Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16
THE RECIPROCITY BILL
PASSES LOWER HOUSE
The Presidents Trade Agreement
With Canada VIII Be Ratified BY
The Senate And Become Law.

The Presidents Trade Agreement
With Canada VIII Be Ratified BY
The Senate And Become Lsw.
Philadelphia Record: AS a stepping
stone to absolute free trade the Cana
dian American reciprocity agreement
should be welcome to all who have
faith in the progressiyeness of civil
ization and who believe in commercial
peace as the surest harbinger of PROS
perity.
Philadelphia Press: Presiden:
Taft's reciprocity agreement with Can
ada solves the problem of so years.
New York Mail: The president has
done a big historic thing. 1t is up to
the country to see that congress rises
to his level, and its opportunity.
Chicago Record-Herald: Already
certain members of congress, includ-
ing "progressives" are up in arms
against the reciprocity agreement with
Canada. Already certain industries
that fear injury from Canadian COM
petition. are declaring unalterabie op-
position to 1t. No doubt this Ii not
wholly unexpected, for reciprocity has
always been honored in the breach
rather than In the observance by many
protested, eloquent friends of "ab-
stract' propositions. Yet the sitna-
ton is really grave and critical, for
the agreement with Canada 10 funda-
unlike any other reciprocity
treaty ever framed.
indianapolis News: OF course the
special Industries the bean growers
here and the barley growers there
are up in arms because Americans
may be able to get their supplies
cheaper by this arrangement. and
those that have held monopoly Of
our markets be compelled to take
less. But the hope is that this taste
Of freedom will not be denied and
that one party or the other will at
last speak for the consumer. II In
really an especial event We are at
last turning sharp corner, II not
facing about-if congress has come
to consider the interests Of
the toiling millions and not alone the
industries that have fattened and
combined and hold the country fast
In the clutch of monopoly.
Washington Star: President Taft's
concerning Canadi-
an reciprocity outline broadly the
wisest and most advantageous rela-
ton which can at this time and In the
near future exist between the United
States and the Dominion. Special in
terests and Industries, both In the
United States and Canada, may be
injured by the enactment
into law of any such agreement and
may postpone in either country tn
formal ratification. But the national
welfare of both countries will I'M
doubtedly be promoted by the most
intimate commercial reciprocity.
Chicago Tribune: II the real inter-
ests of the American people and the
wishes of the great majority of them
controlled congress the Legislation
to make effective the beneficent
agreement with Canada which the
president has transmitted to it would
be enacted in few days. The pro-
tests Of the Gloucester fishermen, the
outcries of the opulent confederated
lumbermen, and the clamor Of mis-
taken and rather demagogical friends
of American cattle raisers and farm.
ers would not be permitted to delay
action.
Canada and the United States are
exporters of wheat. Therefore, the
wheat growers of neither country
need protection. American millers
would be more liberal buyers Of
Canadian hard winter wheat, but the
lower duties on flour would stimulate
the sale of the American product In
Canada. There is no reason why the
American or Canadian former should
fancy that reciprocity in the producta
of the farm. the dairy. or the orchard.
could harm him. Both Canadian
and American consumers would be
benefited.
Concluding a discussion Of the
Canadian reciprocity proposition the
Sioux City Journal says: II the
public wants the tariff revised to re-
duce the cost of living, let the public
continue to look to the democrats to
do the Job. And let the democrats do
1t. And let the democrats get what
ever future credit or blame may at
tach to the proceeding. Even II the
public were disposed to accept half 0
measure for the time. which is prob-
ably isn't. it would only postpone the
day of final reckoning. II protection
is no longer word to conjure with.
let us try free trade ON scale large
enough to make the experiment de-
cisive.