The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-03-28
ROOSEVELT FOR
RECIPROCITY PACT
Three Times Indorsed Canadian
Agreement in Public Speeches.
SQUARE DEAL is DUE TAFT
No Choice as Between Candidates tor
Presidency On This Issue-Roose-
veIt Also Declared Payne Tar
lff Law Best Yet.

Theodore Roosevelt is on record
three times in public speeches as III
dorsing the Canadian reciprocity poi'
lev of President Taft. This issue Is
now dead through the failure OF Can
ada to ratify the trade agreement oh
the ground that the United States
wouId derive the greatest beneht from
its provisions. The fact remains, now
ever that the farmers OF the country
are not generally aware that MI.
Roosevelt SO thoroughly approved OF
Canadian reciprocity when II was
live issue, Canadian reciprocity was
voted for by Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike when it was before con
gress and. as between Mr. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Taft, in the present campaign
for the Republican nomination 1or
president, there is no choice on thiS
issue
In connection with his public utter
ances ON the tariff Mr.. Roosevelt mas
also ioined President Taft in saying
that the Payne tariff law, while by no
means perfect is, nevertheless, tine
best tariff law yet passed by congress
under the old system OF making sucn
laws OF course President Taft ana
Mr. Roosevelt are both now commit
ted tn the tariff commission plan OF
revising the tariff and Mr.. Roosevelt
has given President Taft credit for ao-
vocating this commission plan from
the beginning.
Mr.. Roosevelt's public Endorsements
of Canadian reciprocity were as loi-
lows: ~
In a speech at Grand Rapids Mlcn'
Feb. II. 1911, he said:
Here, friends in Michigan, right on
the northern frontier, | have the Pc
culiar right to say a word of congratu-
. lation to YOU and to all of us upon the
likelihood that we shall soon have
closer reciprocal tariff and trade re-
lations with the great nation 10 the
north of u.s. (Applause) And l feel
so pleased primarily because l wlsh
to see the two peoples, the Canadlan
and the American peoples, drawn TO-
gether by the closest ties on footing
of complete equality Of interest ana
mutual respect. (Applause.) ! teel
that it should be one of the cardinal
policies of this republic to establish
the very closest relations OF good VIII
and friendship with the Dominion OF
Canada" (Applause.)
In a speech before the Republican
Club of New York city, delivered at
the Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf
Hotel on Feb. 13. 1911, he said:
81 want to say how glad am at the
way in which the members OF the cluL
here tonight responded to the two ap
peals made to them to uphold the
hands of President Taft, both in his
effort to secure reciprocity with Can
ada, and in his effort to secure the
fortification of the Panama Canal.
"And in addition to what has beer
said about reciprocity with Canada
would like to make this point:
should always be cardinal point II
our foreign policy to establish thu
closest and most friendly relations o
equal respect and advantage with ou
great neighbor on the north And
hail the reciprocity arrangement be
cause 1t represents an effort to Drlnl
about a closer, a more intimate,
more friendly relationship of mutua
advantage on equal terms betWeel
Canada and the United States
At Sioux City, Iowa, on Septembe
2 1910, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
81 was particularly pleased wit
what the president (Taft) said in nj
letter on the subject of the tariff CON
mission. A number of senators an
congressman have for some years ad
vocated this as the proper method O
dealing with the tariff, and am gla'
that the country now seems aWal
ened to the idea that tariff commits
sion offers the only solution OF tn
problem which is both rational an
insures the absence of jobbery. TIL
president (Taft) from the beginnin
advocated this commission.
There is another feature Of tn
tariff law and points our course in tn
right direction, the maximum an
minimum provision, ana mere again
wish to point out that the value of tn
provision has depended largely upo
the excellent work done by the &C
ministration in the negotiations wit
the Dominion of Canada, which wer
the most difficult of all, and yet Il
my eyes the most important, becaus
] esteem it of vital consequence tha
we should always be on relations o
the highest friendship and good will
with our great and growing neighbo
in the north"
At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, o.
the same day, Mr.. Roosevelt discusse
the tariff question in general, afte
having gone over his speech CAREFUL
with Senator Dolliver of Iowa, and i
the course of his remarks he said:
Il think that the present tarit
payne law is better than the las
(Dingley law), and considerably be
ter than the one before the last (Mt
Kinley law; but it has certainly fai
ed to give general satisfaction"
From these quotations from Nj
Roosevelts speeches it is, therefore
apparent that there can be no choic
as between President Taft and M
Roosevelt on these issues.