Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-03-02
Vermont Daily Transcript
ST. AGBANS, VT.
TUESDAY, MARCH, 2. 1869.
iteciprOcify.

independent of other &C nsidorations,
we do not desire q reciprocity in trade
with Canada the Canadians nave Moth
ing to give us in return for the free use
ofour mark cts. Every farmer and pro-
Queer knows that it would be hostile to
his inter SITS, ard unfair in any event.
Upon the success of our agrcuturlst
and producers the wealth and pro peri
~ of this country depends, and these
interests should toe guarded with jealous
care by The Governments. To pay our
Debts the Government requires revenue,
and will for scores of years to come and
for this purpose every producer is re-
Quired TO submit to taxation ia some
form or other.
Labor is much cheaper in Canada
than here land none of ON working men
would have their wages less, their
farms are of less value than our own ;
they bear none of our burden of taxes,
and should not be allowed to enter our
mark cts upon an equal footing with our
ting to equal burdens. That taxes or
duties should be assessed upon the pro-
ducts of Canada arriving in the Cnited
States, is too self-appalcnt to every one
to admit of argument. I'm ease free
trade should be ad pied, in short time
these products would find n level price
in both countries, having the greater
effect 10 raise the Canada markets on ac-
co INT Of their products being less than
our own hut ours would fall in the
competition. Take, for instance, the
article of wool, and any one can see,
were it an object for importers to make
a raid upon us, that our markets might
be crushed in the importation from Can
ada of English wool and woods from al,
countries, of the same class as that
grown in Canada. Upon the arrival OF
this wool at the custom house in the
United States, were tie e no other evil
dence to be Detained than what should
appear the wool itself, the fraud might
be successfully practiced to any extent
and here is another difficulty with ''ro-
cipro city," and one which the Cana
dans would no helpus over
No reciprocity in trade can exist with
Canada that would effectually limit i'm
portations to the produce of Canada
consequently the whole thingj is cheat
and the term reciprocity, as applied to
foreign trade, is pla lnly an imposition
upo-, the people. But, says one, while
am opposed to the renewal of the old
treaty, I am IN favor OF reciprocity in
trade that would allow the importation
into Canada of the manufactured art.
cles of the United States free OF duty
This might seem fair ut first, but Their,
is not the remotest prospect of any sucl
event ha. pening.
The Canadians are endeavoring tC
build them an empire upon the borde
of the United States, and in so doing
will protect their existing manu(actur
ing establishments. With the wealth
accumulated by them from the late re
procity, and by the encouragement
which the people of Canada received
from their Government in preventing
the admission of our manufactured ar
ticles into Canada Tree of duty, the
manufacturing establishments increased
moe han four fold, and any Legislation
Of the Canadian Parlam mt p rmittin.
importations from the United States o
the same kind, free of duty, would 10
suicidal to their own interests. At tn,
present time they arc manutacturin!
their own moving machines, farm i'm
plem tents, and the coarscr articles q
manufacture generally, and their impor
tations from the United States have be
come limited to "Yankee notions" am
wares from Connecticut.
Were so many of our manufacture
articles at the present time as are desiI
ed by the Canadians, allowed 10 pas
into CanaCa free of duty, in return TO
what they desire to import into the Uni
ted States, we should be the only part
cheated.
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