Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
.CUMMINS FOR The AGREEMENT
Iowa Senator Speaks for Reciprocity
Before Union League Club
SAYS ATTITUDE NEVER IN DOUBT
Progressive Leader Asserts Additions
should nc Made Co Free List aud
Declares Canada's Consent
~ Unnecessary
- Unnecessary

! NEW YORK, Feb. '11.-Seuator Albert
p Cummius of Iowa spoke In advocacy
K Of the CANADIAN reciprocity agreement be-
/ for the Union League club OF Brooklyn
tonight. Commenting upon the fact that
/ some curiosity had been expressed as TO
what was his position would be upon the
proposed trade agreement the senator
/ said that / I seemed strange to him that
/ after having advocated Canadian recipro-
/ city in every part Of the country for ten
! years, when most Of its present advo-
Gates were denouncinE IT." that his at
titude should be in doubt
81 went down I'm defeat for II more than
once" said Mr. Cummins. land 7 think
have the same courage OF conviction now
that l had then.
I q am for reciprocity with Canada, but
/ l am not for every trade arrangement that
may be proposed under the name OF rect
procity just as I was for the system Of
protection in 1909, but was not for the
Payne-Aldrlch tariff law.
VIII Not Affect Farmers.
Il am not one Of those who believe that
! the free admission Of agricultural pro-
| ducts into the United states from Canada
will materially eject our farmers, but
do believe that while we are admitting
/ free the things which the farmer sells
We should also admit free some Of the
things the farmer buys
! The objection I have to the arrange
ment Ia not that II istoo free. but that
IT is not free enough. do not expect to
/ ask Canada to change her duties further
{ that prescribed in the agreement bue I
J do expect to insist that with regard to
! imports from Canada into the United
States there shall be admitted free of
duty timber and lumber I'm all their forms,
! including timber, however sided or
squared, laths, shingles, sawed boards,
planks, deals and other lumber planed or
unplaned finished or unfinished coal in
all its forms iron ore of all kinds, iron
or steel in all its forms, lasgs, wooden
and cotton cloth, clothing, boots and
shoes, carpets, furniture, meat in all its
FORMS flour and all such things
Unnecessary TO Ask Canada.
| 1t is not necessary to ask Canada to
! agree to these additions to our free list
| for they will not be reciprocally free and
we put them upon our free list solely for
our own good end to equalize among our
own people both the advantages and dis
advantages Of the treaty. To me it seems
absurd to admit Canadian wheat free and
maintain duty on Canadian fuor; to ad-
nit Canadian cattle and hogs free and
charge a duty on Canadian meat; to admit
Canadian dairy products free and keep our
duties on Canadian iron ore and Canadian
coal; to admit Canadian poultry. vegetables
and fruits free and collect burdensome
duties on laths, shingles and planed boards;
to admit Canadian hay, rye, oats and
barley free and still levy heavy duties on
Canadian iron and steel.
IF 1t required the consent Of the
Canadian government to extend our own
free list 1t might be claimed that we
should wait until another time but II
does not. and l for one do not intend to
allow the steel trust, the met trust. the
lumber combination and other excessively
protected industries to join all hands
around and say, now we have taken a long
step forward in reducing tariff duties: let
us have peace and quiet for the next
/ decade. On the other hand ! say that now
: is the time to make things right between
/ ourselves and Canada and II the friends
of reciprocity will stand firm we will win.