The Penn's Grove record., 1911-02-17
LIKE
CA5ADIAN PACT
Regard Fecif 7Gijy agreement as
Step Toward rariff-FoT~
Rev Only
SAY IT sHoULD SO FARTHER
Legislation Esse % Give u Eject
May Foroe : F.a Session
oareer in p a..oasd Ls1sss O.
Alaska Coal Lands.
BY WILLIS j. ABBOT.

SOA'
Bent to congress his message for GER
tain exchanges of tariff schedules
with Canada, or, to use the we'll
known phrase, for a reciprocity"
treaty, he made some friends in the
Democratic party and a host OF enc
miles In his own.
The Democrats are not at all as
contented. The presidential appeal
made IN the message submitting the
treaty to congress expresses the Dem
ocratic, position from start to finish.
For some years Mr.. w. J. Bryan has
been c~omplimenting the Republicans
upon their acceptance and advocacy
Of Democratic ideas. President Tafts
latest message will give the Com
moner" another opening.
Congressman cIayton's Comment.
Representative Henry D. Clayton, of
Alabama, chairman of the Democratic
caucus, had this to say: 1.-THE presi-
dent was evidently advised by some
n who knows politics and who plays
the game better than he does. 1t does
not seem like a mere accidental coin
ctdence that this message should be
sent to congress the very day that the
tentative ways and means committee
of the next Democratic house of rep
resentatives was to meet. Apparent
ly 1t was an effort to spike the Demo
cratic tariff guns. While it applies to
but n country, our thriving neigh
Dor in the north, we of the Democratic
party believe that most of it's provi-
sions should apply not merely to Can
ada, but to the world at large. If, for
example, we can by a reciprocity
treaty put lumber on the free list with
Canada, why not with Honduras and
Guatemala? If print paper and paper
pulp are to be made free when import
ed from Canada, why not equal free
dom when imported from all other
countries? However, we who stand
for greater freedom of trade with all
the world are glad to accept this lit
tie crumb that falls from the rich
mans table in the White House."
Congressman James T. LLOYD, chair
mar OF the Democratic congressional
committee, warmly applauded the
presidential message, with nhe one
qualification that it did nst go far
enough. Mr., Lloyd would apply it's
principles not merely to Canada, but
to all countries with which We do, or
hope to do, business. However. he
looks on tho noccooo ~ aaz-
to the growing tariff for revenue only
sentiment, and believes thai. 1t indi-
Gates the fear on the part Of the Re-
publican leaders that without such a
concession their defeat is assured.
Opposition in Senate.
The wisest Of them all in senate Or
house, of the members of the present
ways and means committee, or of the
committee which the Democrats have
named to take charge when the Demo-
cratic house comes into being next he.
cember-or perhaps next month-can
hardly guess what may be the u]ti-
mate outcome of the treaty and Of the
legislation essential to give effect IN
it.
For see how it may work out. The
treaty itself goes to the United States
senate for ratification or rejection.
Tha senate may of course amend if.
but that In a sense would be eouiva-
lent to rejection, as the trea would
then have to go back to the Canadian
government. And In the senate there
will be plenty of opposition from many
sources. Probably the most infiuen-
t1al force against it will be the two
Massachusetts senators to Wsom the
sacred Goldfish Is an economic deitv
and the spectres of Canadian fisher.
men as terrifying as the Flying Dutch
man to an old-time sailorman. Rough
lumber on the free list is going to dis
tress other Republican senators. nota-
bly, Stephenson of Wisconsin. and
Lorimer of Illinois, whose close ASSOC
citation with the lumber trust is held
to explain the exertion of certain now.
erful interests in opposition to the in
vestigation of the methods of lis cleo.
ton. Free print paper and pulp will
stir up senators from New York
Michigan and Wisconsin, while free
agricultural products have ous
the farmer of the middle West, not
SO much because he is opposed to
that principle as because he discerns
a decided injustice in taking prote..
ton away from his products VIE
leaving it, in highest measure, on the
products of the eastern factories and
workshops.
Real Fight In House.
But after all the real fight must be
fought out in the house of representa-
tives. And there the possibilities for
a real contest are glorious-that is to
say to those who love a political bat
tie as men of an earlier day liked to
link ships-of-war together with Crap
ping hooks and fight out the issue
muzzle to muzzle and yard-arm to
yard-arm until the white flag was
finally fiuttering in token of surren-
der.
This is what can be done in the
house If the fighting blood of Demo.
Gratis and insurgent Republicans runs
red and hot:
To give the Taft reciprocity pro-
gram effect a venue bill must be in
troduced into the house where all
such measures must originate. 1t has
been SO introduced by Mr.. Mccall of
Massachusetts. a member of the ways
and means committee. Now there is
nothing in the world to prevent the
Democrats, most of whom l am con-
WINGED are in favor of the treaty.
from offering a few amendments to
the Mccall bill. With proper where
ases," etc, it might be pointed out
that free rough lumber from Canada
might be properly supplemented by
free lumber from the densely tim