The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-03-02
R~FCIPROCIII PACl
UNFAIR TO STATE
Farmers Products on
Free List But Not
Manufactures.
WILL OPPOSE 1T
Magazine Lobby is Spending
Great Sums to Defeat
Postal Rate Increase.

Washington, d. C.-This session
of Congress has demonstrated that
the appelation "Insurgent" is
strictly relative term. Before the
session has adjourned it will be
shown that some regulars" of the
present Senate have gone on record
as .~'Insurgent" republicans of the
most pronounced type in regard to
the oyershadowing administration
measure now pending-the reciproc-
ity treaty with Canada. At the final
lineup on this bill, the roll call of
the Senate will prove to the nation
that the most petrified standpat re-
publican has earned he title of Gin
surgent," while those who have al
ways been insurging against the adj
ministration as a matter of course
will for once prove as meek and 10y
al regulars as eve came down the
narrow and straight Cannon pike.
Progressive republicans, however,
who are honestly fighting special
privilege in the interest of good gov
eminent look upon the coming battle
over the pending reciprocity pact as
an incident, as much an incident as
the fight over the revision of the old
tariff law proved to be. Some real
~progresisves voted generally with AL
drich on the different schedules in
the new law. Anyone examining the
roll calls on the Payne-Aldrich tar
if bill, will find that such Senators
as Bourne of Oregon, Borah of Ida
no, and Dixon of Montana kept close
company with Aldrich and Hale on
every schedule voted IN. None the
less, these three supporters and de-
tenders of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
act are doing splendid work for the
progressive cause. Senator Bourne
of Oregon. while he is on record as a
high protectionist of the Aldrich
TYPE, is the efficient president Of the
National Republican Progressive
League, and will rank as n of the
conspicuous progressive republicans
of the nation, in close touch with the
progressive movement in every state.
To question his sincerity az a real
progressive with the cause of the
people rear at heart would be to
repudiate the whole movement.
Crawford on Reciprocity.
Senator Crawford, who fought and
voted for protection on farm pro
ducts and for free lumber, coal and
iron during the consideration Of the
Yayne-Aldrich tariff law, is consis-
tently opposed to the reciprocity
treaty in its present form. He will
in all probability offer amendments
to the pending bill. if a statement
by him to-day is an indication OF
what he has in his mind. In response
to an interrogation as to his opin-
ion of the proposed trade agreement
with Canade he said:
II regret very much that the con
ditions of this trade agreement are
so outrageously unfair to the North
west that I cannot persuade myself
to vote for It..
ESQ far as the people of my state
are concerned, it is not a reciprocity
treaty at all. but a wholly one-sid.
ed agreement. For instance, IL 1t is
enacted into law, Canadian wheat
will come across the border free, but
Canadian flour will have to pay tarin
duty. II the purpose to admit Ca.
madam wheat free is to give cheaper
living to the people of the country
why should not Canadian -four be
admitted free? 1t looks very much
to me as though the retention Of the
tariff upon -four gives the case
away. and shows that the treaty wa
made for the benefit of the millers
Of Minneapolis and elsewhere, and
for the benefit of Mr.. Hills rail.
roads, while the consuming public
did not cut much figure in the ar
~rangement.
Barley Growers Hit.
again: Canadian barley is ad.
mitted FIRE, while barley malt mus,
pay a duty of AS cents per hundred
pounds. What is the purpose of this:
It is simply in order to enable the
great maltsters in Buffalo, Rochester
and other New York points. to bu,
their barley from Ontario farmers
instead Of from the Wisconsin. Min.
nesota and Dakota farmer, but It pro.
tects the same maltsters from thu
importation Of barley male made II
Canada. This is a whack a the farm.
er o fthe Northwest for the benen,
LOT the New York state maltsters.
II would vote for this trade agree
ment ii 1t gave to the people of the
prairies Of South Dak0t and othe,
prairie states free lumber and Other
advantages. but 1t does not. Unde,
this pact, logs will no longer come