Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-09
President Discusses Work of
Tariff Board-Ship Sub
sidy Is Urged.
WORK ON PANAMA CANAL
Need of Legislation Anticipating Com
| nIetion of the Ditch Is Pointed
Out-change in Postal Rates
Parcels Post ard Postal
Savings-Economy
Urged.

Taft's annual message to congress
contained 5000 words, and is said to
be the longest document of it's kind
ever written. In it he reviews the
work of each of the administrative
departments beginning with the state
dep6 rtment He devOtes considerable
space to the satisfactory settlement
of the fisheries dispute with England
through the medium Of the Hague
Tribunal. and recounts both the his
tory of the fisheries dispute and the
establishment of the tribunal.
In connection with the state depart
ment he tells of the important poll
tical happenings of the past twelve
months throughout the entire world,
and the action of this country in con-
nection with them.
Tariff Negotiations.
Referring to the negotiation Of new
tariff agreements President Taft
says:
"The new tariff law, in Section 2,
respecting the maximum and mini
mum tariffs of the United States,
which provisions came into effect on
April 1, 1910, imposed upon us re-
sponsibility of determining prior to
that date whether any undue discrirl-
ination existed against the United
States and it's products in any coun-
try Of the world with which we sus
tanned commercial relations.
'In the ca AOf several countries in
stances of apparent undue discrimina-
ton against American commerce were
found to exist. These determinations
were removed by negotiation. Prior
to April /, 1910, when the maximum
tariff was to come into operation vita
respect to importations from all those
countries in whose favor no proclama-
ton applying the minimum tariff
should be issued by the president, one
hundred and thirty-four such procla-
nations were issued.
This series Of proclamations en-
braced the entire commercial world
and hence the minimum tariff of the
United States has been given univer-
sal application, thus testifying to tho
satisfactory character of our trade
relations with foreign countries
Marked advantages to the COM
merce of the United States were OBJ
tanned through these tariff settle
ments.
The policy of broader and closer
Grade relations with the Dominion Of
Canada which was initiated in the ad-
1ustment Of the maximum and mini
Jmum provisions of the tariff act of
August, 1909, has proved mutually
heRedcin,,. 1t justifies further efforts
4or the reimbursement of the CONNER
cial relations of the two countries so
that their commerce may follow the
channels natural to contiguous coun-
tries and be commensurate with the
steady expansion of trade and indus
try on both sides of the boundary
line"
Ship Subsidy.
The president urges such action as
he believes will increase American
trade abroad. and says:
Another instrumentality indispen-
sable to the unhamapered and natural
DEVELOPMENT of American commerce is
merchant marine. All maritime and
commercial nations recognize the i'm
portance OF this factor. The greatest
commercial nations, our competitors,
4ealovsly foster their merchant ma
r,re. Perhaps nowhere is the need
FOR rapid and direct mail. passenger
ard freight communication quite so
urgent as between the United States
md Latin America. We can secure
an no other quarter of the world such
t,ru,ediats benefits in friendship and
commerce as would flow from the es-
sohI,shment Of direct lines of COM
s,upication with the countries Of
ATTN America adequate to meet the
S~ouIrAments of a rapidly increasing
Un-ec;ation of the reciprocal depen-
80 Of the countries OF the western
,emtsnhere upon each others prod
s,cts sympathies and assistance.
aI .;,uded to this most important
-. in my last annual message; it
$50 sas otten been before you and l need
na. rec rscapitulate the reasons for its
no mo- Unless prompt &C
s,sa be taken the completion of the