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Show ! "" m TAFT ug PR0VED DULL 0F jjp ! m The Roosevelt bureau has sent out a stinging rebuke dircct- m ed at President Taft's trickery and bad faith in the matter of H Canadian reciprocity, in which the blunders of the administration H 1 the cause of national embarrassment, arc set forth. ' M "Small wonder that England and Canada arc aroused to just H indignation and that other nations are amazed," say the Roosevelt m leaders, "by the blundering which prompted Mr. Taft, with nothing m else in view than a possible, petty political advantage, to make m public his own private letter to Theodore Roosevelt declaring that m the Taft reciprocity policy was expected by 4im to make Canada 1 ) merely 'an adjunct of the United States.' " U 1 Here is the astounding secret avowal of intention to hood- H r wink the nation with which reciprocity was sought: H "The amount of Canadian products we would nb wmoj j.. M , current of business between Western Canld? and toe TjJSi ?.? M would make Canada only an adjunct of the UnitS Stafee St&te8 that iiiH It would transfer all their important business tn rhrt, vr m York, with their bank credits and everything el80 aSd i? 2in W H greatly the demand by Canada for ou r manufactures increase H l it Is 'Hood oane."rSUment TCcl' In Canada and I think H r The same letter, in which Mr. Taft makes it apparent that, with H the cunning of a man who would cheat a friend in a horse trade H , , he was seeking to make Canada "a mere adjunct" to the United H . States, while giving Canada to understand that the government H , had no other purpose in view than a fair exchange of products m reveals that Mr. Taft was working secretly upon his reciprocity H ( scheme because he believed it would result in increased power for H the special, interests. H , J He.believed that tlie capital and bank credits of Canada would H - be transferred from Canadian banks to the banks of Chicago and, : -- . New York, and that the financial combination whioh controls tho banks of those centers would reap tho greatoat profitB from hia scheme. , He makes it clear that ho had tho advantage of big business chiefly in mind, becauso thoso advantages aro pointed out in his letter to Theodore Roosevelt, no also makes it clour that tho bill was conceived by the interests most to bo boncfited; was prepared as they wanted it prepared; because, otherwise Mr. Taft would nob himself have known that it would produce the results ho so gleefully predicted. The tremendous indictment of Mr. Taft in this, his own confidential con-fidential letter, and in the worse than stupid blundering which made it part of his speech against Roosevelt, must add to tho general conviction that Mr. Taft is not fit for the secorid term to which ho aspires. For what he confesses were his purposes in the reciprocity scheme, and the stupidity which permitted him to think he could publish this letter without tho gravest consequences, reveal the real character and capacity of the man. But the people of the United States have still greater right to be indignant. For this president, who is regarded by England and Canada as representing all the people of the United States, has placed the whole nation in a false and dishonorable position, and has shown that ho was laboring not to benefit the people of either Canada or the United States, but the great money combinations which have controlled his administration and are fighting to continue con-tinue him as president. |