The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-17
AND RECIPROCITY ISSUE


With and the sooner the word is expur-
gated from our political nomenclature the
better and the Gecenter.
The Republican. IeadersZincI,,diny pres
loeat Rooseyelt-are thoroughly satisfied
Win the existing conditions relating 10
/ tdfllss, trusts. reciprocity and all mat
ssss srowing out OF them. The word is
! stand pat a term that the party of
Stod and morality filched from the gam
I DIef Noca buidry Only awhile ago A
Tree trader, there is no more jealous
/ protcctlOnist IN the land than Mr. RooSe-
ven. Breathing threatenings against the
slusls. and Boosting as he girded on the
{ harness congress gave him an additional
( cn9.ecutlNe department. that was 10 disct-
pune ana enlasculate the trusts Though
II Is more than year ago. if the depart
! Hleht OF commerce and labor has ever
sven the trusts any concern it is a pro-
agtrlt secret The public knows nothing
aOout u whatever, though ii was named
But the thing that operated most
against the ratification of the reciprocity
Heaues negotiated by the Mckinley aG-
n!iilstration was the fear that reciprocity
1 WIN the Latin Americas to the south of
rs would lead to reciprocity with the
/ saxon America to the north of us. 1t
was freer and fairer and il was more
trade with Canada that our monopoljsts
Ieared, and they took by the throat the
Hepuohcan party and ehoked all the reei-
pfoeity out Of II. That is why reciprocity
- dead. That is why the people who
believe in reciprocity and hope for reci-
proclty viii have to look to the Demo-
cratic party for it.
! In 1908 We sold TO Canada goods. wares
ana merchandise 10 the value of $123. 266.
'sS II we had a decent tariff or a rea-
sonaoie and equitable trade reciprocity
With that people. we would sell them
S5uVvW.Ot0 annually. But 10 sell one must
I buy. In 1903 we bought of Canada only
20 the value of 7S1.4lS. If we had
proper tariff we would buy of Canada
every year TO an amount exceeding $780,
VVlOyO. our protectonst friends say we
must sell all We can to Canada and buy
be done. We would have free trade to-
day with Canada-and vastly to the adj
vantage OF both countries-but for the
lumber camps OF Maine and the fish in
I terests of Gloucester. Mass.
! Every breakfast table in America paws
TAX TO Henry Cabot Lodges conStitu-
ents engaged in catching fish. Canada
can catch, cure and sell fish cheaper than
Massachusetts; but our tariff forces the
american, consumers of fish to buy of
Gloucester az higher price than the
canadian asks for a better article. AS a
consequence hundreds of thousands OF
American families eat beef and pork for
breakfast instead Of more healthful fish.
with the possible exception Of the dis
trlcts located in Allegheny county. Penn
syiVania. the Gloucester congressional
district of Massachusetts has cost our
people most We would have gained enor-
mously If the United States had given
NtActN CONSTITUENCY A-OUDD-DUU forty
years ago in consideration of free fish.
Just as Gloucester taxes our stOmachs,
Maine taxes our shelter Every farm
mouse IN America pays tax to Maine in
the enhanced price of lumber. because Of
our tariff on lumber from Canada. Look
at thu absurdity of IT, Here is President
Roosevelt asking every body TO help pre-
serve our forests, and it is proposed that
congress buy the Allegheny mountains
from Pennsylvania to Georgia TO con-
} serve the timber. yet here is the tariff
that levies a big tax on lumber, and thus
encourages the destruction of our for
ests.
We spend millions and millions on our
harbors to make it easy for ships to en-
ter them, and we then levy enormous
tariffs on the cargoes to keep the ships
out. The duties in the DingIey law re-
strain trade and yet the party that made
the Dingley law says it is for reciprocity
that expands tradei
/ Do YOU believe in it? If YOU do stand
pat and vote for the party of monopoly.
SAVOYARD.