Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-08-08

ion War to submit an amendment
- ,sbe pending tariff bill, authorize
tho the president to declare the
nor.es of the United States free to all
.sne products of any nation of the
American hem isphere upon which
no export duties are imposed, when
ever and so long as such nation
shall admit to it's ports free Of all
national, state or municipal or other
taxes, our flour, etc.
There can be no misunderstand-
ing of this paragraph, and it is a
paragraph he would not have writ
ten to the president, as working
platform for the administration of
which he was part, il it did not
convey his full meaning. Neither
would so staunch, pTotectionist as
Gail Hamilton have given this letter
the place OIL honor if it had not sum-
med up his philosophy of trade.
No one can go over the record Ct
Blaine's service In the Harrison cab
met without coming to the conclu-
sion that he contemplated COM
mercial union of the western hemis
phere under which markets would
be substantially as free as they arc
today between the states OF our OWL
| union.
The senator confesses to not
knowing why the southern trea-
ties were abrogated," and seeks in
formation on that point. In the
first place, they were mot Urea
ties" but only agreements which
had received the ratification of con-
gress and President Harrison. Had
they been treaties, abrogation would
not have been so easy. But just as
soon as the democratic party secur-
ed power In 1893 they began to up
set a number of the good things
|
they found in operation, and one OF
the first works of the republican
party and of James G. Blaine to fall
under democratic rule, was the rect
procity arrangements negotiated by
the Harrison administration.
The senator departs somewhat
from the subject when he calls at
tention to the fact that he did not
receive his education licking stamps
and looking through the general
delivery window of postoffice. At
the time the editor of the Freeman
Tribune was engaged in that occu-
patton the senator had just gradu-
ated from wagon and blacksmith
shop in Webster City-a fact, no
doubt, Mr.. Kamrar is proud of. We
had supposed the position of post
office clerk was no less honorable
But this is all foreign to reciprocity
and has no logical place in this dis
cussion.
AS to whether we have misrepre-
scented MI. Kamrar, the reader may
Judge. Who is dealing in misrep-
resentation when Senator Kamrar
infers that the Freeman-Tribune
has advised the selling of Hamilton
county land and buying Canadian
real estate? 1t merely suggested
that gentleman of the business sa-
gacity of the senator might be ey-
pected to dispose of some holdings
here and invest in Canadian lands
If he believed reciprocity would
prove so disastrous to Hamilton
county farmers and SO profitable to
Canadian land owners as he pro-
fessed.
Mr.. Kamrar seems to be some
what concerned over Freeman-Trib-
une dividends. But to show that
the senator does not really believe
the insinuations he filings at the
Freeman-Tribune, it may not be Ia
appropriate or discourteous to re-
produce the following:
Webster City, Jan. 81, 1910
The Freeman-Tribune Pub. Co.,
Webster City, Iowa. Gentlemen:
wish to thank you for your favor Of
the 25th inst. with check for $42.
q per cent dividend on my stock.
This is certainly good showing. l
consider the FIT. Pub. Co. one OF
the best business propositions in
our city. Wishing 1t continued sue
cess and prosperity, am, Very SIM
cerely yours, J. l.. Kamrar.
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