Show s DOES UTAH r Big Men and Big Papers of the Nation Favor Local Republican Organs and Leaders Against More Trade With It is now two years and a half since the Utah pendent took its stand in favor of tariff At that time the movement for lower taxes on imports had just and it was opposed by nearly all the Republican Most of the Democratic papers and all the independent ones favored But here in the movement for revision was not only but those who stood for it were abused by the local Republican which did not scruple to attempt to injure and those who exposed the folly of our so-called of Many of them tried to injure this and those who wrote for yet our temperate and truthful articles simply showed way for progressives lo improve their Some members of that machine are still trying to injure those who know and speak the truth on this But it is all a vain piece of they cannot stop the tide that is running against They still may but they mast turn around on be sacrificed to the rising tide of popular indignation that is setting strongly towards tariff They hate to retrace their and to take back their it was these arguments landed the and the protectionists are still halting as to what to do about One word only has come from Utah's representative is against reciprocity and that the Republican Senators propose to obstruct the passage of the trade There is reason to believe that President Taft is making a winning fight for his reciprocity It will be very difficult for Republican Bourbons to make head against reciprocity when the Democrats have ranged themselves pretty solidly in its The policy is one that has powerful Republican authority from the past in its both and McKinley being on record in emphatic advocacy of It has passed the House of Representatives by a large The only way it can be defeated in the Senate is by dogged resistance on the part of the most extreme of in combination with a handful of Senators otherwise but have reform when their own State's tariff ox is Such a is by no means and in any event it would not have strength enough to stand In view of all the the Utah Independent presents to its readers summary of the entire A Laughable of the most not to say results of the present situation is that Utah Republicans who do not take the have to resort to the Tribune to find out the status of the tariff Their own local have carefully concealed or distorted by misleading headlines and editorial almost every important movement looking to the enlightenment of the people on the tariff The desirous of pleasing the administration and of upholding the Utah delegation in Congress as far as has said nothing of the vast political upheaval that is overturning the party in power and is making history at a rate unparalleled since the overthrow of the Democratic party in m Tribune Right For Only this the Tribune contained editorials to the effect that the machine the occupy practically the same position with respect to progressive movements that the Democratic party occupied in the days of Buchanan with respect to the slavery movement and the on-sweeping tornado of political convulsion that led to the War of the As is well the machine Democrats at that time refused to see that the people were aroused on that vital and that they were not only to prevent the spread of but to preserve the Union at whatever sacrifice might be and so when the people are aroused on the great questions of and speculative corners on the necessities of which make food prices far and away beyond any fair or living rate the Republican machine in every state is dead set against the progressive policy that is Thousands of tons of cold storage stuff recently thrown upon the market in Chicago because the speculators were unable to cany the burden of their own speculative iniquities any and still the stand-patters pretend to be while they also stop their ears to the demands of the Says the American years when the people of the country demanded a revision downward of the so as to gain relief from the V the Republican party yielded to the popular and inserted in its National platform a promise to revise the as everybody understood In pursuance of this understanding the Presidential made express and explicit promises that the tariff should be revised he having no question whatever but that this way the true meaning of the Heedless of and defiant of the public the stand-patters in Congress proceeded to pass the bunko which revised upward in place of The were and last fall visited vengeance upon the party that was responsible for this breach of Stubborn against the reception of the lesson thus the stand-patters are how fighting the Canadian reciprocity oblivious of the public demand that it should be President Taft understands the will of the people in this matter far is more honest and earnest in responding we agree with that and for once This is all too We do so in order to warn Republican the side of reciprocity and other V attitude ot they are already For what is the the throughout the influential newspapers In New indorsed by Gloucester s P we find the Reciprocity Bill S big through such papers as The Trav- 3 eler The Transcript and The Her- aid a referendum on reciprocity could be taken in the United declares the for closer trade relations would r is sure that a majority I be found in both The that removal of trade barriers increases trade in almost all But more surprising than the T- attitude of these papers is that of the Gloucester Salt Fish whose president telegrams Congress that very strong feeling in favor of the reciprocal agreement with Canada exists among the citizens of j and that the Board of Trade nor the citizens generally have authorized any to protest against the city program is submitted to the House in a bill father- ed by Representative Samuel W. of 1 v. Western Papers See Turning to the Western Northwestern whose representatives have been declaring a free exchange of t foodstuffs with Canada would impoverish our we still find the generally convinced that the benefits of reciprocity would far outweigh any tera- and supporting the President's measure we find such papers as the Chicago Record- and Post the Omaha Bee the Milwaukee Free Press and Sentinel the Journal f. the Cincinnati Times-Star the insurgent Capital of and the leading Progressive Republican newspaper of the Des Moines Regis- r ter and In State a where the opposition to free lumber supposed to be we discover the Free Press declaring that the rejection of he reciprocity proposals be a serious t i tt conflicting in so that members of Congress will ho Puzzled to know what is best to do when pro and con from their constituent St. Paul Press is aIso In East and In the East and South the Reciprocity Bill and Independent Calling the rill of the papers which are supporting his demand for freer trade relations with neighbor we find the Springfield and Union the Jersey City Star and Times tl burg Post Sun and o the Philadelphia Press and North American th Sun and American the and Constitution the Louisi ier-Journal and Post the the New Orleans Picayune Wh ville practically all th if York City and the Buffalo Enquirer addition to telegrams and letters are the White House from all over the country 7 orl ing the President 's Independents a the Republicans to refuse to put through the agreement with declares the New York ening Post be to hand the next Prest election to the Democrats on a sliver platter and the New York Times utters the same the Democratic party will heartily sup-port the agreement with says the Louisville Post will go far to justify public The present tendency of Democrats in according to the Washington is to give this As the Indianapolis News reads the Taft is going to win on lis Canadian reciprocity Even so stanch a protectionist paper as the Philadelphia Press declares that the proposed agreement the problem of sixty and be accepted by the Senate and House without while the rather radical North American of the same which has hitherto found little to praise in the Taft lags behind none in its enthusiasm for this is nothing more nor less than a return to historic Republicanism and the true it is wholly praiseworthy and responsive to the best thought of the American While many of the Washington correspondents admit that the bill may get safely through the House at this session in of Speaker Cannon's avowed opposition and the divided attitude of the most of them still shake their heads over its prospects in the where the strongest opposition is W boards of trade and other commercial bodies ratification at this exclaims the i Republican The Farmers' The says the Chicago but a modest step in the right toward complete free trade we demand protection to cost of it are no m to equalize-in this This same A been repeatedly made by no less' an authority than James J. Using the acceptance of the reciprocity agreement the Chicago Tribune the real interests of the American people and the wishes of the great of them controlled the legislation to make effective the beneficent agreement with Canada which the President has transmitted to it would be enacted in a few The existence of these duties is an absurdity where conditions as to production and wages on one side of the boundary are essentially the same as those on the other Remove them and Canadians would be more liberal buyers of early fruits and vegetables grown in the United They would buy more American summer apples and the Americans more Canadian winter Protection Authorities We strongly believe that freer trade with Canada would make distinctly for the greatest good to the greatest number in both says the Milwaukee Sentinel The Free Press of the same declares that high lariff wall between two neighbor countries has long been one the conspicuous follies of our protective is remarks the New York Tribune the opponents of the agreement do not allege that it will prove injurious to the country at is no better reason for a tariff wall of any height between and the United States than between New York and remarks the Buffalo Enquirer and the Brooklyn Standard Union is convinced that country is really willing to agree with Canada on everything except which side of the road to turn out when The Omaha Bee declares the effect of reciprocity with Canada would be to stimulate commerce between the two countries by opening up to each new fields of supply and the general benefit will exactly balance it is impossible to says the New York Journal of Commerce it is better to secure a benefit in of an even if the other party may secure one that is slightly Benefits To The effect of- reciprocity on the American says the Chicago Post will in the long beneficial rather than Canada and the United States should be made one country Joes anybody think that the American farmer would In a sense the arrangement for free trade in many the food products makes the two countries There is no pauper labor in of are much the and if a decrease in Price of some of the articles of food shall come to the consumer of the country it is more than likely that increased sales will more than the losses which of the advocates seem to proposed reciprocity declares the Chicago Record Herald not injure materially or permanently any American and would tend to minimize rather than to the question of have heard men talk loudly for annexation as a means of extending Give them the trade and they will take only a philosophic interest in and governmental It will be satisfaction enough that international business is promoted and that Canada and the United States are better neighbors than On the other if the agreement is differences will be accentuated and a great opportunity to secure peace and prosperity will have been And if we draw back now after all that has been said of popular sentiment since the tariff debate we shall be condemned out of our own The Other Special interest attaches to the testimony of W. C. president of the New York Central Railroad As an Iowa farmer Brown not contemplate the proposition with much since it confers any benefits in the way of reduced jv-ery dollar of this reduction will be taken from the farmers of the United He that even from the farmer's point of view features not now apparent may also that it will result in a material lowering of the price of almost everything raised on the farm if the commission merchant and retailer reflect these reductions in the prices to in an appreciable re- in the cost of There are millions of acres of cheap land across the border by the of is being made easily It will be of great benefit to lumber-and i-aper-users and by increased to the railroads of the United But Utah Stands Some of the high tariff papers see in free farm products a check to our agricultural development the Denver Republican and Chicago Farmers' and Drovers' Journal have only this to the producers' standpoint this means too much of a boost for the interests of New England on the one hand and too great a sacrifice to the farmer of the Middle West on the It will mean a great increase of tonnage for certain of the railroads which traverse our Northern border and have spurs leading up into the great agricultural regions of the Canadian Also it will mean great tonnage increase for certain of the Eastern lines which-tap and others of the larger cities of Eastern but just where the of the Mississippi Valley and the of the West are to benefit has not been made clear This is the total argument against yet Republicans organs in Utah are against the sentiments of the nation as a What do Utah people think the situation |