Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-04-20
ROOSEVELT FOR
RECIPROCITY PACT
Three Times Endorsed Canadian
Agreement in Public Speeches.
SQUARE DEAL Is DUE TAFT
No Choice as Between Candidates for
Presidency On This issue-Roose-
Welt Also Declared Payne Tar
iff Law Best Yet.

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 it 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 for
president, there is no choice on this
issue.
In connection with his public utter
ances on the tariff Mr.. Roosevelt has
also joined President Taft IN saying
that the Payne tariff law, while by no
means perfect. is, nevertheless, the
best tariff law yet passed by congress
under the old system of making such
laws Of course President Taft and
Mr. Roosevelt are both now commit
ted to the tariff commission plan of
revising the tariff and Mr.. Roosevelt
has given President Taft credit for ad-
vocating this commission plan from
the beginning.
Mr.. Roosevelt's public Endorsements
of Canadian reciprocity were as fol
lows:
In a speech at Grand Rapids. Mich,
Feb II, 1911. he said:
Here. friends in Michigan, right on
the northern frontier, l 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 to the
north of us. (Applause) And l feel
so pleased primarily because l wish
to see the two peoples, the Canadian
and the American peoples, drawn to-
gether by the closest ties on a footing
of complete equality of interest and
mutual respect. (Applause) I feel
that it should be one of the cardinal
policies of this republic to establish
the very closest relations of good will
and friendship with the Dominion of
Canada" (Applause.)
In a speech before the Republican
SluD OF New 1OFk CITY, uellNeTeO DIT
the Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf
Hotel on Feb. 49, 1911. he said:
ct want to say how glad I am at the
way in which the members of the club
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
Frr of he
And in addition to what has been
said about reciprocity with Canada |
would like to make this point: 1t
should always be a cardinal point in
our foreign policy to establish the
closest and most friendly relations of
equal respect and advantage with our
great neighbor on the north And
hail the reciprocity arrangement be-
cause it represents an effort to bring
about a closer, a more intimate. a
more friendly relationship of mutual
on equal terms between
Canada and the United States"
At Sioux City, Iowa. on September
3. 1910. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Il was particularly pleased with
what the president CTaft) said in his
letter on the subject of the tariff COM
A number of senators and
have for some years ad-
vocated this as the proper method of
dealing with the tariff, and I am glad
that the country now seems awak-
ened to the idea that tariff commits
sion offers the only solution of the
problem which is both rational and
insures the absence OF jobbery. The
president (Taft) from the beginning
advocated this commission.
There is another feature of the
tariff law and points our course in the
right direction. the maximum and
minimum provision, and here again
wish to point out that the value OF the
provision has depended largely upon
the excellent work done by the ad-
in the negotiations with
the Dominion of Canada, which were
the most difficult of all, and yet in
my eyes the most important. because
esteem 1t of vital consequence that
we should always be on relations of
the highest friendship and good will
with our great and growing neighbor
In the north"
At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on
the same day. Mr.. Roosevelt discussed
the tariff question in general. after
having gone over his speech carefully
with Senator Dolliver of Iowa, and in
the course of his remarks he said:
Il think that the present tariff |
payne law is better than the last
(Dingley law). and considerably bet
ter than the one before the last INC |
Kinley law; but it has certainly fail
ed to give general satisfaction
From these quotations rom Mr. |
speeches it is. Therefore.