Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
TARIFF OPPOSITION WILL GROW
Speaker Believes Members Are to See
Light Soon.
GREETED WITH MUCH APPLAUs
Announcement Of Theme Calls Forth
Crowds Cheers.
"arvE AND TAKE Is PRNoIPLl
Chief EHscutive says Only BhndRess
wOuId oause Rejection Of OpPOr-
tunitT 90 Ada 20 strength
Of Nation.


PRINGFIBLD, H., Feb. u-President
Tan today took his most advanced posi-
tion with regard to Canadian reciprocity.
In an address before a joint session Of the
Illinois state legislature he warned leaders
OF his party that II they should defeat the
concessions contained In the reciprocal
agreement now pending in congress and
should persist In retaining in these times
OF high 0rices and gradually exhausting
food supply, a tariff not based sol-iy on
the difference in cost of production at
home and abroad which viii give a reason
able profit to the American producer, an
opposition viii be aroused that will know
no moderation and will wipe from the
statute books the last trace OF a proteo-
tive tariff.
This announcement came on the heels Of
news from Washington that the recipro-
I city agreement had met with a favorable
report In the house committee on ways
and means only through the help Of demo-
cratic votes. President Taft feels keenly
the opposition to reciprocity from mem
bers Of the republican party, but he is
nanguine that they will see the light be-
fore 1t Is too late.
Received with Applause.
He was gratified by the manner in
which his reciprocity speeches were re-
at the state capital, His first announce
ment there that his theme was to be re-
oiprocity, called out a burst Of applause.
AS he reached a summing up Of the
situation the Interruptions OF applause be-
came more frequent and when he had con
cluded the plaudits were fairly desfenlng
and this despite the fact that Speaker
Cannon had sent a message from Wash
ington strongly opposing any sort of re-
ciprocity.
The president came to Springfield today
for dual purpose. The first of these was
10 place q wreath upon the tomb Of Abra-
ham Lincoln and to pay a tribute to the
memory of THE Great Emancipator."
"IIe was the greatest citizen of your
state" said the president, and with Wash
ington, the greatest citizen Of the United
States"
MIR. Tafts second purpose was to drive
home additional arguments in favor of
reciprocity. His speech here came as
the sequel Of a eampaie. ugh tue fore
noon at Champaign, Mo.,.eello, Decatur
and at Milhken university.
Representative Mckinley Of the Cham
paign- Decatur district was MIR. rafts
guest from Washington to Decatur. From
Decatur to Springfield the president be-
came Mr. McKinley's guest over iorty miles
OF the iatter's interurban trolley system
Telling Point for Treaty.
The presence OF the Champaign congress-
man in the party enabled the president to
make a telling point in one of his speeches
He declared the picture OF Canadian com
petition with the American former for the
corn markets OF the United states had
been ridicuousy overdrawn and that the
entire Dominion prod N'ed no more corn
than was raised in the one Illinois congress
sional district represented by Mr.. Nc
Kiney.
The president also told the laters con-
stituents that he was sure Of the con-
gressmans support.
Governor Deneen, Lieutenant Governor
oRlesby, Speaker Adkins and Joint COM
mittee from the legislature met the presi-
dent at Decatur and helped escort HIM into
springfield Arriving here the president
went direct to the capitol. From there he
was driven In an automobile to the old
Lincoln home, where he spent nea"ly half
an hour going over the historical collection
maintained by the government
Next the president proceeded 70 the Linz
coin club, where with head barred he rev.
ersntly placed a wreath on the sarcop-
haEus From to o'clock the president
held a reception al the governors man
siou,
Mr. Taft is the first president who ever
addressed an Illinois legislature The
state senators and representatives were
In many cases accompanied by their wives
or other members or their families
Conditions similar.
Speaker Adkins introduced the presi-
- dent MT Taft launched at once into his
prepared address. He reviewed the tar
,R aInfF nj
1905 and said the conditions OF produc
tion IN Canada and the United States are
so nearly similar that a tariff based OF
a difference OF cost as between this anc
other countries would amount in the cast
OF Canada TO substantial free trade
"a reciprocity agreement" said th'
president rs give and take and my Ina
preston is that when you examine closely
the pending agreement you viii congratu,
late yourseles that We we're ablve tC
make one that covers so wide a range
of subjects"
Later tue president added: I'VE shall b,
blind. indeed, n We reject this golden op.
portunity TO add 90 the strentgh aud viril
ity OF our country by thus increasing
our self-supporting capacities
MI TAFT strengthened his argument ir
favor of reciprocity by the statement tina
he hoped the new tariff boards Norl
would result la a further revision Of an,
schedules Of the Payne-AldricH law.
DennitIoa oG Protecton,
President Taft, in his address here
defined the protection theory as on
that should impose tariff not exceeding
the difference in the cost OF production u
this country and abroad and allowing TAI
margin OF profit for the home producer.
lie argued. therefore that nasmuch a
the conditions OF production from an
United states and Canada were substan
TALLY the same. the widest latitude wa
.gfgivcn Secretary Knox and the commission
ers Who represented the United states Il
offermg Canada reduction Of dulles o
goods and products coming into this ooun
fcoptinued ON Third PaEe1