New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-02
RECIPROCITY AND ANNEXATION.

The Toronto Patriot of Saturday contains the FOL-
lowing paragraph with reference to the reciprocity
treaty. which Lord Elgn is understood to be irin,
70 negotiate at Washington:
Tbe conclusion of the proposed treaty VII greatly pn
mote The fishing and navigating interests and also d.
commerce of the United States and prevent me pes.
bility of the occurrence of any future diincuy oiTa
Crost Rrtain and the United States in relation to cSN
NAL matters. Besides, rR grcny encourage ne A0s-
policy o. eLpdRs'oH
Exhaustion in the direction of the north star-eI
pansion for the purpose of union with more than tive
millions of ibertyoving, slayery'ha'ing people who
have never been corrupted by moment acques
cence in the barefaced robbery of labor, simply BE-
cause the crime is sanctioned by custom ana enact.
merit in certain ATTITUDES is not prospect TO cry over
at the present moment. To "eAtend the aread
freedom" not in hollow can't but in sober earnest
does not under existing circumstances, strike Ws
very dreadful. The price to be paid for such con
summation has seemed to us unnecessarily large, aud
il is not quite fsir that should all be derayedby
the agricultural interest at the West, while the direct
pecuniary benefits the called reciprocity arrange
mept accrue to the manufacturers aud fishermen Of /
the East This very circumstance, however, has the
redecmng quality that it will secure us agaiu't being
derauded of the political advantages of annexation
the tcouOliltdl g'""'"' ''N'f'"ev
that would attend it, and are likely to be obtained
without il.
The only arrangement really coming up to the idea Of
Reciprocity in its honest sense, would be one like that
now subsistng between the States of this Conieder
or those of the German Zolyerein The latter, By
treaties between themselves, secure absolute tree
trade with each other, and common and uniform
tariff of duties upon the products OF the rest Of the
world IT. by agreement with the Canadian Prov
inces all the Custom Houses along contermnous
boundary should be abolished and all goods entering
Canada except from the United States, BIZ subjected
to the same rate OF duties if entered at Batnore
we should have the precise parallel oil the German
Customs Union. But such an arrangement Cansds
does not PROPOSE nor would Great Britain permit
The object of the Canadians is to sell their grain 10
the American market at prices enhanced by the pro-
tective policy, which has built up our manufactures
and by so doing remunerated the American farmer
for the temporary extra money cost Of protected
fabrics. He may for while pay more mOney
for yard of cloth, but he buys that money
with less corn than he would have done but for
tariff. SO the manufacturer pays more money
for bushel of grain than would procure it from
Canada, but he buys the money with less cloth than
he might have done if English cloth were admit
ted duty free. The Canadians propose to sell their
grain at price but to reserve the privilege Of buy
ing their cloth with the proceeds at the English price
The manufacturers, who favor this sort of Reciproc
ity propose to continue selling their wares at tariff
prices, while buying their -four at free trade prices
Our Western farmers are to pay for the economics
thus to be effected by both-tO be put between the
upper and the neither milestone and ground on both
sides. A Customs Union with Canada, or the CONNER
cal annexation Of the Province, would equalize the
advantages and disadvantages, and prevent this grom
injustice.
1t quite possible that the agriculturists will not
bestr themselves in time to prevent the ratification Of
a treaty at Washington. But We reckon that the mo-
ment the stones begin to turn they will find il out and
be and more uncomfortable the longer the rasp
ing is protracted. They will then demand complete
reciprocity in the shape of Customs Union. Great
Britain retains the Provinces only as vent for the
products Of her factories and forges In all merely
political aspects they costly membranes to her
She will assent to their absolute annexation to the
United States more readily than to their commercial
annexation, and this she will not refuse when tho
Canadians require it. But the appetite of the cos
nists for the sweets Of marketwl grow by what IL
feeds on, and they will be much ready to aecede
to the demand of the western States and fuse them
selves in our confederacy than to relinquish their
newly born trade with US. There is a new element
in the intercourse between the States and Canada
which will increase the tendency to political union
Thousands Of our citizens cross the finest lands
the Provinces on the Great Western Railroad where
went before, and spy out their goodness. Thou
ands Of immigrants fit over these same lands their
way to the western States and Territories, who pass
them by for more distant regions only because the
latter are in a republic If the products of the nov
wild land between the Niagara and Detroit Rivers
are to be admitted duty free in the markets Of yeg
England they will assuredly be rapidly settled snd
subdued. The young man from the western States
looking for farm in the West will see his prof! IN
hating in Canada, instead Of going beyond only to en-
counter greater charges for transportation on bio
crops which must be sold at prices be fixed by the
cost Of raising them the fields he leaves behind him.
He will be propaganda of annexation for his owa
sake, and his competition with tire agriculursts Oh
the West will create other propagandiss in that uo~
Indifferent quarter.
There are southern statesmen who averse to the
annexation of Cuba notwithstanding the strength IL
would add TO the slave power, the ground that u
will ruin the sugar planters. What would they ssy
the proposition were TO admit Cuban sugar and mo
asses into our ports duty Free and at the same tine
refuse Cuba element of political strength
When they have madcup their minds how to answer
then let them reflect that the Reciprocity Treaty pre-
sents the question to northern Statesmen, WIZ
the difference, that Cuba is to be had only through
war, while the only fighting to be done about Cauaaa