Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-11
FREE TRADE WITH
CANADA LOGICAL,
SAYS PRESIDENT

try and any country in which the con-
ditions of production were substantially
the same. The conditions of production
and OF manufacture In the United
States and in Canada are substantially
the same. Wages may differ In one
part of Canada from another part, just
as wages differ in different States In
this country, but, taken by and large,
the character of the laborers, their In
telligence and their skill and the price
paid them per unit of work are %
substantially less In Canada than they
are in this country. it
Plank Leads to Free Trade.
in other words, the plank In the
platform of the last Republican con-
vention, carried to Its logical conclu-
sion, would lead to substantial free
trade with Canada.
with that In view, still adhering 10y
ally and sincerely to the principles of
protection where 1t is needed to main
tain our important industries, l did not
hesitate to give the widest latitude to
the secretary of state and the COM
missioners who represented this coun-
try in offering to Canada a reduction
of duties on goods and products COM
ing into this country from Canada, in
consideration of the establishment of
the same duty, or freedom from duty,
on similar goods going into Canada. /
say this for the purpose of having 1t
understood that In many cases where
the agreement has been criticised Tor
not making greater reductions we
could not secure them, because, in the
judgment of our Canadian friends, the
trade or industry which they desired
to foster would suffer by q greater re-
duction. Thus with respect to meats
we would have been glad to put them
on the free list. Canada objected and
we obtained the best figures we could
The President declared the criticism
that reductions had been avoided pur-
posely on manufactured articles wholly
unfounded and that a reciprocity agree
ment between the United States and
Canada must of necessity relate more
to agricultural products han to manu-
features. @ ave.
The President further asserted that
in removing the artificial barriers be-
tween the northwestern part of the
United States and the Canadian prov
inces, the agreement would resul in
inc bringing over OF uVe caLLI6 10 Ieeu
on the corn of the American farmer.
He added that the rapid increase OF
population in the United States re-
CURED "a source of food supply like
Canada, right at u doors. #s
I'VE shall be blind, indeed" said the
President, "if we reject this golden OPP
portunity to add to the strength and
virility Of u country by thus increas-
ing our self-supporting capacity. We
do not annex Canada politically, but
she and we do become united COM
merclally in such a way as to add great
strength to both. F3t
I'VE have taken up those things that
are involved In q Canadian reciprocity
treaty because opportunity offered"
declared President Taft, in conclusion.
Now is the accepted time. She 10 at
the parting of the ways. Shall she be
an isolated country, as much separated
from us as If she were across the ocean.
or shall her people and our people
profit by the proximity that our geog-
raphy furnishes and stimulate the trade
across the border that nothing but a
useless, illogical and unnecessary tariff
wall Greatest"