The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-14
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 lssue-Roose-
Welt Also Declared Payne Tar
If 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 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 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 adj
yocating this commission plan from
the beginning.
10 f,I ~ n q
of Canadian reciprocity were as fol
lows:
In speech at Grand Rapids, Mich,
Feb. II, 1911, he said:
Here. friends in Michigan, right on
the northern frontier, have the pc
culiar right to say 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 I 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.) l feel
that it should be one of the cardina.
policies of this republic to establish
the very closest relations of good will
and friendship with the Dominion OF
Canada" (Applause.)
In 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 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
1 fertilization 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 be cardinal point IL
1 our foreign policy to establish the
closest and most friendly relations Of
| equal respect and advantage with oul
great neighbor on the north And
! hail the reciprocity arrangement be
/ cause it represents an effort to bring
| about a closer. a more intimate, {
more friendly relationship of mutua
advantage on equal terms between
| Canada and the United States"
At Sioux City. Iowa, on September
3, 1910, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
IL was particularly pleased will
what the president (Taft) said in hi
letter on the subject of the tariff com
mission number of senators ant
congressman have for some years ad
yocated this as the proper method o
dealing with the tariff, and | am glac
that the country now seems awak
ened to the idea that a tariff commits
sion offers the only solution of th'
problem which Is both 2ational ant
insures the absence of jobbery TIL
president (TafD from the beginning
4 advocated this commission. =.
There is another feature Of tn
tariff law and points our course in tn