Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-23
PRESIDENTS POLICIES.
States in Which Republicans Have
Endorsed Reciprocity.

When President Roosevelt shall reach
Washington on October he will have
passed through a number Of stalwart re-
publican states, the republicans Of which
have Endorsed his Cuban policy. Notable
among these are Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas and Nebraska There is no mis-
taking the favor in which the President 8
republicanism is held by western republi-
cans. They have Endorsed his Cuban pol
icy in an emphatic way.
In Iowa they said:
We favor such changes in the tariff from
time to time as become advisable through
the progress of our industries and their
changing relations to the commerce Of the
world. We indorse the policy Of reciprocity
as the natural complement of protection,
and urge its development as necessary to
the realization Of our highest commercial
possibilities.
A plank from the Minnesota platform fol-
lows:
We favor reciprocity with Cuba, urged by
President Roosevelt, by a plan which shall
insure the profitable interchange of COM
modities, inure to the advantage of both
nations, help the Cuban people needing as
sistance but the chief benefits of which
shall not enrich trusts monopolies or for
eign Spectators, or which shall not inter-
rupt our home production
Ohio republicans said:
1t is due alike to Cuba and to ourselves
that, in accordance with the republican
principle Of reciprocity, proper and reason
able trade concessions shall be made by our
government to Cuba, in return for her con-
cessions upon American products, SO as to
benefit the trade of both countries, and to
fully and generously carry out every obliga-
ton Of our national honor, whether ex-
pressed implied
In Kansas the state republican convention
adopted the following:
We indorse the recommendation Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the United States should
enter into Just and liberal reciprocal trade
relations with the republic of Cuba, and we
look to republican Congress to establish
these relations on such terms that the bene-
fits arising therefrom will go to the people
of Cuba and to the people of the United
States thus resulting in mutual advantage
and good will.
And this is the way the republicans of
Nebraska put it:
We heartily indorse the administration of
President Theodore Roosevelt. We espe
cially commend the justice and wisdom of
his reciprocity policy with Cuba, as en-
bodied in his message to Congress.
Idaho is a small state, but what republi-
cans think there may be taken as an ex-
preston of the general sentiment of repub-
leans in that region, and there, in conven-
ton they agreed to and adopted what fol-
lows:
Many Of the industries of this country
have outgrown their infancy, and the
American manufacturer has entered the
markets of the world, and Is successfully
competing with the manufacturers of all
other countries. We, therefore, favor a re-
vision of the tariff without unreasonable
delay, which will place upon the free list
every article and product controlled by any
monopoly and such other articles and prod
ucts as are beyond the need of protection
Against all this may be opposed the &C
ton of the state republican conventions in
California, Utah and Washington. In Titan
the convention Endorsed the republican ma
tional platform of 1900. wherein 1t was
said:
We favor the policy Of reciprocity so d.
rected as to open our markets, on favorable
terms, for what we do not ourselves pro-
duce, in return for free foreign markets.
In Washington the republicans Endorsed
the foreign and domestic policies of the
President" but also Endorsed Senator Fos-
ter and Representative Cushman, who were
insurgents"