The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-13
President Taft Awakens Great
Interest in Reciprocity While
on Trip to the West.
RETURNS TO CAPITAL
IN OPTIMISTIC MOOD
Expects Canadian Agreement to
Prove as Beneficial as Free
Trade With Philippines.

PITTSBURG. Feb. 12.-President
Taft, much pleased with the results Of
his reciprocity campaign in Ohio and
Washington, In the course of the day
he received congratulatory messages
from different parts of the country
There was cheering news from Wash
ington, too, and the president is happy.
With his return to Washington tomor-
row he will push the fight for the Cana
dian reciprocity agreement. He has
planned several conferences and will de-
vote himself particularly to the situa-
tion in the senate.
MI Taft feels that the house problem
was solved with the reporting out of
the Mccall bill Yesterday That the
amendment-or any amendment at all
that will nulGfv the negotiations of the
six months-the president takes as
foregone conclusion.
The president was particularly
cheered by report from Washington
that the probability of flibuster
against reciprocity In the senate is les:
scniug. Mr.. Taft is confident that if
vote is reached in the senate the
agreement Will De cuaCtou iHeo 10 w.
Cabinet to Take the Field.
In furtherance of his campaign Pres
ident Taft will send several of his cab
met officers out into the field. Secre-
tary Knox is to speak Wednesday at
Chicago He took part in all the nego-
tiations leading up to the agreement
and his speech is expected to do great
good in pointing out the advantages OF
| the measure.
Secretary Nagel of the department of
commerce and labor will speak next
| week at Akron, O., before a business
men IS organization. Secretary of Agri'
culture Wilson will speak at Buffalo,
February %.
several speaking engagements this week.
The president is as sanguine that re-
ciprocity with Canada will prove sue
cess as he was that practical free trade
with the Philippines would be- He
advocated radical tariff concessions to
the Philippines with much the same en-
thusiasm and upon practically the same
grounds that he is now urging reel,
procity with Canada. He argued that
it would benefit both countries.
Ghosts Soon Vanished.
Free trade with the Philippine is
lands, however, was bitterly fought and
did not become a law until a little more
than a year ago IT was pointed out on
the president train today that the
ghosts of "iniured interests raised uy
against the Philippine islands PROPOSE
tion soon vanished in thin air, and that
not a single interest was injured.
On the other hand, the people of the
far away islands were distinctly ben
efited. the trade between the United
States and the islands rapidly increased
and the American customs receipts fol
the first year of the new laws showed
a distinct gain through the increased
importation of articles still dutlable ol
articles imported IN excess OF the
amount admitted free >,
The president feels that reciprocity
with Canada would show exactly tht
same results He believes it would prove
it's worth within a year and is anxious
that il should be placed on trial at the
earliest possible date.
Interest Awakened.
I That the president g reciprocity toul
into the middle west has attracted un
usual interest was evidenced by thu
fact that every station where the tralI
stopped great crowds were gathered
He APPEARED on the rear platform a
no speeches.,
The president is nursing a bad cole
and was tired out at the conclusion o:
his day in Illinois. The long rest OF
fhe train today did him a world o.
good,
sort of field dny for reciprocity
while he was speaking in Illinois, Col
onel Roosevelt was indorsing the agree
ment in Michigan and other speaker
were carrying on the campaign else
where. at, VIZ :.
. tleton Of the Oyster Bay district IN con
gress, following the president at IN
: cd from his set speech to pay dis
, tinct tribute to the president from
broadly Democratic or ,non-partlsa'
point Of view for his stand on rccipro
, city.