The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-28
Great Applause Greets Deelar-
alton of President Taft at
Publishers Banquet.
EARNEST PLEA FOR THE
TREATY WITH CANADA
House Commended for Its
Prompt Action and Hope for
Senate Expressed.

NEW YORK. April 2I.-"ReCiprocity
with Canada must be adopted now OF
never, and must stand or fall by its OWN
terms"
Amid tremendous applause and the
waving OF handkerchiefs. thus declared
President Taft In an address in the Wal
dorf Astoria tonight at the fourth annu-
al joint banquet OF the Associated Press
and the American Newspaper Publishers
association
His address was the first OF series in
which he plans 10 evoke public sentiment
in support OF his policies and he ap-
pealcd TO the company OF editors and
newspaper owners gathered from the
length and breadth OF The land To I'm
press on the public mind that reciprocity
should stand alone and 'ought not to be
affected In any regard by other amend
ments' to the tariff law.
His recommendations were cheered
Talked to the Point.
All talk of annexation he characterized
as 'bosh.' and said that the United
States has all it can attend to with the
territory it is now governing. He praised
the house of, representatives for its pas
sage OF the agreement, declared that II
would not injure the farmer nor any spe-
cial class; answered in detail the objec-
tions raised TO reciprocity and begged for
al least "a kind ,of test to dispel the
ghosts exhibited to frighten the agri-
cultural classes
Other speakers of the evening were
sador 10 the United States, who urged
intelligent and, deliberate consideration OF
the forces that have shaped the present
insurrectlon: William Barton Northrop
minion parliament, who analyzed Cana
dian sentiment with reference to reel
proclty: Nicholas Murray Butler, presl-
dent of Columbia university. and ]. +.
- Canadian
Limited. '',
Praise for the President.
Oswald Garrison Willard, proprietor of
the New York Evening Post, introducing
the president. praised Mr.. Taft for his
abstention from the Shorter and uGlier
word" In his Characterization OF those
who differed with him, and lauded his
charity. judgment and advocacy of in
Jernational, peace
arbitration with Great Britain-to be
followed. the president had promised. by
similar agreements with other nations
United States history. II not of the world.
with which your name. sir will forever
be most honorably and indissolubly con-
nected''
Yours Is the privilege" he informed
the president, "of telling us to our faces
just what you think is wrong with us or
OF saying what you can in our behalf to
larger public. which sometimes has its
doubts about us and our methods
He then proposed the health of the
president and Mrs. Taft, who was in
the gallery, and the toast was drunk
standing,
The president smiled broadly at Mr.
Yillard's invitation TO criticise the press
but did not take advantage OF 1t
President Taft devoted the greater
part of his address to the Canadian reel
procity agreement On this subject he
said In part;
President Taft's Address.
II am glad to have the opportunity of
speaking to q body which fully represents
the most Important agencies for the for
nation OF public opinion In this country,
on question which has now reached a
critical point In It's settlement. The
agreement is commercial one and af-
fects the duties on imports from each
country into the other and. therefore. II /