Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
SHOULD COME TO US
TRADE WITH CANADA OUR NAT
CGAL RIGHT.
Chicago Record-HeraId Believes That
Reasonable Reciprocity Would
Strengthen Our Hold on the Mar
kets of Our Northern Neighbor.

In a speech in the House, Represen-
tative Dalzen 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 a recipro-
city in non-competing articles II 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 bah
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,
900 geo in the Establishments of plants
in Canada which would have been
kept at home, with all the labor which
that implies, if 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 ouI
neighbors upon fair reciprocal basis
1.-The farmers of Iowa have lost
something in the foreclosure of the
opportunity to feed the men who are
operating the plants to which 1 have
referred, and they will lose more wher
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
1--WE want to sell Canada the thing.
she must buy. We are better fitteG
to produce them than any other PEG
pie in the world. Her needs are
growing with greater rapidity thar
any other market which We enter. Al
that l say is that we are blind if we
do not make an honest, faithful effor
to maintain our hold upon that coun
try and to increase our exports into
it's markets.
Mr.. Dalzell's conception of reel
procity is that of most of the part.
managers, while Gov. Cummins speak.
for the dominant sentiment of the PEG
pie of the West upon this question:
Chicago Record-Herald.