The new era., 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'
welt Also Declared Payne Tar
If Law Best Yet. =.

Theodore Roosevelt Is on recoru
three times In public speeches as IN
dorsing the Canadian reciprocity poi
icy Of President Taft. This issue ls
now dead through the failure OF Can
ada to ratify the trade agreement on
tho ground that the United States
would derive the greatest benefit from
its provisions. The fact remains, now
ever, that the farmers OF the country
are not generally aware that MT.
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
for the Republican nomination ior
president, there Is no choice on this
issue.
In connection with his public utter
ances on the tariff Mr.. Roosevelt has
also ioined 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 ana
Mr.. Roosevelt are both now commit
ted tn the tariff commission plan OF
revising the tariff and Mr.. Roosevet
has given President Taft credit for ad.
yocating this commission plan from
the beginning.
Mr.. Roosevelt's public Endorsements
of Canadian reciprocity we're as FOL.
lows:
In n speech at Grand Rapids. Mich
Feb. II. 1911. he said:
Here. friends in Michigan. right on
the northern fr0ntier. ! have the Pc
culiar right to say word of conEratu'
iation to you and to all OF us upon the
likelihood that we shall soon have
closer reciprocal tariff and trade re-
lations with tho great nation to the
north of us. (Applause) And ! feel
SO pleased primarily because ! wish
to see the two peoples. the Canadian
and the American peoples. drawn to-
gether by the closest ties on footing
Of complete equality of interest and
mutual respect. Applause.) feel
that It should be one of the cardinal
policies of this republic to establish
md friendship with the Dominion OF
Canada" tApplauseD
In n speech before the Republican
Club of New York city. delivered Mt
the Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf
Hotel on Feb. 13. 1911, he said:
81 want to say how glad am Mt the
way in which the members OF the club
here tonight responded TO the two ar'
reals 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
fortifcation OF the Panama Canal.
And in addition to what has been
said about reciprocity with Canada
would like to make this point: II
should always he 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 closer. a more intimate,
more friendly relationship Of mutual
advantage on equal terms between
I
At Sioux City. Iowa. on September
3, 1910. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Il was particularly pleased With
what the president (TafO said in his
letter on the subject of the tariff com
mission. a number of senators and
congressman have for some years a3
vocated this as the proper method OF
dealing with the tariff. and | 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 adj
ministration in the negotiations with
the Dominion of Canada. which were
the most difficult of all. and yet In
my eyes the most important, because
I 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
tho course of his remarks he said:
81 think that the present tariff
Gaync. law IS better than the last
Oing!ey law, and considerably bet
tor than the one before the last (Mc.
Kiulcy law: but it has certainly fail.