Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-07
SHOULD COME TO US
TRADE WITH CANADA OUR NAT
CRAL RIGHT.
Chicago Record-HeraId Believes That
Reasonable Reciprocity Would
Strengthen Our Hold on the Mar
kets Of Our Northern Neiehbor.

In speech In the House, Represen-
tative Dalzell of Pennsylvania an
nounced the reciprocity policy" of
the Republican party. The announce
ment is a notification to the cham
pions of the Iowa idea" that the
stand-patters propose to control and
shape the party policy upon the tariff
question.
Mr.. Dalzell declared that the reci-
procity of the Republican party must
be a reciprocity of protection" In
other words, the only reciprocity that
will be considered will be recipro-
city in non-competing articles. If we
are to admit articles free of duty in
exchange for the free admission of
certain Of our products to other coun-
tries the articles admitted must be
such as we do not produce. This is
the Dalzell idea Of reciprocity" and
the one, we are assured, for which the
Republican party will stand in the
coming campaign.
Gov. Cummins of Iowa has declared
In his inaugural address last month
and in numerous speeches that this is
not reciprocity, and that such policy
tends to deprive American labor Of its
just rewards Singularly enough, both
Representative Dalzell and Gov. Cum
Minis argue from the case of Canada,
and each of them uses our trade with
that country to prove his contention,
the former maintaining that before
the reciprocity treaty with Canada the
balance Of trade was largely in favor
Of the United States, and that while
the treaty was in operation the bel-
ance was in favor of Canada.
Upon this question Gov. Cummins,
in his inaugural address, said:
In the last ten years American
manufacturers have expended $780,
100000 in the establishments of plants
in Canada which would have been
kept at home, with all the labor which
that implies, il there had been fair
and permanent relation existing be-
tween the two countries. Not only
so, but every student of affairs knows
that the chance we now have across
the border will be completely de-
stroyed unless we treat with our
neighbors upon fair reciprocal basis.
"The farmers of Iowa have lost
something in the foreclosure Of the
opportunity to feed the men who are
operating the plants to which l have
referred, and they will lose more when
Canada raises the barrier so that Eng
land, France and Germany will supply
the material for the wonderful devel-
opment upon which she is just enter
ing, and which we are so well pre-
pared to supply"
In an address at the annual Lincoln
day banquet at Minneapolis, he said:
I'VE want to sell Canada the things
she must buy. We are better fitted
to produce them than any other peo-
pie in the world. Her needs are
growing with greater rapidity than
any other market which we enter. All
that say is that we are blind If we
do not make an honest, faithful effort
to maintain our hold upon that coun.
try and to increase our exports into
its markets"
Mr., Dalzells conception of reci-
proclty is that of most of the party
while Gov Cummins speaks
for the dominant sentiment of the peo-
pie of the West upon this question:
Chicago Record-Herald.