The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-05-04
CANADA REFUSED 1
FREE TRADETREATY,
50 Tact DISCL0SES

ANVI AAOII Us
OF FARMER
insists That He Cannot Suffer
When Canadian Production
Cost is Not Lower.
New York City.-Reciprocity with
Canada must be adopted now or new
er. and must stand or fall by its y
terms.
Amid tremendous applause and.
the waving of handkerchiefs, SO said
President Taft in an address in the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel last night, 1t
the fourth annual Joint banquet Of
the Associated Press and the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton.
His address was the first Of a
series in which he plans to waken
public sentiment in support Of his
policies. He appealed to the conn
pany of newspaper editors and own
ers, gathered from the length and
breadth of the land, to impress ON
the public mind that reciprocity
should stand alone and ought not to
be affected in any regard by other
amendments to the. tariff law. His
recommendations were cheered.
All talk of annexation he charac-
terized as "bosh' and said that Unit
ed States has all that it can attend
to with the territory it is now govern
ing. He praised the house Of repre-
s%entatives for It's passage Of the
agreement; declared that It would
not injure the farmer or any special
class, answered in detail the objec-
lions that have been raised to rect-
procity, and begged for at least 50
kind of test to dispell the ghosts"
exhibited to brighten the farmers"
During the course Of his address.
President Taft said:
THE treaty provides for FREQ
trade in all agricultural products
and In rough lumber, down to the
point of planning. 1t reduces the
price or secondary food products BY
a very substantial percentage, and It
makes such reductions on manufac-
tured articles that those engaged in
making them have assured US that
the reduction will substantially I'M
crease the already large Canadian
demand for them.
I'VE rendered to the Canadian
commissioners absolute free trade
in all products of either country
manufactured or natural, but as the
Canadian commissioners did not feel
justified in going SO far, it is only
reasonable to infer therefore that
with respect to the articles upon
which they refused free trade to US.
they felt that the profitable price at
which they could be sold by our
firms in Canada was less than the
price which their men could AFFORD
to sell the same either to their own
people OF to us. Hence 1t follows
that their refusal to agree to free
trade in those articles, as we propos-
ed, is the strongest kind Of evidence
that il we should take OF the exist
ling duties coming into the United
States, it would not affect in the
slightest degree. the price at which
those articles can be furnished here.
Thus the reason why meats were
lput on the free list in the Canadian
agreement was because Canada felt
that the competition would have an
Injurious effect on the competition
of their packing houses. II that be
true, how would it help the consum-
er or lower the price of meat in u
markets? Should we let their meat
in free, while they retained a duty
on their meats?
"Of course a reduction of the tar
III or the putting OF an arClcle Oh
our free list, without insisting on q
corresponding change in the Canad-
ian tariff will not interfere with the
contract made with Canada; but II
we do make such concession with
out any action on the part Of Cana
da, after the contract has been tens
tatively agreed upon by those au-
thorized to make contracts for rati-
ication in the governments, then we
are in danger Of creating an obliga-
ton against us in favor Of all other
foreign countries with whom we have
treaties, containing what is called
the favored nation clause. There
are two objections, therefore, for
increasing the provisions Of the Ca
madam contract. The first is that
they are of no value and the second
that it may involve US Indirectly in
a doubtful obligation with respect
to trade with other nations.
More than this. these proposed
gratuitous. concessions are in the ma
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