The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-10

time when, at noon, he entered the
state at Springfield until midnight
his progress was an ovation.
The President addressed at least
10000 people last night. Among them
were 400 Harvard students, who
marched in from Cambridge, and a
special trainload filled with Mr.. Taft's
summer neighbors at Beverly
The scene in the Arena, the multi
tude, the cheering and the music, re-
minded one of a national convention
at the nomination stage.
Unbounded cheering greeted the
President as, wearing his habitual
smile, he showed his fighting spirit.
When, near the outset of his
speech, he said, al represent a cause, -
the concourse roared with delight,
and also when he stigmatized "the
adroit appeals to discomfort and class
hatred that Theodore Roosevelt is
now making" spoke of the colonePs
"audacious effrontery in attacking
me-" and declared that the final de-
cree in the oil case was drawn eX-
actly as Roosevelt's attorney general
wanted it drawn.
When he took up Mr.. Roosevelt's
platform planks one by one and
showed how they vary from the
Square deal' the Endorsement was
thunderous, and when, toward the
end, he virtually charged the Sage of
Oyster Bay with classifying, his hear
ers yelled with delight.
cites Roosevelt's Change Of Front on
Reciprocity
Fourth Mr.. Roosevelt now seeks
to take advantage of the supposed
feeling among the farmers of the
country against the reciprocity agree
ment with Canada which made and
induced Congress to adopt but which
Canada finally rejected. l would not
object to this as a legitimate argu-
ment in political controversy
against me and in his favor If the
fact were not that I consulted him
ten days before l made the agree
ment, explained to him in full its
probable terms, stated the arguments
pro and con, especially the effect of
it on agricultural produces, and asked
him to confer with his colleagues of
the Outlook as to its wisdom and pub
lie benefit and let me know his and
their judgment He replied APPROX
ing the agreement in the most enthu-
siastic terms and complimenting me
for having brought it forward.
submit below our correspondence
on the subject Of reciprocity:
(Confidential)
Copy) The White House,
Washington, January 10, 1911.
My Dear Theodore:
Just at present am in the midst
of reciprocity matters, and 1t would
crafty me a great deal to talk over
with you this issue. l have, as you
have known, always been a low-tariff
and downward-reyision man, and the
reason why favored the last tariff
bill and praised it as the best one
we had ever had was: That the con.
sideration of it on its passage and
the efforts of those who defended it
afterwards to show that it was a
downward revision were all a
concession by the Republican party
that downward revision was neces
sary, and that the rule upheld by
Shaw and Cannon and other stand
patters of the orthodox type that nc
tariff could be too high, because What
you needed was a Chinese wall, had
been departed from. Now, the prob
ability ia that we shall reach al
agreement with our Canadian friends
by which all natural products-cer
calls, lumber, dairy products, fruits
meats and cattle-shall enter boil
countries free, and that we shall &c
a revision-not as heavy a one as
would like, but a substantial one, ant
equivalent certainly to the Frencl
reciprocity treatey and probably NOR
ON manufactures.
The truth is that the minute tina
we adopt in convention the propose
that our tariff should be measured b
the difference In the cost of produC
ton we necessarily adopt a rul
which would lead us straight to rec
n procity in natural products with CaI
/, ada, because the conditions in tn
I two countries are so similar thu