Speech #620044313

Many times It Is stated that the freetrade bills. or those bills lowering duties. like the cotton schedule and the wool schedule and others. are like or similar to the trade relations we have had. like reciprocity with Cuba and like free trade with the Philippines or some other bills of that sort. Is there no difference between our trade relations that we are near making with Canada. with 8.000.000 people. the nearest like ourselves of any people on the face of the earth. and such an arrangement as the freelist bill that deals with the peoples of all the earth with its 1.000.000.000 inhabitants? Is there no difference in the exchange of some or even all supplies with Canada on an even basis and the proposition to give up our markets regardless to the pauper labor of the earth? They can not be compared. I get out of patience sometimes at these calamity howlers about the harm that will come from reciprocity with Canada and Cuba and yet are in favor of the farmers freelist bitl that gives our markets to all the world when they- do not give us anything in exchange. whereas reciprocity is an exchanging of products. like reciprocity with Canada. in which she gives us soie of her products and we give her some of ours in return on some fair basis.