New-York tribune., 1911-02-25
AWAITING 4 TOTE.

The House bill carrying into effect the
reciprocity agreement with Canada Is
now before the Senate. having been re
norted without recommendation by the
Senate Committee on Finance. The vote
in the committee was TO 8, motions ior
favorable report and for an adverse
report having previously been defeated
bv 6 70 :. The division in the commit
tee does not represent the sentiment OF
the Senate. for apparently more tlan
two-thirds of the Senators favor APPROX
inc the agreement Three OF the hVe
Democratic members of the committee
onposcd the House bill. but on the Deln-
ocratic side of the Senate the opposition
can muster hardly more than one vote
out Of every five Whether the House
measure passes at this session or not
will depend entirely on the Willingness
and ability of small minority 10 staNe
off n rOllcall.
The arguments made against reel
nroritv at the hearings before the FL
nance Committee recalled in their pre-
dictions of calamity To The American
farmer. about 30 be subjected TO cana
dian competition, the predictions. "ut oi
the same cloth. which were discharged
at fhe same committee when the United
states was contemplating reciprocity
with Hawaii and Cuba and freer trade
with Porto Rico and the Philippines.
The same mournful protest was entered
against admitting the sugar and tobacco
of those islands into our market. on the
ground that the domestic producer Of
sugar and tobacco would be ruined by
| the resulting competition. Experience
has shown that those melancholy fore
casts were based on nothing but empty
! imagination Yet with a few changes In
phraseology they have been served up
once more To the Finance Committee
and the public as something both terri
! fying and new.
| Hawaii has been absorbed into the
| United STATES. and It's absorption has
nCi proStrated the sugar cane industry
/ Of Louisiana. Porto Rico sends It's sugar
and tobacco here untaxed. and Cuba and
The Philippines send theirs N reduced
rates. certain proportion from the
/ Philippines coming i'm free. But the beet
sugar industry of the Western states is
a. fouriShing aS II ever was, and the
/ tobacco growers Of the country have not
/ found their market impaired by Porto
! Rican, Cuban and Philippine imporia-
! tions On the other hand. the nation ~
y whole has been greatly benefited by
/ the enlargement of trade with the de
ipcndpncieS and with cuba. Our exports
/ 10 cuba have increased in value from
/ 1aG9-10. and trade both ways from
$50. 10l .080 te S175, 3s6,0o OW exports
Ia Porto Rico have grown i'm value from
! 81 ,J0J,O00 III lSg7'9S tD S21097 900 in
| 1919 10 and trade both ways has in
creased from S3.920.0Gn fo $50 f93. 900.
went into operation onr sales TO the
/ Philippines have risen from S11lS9.000
/ to- 6.S32 600, aud trade both ways from
S2n623.UO0 TO So. 10000
/ 1t will he the same with Canada after
tire new agreement goes into effect
/ " 'ii" " F'"' MUMMY ~ w dbl" w
show how he was injured and our com
mcrcc with Canada will he expanded by
S3nC00oo n Sio00000o, giving our
PRODUCERS = larger market. our trans
portation lines more freight and our
merchants and middlemen more bust
Gess. The prophets of disaster VIII once
ncrc he obliged "a retire with their 81
told YOU sos to an extreme rear seat