Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29
Gov. Foss Proposes Policy for
North American Continent.
DISCUSSES TAFT PROGRAM
Reciprocity With Canada Regarded
as Entering Wedge.
WHAT UNITED STATES NEEDS
Wheat and Lumber and Products of
Soil and Sea-Needless
Fears.
pccial Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 Tho star
BOSTON. January oS-In the most inn
portant statement he has yet made with
reference to the reciprocity program of
President Taft. Gov Eugene y. FosS de-
clared last night in an interview that the
present program is only the entering
wedge toward free trade between and
among the nations OF the North American
continent. Gov. Foss also declared I'm ia
vor of an extra session OF Congress to be
held in March.
The proposed reciprocity bill is bound
to help conditions immensely" said the
governor. Everybody realizes this. be-
cause everybody knows that the Amer
lean people today are walled in behind
their high protective tariff.
president Taft says. as many of US
have been contending for a number of
years. that at one point this wall must
now come down. When 1t has come down
the sunlight will pour in
Meaning Interpreted.
1T all means that we shall have a
greater supply to draw from and the tend
ency of that increased supply will be to
make a right price. This in itself will be
one great advantage hut aside from that
the country up there is one of tremendous
area, nearly as great as our own, and
wonderfully and profuselY productive of
the very things needed In the states.
Next to the United States, Canada is
the greatest wheat growing country in
the world. We need her wheat for our
mills We need the products of her farms
TO sustain our people Nor is this true
alone of Canadian wheat. 1t is exactly
the same with potatoes. with all the prod
uctS of soil and sea. We must have
Canadian food products.
There has been some alarm-nccdlcss.
as | look at it--lest free fish might mean
tic death of our New England fishery
look for the rejuvenation of that indus
try. | find this to be the attitude, too,
OF some very leyel-headed business men
III Gloucester and Provincetown
Gloucester can be built up by the fish
industry. Fish should soon be brought
IN there and prepared for market quite
as hogs and beef are brought to Chi
cago and distributed over the country.
Products Of Forest.
And In like manner do we need the
products of the Canadian forest We are
suffering for them, indeed Lumber is
the building material of the American
OF moderate means who cannot afford
brick and stone. Under this prohibit
tive tariff these Americans have found
themselves cut off from the supply
This is true from one end Of the land
to the other.
our paper industry. one Of the great
est of the time, is calling for the pulp
and pulp wood of the Dominion. In an
other view of the case for reciprocity
we are serving our own forests and
taking a long step for conservation.
when we take down the tariff wall be-
fore the trees of Canada"
Gov. Foss was asked If the Ameri-
can farmer can be greatly injured by
reciprocity.
No Injury to Farmer.
The American farmer Will not be
hurt said the governor.
Our people want to bear in mind
that there is nothing cheap about Can
ada. We want to remember that the
Canadian people are OF the same racial
stock as ourselves. There is no cheap
labor in Canada. We shall not have
that problem to face in that quarter.
They don't produce food or anything
else up there any cheaper than we do.
There is nothing for our farmer Ito
fear. But reciprocity will help to keep
the trusts and the great combinations
down and bring about a right price
for food products.
1T cannot be told now offhand to what
degree prices will be lowered, but they
ought to be reduced to al least the level
of prices in Canada, which have been
lower than prices in the United States
at least as much as the amount of the
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