The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-27
Cuts Out the Former Imperial
Preference of the Canadian
Trade
WHEAT GOES on THE FREE
LIST UNDER THE AGREEMENT
Would Admit Canadian Wheat Into
This Country in Competition With
Our Own Product, Duty Now Being
Twenty-Five Cents Per BusheI.

American-Canadian reciprocity agree
ment. apparently waiting to hear from
the political leaders. The tariff re-
formers are inclined to look askance
at the agreement as possibly harmful
10 imperial preference but they do
not wish to antagonize the Canadian
government by criticism. They would
have been better suited IL the agree
ment should be postponed until after
the imperial conference in NAV. from
which they anticipate a considerable
grtst for their tariff reform bill.
Taft's Message.
Washington, Jan. 27.-In his mes
sage to congress late yesterday after
noon, on the reciprocity agreement
with Canada, President Taft said in
part:
"The identity Of interest Of two
peoples. linked together by race, Ian.
'guage. institutions and proximity" the
president gives as the chief reasons
for reciprocity.
"Equivalency should be sought In
an arrangement Of this character, but
an exact balance is neither imperative
nor attainable."
A reciprocal trade agreement is the
logical sequence. The guiding motive
In seeking adjustment Of trade rela-
tons between the two countries, SO
situated geographically, should be, to
give play to the productive forces az
far as possible, regardless Of political
boundaries.
We have on the north Of us a
new development that calls for a
statesmanliie 4n6 broad view Of our
future. We have drawn upon our nat
ural resources in such q way as to
invite attention to their necessary
linn. This has properly aroused an ef-
tort to conserve them. We have so in
creased in population and in con-
sumption of food products and the
other to be supplied largely from our
own country. that. unless we material
7ly increase our production. We can see
before us change in our economic
position.
I'VE have on the NORTH of us a
country CONTIGUOUS to ours for 5000
miles with natural resources of the
same character as ours, which have
not been drawn upon as ours have
BEEN"
Effect on Trade.
As to the effect the treaty would
have on the cost of living in the
United States, the president says: 81
do not wish to hold out the prospect
that the unrestricted interchange of
food products will greatly and at once
reduce their cost to the people of this
country. But source of supply as
near as Canada would certainly help
to prevent speculative fluctuations"
The Canadian commissioners made
1t plain that, in their understanding,
both governments would try to make
the tariff changes by legislation in
stead of by treaty. Neither shall be
prevented from making any change
in the tariff policy in the future.
The Canadian commissioners point
out that the provisions which the
United States proposed to make re-
garding the importation Of paper and
pulp must, for the present, remain in
operative. This is because the pro-
vincial governments interests cannot
be interfered with by the Canadian
In the meantime the
present duties on pulp and paper i'm
ported from the United States into
Canada will remain.
The Canadian commissioners de-
clared It was agreed that the utmost
care should be taken by both govern
ments to see that only such customs