The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-03-30
CUMM|NS TO PROPOSE
Reciprocity CHANGES
IN SPEECH MANUrAC.
TURED PRODUCTS SHOULD GO
ON FREE LIST ALONG WITH
THOSE FROM THE FARM.

Des Moines, 1owa.-Senator A. b.
|Cummins. in an address last night to
four hundred members Of the Grant
club, assailed the Canadian reciproc-
ity treaty which President Taft has
called an extra session Of congress
to consider, and insisted that the
agreement should be amended in inn
portant particulars before it is rati-
fed BY this country.
Senator Cummins said that the
Canadian treaty proposed to put on
the free list certain products Of the
farmers and he intended to propose
amendments to the free list. SO far
as imports from America to Canada
are concerned, and place there a num-
Der Of manufactures. such as cotton
and WOODEN clothing, meats, -four,
sawed boards and planks, manufac-
tured iron and steel. agricultural inn
'plements, etc.
When we remove all barriers on
the agricultural products between the
United States and Canada" he said,
cit is right that we should also re-
move all barriers between the mar
kets Of that country and this; with
regard to those things which the
farmer must buy in order that he may
be a producer.
Senator Cummins insisted that the
amendments that he proposed in en-
larging the free lists, were proper,
for the reason that Canada can not
and will not object to them. and their
addition will not bring within the OPP
GRAFTON, other countries under "the
favored nation" clause. whereas II
not offered as amendments, they
might do so. Senator Cummins said:
Long An Advocate of Reciprocity.
For ten years I have been discuss
ing trade reciprocity with Canada
from the standpoint of one who has
profoundly believed that the condi-
lions of production in Canada as
with the conditions in u
country not only justified, but de-
manded, that we should deal with
her upon an entirely different basis
than that which we recognize in maxi
ing up our general tariffs with other
nations.
"My conclusions, SO often express
ed. remain unchanged, and my desire
for fair reciprocal relations with our
northern neighbor was never strong
er than at the present moment, al
though l see, as every open-eyed OBJ
server must see that the development
of the Dominion in manufacture
during the last decade, and the con-
sequent Strengthening of her protec-
tive policy, has greatly narrowed the
field for the advantageous applica-
ton of commercial reciprocity; that
is to say, 1t is vastly more difficult
now than then to secure an equiva-
lent for any concessions that we may
be willing to make in IL duties up
on her exports into country. II
a little Of the enthusiasm which is
now so abundant in some quarters
had been available then, the United
States could have made a better bar
gain than it is possible to make at
the present time.
"It is to be regretted, for many
reasons, that the president has
thought it necessary to convene con-
.ress in extraordinary session to con-
slider the measure, for it appears to
many sober minded men that It might
have been disposed Of at the next
regular session without peril to the
interest: but Of the propriety
Of an extra session the president IL
the sole Judge, and I. enter no COM
against his Judgment"
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