Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-30
ROOSEVELT FOR
RECIPROCITY PACT
Three Times Endorsed Canadian
Agreement In Public Speeches.
SQUARE DEAL DUE TAFT.
No Choice as Between Candidates For
Presidency on This lssue-Roossvslt
Also Declared Payne Tariff Law Best
Yet Passed by Congress.


Yet Passed by Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt is on record
three times in public speeches as in
dorsing the Canadian reciprocity pol
icy of President Taft. This issue is
now dead through the failure of Can
ada to ratify the trade agreement on
the ground that the United States
would derive the greatest benefit from
its provisions The fact remains, how
ever, that the farmers of the country
are not generally aware that Mr..
Roosevelt so thoroughly approved of
Canadian reciprocity when 1t 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
i for the Republican nomination for
president there is no choice on this is
sue.
In connection with his public ut
| terances on the tariff Mr.. Roosevelt
has also Joined President Taft in say
| ing that the Payne tariff law, while
| by no means perfect. is nevertheless
1.-THE best tariff law yet passed by con-
gress" under the old system of making
such laws. OF course President Taft
and Mr. Roosevelt are both now COM
mitted to the tariff commission plan of
revising the tariff. and Mr. Roosevelt
has given President Taft credit for adj
vocating this commission plan from the
beginning"
uphold the Hands Of Taft"
Mr.. Roosevelt's Endorsements of Ca
madam reciprocity were as follows:
In a speech at Grand Rapids. Mich,
Feb. IL, 1911, he said:
Here, friends in Michigan, right on
the northern frontier, l have the pecul-
lar right to say word of congratula-
ton to you and to all of us upon the
likelihood that we shall soon have
closer reciprocal tariff and trade Frela-
tons with the great nation to the
north Of u.s. [Applause.l And fee
so pleased primarily because / wish tC
see the two peoples, the Canadian and
the American peoples. drawn together
by the closest ties on footing of com
plete equality of interest and mutua
respect IApplause.1 feel that i
should be one of the cardinal policies
of this republic to establish the yer.
closest relations of good will ant
friendship with the Dominion of Can
ada" [Applause.]
In a speech before the Republican
club Of New York city, delivered a
the Lincoln day dinner at the Waldor
hotel ON Feb 10, 1911. he said:
II want to say how glad am at thu
way in which the members of the clul
here tonight responded to the two ap
peals made to them to uphold tn,
hands of President Taft, both in hi
effort to secure reciprocity with Can
ada and in his effort to secure the for
tification of the Panama canal
"And in addition to what has beel
said about reciprocity with Canada
would like to make this point: |
should always be cardinal point II
our foreign policy to establish the clos
est and most friendly relations of equa
respect and advantage with our grea
neighbor on the north. And | hail tn
reciprocity arrangement because it rep
> resents an effort to bring about clos
er, more intimate. more friendl.
relationship of mutuel advantage OF
equal terms between Canada and tn
United States
Gives President Credit
At Sioux City, Ia, on Sept. 3, 1916
, Mr.. Roosevelt said
5 II was particularly pleased wit
what the president (Taft said in hi
, 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 l am gla
/, that the country now seems awakene
: to the idea that tariff commission OF
: fers the only solution Of the probler
q which is both rational and lnsures tn
> absence of jobbery. The presiden
Taft from the beginning advocate
this commission.
There is another feature of the tai
s iff law, and it points our course In tn
: right direction. the maximum and mir
9 imum provision. and here again wis
!. to point out that the value of the pre-
4 vision has depended largely upon tn
excellent work done by the admins
tration In the negotiations with tn
= Dominion of Canada, which were tn
; most difficult of all. and yet In m
r eyes the most important because e.
: TEEN 1t Of vital consequence that "
: should always 30 on relations Of th
a highest friendship and good will wit
e our great and growing neighbor in th
: north"
= At Sioux Falls. s. D.. on the sam
9 day Mr.. Roosevelt said:
II think that the present tart
payne law is better than the Las
Dingley law and considerably bette
than the one before the last (McKinle
law, but It has certainly failed to Civ
general satisfaction
From these quotations from NJ
Rooseyelt's speeches it is therefore al
parent that there can be no choice q
C. between President Taft and Mr.. Roos'
welt on these issues
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