The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-27
cuMmlNs AND RECIPROCITY.

In an address before the Grant Club
in Des Moines last Friday evening
Senator Cummins assailed the Can
adam reciprocity treaty which presi-
dent Taft has called an extra session
of congress to consider, and, insisted
the treaty should be amended before
it is ratified by this country. Senator
Cummins said the Canadian treaty
purposes to put on the free list GER
tended to propose an amendment
which would put on the free list so
far as imports from Canada to Amer
lea are concerned number of manu-
features such as cotton and wool
clothing, meats, -four, sawed boards
and planks, manufactured iron and
steel, agricultural implements. etc.
In this connection he declared.
When we remove all barriers be-
tween agricultural products of Can
ada and the United States, he said.
il is fundamentally right that we
should also remove all barriers be-
tween manufacturers of Canada and
markets of the United States with re-
gard TO those things which the farmer
must buy in order that he may be
purchaser
Senator Cummins insisted that if an
amendment charging the free list
were properly offered that Canada
cannot and viii not object to them,
and their addition will not bring with
in their operations other countries
under the favored nation clause,
whereas if not offered as an amend
! ment they might do so.
The comment of the leading Re.
publican newspapers in the state is
generally favorable to the senator's
J contentious. The Cedar Rapids Re-
! publican expresses the thought of The
Gate City so accurately that we re-
produce its article in full below;
Senator Cummins in his speech on
Canadian reciprocity Friday night.
wriggled in and wriggled out, but we
want TO commend him for the cor
! clusion that he reached through it ali
/ and that is undying opposition TO the
trade pact that President Taft has
submitted 10 the country and for
+ which he has been foolish enough o
convene congress in an extraordinary
session. We can forgive Mr.. Cum
Minis many things for such an Iowa
like conclusion. He is going to be
loyal 10 the interests OF his own stat,
4 even ii he has TO retrace some OF the
steps he made on his reciprocity 81
sue in former Years, when il was
merely theory with him and
means OF annoying men who held o.
fees that he and his followers want
ed to get for themselves.
First OF all he declares his con
tinued adherence TO fair reciprocal
relations and then he proceeds 10
say that the opportunities for sue,
concessions are not as favorable ~
they were when he began this aeftd-
ton. ten or more wears ago. It ought
TO have been done then, in the Cum
Minis way and it won't do at all now
III the Taft way. That leaves soma
thing Of loop hole for the senator
/ put. as matter OF fact. his poliev
then would have been open ia the
same objections that Mr.. Taft's noI-
4 icy nov is open to When Mr. Cnm.
/ Minis talked Canadian reciprocity to-,
years ago ne did not know What ho
i was talking about, except that he vas
4 tanning tariff discomfort with wbirn
he and his followers hoped to get GER.
| tain men out OF certain Offices
Mr.. Cnmmins makes some oood
| points. One Of these is that II -
give free trade in cattle Ia cana1.
We will have to do the same u,,tl,
| Mexico and the Argentine. under ~
favored nation agreements, that ID
the agreement that we will treat cor,
tain nations as fayohably as we do
! any other nation. BuN while this an