Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-09
Will IT BENEFIT Us
new TARIFF WILL REDUCE
HIGH COST OF LIVING AC-
C0RDING TO TAFT.
Reduce Cost of Living Through Medium
of Reciprocity With Canada-High
Protectionists Claim the Republican
Party Will Be Disrupted if Program
Is Insisted Upon.

Washington, Jan. 81 - "Embar-
rassed' is a mild word to define the
predicament in which republican mem
bers of congress have found themselves
since President Taft submitted his pro
gram for a reduction in the cost of liv-
ing through the medium of reciprocity
with Canada.
High protectionists, confident of the
sympathy of the executive, have not
hesitated to go to the White House
with predictions that the party will be
disrupted if the program is insisted
upon. Insurgent republicans, many of
whom have become unaccustomed to
visiting the White House at all, have
been pursuing the policy of silence.
While some of them are ready to ad-
NIT that the proposed agreement is in
line with the tariff arguments, they fear
to adopt it lest they bring upon their
heads the wrath of the agriculturists.
President Taft appears to be about the
only one who is showing no concern.
He is said to have met all arguments
against the agreement with a determi-
nation to disregard mere political OBJ
jections, whether they come from stand
patters or insurgents.
He believes what he has recommend
ed to be right, and has made it clear
that so long as he continues so to be-
lieve he can not be dissuaded from
using every force at his command to
promote legislation to put the agree
ment into operation.
Kept Own Counsel.
That President Taft realized fully
what arguments would be advanced by
protectionists against freedom of tariff
relations with Canada is proved by the
fact that not single member of the
ways and means committee of the house
or the finance committee of the senate
was appraised in advance as to what ar
ticles would be affected by the agree
ment.
His consultations were had exclusive
1y with the government trade experts
and only such of those as are believed
TO be beyond political influence. In
nothing he has done since he became
president has Mr.. Taft displayed so
much independence of spirit.
Progressive republicans are deriving
some comfort from the fact that Sena-
tor Aldrich and Speaker Cannon and
others of the old guard apparently were
as much in the dark as any one else
about the president IS plans.
The question has arisen how Mr..
Taft can bring about favorable action
on the argument without having the
support of one faction of his own party
in congress. Some want to know if Mr..
Taft is depending wholly upon the
known democratic support for the pro-
gram.
Tariff Board Ready.
The tariff board, the bureau of sta
tistics and other bodies that are analyz-
ing the economic questions involved in
the commerce of this country are ready
to fortify President Taft with any
figures he may need in carrying on a
campaign of education.
These bureaus already have prepared
much information upon the relations of
export trade to commercial reciprocity
with Canada.
This information shows that neither
country has any advantage in the mar
kets of Europe. The United States and
Canada can get equal prices for grains
and other products of the soil unless
one offers articles of superior quality.
1t is recognized that the United States
has always found good market abroad
for agricultural products and even
wheat.
The preparation being made by the
president for contest with congress
clearly shows that something more
powerful than mere politics must be
used to combat him. Yet the fight is
beginning TO loom up as political
issue.
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