The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-04-20
HITS At
CANADA AGREEMENT
Declares Taft Has Broken Ma;
tionaI Platform Pledges.
TAKES RAP AT THE TRUSTS
Wisconsin Progressive Asserts Recip-
rocity Bill Gives Manufacturers IS
Per Cent. Duty Advance Over
Farmers-Exceeds Payne Law.

Washington, April 1S.-Dscordant
notes on national politics were sound
ed in the house by regular and pro-
gressive Republican members during
the debate on the Canadian reciprocity
bill
Representative Joseph w. Fordney
of Michigan, in opposing the recip-
roCity agreement said:
president Taft will be the next
nominee of the Republican party for
the presidency | have a great admir-
alton for him and shall vote for him
gladly. But | think in this treaty he
has made mistake and l reserve the
right to follow my own judgment in
refusing to support It."
lenroot Attacks Taft.
Irvine l.. Lenroot, progressive rep
resentative from Wisconsin, said the
president had reversed his position
with 'eference to the Republican tariff
policy; that he had broken the pledges
Of the Republican national platform.
and that his statement made in ad-
vocacy Of the tariff treaty that there
was no difference in cost Of production
between this country and Canada was
refuted by facts published by the tar
If board.
Progressive Republicans said
Lenroot, stand for consistent policies.
If protection is to continue farmers
must be placed on the same footing
as manufacturers. The same theory
applies with us If free trade is to
come Protection is bad when it gives
to the trusts need not give the list
license to plumber, and this they
have when the duty is far above the
difference in costs of production at
home and abroad.
Worse Than Payne Law.
This reciprocity bill which PresI-
dent Taft has sent to us gives the
manufacturers rs per cent. duty adj
vance over the farmers 1t IS worse
in this respect than the Payne tariff
law 1t is a violation of the Republi.
can party platform which declared the
tariff should be revised and duties
based on the cost of production with
a reasonable profit to the manufac-
turer
There is difference in cost of pro
duction. Agricultural products cost
more to produce In this country;
manufactures cost less here than in
Canada This bin fails to give tho
farmer any protection This country
has no right TO prosper If it applies
one policy to one class Of citizens and
another policy to another class II
we have protection it must be for all;
If free trade, it shall be for all. II
there is no difference In cost of pro
duction, as President Taft says, I
would vote for free trade. The farm
ers' free list does not apply TO a single
article in the Canadian treaty.
Quotes From Tariff Board.
Il have figures to prove what | say
from a report of the tariff board which
investigated these questions with ref
erence TO the costs of production in
Canada The board does not sustain
the president Democratic opposition
to a tariff commission has been based
on the assertion that such board
would be the creature of the president
naming 1t and Of the administration.
| hope you will now reverse that po-
sition in view Of this report and evi-
dence that there IS board free from
the influence of the administration
and of its politics. and vote for per
manent non-partisan tariff commits
sion
Defenses OF the Canadian treaty
We're made by Peters Of Massachu-
sets and Francis Burton Harrison of
New York