The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-07-09
THE RECIPROCITY TREATY OPP
POSED.


LIE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOCLEN
MANUFACTURERS DENOUNCE THE
PROPOSED TREATY-THE PROSPERITY
OF THE WOOL GROWERS AND MANU-
FAcTURBRs DECLARED TO BE ENDAN-
GERED- SUGGESTED.
The Government of The National AS
ISOLATION Of Wool Manufacturers, body
representing the entire woolen Industry
of the United States, passed UNANIMOUSLY
the following resolutions at a MEETING
held on the 25th ultjmo, in New York:
1. Res0I0e&, That the Government of
the National Association of Wool Manu.
fac;urers feel themselves called upon to
express their views of the consequences to
be apprehended from the proposed Reel
procitg treaty with theDomioion of Cana
dato the manufacturing and industrial in
terests of the United States
2 Resol0ed, That we are warned by the exam
pies which history furnishes of the advantages
which Great Britain has invariably secured5 BY her
f&vOrite method of acquiring commercial supre
macy, to distrust any treaty With that power sur
rendering commercial privileges
3 Re8oJ0ed, That the promise OF reciprocal
advantages from the free exchange OF certaf
manufactures is a delusiop, since the circnn,
stances of tie Dominion aud CT the United States
are SO different that production cannot be made
terms of equality; that the high rate
internal taxation in the United States required by
our more complicated organization, and the highe
revenue duties demanded, by the expense ofthe
General Government, and the debts of the war
make the cost OF production in the United States
so much greater than in Canada, with low taxes
and duties, land cheapness OF labor attested By con-
slant emigration to this country, that the free
exchange Of manufactured products would end
in the suppression of our own prodac-
is, in national point of vieW one of the nostinl-
porjant branches of agriculture it Call
be pursued advantageously in the Oldest
settlements, it diminishes the cost of
animal food, !tenriches the land, and it supplies
the worsted manufacture a branch in watch taere
is room for the greatest development, and which
has 80 enriched England therefore,
6. Re80L0ed, That the offered boon Of Free Ca
madam woods would be dearly gained at the Ger.
tain cost Of the loss ofour own production ofcom
bing woods, and the danger of a revision Of tariff
satisfactory to both branches Of the wooden indus
try.
Z. BeSoJ0ed, That. dtsclaiming authority for
our opinions other than belongs to us as citizens,
we protest against the encroachment upon our
o,v ilriob 10
posed treaty, viz That questions affecting the
revenue may he decided by the treaty-mazing powt
er without consultation with the House of Renre@
sentatives, to whose determination such questons-
are committed by the Constitution.
8. Reso!0@d, That we will welcome the Cana
dams to free participation in the advantages Of
our markets, when they are prepared
TO be partakers Of our burdens and
defenders of a common nationality. as
thereby we may extend The line of orr protective
defenses and close the postern through which
British goods now sRTeptiously enter our tern
tory.
g. Re8o5Ued, That those who desire true free
trade with Canada, such as is enjoyed by the differ
ent States Of common country, will fud their
hopes frustrated by treaty which shall permit
the Canadians to sell their natural products in
the dearest marketin the worldwhi buying their
chief manufactures in the cheapest
10. Voted, That copies Of the above resolutions,
signed by the President and Secretary relating as
they do to question of great public interest, be
seut TO the kindred associations, and each of the
leading newspapers in the country, with a request
for their publication.
{, (Signed) j. Wiley EDMANDs, Prest.
80 joint. HAYES, secy.