New-York tribune., 1871-03-30
CANhDIdN LIBERALITY..

A sovereign cOnteEspt for the pUbhc dis
ccrnment is persistently evinced by the Amer
lean champions of Free Trade. That shey are
as obtuse as they would seem to be, ID simply
impossible. For instance:
Grain, Flour, Peas, Beans, &c, are notOri-
Ously cheaper in the Canadas than along our
Northern border. In other words, tho Cana
dian farmers are not 30 well paid for their
labor, and cannot obtain such prices for either
their farms or their products, as our farmers
do. Of course, they want no tariff to keep out
the dearer cereals of this country. Cn the
other hard, their Canals and Railroads abso-
lutely need the carrying OF our products on
their way to market TO save them from ever
impending bankruptcy. Amy duty imposed on
the entrance of those products into one Cana
dian port, to be transported for longer or
shorter distance through Canadian canals and
over Canadian railroads till they pass out at
another port, would nowise protect the Cana
dian farmer, while it wOuld tend. by starving
the Canadian canals and railroads, to bank
rupt the Dominion's Treasury. Hence, tho Do
minion's Parliament removes the small duty
hitherto most unwisely levied upon American
Food, hoping thereby to divert more Western
Grain from our railroads and canals and have
part of it manufactured at Canadian mills into
Flour for European markets. This sensible,
matter of course proceeding is thus trumpeted
in The World:
"Our Northern neigbbors, whom won't, TO look
upon as slow and behind the age quietly teaching
that people scarcely need but that our Rad
ical friends in Congress would do well TO heed II they
can spare the time the consideration OF out
RACES and martial law Encouraged by the rapid growth
in Their trade with their sales to tho United States
steadily increasing and their purchases declining as our
ridden producers cannot compete with their unpro-
tectei industry, the Canadians now openly declare that
they no longer need to fear American competition, that
they want no tariff protection against American pro
ducts and that they afford TO throw their markets
entirely open tho producers Of the United States After
an excited debate, resolution has been passed in the
House OF Commons at Ottawa by very large majority,
removing tho duty SALT peas beans barley rye, oats
and all grain and -four; and although OF course, this
action na the great strength of the vote, nearly
five one shows plainly how popular the measure Is
Every day thus furnishes fresh proof that the tariff
instead OF protecting industries really destroys
ability TO compete with other nations In the markets
which we once controlled Our tariff instead Of exclud
ing Canadian products from the United States markets.
simply excludes American products from the markets o
Canada and tho Dominion, which at ono time almost
begged continuance OF reciprocity, sneeringy
throws down its tariff walls and dehes the weak
ened fetered giant Of American industry to enter the
open lists let add another twenty five per cent
to tho tariff all round, and shall have ever
Mexico cOntemptuously Offering open ports and free
trade without being able to avail ourselves Of them
| Comments by The Tribune
Our last Congress absolutely freed from i'm
post several hundred articles previously taxed
(some of them heavily and materially reduced
the duties on quite number of those which
wo import most extensively, including Sugar
Tea and Pig Iron. BY these notifications
the Revenue was reduced to the estimated
amount of Sixty Millions per annum. And yet
there was found in the two hemispheres NJ
one knsyish or foolish enough to hail tha
Tariff modification as return from Protection
to Free Trade, though it was far better entitled
to be so considered than is the Canadian change
exulted over by The World.
IL the Canadas "want no Tariff Protection
against American products" they will o
course make haste to repeal their duties nov
levied upon our Cotton and Wooden Fabrics
Farm Implements. Stoves, Axes, Spades, Shov
els, Sewing Machines, &c, &c. When you Sc
them make those articles free, you may safel
conclude that they believe in FREQ Trade
Thus far, they are simply following in on
footsteps by relieving of duty articles tina
they either produce cheaper than We OF canno
produce At all. Ii The World had any respec