The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-02-26
WHO'S BEHIND 1T?
Selfish Interests Active in Pre-
noting the Scheme of Can
adIan ReciprocItY.

The eff Jrt to secure Free, Trade
with Canada is an organized effort
and society is in existence having
no other object than the promotio n
of reciprocity treatres in competi
tive articles with all countries, but
more especially with Canada. This
organization has behind it the
United States Steel Trust. A well
known Iowa manufacturer, Col
French of Davenport, is one of the
leading apiri,s. A number of New
England boot and shoe manufact-
urers are interested. So is the
harvester combine and the Mime.
apolis mllers. The interests are
paying for the literature that is
sent out by this society.
What is there in il for them?
One general term pretty nearly an
swers this question, "free raw ma
terals." Thes, manufacturers are
not content with a Protective law
which is for the benefit of the man
ufacturer, the wage Garner and the
farmer alike; they want an arrange
ment that will take care of them 10
the exclusion of everybody else.
They are all of one accord IN dc
string to maintain a Tariff on finish
ed products, but they want the ma
terials which enter into these finish
ed products made as cheap as posi-
BILE, no matter whether a consider
able number of their fellow citizens
are made to suffer in the deal.
Tne boot and shoe manufacturer
wants good duty on shoes; but he
wants free hids. The Steel Trust
wants Tariff on its finished pro
ducts, but any raw materials that
Canada has it wants free. The
harvester combine wants Canada
to lower its duties en- farm machin-
cry. The Minneapolis millers want
free wheat.
This is what there is to it and
what there is in it. What is there
attractive about this proposition for
Iowa people? Why should we be
exerting ourselves to pull the chest
nuts of these people out of the fire?
We have no objection to adequate
Protection for these manufacturers,
out we dc object to their playing
the hog. The farmer as well as the
manufacturer has some interest in
the Tariff; he does not care to have
the cheap lands Of Canada put in
competition with the high priced
ltnds of this State. Possibly a few
10 vans who have invested heavily
in Canadian lands want the Ameri-
can market turned over to the
Canadian farmer in order to boom
their newly acquired real estate,
but the great bulk of the people of
Iowa will not stand for such a pro
position for a moment. We had
reciprocity treaty with Canada al
one time, and it was so thoroughly
unsatisfactory that it was abrogated.
Every attempt made to arrange
reciprocal treaties with Canada
since that time has come to haught,
because the Canadians have always
insisted upon jug-handled arrange
ment, all on their side, so far as the
majority of the American people
are concerned. How can it be
otherwise? We are eighty million
of people, Canada less than six
millions. The Free-Trade PROPOSE
ton, if you please, would be good
deal like bachelor butcher gong
to druggist with family of ten
and saying: "Look here, my
friend; I'll buy all the nursing bot
ties l need of you, if you'll buy
what meat your family consumes, of
Cedar Rapids Republican"
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