The Washington times., 1911-04-28
TAFT STARTS FIGHT
FORREC|PROC|TYT TO
Be PASSED|N SENATE
"Now or Never" Is to Be the
Keynote of His Cam
paign.

With the return Of President Taft to
Washington after a two-days' trip to
New York. the real fight for the pass
age of his reciprocity bill in the Senate
will be taken up. While away he sound
ed the keynote of his campaign before
Congress.
This keynote is: Reciprocity now or
never.
This will be the appeal which the
President will carry into his fight be-
fore the Senate. He will tell the MEM
bers of that body, whom he will ask to
the White House for conference, that
his knowledge of the situation con-
vinces him that if the present recipro-
city treaty fails, we need not expect
another one within the life of any
man now living.
The Canadians have already been
snubbed once by the United States in
acting upon a reciprocity treaty. 1t
took a long time, the President will
, show, for the northern neighbors to
get over that. Finally. however, the
Canadians agreed to reopen negotia-
tions and the present bill is the result.
To Oppose Amendments.
If this present treaty is rejected in
the Senate it is the Presidents firm
conviction that the tariff wall between
the United States and Canada Will re-
maEn, and freer trade relations between
the two peoples will be impossible.
These are some of the arguments with
which the President will seek to i'm
press the Senate. it is learned this
morning. From this time until that
body acts, he will work steadily for fav-
ofable action on this big measure. Not
only that but he will work against any
amendments to the bill which will tend
TO make it unacceptable to the Can
adams.
The President reached Washington
shortly before O'Clock this morning.
He went at once to the White House,
where HE breakfaSted with his family
BY $50 he was at the Executive Offices
and had plunged into the work now ac-
cUmulated on his desk. He received
callers until II o'clock, when the Cabinet
met.
SCOTS At Annexation Scare.
Friends of reciprocity in Congress
look upon President Taft's speech in
New York last night as the strongest
stroke yet given to his policy for
closer trade relations with Canada.
They say today that such an advo-
Cacy on the part of the Executive is
bound to influence the country and in
turn influence Congress in favor of
the measure.
The President disposed of the an
ncxation scare. He said that anneXa-
ton was farthest from the mind of
the American people. America now
has all the territory, he added, that 1t
can govern.
Probably the most forceful part of
the Presidents address was that in
which he declared that now or never
was the time for the favorable Consid-
Grafton of a treaty. He said: This is
a critical time in the solution of the
question of reciprocity. 1t is critical
because unless it is now decided fa-
vOrably to reciprocity ii is exceeding
ly probable that no such opportunity
will ever again come to the United
states.
The forces which are at work in
England and in Canada to separate
her by a Chinese wall from the United
States and make her a part of an i'm
perial commercial land reaching from
Eugland around the world to England
again, by system of preferential
tariffs, will derive an impetus from
the rejection Of this treaty"
Urged AS Economic Benefit.
The President then nailed the an
nexation idea. He called it "bosh"
and buncOmbe saying that neither the
radical Canadians nor the radical |
Americans need hope for annexation |
now or ever.
Il am not an antl-imperialist, but !
I have had considerable experience |
in the countries over which we have |
assumed temporary control, and / |
know that we have taken over duties !
and obligations. the weight of which
ought to destroy any temptation to |
further acquisition of territory"
The President addressed the Ameri- |
can Newspaper Publishers Associa-
tion and appealed directly to the |
editors assembled at last nights din
ner to assist in educat ting the country
in favor of reciprocal trade relations |
with Canada as an economic rather !
than as a political benefit.