. ¥ Inte, ¢ see Cum eens Je eee ino We do not believe that they are We can always trust you to look after our Interests.' going to -- in favor of a retrograde We believe ge our farmers on the shore Lake Ontario have lg me methods of suc- cessful and profitable farming, --- they are twenty years abead of farmers on the yonth si side of the Effect of Foreign Emportations. home et, developing so surely What will happen if the Taft-Field. | and so sapialy in the Canadian North- ing deal carriei? We wil te a 80) of. rofit to what we valleys will happen with ab- | them, which they ere not going to folute c nt; n | of o 'the be {be "x ehoice maiti quality will offer here United States and twelve 6 by the tens of millions of buehels. The | nations, It is Proposed to impose Malting Trust, being by far the great- | conditions on them that would com- est consu f barley in the United | pel them to accept a lower price for States, will see--in fact, ft knows now ' horses, for hogs, for eggs, for haya ,000,- #, added will be easily "50, '000, 000 bushels more | possibly profit from woul a of choice Rysslan' malting barley {and we have ®! available. The Malting Trust also | maltster, and not the farmer, who is knows that ¢t the more favored one in the barley article of this deal of Taft's and Fielding's Will 'sit back The United States has a short crop hat the ernie and Russian -- of barley this year, and pric are plics will more than meet th high, but, will be seen by the e the "pret thing it will do will be to reduce its buying price 30c a bushel, or the amount of the ty Questions That Necd Answers. We would respectfully ask the Onta- rio barley Jer eonsider gom . , : the even in ld barle Sante, roy ta ae eae Geen en | See will be the loser if this Taft. ruc nd good barley as Ontario Fielding ona a mp a4 a tre. is now growing only about one-fif- © Pp teenth as muc s Ontario? It ha - had all the benefit of this 30 cents of duty since 1897, and a heavy -- be- fore that for seven years. It has had a heavy protactive duty since 1890, eese ant 9 prohibitive duty since 1897. It wo thought that s a& grea nate thut the Globe pictures would '™ Hat ag -- "ie sig oe re- h anne and ene aipieed val in New York u e industry o a * ur New York orate peosuced tad -- tf Ta shy reaiprocity --_---- 2,2067.000 bush to Ontario's 22,000, che o sconsin 00 Ontario js growing on an aver- and ig other ps State make age 30,000 hels a year under selling in Chicago now at 2c a pound our eplendid home market conditions, |} under our cheese at Ontario points. while New York State has dwindled to) j¢ american cheese comes'in free, 25 Gnswer that ICs mainly aus to West: | PPPS wi undoubtedly" be aol ern competition and continued barley- in large quantities in Canadian towns cro nd cities, depriving our chees 'nele Sam Gets a Fly Back. dustry of a large pert of its home The great blows of the McKinley | ma The most serious feature of on the heads of the farmers of n here and will be sold Canadian York State. oo wore her! cheese in the British marke Tha: 39,000,000 bushels a ye ft market will be quick to detect the of barley, while eee --_ State hes ele ge te inferior quality, and there is great e . £,207,0 McKinley and anger of this threatened deteriora- ley varift winneeoee were devised to] tion ruining e high reputation of arty r peg eag Into annexa ion or| our cheese in the British market, anc te paste Rr Ou arme to mixed farming oy found fortunes. ------ ee The Globe is Asked Some Ques- tions would work havoc Now, the Globe to answ there is one question, we bee How is it tha! the farms in Ontario, and japatiatee elong the front of Lak ave been advancing rapidly in value in " eed | past three or four years, while t value fa 1 s in New York State, right across the lake, have been ceclining? Along the road between large proportion of Onta ----? Port Hope and Cobourg, -- cannot | farmers buy vallifenc for feeding be bought new at less than $100 an is mitted at . Up in Mactposa, eeaie of Lind- | Taft reciprocity echemee will drive tho sey, there has been dvance of $20] milling 'ind m the Canadian acre in the past three years, In est to Min polis, where it wou Halton County they sell at from $100| rapidly be concentrated. that knows how farm e bounded ; ¢. eed in Canada, for the reason up in value in the past three or fouT/ that our export trade in flour would have been made up inte| be lost and the small quantity of the hundreds of dollars an acre. The/ milifeed com f C) average p of f with good| ground for loca! consumption would buildings--that is, the aversns grain} not be sufficient to keep our farmers farin, and t fruit lund, aga They would be compelled t which is much higher--ts cueat $90 vanced prices for eniioge 7 . re four 6r fi $66 to farming, and a -magnificent home Be yr arenes aneut $3 a ton i 'pest merket for everything grown, have. ingle carried. ----__ --~------- ee A §-