The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-30
GIVES
SUPPORT TO TAFT
Indiana Senator Strongly Ad-
vocates Canadian Reci-
procity Treaty.

Washington, Jan. 3O.-In an inter-
view Senator Beveridge voiced his
warm approval of the Presidents mes
sage and of the terms of the recipro-
city agreement. He said:
Il as earnestly favor the policy of
Canadian reciprocity as do the policy
of tariff commission. For many
years have fought with all my might
for both. Now that both are in sight,
am. of course, as earnestly for them
as ever l was.
Says Policy 10 Sound.
1.-The message Of President Taft is
admirable from the first word to the
last. AS statement OF and an argu-
ment for Canadian reciprocity it is
powerful and unanswerable. What
ever becomes of the agreement which
President Tafts message transmits to
congress, the message itself will be
historic
'The policy is SO sound and it's ex-
ecution so vitality necessary to the
trade and prosperity Of both countries
that the proposed agreement should be
enacted into law at the earliest mo-
ment even If it constitutes only a fair
beginning. And l am sure that it will
be found to constitute far more than
a fair beginning.
1T may be that other items should
be added to the list and, il SO. they
will be. once the policy itself is inau-
gurated. 1t may be that some will
complain that while many articles are
free others also should be free, which
by the agreement are not made SO.
Yet this, too, will be remedied once
the policy becomes the law of the two
countries.
LAS said time and again in the last
campaign and have been saying for
years, our tariff policy as to the rest
of the world has no proper application
to Canada. The policy of protection
which we apply to Europe and to the
Orient does not apply to Canada De-
cause the conditions are not only not
the same, but, indeed, just the oppo-
site.
Compares Conditions.
Protection is based on the idea OF
the protecting Of our higher paid
American labor from the lower paid
labor of other countries. The coun.
tries of Europe which compete with
us are frightfully over-crowded, com
pared with us, even at the present
day, and inconceivably over-crowded
compared with us. at the time we be-
gan the policy of protection.
This and other causes made the
pay of European labor far lower than
American labor could live on by our
higher standards. OF course the same
conditions is true in far greater de.
gree of the labor of the Orient.
But this is not true Of Canada
Canada is not over-crowded, compared
with us. She has no over-supply Of
Ilabor-she has an under-supply, com
pared with us. Canada has no con.
gested and struggling industrial mil
lions from whom we need protection
as rival European countries have
Canada has no starving myriads as the
Orient has. Canada is on an indus
trial equality with us, to say the very
least. The. truth is, of course, that
compared with Canada, we have an
lover-supply OF labor and she has an
under-supply. But she has an over
supply of resources and we are begin.
ming to have an undersupply."
Exchange Is Mutual.
80 it is that the policy of protec
ton does not apply to Canada in the
same way that it does to Europe Of
the Orient.
THE truth is that we ought always
to have had special tariff relations
with Canada, peculiar to her alone
and tending more and more to a free
Interchange of all products of the two
countries across the long imaginary
boundary line which separates us. Had
this been our policy We would have
had Canada's vast resources at our
disposal and she would have taken the
products of our factories and other In
dustries in exchange.
I'VE are beginning this policy now
No protectionist ought to oppose it
On the contrary, every protectionist
should be for it. 1t means cheaper
food, cheaper building materials and
generally, cheaper necessities of life
of our people on the one hand, and II
means an immensely increased sale OF
our manufactured and other products
to the Canadian market on the Other
hand
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