Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — W. H. CUNDIFF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

W. H. CUNDIFF

Who May Contest Cannon’s Beat as Result of Vote Buying Scandal.

000 The reduction in the duties imposed by Canada, will largely increase this amount and give us even a larger share of her market than we now enjoy, great as that is. “This trade agreement if entered into will cement the friendly relations with the Dominion which have resulted from the satisfactory settlement of the controversies that have lasted for a century and further promote good feeling between a kindred peoples. It will extend the market for numerous products of the United States among the inhabitants of a prosperous neighboring country with an increasing population and an increasing purchasing power. It will deepen and widen the sources of food supplies in contingucus territory and will facilitate the movement and distribution of these food stuffs. “Since becoming a nation Carada has been our good neighbor, immedi ately contiguous access to a wide con tinent without artificial natural bar rier except navigable waters used in common “She has cost us nothing in the way of preparations for defense against her possible assault and she never will. She has sought to agree with us when differences have disturbed our rela tions She shares with us common traditions and aspirations. I feel 1 have correctly interpreted the wish of the American people by expressing in the arrangements now submitted tc congress for its approval their desire for a more intimate and cordial rela tionship with Canada. I, therefore, earnestly hope that the measure will be promptly enacted into law. “WM. H TAFT, “The White House. Jan 26, 1911.’ Mr. W. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, said on the subject of pulp wood, in submitting the treaty to the Canadian parliament: “Our American friends were anxious for some change in relation to paper and pulp. We though respecting certain grades of pulp and paper, mechanically ground pulp, chemical pulp news printpaper and common pasteboard and cheaper articles of paper other than newsprint and comriion paper of a limited value of 4 cents a pound, we could compete with our American friends and that it was desirable that we should have free trade in them. As to paper of a more advanced grade we did not take this into negotiations.”