The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-03
The Secretary of the Treasury on our Trade
with the British Provinces.
From the World.


From the World
1t is not surprising that under the weight of
the complex, difficult, and important questions
of revenue and finance which press upon the
mind of the Secretary of the Treasury, made
quate examinations should have been given to
subjects of comparatively minor but yet of
practical moment.
Industrious and persevering efforts have been
made to sustain many errors in relation to the
results of the Reciprocity treaty. They were
dishomable bids Tor popularity through deceit,
and are to be classed with the ignorant legisla-
tion to keep down the price OF gold and the
malignity eyinced towards the South, being
alike mpolitic i'll praCuce and wrong in inten-
tion, made at q time when moderation and good
Will were at a discount.
We have already shown how the present
chairman of the CommiItee on Ways and Means
persisted IN the most fagrant misrepreSenta-
tons, indulgng in vehement inyectlve, and
complaining that we were robbed of our Just
rights, because some SIS, ,5O2 lSO OF specie were
senS to Canada IN one year; making state
ment, which, if true, would be OF little import
anCe, but suppresslg the fact that it was more
than counterbalanced by more than S5,O0o,000
OF specie imported to the United States in the
same year through the district OF Champlain
alone.
The Solons or Isaac Newtcns of the Agricul-
tuTal Department OF the Patent Office have pun
Eshed the exports and imports OF cereals, etc,
70 and from Canada alone, for limited period,
ignoring the wider range of the subject, and
perhaps really Ignorant that the treaty included
1OuT other provinces, and forgetting that the
supDosed qualifications by which they held Office
is u knoWledge of Toot.crops. grasses, fruits,
Grains. cattle. and farming .uDlements-sub-
iects certainly of no little interest and value,
and Glite enOupb to exercise to the utmost the
faculties of the present incumbent but vet alto
pcther distinct from these of political economy
or financial science The original Isaac Newton,
unlike some OF his numerous nalne5ake5 made
no nretpnsion to universal llnOWledrc and
achieved oreotnesg and celebrity by spealzino
chiefly of those things which he understood
Fror, 1FE6 to I've know not how TO chose
toircr c1iterion-ollr ey1orts of hOur and
breGdsf1fle +o alI the Provinces included in The
rreoty exceeded our ipDorts of the same article
from them by So 1874 22I : aud from 1856 to 1853
we sold the Dponip OF the Provinces more cereals
! and 4beir 7,roducts Inv S36O AK tnau we boupht
! from them There is n rpmall,abla coincidence
in tbe i,rgTorfq and c,portg of this class-the ey-
| norris beliuo been cG7 b2l 552 and the imports
! S8T.IG7. .g,S.
! com markets " saws the report of the Secre.
! tarv0f the Treasury. shave been strong, extern
| sive and valuable. theirs have been weak
| Iimi1p6 and generally less nroitable to our cit
| zens.n II is possible that tbe acuteness OF our
| traders NAV have been oyer-reached THOUGH
! scarcely likely they would have made a series OF
| had lrades for so many wears in succession.
! The Secretary OF the Treasury does not state his
! reasons for his ODiniOn. rOr does he Inform us
! rs we learn from statistics published by autho-
rity OF the department over which he now pre-
| sides that uD TO vet recent period our sales
| TO them were Sl7l G2S. .T7a or S2G,i45.6S3 more
| than purchased from them. which were Sl4A.
! lS3 Og6
lie adds 'The people of the Canadas and the
! Provinces have been sellers and we BUYERS ofthe
! same productions for which we are often forced
| 10 seek foreign Tlarketn The remark true in
| itself bv no means iustifes the conclusions
| which are drawn from II. IL implies that we ey-
clude them IRON competition with us ii we re.