Show the reciprocity pact with canada 7 r chile the final of the f measured measure w th cana dam dain da m the senate is widely discussed as a famous victory it seems to be just as rec recognized og that no one is s likely to reap the f fruits thereof ther beof until some date well ir ip the future it took I 1 the president six mouths months to make congress adopt the agreement and probably as many s more months may elapse before the determined members of the opposition party at 0 ottawa atawa permit i n it its enactment by the canadian dian parliament it is noted however that the i important ln po artan t wood pulp and print paper clause does not depend upon Can canadas adain r reciprocity action but goes into effect at once furthermore this whole battle has been fought ostensibly in behalf balcof of the ultimate consumer tho rho the agreement is denounced by a few editors as ar a cheat and jug handled and I 1 and i is 4 lau lauded ded by a much greater company as the most import jh ant piece of legislation and the most useful and valuable act of corst constructive statesmanship since the resumption of specie payments most of these same writers ad admit in it that the great majority majori tv of us will ne neither thee be ruined nor abr made m millionaires by the new pact the chicago tribune agrees agneas that the imme immediate ditte economic effect wi atil iii b be es slight it lt adds add s tho moral effect of its enactment by the american 11 congress will be far reaching A tariff tariff barrier between two neighbor ing people similar as to er and economic and social con conditions can not be defended by P protectionist protectionist doctrine and js is as obviously foolish and iu injurious jurious as a tariff barier between new york and massachusetts or illnois and indiana the reciprocity act is not ot a wo world I 1 ald shaking measure but t itis it is a sane sound conservative act of state and it is a practical allange oh of common coincon sense to the fetish worship of high tariff according to statistics given by the aprim springfield 0 field republican of ef articles now placed on the free list by canada that country imported from the united states in thes fical year ending june 30 1911 of arti cles in the second schedule the duties on which are materially lowered canada imported I in the sometime same and of articles in the last described list imports from the united states into canada were nare thus a very considerable part of our mir current trade northward is profoundly and favorably f avor effe effected eted by the pen pending eding agreement nt and in so far as our farmers farmer s do not share directly in this edyan ed vantage tage they will share indirectly thru the gain to the american man manufacturing and the home market for farm faraj produce the next move shall be for reciprocity with mexico 1 |