Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-28
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| New York, April 27.-Reciprocity with
Canada must be adopted now or new
er and must stand or fall by its own
terms. Amid tremendous applause. so
declared President Taft in an address
at the Waldorf Astoria tonight at the
fourth annual joint banquet of The As
ISOLATED Press and the American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
His address was the first of a series
in which he plans to evoke public SEN
timent in support of his policies and
he appealed to the company of editors
and newspaper owners, gathered from
the length and the breadth of the land.
to impress in the public mind that
reciprocity should stand alone and
fought not to be affected in any regard
by other amendments to the tariff
law" His recommendations were
warmly cheered.
All talk of annexation he character
iZeZd as "bosh" and he said that the
United States has all it can attend to
with the territory it is now governing.
He praised the House of Representa-
tives for its passage of the agree
ment; asserted that it would not in
jure the farmer or any special class:
touched briefly on the matter of a gen.
eral arbitration with Great Britain,
which, he said, was progressing. an
swered in detail the objections that
have been raised to reciprocity and
begged for at least "a kind of test
to dispel the ghosts, exhibited to
brighten the agricultural classes"
al l1at 1
time in the solution of the question
of reciprocity" concluded the Presi-
dent 1T is critical. because. unless
it is now decided favorably to re-
ciprocity, it is exceedingly probable
that no such opportunity will ever
again come to the United States. The
forces which are at work i'm England
and in Canada Y X will derive
an impetus from the rejection of this
treaty; and if we would have recipro-
city with all the advantages that l
have described and that / earnestly
and sincerely believe will follow its
adoption, we must take it now or give
it UP for ever"
OTHER speakers of the evening were
Manuel De Zamacona. Mexican am
bassador to he United States, who
urged intelligent and deliberate con-
sideration of the forces which have
shaped the present instruction; Hon.
William Baron Northrup, Kings eoun-
sci and a member of the Dominion
Parliament, who paid tribute to the
power Of the press, reminded it of its
responsibilities and analYzed Canadian
sentiment with reference to recipro-
city; Nicholas Murray Butler. presi-
dent of the Columbia University, ana
j. F. Mackay. president Of the Cana
dian Press. Limited.
Mr.. Northrup explained that if the
pending treaty failed of ratification
by the Canadian Parliament, such a
step would not necessarily mean defeat
or even popular disapproval OF re-
ciprocity as principle, but only that
the opposition had compelled an ap.
peal to the people, and Until the poo.
pie have spoken" he concluded,
which they can only do at the polls,
no one can say what the voice of the
people of Canada in this matter really
is"
Oswald Garrison Willard proprietor
of the New York Evening Post. said in
seemed to have been chosen toastmaS-
ter to testify that, however journalists
might differ with the administration ia
Its policies. they cherished for the
President a keen personal regard. He
praised Mr. Taft for his abstention
from the shorter and uglier word" in
his Characterization of those who diff
fered from him and he lauded him for
his charity of judgment and his adyo-
cacy of international peace. Yours
is the privilege" he informed the
President, "of telling us to our faces,
just what YOU think is wrong with us
or of saying what you can in our be-
half to a larger public which sometimes
has its doubts about us and our meth.
ods He then proposed the health of
the President and Mrs. Taft, who was
in the gallery, and the toast was drunk
standing.
The President smiled broadly at Mr..
Wizards invitation to criticize the
press, but did not choose to take adj
vantage of it.
Mr.. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster and
gentlemen of The Associated Press and
of the Publishers Association" he said,
L thank your POSTMASTER for his kind
| ly and gracious Introduction. l thank
him also for including the real Presi-
dent" (Mrs Taft in his toast.
The POSTMASTER seems to expect a
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