The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-17
Canadlsn Reciprocity.

would become the natural outlet to the ocean; hence
the Americans would become the common carriers
of our products, and the cities OF Montreal and
Quebec and nearly all our public improvements,
become comparatively dead letter, and, political
ly speaking, must hasten separation from Great
Britain for "where your treasure is there viii be
your heart nlso II whole business intercourse
ID to be with, and through, the United States, our
feeling would soon be American also, and having
no longer any protection in the English market,
and no other tie except our loyalty 1t ID easy lore
see what the result would be-
The above is an extract from speech re-
Gently made in Lincoln county, Canada, by
MIR. RYKERT, on the occasion, we believe, Of
offering himself as candidate for its represen-
tative in the Colonial Legislature; and we offer
ii to our readers with view to call their at
tention to Canadian ideas of the real value Of
the navigation of the ST. Lawrence-th wood
eli nutmeg offered by our Northern neighbors
in exchange for the total abolition Of our tariff
on all the commodities they desire TO sell,
while permitting them to maintain their pre-
sent duties on all that they desire to buy,
being what they are pleased to style re,
ciprocity." To us the whole thing appears
to resemble the sort of reciprocity indicated
by the proposition of the trader to the
poor Indian, when he said to him, g You may
take the turkey buzzard and | will take
the turkey, or, will take the turkey and
you may take the turkey buzzard." Look at
the Canadian proposition we may it IS all
turkey for them aud all turkey -buzzard for us
Canada has now no market for her products
but that worthless one of England, for which
the farmers and planters sacrificed the great
domestic one which increased SO rapidly under
the tariff of 1912, and she now seeks to enjoy
that only one in which she will not be com
PEELED to compete with the cheap land and
cheap labor of Russia. Under the proposed
system her trade with Europe would continue
to pass, as 1t now passes, through the Union
while she would supply large portion Of our
home demand for food, to the manifest advan-
tage OF the consumers Of the Eastern States,
81 far regards the cost of food, although it
might well be doubted if the reduction of prices
and consequent depression OF the farmers of the
West would not far more than counterbalance
the trivial advantage that could result from the
introduction of the products Of the cheap land
and what is now the cheap labor of Canada
Our present system in regard to the import of
lumber offers a large bounty on the clearing of
land in that province, and its effects seen in
the dePopula'ion now going on In Maine, where
land, cleared and uncleared, is fast losing its
value, and will lose it far more rapidly when
the Reciprocity bill shall have passed. We
are therefore now preparing the way for
All extensive movement IN the direction of
Canada, to take effect on the passage of this
bill and the Canadian lands being so much
cheaper than those of the Union, and so much
nearer than those of Illinois, Iowa aud Wis
consin, to say nothing of the distant Minnesota,
the course OF emigration must, as il appears TO
US, be soon entirely changed. The people who
prefer TO live in that country are, under this
bill, To ENJOY all the advantages of protective
tariff for the sale of variety of the most
profitable products of agriculture, which, by
reason Of their bulk, cannot BIO exported TO a
distance, and which now they cannot raise,
while applying the proceeds resulting from the
sale of those products 10 the purchase Of the
cloth aud the iron of England. The proper
title for such au act as tins would seem Ia us
to be-" An act for promoting the settlement of
Canada and for retaTdlng the settlement Of The
lands Of the Western States and Territories,
and for depressing the value Of the land and
labor Of the Union TO level with those of
Canada"
la what possible manner the States Of the
West are to profit by this one sided measure
we confess ourselves quite unable TO discover.
They baye now little or no market in Europe
for their products, and, small as it is, It declines
regularly from year to year. Five years since
Europe took from us food to the extent of little
less than thirty millions Of dollars, but since
that date the amount has fallen, until in the
last year 1t little exceeded eight millions being
diminuiion Of twenty millions under a system
that was, we were assured, speedily to swell it
to hundreds Of millions; and so far, this year. it
has been far worse. We drive annually TO az
riculture amillion Of people, to become compeli-
tors with the old farmers for the sale Of
food; and where all of them are to fnd
market under system that closes all the
mills and furnaces of the Union, while yield
ing the yet remaining domestic market
to the people u Canada, is a mystery that
we cannot solve. Tho measure is, we under
stand, 10 be pressed on the consideration OF
Congress at the present session. aud no means
are to be left untried To secure its passage, but
unless we very greatly err, it will be followed
by state Of things throughout all the food
producing States that will render every man an
annexationist, and thus will be broken down
the only barrier to the incorporation Of the Ca
madam province into the Union.
Whether or not this is the object in view
with those who advocate the bill we do not
know; but this we do know, that If it be, they
could not have devised better mode for secur-
ing it's accomplishment. How far it will tend
to promote the views Of our southern friends
we leave them to determine. To such OF
them as propose 90 vote for il, we would sug-
gest for the title. in default of their adoption Of
the one already given, the following: can act
for securing the early admission Of the now Bri-