The Nome daily nugget., 1911-07-25
OFFICIAL PAPER.
NOME, ALASKA, JULY %, 1911.
OUR RECIPROCITY BILL


 on Saturday forenoon just before twelve o'clock the Reciprocity Bill which has been thrashed out during the present extra session of Congress passed the Senate without amendment as it came from the House many weeks ago.
 The passage of the new measure means decided victory for President Taft, and a great victory to the Ameri- can people as well as our Cousins across thc Canadian border.
 There were men who objected tO reciprocity. some uf them like senator Root Of New York and Bailey. while in Congress, from Texas because the cor- puratIuu> that own thcm ordered them to "bJec. others opposed it for yarl- "ur reasons and many because .hry did not study the measure iu aH its yari- ous lights weighing the good points as an offset to some of the bad ones, so termed Az 90 whole it is believed tu be d popular measure that wiIl rednuud to the hyuent oT the two countries and help Go erase tho Imaginary line stretching across the two countries separating ihr tNo English speaking people
 ReeiDroeity WilA Canada will mean United states. increased prosperity for| Canada. better conditions rar an nr| those that lK" aH tUIs Norh American continent
 Every bargain that Is gsud bargain for one of the parties must also h. a good bargain for rhr other Reciprocity with Canada is guud for both sides It Will encourage trad, agriculture and prosperity uu both sides of Che line.
 There Is no question in this matter nf reciprocity with Canada about ire. trade with the world at large pr any radical change in our political or eco | homie system.
 The proposition simply is to bring the people living on this North Ameri | can continent into closer relationship. | and thus to benefit all of them.
 This country in reality is the great | est free trade country in the world | Ihat Is to say, We have free trade from ocean to ocean. oregon trades freely | "lth Florida; Maine has free trade "lth Texas. Our markets arc three thousand miles wide from ocean fol ocean, and cover our whole country Ahd Inside of this free trade zone pr,s- prrity AourisheS.
 \" farmer m Maine would advise shutting out the products of Taxas N" California fruit grower would wish |" shut out the competition of Georgia or New England.
 We have proved by experiment that human beings living side bv side on ms continent can deal freely with one another from one ocean to the otbar and all be made more prospernus b,. mat great area of free business. free interchange of prpducts.
 Fortunately for the counfr,- tba farmers are intelligent. and they wrr. not deceived by the cunning ftIs,hoals circulated by the Lumb,r Trus, and others interested The farmer know. perfectly Well that if it doesn't burt h'h |" have farm products sold rrea, rom llr Atlantic to he Pacific oceans | !. won't hurt him in the least tn havaI 'h" boundary line extending nortbv,rlI tu the Pole. The farmer does not fear r.mpe,j- Ion with those that live ou this ant,tf t'ii. The United States farmer yy.ul5 a"i willingly shut out from our Ao.ri- ."h system of reciprocity and on.r markets any foot of the United Staf.s 'rtl'"i}. And the intelligent f,rn,ar l''S not object to the adding of tr, "l"diah territory to this big market
 me Louisiana Purchase brought iprn ' 'ur American nation thousands mo-, -----lI-nS 70 miles or t,rritar1-- n.,,-