Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-11-21

dora, and I had many friends thers
and found what ] believed was an
inviting field for building up :
strong county paper. Too many PEG
PIE leave Iowa on impulse. Tot
many fail to seriously study the
conditions that confront them II
lew environment. They overlook
the fact that they are unfamiliar
with local conditions abroad and
disappointments result. The coun
try has been exploited by the emf
grants, but now accurate facts art
at hand and no farmer should leave
this state for the semi-arid regions
Of the west without fully informing
himself as to the new conditions
that will confront him.
KAMRAR ON RECIPROCITY AMI
FREE TRADE.
Eds. Freeman Tribune: The
greatest surprise in the last decade
was the defeat Of the Knox reci-
procity treaty at the ballot box by
the Canadian voters. Not only was
America surprised but all England
thinks that its defeat is a blessing
in disguise. ''The Nation" one OF
London's great newspapers. In COM
menting ON the misfortune of its de-
feat says:
Whether this will operate as a
check or as a stimulus to the free
trade movement in the United States
remains to be seen. But the prob
ability is that, while it will injure
and weaken Mr.. Taft's Chances OF
reelection, 1t will improve the dem
ocratic prospects; and democratic
victory will be a victory for free
trade. This being 50, we can at
ford. while regretting Sir Wiltred
Laurier's defeat. to accept 1t with
philosophy and resignation az one
OF those evils out Of which good may
be expected to result"
There Is one thing that England
has sought in and out Of season ev-
er since the surrender Of CORVALLIS
to Washington at Yorktown to give
us, and that is free-trade. and II the
defeat Of Canadian reciprocity Will
aid In bringing about q democratic
victory at the approaching presiden-
tial election, which az the great
London paper says and every intel
ligent person knows would mean
free trade, England can well afford
to wait and accept defeat with phil
osophy and resignation.
Free trade and Canadian reciproc-
ity are not dead issues and Ameri-
can voters who believe in the pro-
tective principles should mot flirt too
long with either. II we are to have
free trade let the democratic party
be responsible for It because 40 a
party 1t has consistently and per-
sistently stood for it ever since 1t
elected James Buchanan president
In 1856 on a platform declaring in
favor OF Free Trade and Free
Seas The last two words had no
serious meaning. They were no
doubt aput in to soften and temper
the harsh sound Of the first two.
Following the democratic victory
Of 1856 the seas remained free as
they always had been but the tariff
was reduced to a revenue basis and
idleness, want and poverty was the
reward reaped by America while
England prospered and fiourished
like a green bay tree in every av-
enue Of trade and industry at our
expense. Some will say that this is
ancient history but we passed
though similar experience In the
early nineties when the democratic
party obtained control Of the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the
on a platform declaring
In favor Of tariff for revenue only,
which IL only another name for free
trade and thousands Of men living
today remember too we'll the ruin
ana disaster that followed the at
tempt to put 1t in practice under
the Wilson and German tariff for
revenue law.
with these two experiments with
IN the memory Of many men now
living It IL easy to understand why
England halls with delight the pros
pect or democratic success In 1919
and Why II can AFFORD to accept the
defeat Of reciprocity with "philos-
ophy and resignation" but can We
aRord to make this sacrifice that
good may result to England.
Why should the people who havs
twice witnessed the blighting en-.
feet Of free trade be called upon to