Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-13
AWARD ON The
CANADIAN Plan !.
SECRETARY OF STATE MAKES
STRONG PLEA FOR ENACT
MENT OF RECIPROCITY.

Des Moines, July 12.-W. c. Hay.
ward, secretary OF state and one of
the progressive republican leaders in
Iowa, stands for the Canadian reci-
procity agreement.
While he has not gone into the pact
in detail he believes that 1t Is q step
in the right direction and that 1t should
be adopted.
He asserts that 1t should be consid-
cred now fairly and honestly, as bust
ness proposition, and that It Is not q
subject to get hysterical over in a
political agreement Secretary Hay
ward said:
For many years have felt that it
would be good thing for the people
of the United states IL there were no
tariff wall separating them from the
people of Canada; that it would be a
good thing II there were no more of a
dividing line than between Iowa and
Illinois, and other adjoining states.
Since boyhood have held firm faith
in the republican party and its princi-
pies. have believed firmly in the
principles OF protective tariff. and
believe in those principles now, as
firmly as ever. ] believe the policy Of
protection to American industry as
carried into effect under republican ad-
ministration of national affairs, has
been the greatest of all factors in the
rapid development and wonderful
prosperity of this country. believe
also in the declaration of the last ma
tional republican platform. to the ef-
feet that the measure of protection to
be provided by a tariff should be the
difference between the. cost of pro-
duction at home and abroad. plus a
reasonable profit to American indus
tries
In Right Direction.
Now as to the. proposed reciprocal
agreement between this country and
Canada; confess have not gone into
study of it's details, and / am not
prepared to discuss it in any but a
general way. No doubt it lacks some
thing of being all that selfish Ameri-
can citizen would desire-and we are
selfish, the same as people OF other
countries, but 1t seems to me that It
may be a step In the right direction,
and that it may lead to- something
more desirable in the future. Even
If it should result in free trade with
Canada, how could we be harmed?
For all these long years since the
building of wall of tariff protection,
we have ben declaring over and over
that it was to protect the industries
and the labor OF Europe. There is no
pauper labor in Canada. The average
wages Of Canada are undoubtedly
higher than the average wages Of the
United States. What we have talked
about all these years has been the i'm
portance of building up the manu-
featuring industries of this country;
the promotion of Industrial enterprises
that would employ labor; that would
increase the great army of consumers,
and build up home markets; markets
for products of the factories, and also
of the farm, and especially for the
latter. The farmers of this country,
and especially those Of the west and
Iowa have had but little, II any, d.
rect benefit from protective tariff.
A tariff on the things he has produced
for sale has never cut any particular
figure in fixing their prices. A tariff
of $50 on a horse. or SO to $40 on a
COW never had much to do with the
price Of those animals; but he has re-
ceiyed an immense indirect benefit.