Show Some farmers came to protest to President Taft against Canadian reciprocity on the ground that it t compel th em to less for our But they are already taking less for their The price is from 15 to 20 per cent lower than a year good old protectionist argument would be that this is 1 an anticipatory effect of just asi the Wilson bill of caused the panic of The farmers did not allege this to the but they did tell him if the Canadian agreement went the farmers would in large numbers desert the Republican n To this Taft made the reply that he was sorry to hear but that it had nothing to do with the argument for and that any threat ing his political he should entirely This may not be but it is mag- In President Taft this sort plain speaking is not It seems to go with his judicial He turns away political just as he would silence an irrelevant witness in |