Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-05
HAND Of The
LUMBER TRUST
Shown BY TAFT

CHICAGO, June President
Taft, in a speech before the West
ern Economic society here last
night, declared that the principal
opposition to the Canadian reci-
procity agreement come not from
the farmer, but from the lumber
trust" and from American manu-
facturers of print paper.
In one of the most comprehen-
siye addresses that he has ever
made on the subject, the president
outlined some of the methods en-
ployed by the opponents of recipro-
city; practically told ~the farmers
that they were being 'buncoed' by
special interests and said that the
fate of the agreement rested, not so
much with the United States SEN
ate as with the people of the
country.
IF the farmer and the country
at large" he said, could be
treaty was in the interest of the
majority of the people, he would no
longer fear the coming vote in the
senate"
The president was not sparing
in his words. He told the rea-
sons for the opposition to the trea-
ty by the lumber trust" and
by the paper manufacturers, and
without using names, scored a New
York firm, some of whose members
recently appeared at the hearings
before the senate finance commit
tee in Washington, ostensibly il
behalf of the National Grange, and
objected to the enactment of the
agreement
In spite of the forces that are
arrayed against it, the presidenr
expressed the belief that the agree
ment would become a law.
The bill" he said, will pass
if it passes at all, because of the
force of public opinion in its favor.
The president said in part:
Beginning what / have to say
] desire to express my SINCERE
gratitude to the members of thu
Western Economic society for givin;
me an opportunity to address, OF
this important subject, so distin
guished and intelligent company
The Canadian reciprocity agree
ment, providing for free trade i
agricultural products, of the tw
countries, and for correspondent
reduction of duty on all the second
airy food products, for a consider
able reductin in a number of manu-
featuring goods, passed the hous
Of representatives in April last, wa
referred by the senate to its con
mittee for a number of weeks. Wi
nesses in favor of and against tn
passage of the agreement have bee
heard at considerable length, an
we now hope that the bill wi
be brought before, the senate POI
sibly without recommendation som
time during the coming week.
The agreement has been adius
ed in the necessary conference hel
with the Representatives of Canad
over the question of the applies
ton of the maximum and minimum
classes of the Payne tariff bill t
Canadian importations into tn
country; and in the course of tn
adjustment of that question,
which, by reason of certain Cal
adam concessions on exports of tn
United States into Canada, we WEI
able to apply the minimum tart
to Canadian imports, it seemed MI
tually profitable to extend the col
sideration of the tariffs of the tW
countries. already begun to IL
point of a complete reciprocit
agreement. Commissioners who ha
expert knowledge of the subje,
were appinted, and after invest
cations and study adm conference
that covered an entire year, a
agreement was finally reached, whic
has been embodied in the bill whic
has passed the house and is pent
ing in the senate.
THE cordial approval throughol
the country, which the propose
agreement received when it VIZ
sent to the congress, surprised eve
those who We're responsible for i
making; and l am confident tn;
further consideration of the treat
since its submission to congress
January last, has only confirme
the popular judgment in fave
of its adoption into law"