The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-06
BENEFIT TO THE FARMERS, THE
PRESIDENT ASSERTS, WHO
HAVE MISTAKEN IDEAS.
HELP FOR AMERICAN FLOUR
Squares With the Policy That Duties
Should Make Up the Difference in
Cost Of Productions Here and
Abroad.

dent Taft ended his part in the cele.
bration of this citys safe and sane
Fourth Of July in a speech on Cana
dian reciprocity at the Marion Club
dinner tonight.
Although the mercury lowered
around llO on the streets most Of the
day. and his collars would not stand
for more than ten minutes at a time,
the president enjoyed his day, he
said.
The president was the guest here
of eN-Vice President Fairbanks. lie
had breakfast at the Fairbanks home
and later in the morning reviewed
a parade of floats at the Indiana
soldiers and sailors monument
Practically the only unpleasant IN
cident of the day happened in front
Of this stand "A half hour before
his arrival, when Mrs. Harry Tute-
wiler, occupying one of the reserved
seats, was struck on the thight by
/ a spent bullet fired by someone whom
! the police tonight had not identified
Mrs. Tutewiler was not severely in
| iured and the president was not in
/ formed of the incident
In keepine With Republican Policy.
Mr.. Taft's reciprocity speech fol
lows in part:
THE sound republican doctrine has
become the imposition of duties only
where the conditions are naturally
unequal and where duties are neces-
/ sary to enable our manufacturers
and other producers TO meet on a
/ level the competition of foreign pro-
ducers. The Canadian reciprocity
agreement squares exactly with that
doctrine.
1T is said the Canadian reciprocity
/ agreement is made wholly at the eX-
pense of the farmers, and only in the
! interest of those who would have
farm products at a less price. II is
my own Judgment that the reciprocity
agreement will not greatly reduce the
cost of living. if at all. II will, how
ever steady prices by enlarging tn"
reservoir of supplies for those things
that are raised in both countries,
and it will make more remote the
possibility of COrnering commodities
ana eNtorting excessive prices for
them from the public.
An Aid to Farmers. Taft Says.
1T Is mistake to say that the
agreement is not in the interest OF
the farmers The free list is made up
almost entirely of agricultural prod
ucts. The amounts of eXportatiou
from this country to Canada at pres
ent IN the articles covered and af-
fccted by the reciprocity agreement
was IS million dollars for the fiscal
year ended March 81, 1910, and the
duties paid on those articles was
something more than $7,SO000O. The
expectation Of these same articles
into Canada for the year ended
March 81, 1911, was g. million dollars
and the duties levied and collected
were 10 - million dollars. The in
crease, in other words, was about IL
million dollars last year, and the
additional duties collected We're about
$500 600.
There seems little doubt that for
the current year the United States
trade covered by reciprocity will
reach 10 million dollars and the re
mission OF duties would be not less
than four million dollars under the
agreement. What | want to call your
attention to is that of this remission
OF approximately $3,4oO 900, which
would have been made on the i'm
ports into Canada from the United
States II the reciprocity agreement
had been in effect, a little less than
two million dollars would have been
on agricultural products.
Won't Mean Cheaper Wheat.
The truth is that when the COM
plant made ON behalf of the farmer
is analyzed it will be found TO be
limited 10 an argument that by the
admission Of free wheat into the Unit
ed States. the price of wheat will be
reduced ten cents a bushel. The
answer 70 the argument is that il
odnnot be. for the reason that the
price OF wheat in the United States
and in Canada is ultimately fixed by
the price Of wheat in the world. and
that the worlds price is adjusted
and made at Liverpool by the Nela-
ton OF the supply OF the exported
wheat 10 the demsnd for ii 10y coun-