The Detroit times., 1911-03-02
HERE ARE FACTS
ON RECIPROCITY
Table Shows Reductions by Both
Countries Figure Problem Out
Yourself.

What is this reciprocity business,
anyhow.
Millions OF people are asking that
question.
President Taft says II means freer
interchange between two great peo-
pies. separated only by an artificial
border.
The ''old guard" declares Il Is bias
phemy against the sacred principle Of
protection.
Self-constituted friends OF the farm
er says IL will cheaper his selling
price while fattening the meat trust
and -four manufacturers.
Nobody can tell Its exact effects
until II Ia tried. Chances are, IL will
neither kill nor cure. BY lowering
the cost of some articles In both coun-
tries IL will cause added consumption
and stimulate production in both. And
II Is move toward tariff reduction.
The United States and Canada tried
reciprocity once before. In 1854 IT
worked well for both countries. but
was abrogated by the United States
In 1866 because OF ill-feeling against
Canada over the harboring In the Do
minion OF confederate plotters during
the civil war.
Eight times since then Canada has
unsucessfully attempted reciprocity
negotiations. President Mckinley,
sponsor OF protection, advocated rec
iprocity. The present negotiations
are not In treaty form The reduc-
tons proposed become effective whom
enacted into law by the legislative
bodies OF both countries.
The agreement removes all duties
on live stock. poultry. grains, fresh
Vegetables and fruits, fish, barbed
wire, wood pulp and newspaper print
paper. Duties are reduced on fresh,
salt and smoked meats. canned fruits
and vegetables, -four, farm imple-
ments. automobiles, finished lumber.
iron ore, gypsum. mica, Portland ce-
ment. soft coal and peanuts.
II Canada were a great market
gardening country like Holland. with
"a tremendous everpreduetien OF per-
ishabIe foodstuffs, she might food the
United States and thus greatly reduce
prices. But she Is not. Canada is
much like the United States, produces
moderate quantities, mostly Tor nome
consumption. Like the United states,
Canada has an overproduction OF
wheat but prices In both countries
are largely regulated by the worid
market.
The chief effect of this reciprocity.
say some students, will be to give the
United States lower prices on lumber,
fish, hay, newspaper print paper, and
10 limited extent on dairy products.
Canada gains cheaper barbed wire,
farm implements, prepared meats ana
vegetables, automobiles and cement.
Here is a statement of the. principal
reductions In duty:
Free In Both Countries.
Livestock, now taxed about % per
CEN: poultry, now taxed about 20 per
cent; wheat, now taxed Csc bushel
by United States and lie by Canada;
rye. oats and barley, now taxed 1Oc TO
soc by both; hay, now taxed "a ton
by United States, 81 by Canada; fresh
vegetables. now taxed 20 to 80 per
cent by both; fresh fruits, now taxed
25 TO SO per cent by both; butter,
taxed &c lb. by United states, &C by
Canada; cheese, &c by United States,
Sc by Canada; eggs, sc by United
States, &c by Canada: fresh, salt and
smoked fish, now about equal duties;
hewn or sawn timber, now equally
taxed; barbed fencing wire, now &c
ID. tax In United States. free In Can
ada: steel wire. now 35c per cent In
both; typesetting machines. now 80
per cent by United States, and 20 per
cent by Canada wood pulp, newspa-
per print paper and wrapping papers,
about equally taxed now.
Reduced Duties BY Both Countries.
Fresh meat. now taxed 11sc Id. by
United States and &c by Canada, cut
to 1 lac; sailed and smoked meats,
now % per cent In United States and
&c Id. In Canada, cut to l Lac h.;
canned vegetables, now taxed 40 per
cent In United States and / &c Id. In
Canada, cut to l lac h.: wheat -four,
now taxed 25 per cent by United
States and 60c Dbl. by Canada, cut
to soc bbl: oat meal, now taxed 1c
ID by United States and 60c cwt. by
Canada, cut to soc cwt.; corn meal,
now taxed 40c cwt. by United States
and Csc bbl by Canada, cut to 12itc
cwt prepared cereal foods now