The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-02-12

The amount of goods exported to Canada
in 1855 subject to duty was S1l ,449.472, and
IN 1862 no more than $6,l23,7S3 The ex-
ports OF manufacture, candles, soap, &C.. to
canada IN 1859 were, in round numbers, 81 :
o0o,oOO, and they had decreased to 81 ,5OO,-
900 in 1868.
The imports from Canada fox the last
eight fiscal years averaged in value $685.
s23, of which only an average Of $467,4S
paid duty on entering the United States.
Canadian tables show that for eight years,
lSo5 to 1862, inclusive, an average of S9,-
$4,000 of our exports to Canada paid duty,
and sln,12D,000 were free. 1t will be seen
that we are charged bv them with duty on
average value of ss,S72,5O more than they
are charged with by US.
In the first four years after the treaty
came into operation We received for the list
uf articles named in the treaty $2S,77l ,69l
III value more than Canada received from u.s.
Ii this is reciprocity the less we have of it
the better. In 1861 the imports from Cana
da were SlS,Gij, ,457, and our exports were
sl4 ,36l .SJS. or an excess of imports over
exports of S4,273,599 This amount is to
be augmented ty S2,6ll,S11 of goods of
foreign origin which merely passed across
our territory and were transmitted in lieu Of
exchange or gold to meet our Indebtedness
and would not have been received by Canada
but for the fact that they were obtained
cheaper thus than they could have been
through the ST. Lawrence.
The amount of our export Of coin for this
year have been unable to ascertain, but
Canadian returns credit US in 1862 with 81
$50 900, and in 1863 with S3,5O2,ISO. That
1t was much more there can be no reasonable
doubt. The fair inference would be that not
less than Sl0,O00,O00 are annually drawn
from US in gold, or its equivalent, to pay for
agricultural productions not required, and to
glut markets which our own people are all
the while eager to supply. We have no re-
clprocltv treaty with any other country, and
no other presents SO unfayorable balance
sheet. Even our trade with China is more
profitable
The amount Of revenue now collected by
the Cuted States upon importations from
Canada IS pliabIe enough and if We deduct
the articles not actually there produced We
shall find that IN four years, from 1856 t.
: 1899, inclusive, the average amount was only
about one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars annually, yielding not NOR. than
So, 900 Of yearly revenu', and not sufficient
to pay the 1.-THE Of the animal expense of the
collection districts, scattered as they are,
along frontier six thousand miles in extent
ard yet efourth part or nearly that, of all
Canadian revenue is derived from duties on
merchandise from the United States.
Neither our people nor the Government
derive advantage from this reciprocity treaty.
IHc trade has, it is true, largely increased
bat the footsteps Of the profits all point to
tn lions den, none rsturnng outward. We
are the factors serving without pay or COM
missions.
Mr.. Morrill, proceeds further to show, how
a change ct tariffs in Canada had worked to
the drrment of the American merchant
sending articles to Canada-how BY the
Canadian arrangement of tolls, and draw
backs on the same, we are, practtc0|ly. made
to pay ten times aS much toll for the use Of
the Welland and the ST. Lawrence Canals as
! lilt OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ullutr tIlp Tree use dC-
c9rding to the treaty by both parties Of the
waters Of the st. Lawrence, which we have
very little use for,-aud those of Lake Mich
igan,-which the Canadians have much use
fr-the following resulted:
In the first SIX years after the treaty only
forty American vessels. all of small tonnage
passed seaward through the ST. Lawrence
and OF these but nineteen ever returned
But in ore yeal CSjO one hundred and nine
British vessels left a port Of Lake Michigan
Ii practice, British reciprocity is made Up Of
similar unequal makeweishts, and We may
say of the whole as We DO of this part with
great proprletv. We got useless river by
giving up magnificent " inland sea-"
Ii We examine the reciprocity treaty on
general principles, as question of con>titu-
tlonal. political, or domestic policy, the de-
duction is inevitable that it is radically
wrnfg. unSise, and, under the present cir
cums,ancrs, TO longer to be tolerated. And
if We ana!ize it In all its varied relations
patiently examining fact by fact, there vii
not remain enough of sound base to prop il
up an hour beyond the period when it Cal
be properly overthroWn.