Show Demanded by the President and the Resisted by the Politicians and Who is it that demands which is simply a friendly agreement with It is the great majority of the people of the President Taft has chosen wisely in voicing this As shown by the vote in the House of about half of all the all the Independents and nearly all the Democrats voted for the reciprocity They must represent more than three-fourths of the Only the in our own ably seconded and by the English aristocratic and military nobility of oppose this agreement of peace and good will between It has always embarrassed American and English advocates of of and of military to observe this longest of boundary lines between any two nations that separates the United States and unmarked by No armies drill no forts no battleships all is and should be Then why not exchange products with The English Balfour calls reciprocity imperial The London Times opposes the Standard says that the day the treaty is signed the Dominion will be lost to the British The Saturday Review treats reciprocity as an American asks we to drift downward to-the rank of Holland or a and appeals to the to prevent British like Canadian like American Liberals in both favor the The Privilege which in Ottawa and Washington objects is In our own reciprocity is as by Howell of on ground that it will injure the American But the farmers will profit by freer trade relations with Canada quite as much as any other class of President Taft addressed himself directly to them in his speech at and demonstrated how the new trade agreement with Canada is in their In letter to the National Grange at N. Secretary who has been one of the most immovable high protectionists in this points out to them the plain advantages they stand to gain under After enumerating some of the Canadian products which the American farmer needs and showing how larger markets and cheaper raw materials for American will stimulate the consumption at home of the products of the he argues for reciprocity on the ground that either country as a whole calls for first consideration from its Nature evidently as the Tories in three capitals that Canada arid the United States should dwell in Here is no Rivers and mountain chains run north and making international traffic Lakes like inland seas furnish the cheapest Products are so distributed that a source miles north or south may supply a market better than one to miles away along the So true is this that despite every tariff barrier Privilege cari raise and every prejudice it can appeal our international trade with Canada is already a year and growing For the same reason that Utah should trade freely with New York arid trade between the United States and Canada should be as free as the As the House committee in charge of the bill clearly pointed it would be inhuman to the great mass of the people to enter upon the policy of increasing by at the moment that there should be a domestic the price of the bread they ate in order to increase the profits of an already profitable When that time shall it will be a blessing to all our and in a large measure to those who are that they can turn to the nearby wheat fields of the Government to intervene artificially to increase the price of bread would be to add to the load borne by those already and it would tend to increase suffering and shorten As to the final benefit to the consumer of bread is placed by this agreement paramount to the interests of the wheat The duty against Canadian wheat cannot greatly aid American it is so long as Liverpool fixes the world wheat and the United States has a substantial surplus to But when the United States consumes all the wheat it the report points the tariff will have a substantial effect in raising the price of and consequently of This might occur ten or more years and if the present tariff should stand the most of all taxes the tax on high-priced bread would then greatly add to the cost of Food has a place near the elemental like air and which are necessary to the preservation i Such a tax is not felt by the rich and but it bears with especial weight upon the |