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cents less than ours. The Maine people would not sell them. 

 I say let them come in from Canada. God bless Canada. If 

 the farmers don't have their eyes open, I say let them come in 

 with us. I am not here to oppose a legitimate question, be- 

 cause that gentleman that last spoke is a free trader and I am 

 not. I am a protectionist from the bottom of my feet to the 

 top of my head and from the bottom of my heart. Whenever 

 we have had protection we have prospered, and whenever we 

 have had free trade we have gone back. 



]\Ir. G. W. Hull: I am not a Republican, but I have 

 been a good friend of Mr. Taft, and I think this proposed 

 treaty with Canada is one of the finest things Taft has done, 

 and it would be a very unfortunate thing at this hour, with 

 only a handful of the members of the society present, to pass 

 any such resolution. We know a good many of our senators 

 and representatives are very sensitive to the feelings of their 

 constituents, and we haven't got one-tenth of our members 

 present, and if we pass it, it will be published far and wide. 

 I believe the feeling of my friend on the other side of the 

 hall (Mr. Henry) is largely imagination. I don't think it 

 would injure the farmer one iota. I think it would be folly 

 for us to go back on any movement of this kind which means 

 a closer union between our country and Canada, and say: 

 "We don't want you." I am decidedly opposed to the passage 

 of any such resolution. (Applause.) 



Mr. J. S. Forbes: I was the introducer of this resolu- 

 tion, Mr. Chairman, and to my mind it is a matter of self- 

 preservation. I am a fruit grower in a small way, and a 

 farmer in a general way ; but I am convinced that it is not 

 anything but a question of self-preservation with us. I am 

 sure it is. The situation is simply this with this reciprocity 

 treatv for the New England states, it means that we must 

 sell under free trade and buy under protection, and how can 

 we stand up under such a load as that? I believe in this 

 law of self-preservation, and I am convinced that this resolu- 

 tion should be endorsed by this meeting. I am very sorry there 



