Taft Defends Canadian Reciprocity

Taft made matters worse by defending both the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and Canadian Reciprocity.  He traveled to Des Moines, the Iowa capital and a place seething with resentment over the failure of the Payne-Aldrich tariff to reduce duties substantially, to deliver a speech defending his administration's tariff policies.

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