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Show CRAWFORD'S ROAST OF RECIPROCITY .. -. South Dakota Senator Calls It Cowardly Abandonment of Grave. Duty. DECLARES IT SPECIAL vA BLOW AT FARMER Asserts Trusts Would Be Chief Beneficiaries , of Proposed Treaty. WASHINGTON, May 17. Tne reciprocity reci-procity agreement with Canada was characterised aa a ' 'cowardly abandon mailt of a grave doty" la a speech delivered de-livered in tha eenat today by Senator Sena-tor C. I. Crawford of Booth Dakota. Mr. Crawford spoke for several hour, ia opposition to .the agreement. He charged that aot oaly wonld it fail to promote the general Welfare, but it would do 'irreparable harm to agrieul- I ' of JonHBflHorA ture. The president'scontention that it would reduce tha cost of living - he would not accept. -"The proposed law," Mr. Crawford aaid, "ia a declaration that we intend na longer to depend oa the cultivation of our own aoil and tb industry of the American farmera far our food supplies, and thnt agncoltare in the United Htate is no longer to bold ita imperial impe-rial nlaee at the .head of our great in- dustrirs, but is henceforth to he treated as a pursuit of leaser importance among American people: because frrfra this time on we shall ' look beyond these American farina Into foreign land., and we shall iavite the whole world, on equal terms, to compete with tha Amer lean farmer in hia own market place." Trusta Wonld Benefit. -Asserting that the principal beneli-eiariee beneli-eiariee under the bill would be trusts. Senator Crawford mentioned many, among them the linseed oil, the brewing, brew-ing, tb distilling, the beef nnd the msnufactured food companion. Charging one great purpose of the bill to be to put new. print pulp and wood pulp on the free liet, Mr. Crawford aaked why thia wa ao. Beplying to hi owa question, he aaid: " Simply because the great newepa per and the great magaziae of th L'nited Statea as a special elaaa aggressively ag-gressively organised for the purpose, demand it aad propose ta get it aa a special privilege. ' - f ' |