New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-06-27

] NEllc-rcl. trr~ya aud
oiads'one would have sdvocsned In iss9 the change.
nov soJlt % he made SHE by SIDE with Hume Br .hr
and 'oien ant inst me opposition would - led by
| srotsasm stanley EAsnoOF0ush, and his grace Of
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Tee caaadiaa TEA Trade ~ lSsa
the pre.s and % bis bsr,st -gr- he nsee.s,rv =,
changing me laws that r,xusted the India snd Gains
trade which forbade Canadians 70 bring pound o,
tea from the United States hi,ei i,7rrts,n -
crpt through the Ess, lnds Company M converted
I our merchants into bad u snusgl-r. s,ro.s the
frontier, while our people paid over 10 cents Der ponS
Tax TO he United s's'es sod got no drawback Mr. Can.
ming cvilly Acknowledged my statement but eli k5-o,
NOBODY except Mr. Hume would DO ANYTHING IN helm
Canada in the House OF Commons until the .n.qrree.
| ton walked people u2. Even 80 late May 49, iss3
Lord stanley quoted Gov Sydeuhzm thus every.
body il smnggIsr there is pound OF tea that
pays duty not only the regular smuggler practices Il
bat Members OF the Legislature, Magistrates. and all
are engaged IN smuggling tea
Reciprocity ~ T'rods- Frss Navigation Of the St
LGrrsace.
Lord Durham in page e. OF bis sble report Cans.
da showed himself decidedly favorable 10 tae views
had advocated for many years The 81 Lawrence Is
shut up for I've months IN the year the Upper Canada
farmer always IN want OF good foreign market HIS
lortshiu saw no reason why the American should not
Use me - Lawrence when for his advantage why
the Canadian should not send his produce New York
OK Boston for sh pment when he thought M. buying
where he sold sud receiving in the shape OF drawback
Nl.
>ae3 duties On the sesooSrd he possession OF the
mouth OF the 81 Lawrence said Lord ID. concerns
all who now dwell, will hereafter dwell, in the
great basin OF that river" A. early 1890 Nsison
S1.es AZ Quebec advocated the concession Of the 50
Lawrence navigation. tree 70 the Americans but Mr.
Nelson bmseli more recently In the Canadian Legls
lature united with Judges Aywin and Sullivan in op
posing that measure.
Remission Of L. 5. Duties for Canada.
In my letter Of May % 1874 to Mr.. Canning. sdvo-
Gated direct trade from Canton 10 Quebec agreeing
with Messrs Baldwin Gordon. White Randall, Shaver
snd Walsh, and complained OF the % per bushsl
levied upon Canadian Wheat In pamphlet published
same year advocated the immediate establishment OF
ship navigation by canals on the - Lawrence and di.
rected puhc attention 20 equitable system OF draw
backs both ways, beneficial both tor trade and
enue. Chief Justice Robinson, however, was hostile
to this policy snd declared in his legislative report
that there is probability that the Americans would
allow drawbacks 20 intricate snd troublesome we're
the laws thar when my old friend Mr. Wilkes Of Brant.
MonreaD came 10 Toronto in 1890 through the state
OF New York. from England and mpof ted few chests
Of tea. which be regularly entered with Col Alan for
duty knowing nothing OF sprokibuOn, they seized his
property put him 10 great deal Of trouble but finally
allowed him 10 send 1t bsck again"
In ls2o Congress passed IN Informal law RENTING
the import duties merchandise tor the Canadss IN
1881 they passed a second act. out it, operation
defeated 10 way through the Con- ptroer. While
40 Washington and Philadelphia, in the Summer OF
1872 several very influential persons told me that We
(Cansdians) would get drawback act II We pressed
the matter ! accordingly wrote To Ar Peel and sir
George Murray enclosing communication of nine
columns on Canada, which Mr.. Walsh now Consul At
Pans) bad published for me in the National Gdsene,
My letters were Immediately Acknowledged, but had
reason TO suppose tina, the question OF drawback
made subject OF negotiation through the British
Minister. The family compact were deadly hostile
TO measure deeply Interesting 70 the farmers and
merchants OF Upper Canada especially Chief Justica
Robinsoni yet when consider the relations Of the
two countries-thst IN let0, the United states had
81 ISL persons employed in Agriculture and only
gg 3J6 In Trade aud Manufactures while Britain, in
Sal had only l.2l5264 engaged in Agriculture, but
3 llO316 IN Trade and Msnusctures-no cause can be
shown to Justify departure from policy vi goodwill
and great liberality one toward the other
Loyd Durhams Policy Denounced, and BY WAom.
On the aOth day OF April 1872 a select Committee Of
the hold House OF Assembly reported on the state
OF the Province. Their report signed by c. A. Haser
man. John Prince, Henry sherwood ] A. H. Powell,
w b. Robinson, r. Rollo Hunter, and w. Chisholm,
and they declare it to be most singular that the
Earl OF Durhsm should, when drawing up his nns re
port have overlooked the TACT that II his scheme Of
importing goods Tree OF duty. by the way OF New
York were adopted, our magnificent canals would be
rendered almost II not entirely useless. Your Com
mttee r. o. Hagerman, Prince, sc. need not say how
unequiv ocally they deprecate THIS USwIsE AND DE-
srRUcTIyE REconnENDArIoN-nor do THEY TOR a
mOmert BELIEVE THAT 1T WILL RECEIVE couSrE
NANCE N ANY QUARTER.
In lS5e Lord Durham mentioned, In page 81 of his
review that nearly all the tea used In Canada was
smuggedthat the probibtory laws were made TO pro
tect the privileges Of mOnopoies-and that IL not
very crsditable 20 the British Government "that 1t
knew or iet 80 little the oppressive influence OF the
laws 10 which i, subjects ts dependencies" All this
had told Mr. Ellce in l53had planned IL personally
the Secretary Of stste-had published she iacts and
comments in my Sketches"-l bingham Wilson Roy
I'll Exchangel-had written a Memoir Trade aud Tea
Duties In s2 by request which laid before the
Lords of the Treasury and had peuOned the House OF
Commons, behalf OF the people Of Upper Csnsda,
fh.spr "a "A Mining
short OF the revolt IL Is called could shake tbs inhu
Of the Family Compact but that has done the work
efectuay. The teas imported into Canada from the
United states IN lefl in addition ~ those brought by
sea were over 500 900 pounds, which, OF course.
there was no drawback, for the duty here had been
abolished.
Vaiue Of Wheat and Cost Of RAISING II IN 1885.
In 1885 moved the Upper Canada House Of Assem-
bly, for the appointment Of special committee on
Trade drew up IL reports, embodied the arguments
for protection and commercial freedom In treatise Of
100 pages OF which several thousands were circulated
At the public cost and assisted In examining many wit
nesses.
all parts vi the Province, found that the average
cost Of production Of one bushel OF merchsntsbe
wheat In twelve counties 50 cents. without taking
account the interest ON capital Invested IN the land
The prices OF wheat 90 20 70 cents IN Glengarry
and on the Ottawa, decreasing as the distance from
Montreal lncressedat Toronto ~ 30 90 cents-in OK.
ford on Lake Erie, only 10. The freight from Toronto
Montreal - 10 % cents per butucl ~ vas Ns'o4iJ
shown that wheat and other staples did not remunefats
the producer, aud We proposed 10 nulliy the heavy
discfiu ating tariff laid In London, a mesns Of
buying cheaper ia the United States The colonial mo
nopoly even then bore heavily upon the Canadians.
and We reported that trade BY sea was carried
on a,nOst exclusively in British shipping and for the
advantage Of capitalists residing 10 Europa These
essays widely circulated prepared the people 10 insst
upon getting their produce conveyed at the cheapest
rate 70 market and the ultimate results OF United
States drawbacks
We wrote 20 New York, asking Mr.. Buchanan, then
Consul there % eve his views and any facts that
would apply re did 90 10 letter plsced on the jour
nal was strongly In favor Of un'ettered trade, IN
cined 20 have the Wesnd Canal almost free Of tolls,
anxious for liberty Of trade by the great outlets OPP
posed poor laws, State prisons and universal sui
irage and apparently DESTROYS Of uniting me CsnAdss.
ApD,al to England fer an Uzje,iered Trade.
In 1896 Mesrs Hincks now Inspector. General VIM
Allan Judge Sullivan, Leslie s. sons g. p hldout and
Others rnemonalized the Canada Assembly. arnns the
expede cy o. making exerons for free trade through
tue United states, By means o. drawbacks was %
me Committee Of reference. and, differing with the
most of irs members introduced into the House. 10
snenomeur 70 their report, al Address u hlng IAN
~ which carried, though strongly Opposed ~ Aessfs
Hsgermsn, Merritt Sir Allan AscNao, J. bouiton
and the tory minority generally. cir John Colborne
senr il u England ar Hume moved an Address 70 fhe
Crown With much satisfaction. and had i Immediately
aid before The House Of Commons Lord Oleneiss re-