The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-29

# Especial TO The Times-Dispatch.l
Boston, Mass, January 2S.-fn the
most important statement lie has vet
made with reference to the reciprocity
proGram OF President Taft, Governor
Eugene n. lfoss declared in an eXclu-
sive intervicw that the present pro-
gram is only the entering wedge to-
ward free trade between and among the
nations of the North American conti-
ncnt. Governor foss also declared in
favor OF an extra session Of Congress,
TO lie held in March.
The proposed reciprocity bill is
bound 10 help conditions immensely"
said the Governor. "Evsrybody real
ICES this, because everybody knows
that the American people to-day are
all walled in behind their high prutec-
tive ,ariff,
president Taft says, as many of us
have been c~ontending for a number
OF years, that al one point this Wall
must now come down. When IT has
come down, the sunlight will pour in
II all means that we shall have a great.
CT supply 10 draw from. and the ten
dcncy OF that Increased supply will
be TO make n right price.
This in itself will he one great adj
vantage. but. aside from that, the
country up there is one of tremendous
area, nearly as great as our own. and
Wonderfully ana ~profusely productive
Of the very things needed in the states.
Next 10 the United States. Canada is
the greatest wheat growing country
in the world. We need her wheat for
our mills. We nave got to have her
No. / wheat 10 keep our Minnesota
mills going. We need the products of
her farms 10 sustain our people.
,Nor is his true alone of Canadian
| Nrb.at .H 4. jS. .Nacti.' ,ha ~ , - 4 49,
potatoes. with all the products of soil
and sea. We must have Canadian food
! products.
Needless Alarm.
There has been some alarm-need-
LESS. as ! look at it--lest free fish
might mean the death of our New
England fish industry. i look for the
-rejuvenation Of that industry. l find
this 10 be the attitude. too, of some
Very level-headed business men IN
Gloucester and Provincetown.
'lhc alarmists seem to have Tor.
gotten that fish are migratory. rl,is
habit of the fish 10 change their abode
from season to season has largely
brought about the conditions that we
find to-day.
GLOUCESTER and all the Eastern ports
used 10 be alive with fishing smacks.
In the days Of prosperity there We're
nfty-tnree fishing boats saillng ont Of
Provincetown. To-day..l believe there
are -four IN those days Gloucester
was the nome port of $50 vessels. 10
daY the Gloucester fleet numbers less
than 100.
What is the trouble with the fish
business in these ports? Simply that
trey rave no fish to do business on.
Tile fishermen have had to so out OF
business. Any man must go out OF
business if he cannot get the raw
material 10 do business on. If 1
%cculdn't get pig iron for the Sturie-
want woFns ! should have to go where
lpig iron Is.
This may be a rather homeiy way OF
saving IT, but II explains Just what the
matter has been with the FISH bust
ness. There have beer no FISH 10 do
business on, and q prohibitivc tariff.
kept us from getting any. tiencen;
say that instead of injuring the FISH
industry az Gloucester. Canadian rect
Iprocity is going to revive il as nothing
else would in all inc world
Governor Fo&s was asked II ,hf
American farmer can be greatly in.
iurad BY reciprocity.
The american farmer VIII not he
hnrt" said The Governor. our peopi.
want 70 bear in mind that there Is
nothing chcap about Canada. we wan,
To remember that tho Canadian pcopl,
are % the same racial stock as our
| selves.
There Is no cheap labor in Canada
We shall not have that problem to rae,
! in that quarter They. don't produce
food or anything else uu there any