The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-11

sldlt HOW COMES III COnSiueTdUlc qudbutlcS
from the provinces, though charged with
80 per cent. duty. Remove this duty, and
bow long would the business remain prof
table in Vermont?
There ore many articles which have long
thought should be mutually exempted from
duty by the respective countries such as
lumber and coal, but this should be done
by the legislative action Of the govern
ments, just as the free list of the United
States was very much enlarged in 1872,
and | cannot suppose the United States
House of Representatives, after terminating
with 50 much alacrity the treaty Of 1854,
will ever again consent to surrender to the
treaty making branches of the govern
ment its constitutional share of the power
which belongs TO Congress, "to regulate
commerce with foreign nations and among
the several states, nor am willing to be-
lieve that the Senate will attempt to invade
or TO cripple the exclusive power belonging
TO the House to originate revenue bills.
The reciprocity experiment has once been
tried, greatly TO our discomfort, and when
it afforded the greatest profits to our neigh
bOrs, when it should have been
to them, ii ever, an overmaster-
ing argument of amity and con-
citation, then it was that these now lamb
like neighbors were found rampant with
national animosities, more British than the
British themselves, and most eager to
smite us under the fifth rib.
Under the treaty of 1871 we have the
! privilege To navigate the st. Lawrence
river beyond where it forms the mutual
boundary line, within the Canadian do
minions, and the imperial government
| agreed to urge that we should also he per-
mitted to use on equal terms the Welland
! n,s1 I & ..al,
have yielded absolutely the right to use the
st. Clair Flats canal, thc navigation of
Lake Michigan and of the Porcupine and
some other rivers. and we also have agreed
to urge that the Canadian dominion shall
be permitted TO use the state canals and to
have the same enlarged. In addition to
this it is now proposed by the dominion
| government to enlarge their canals and to
build within six years the Caughnawaga
canal twenty nine and half miles long,
and estimated to cost two million and a
half of dollars. When built we are to
have the use of il. if we want it, by paying
the usual tolls. The remarkable feature of
reciprocity in canals. if all should be done
that Canada proposes is, that we grant the
use of canals in the United States 997 miles
in length, for the use of S35 miles Of
Canadian canals, or about twelve for one
course be built, and will be bult--treaty
or no treaty. The subject has been agtat-
ed for eighteen years. On our side OF the
line we may think the agitation dispropor-
tiOnate to the length of the canal, but they
have granted charter which, having eX-
PRED, has been renewed The capital re-
quired is not very large and it bids fair to
be a safe although the tolls
from all other Canadian canals do not pay
what it costs, salaries of officers included,
to keep them in repair This is likely to
do better, however, and must be built. 1t
was a part of the understanding, when
the union of the provinces under one gov
ernmcnt was established, that it shouli he
built. They will demand it, whether the
mako-weight offer to us shall lie accepted
on not. 1t is greatly needed by the Cana
dams To get their timber from the Ottawa
BY Il shorter and cheaper route. 1t will
not much diminish the cost of lumber 10
us, as they will continue and perhaps in
crease their export duty on timber and
logs, but 1t will be in some other respects
great convenience, and perhaps some
what increase the through traffic on our
railroads east of Lake Champlain. The
benefits to accrue to the owners of Cana
dian timber lands by their increased value
will ensure the building Of this canal, and
when built the owners of the canal will
gladly accept Of any tolls for its support.
and as readily from American as from
their masters gri-ts.
Many of the ports on Lake Champlain
are now the termini of profitable com
merce and If the Whitehall canal should
be enlarged and its use conceded to Cana
da, Il. contemplated, the augmentation of
Canadian commerce with New York might
l,., l.,,. :.
crease or diminish the commerce Of the
ports on the shores of Lake Champaign
revoutiOnize or destroy some of the points
Of distributiou-by offering equal facili-
ties for entrance or escape. is problem
which can only be solved by actual eX-
pertinent
| cannot avoid the conclusion that on
the whole it would be unwise and thor
ou.hly milk and-water craftsmanship for
the United States to consent to be chained
to the stake OF reciprocity for twenty-four
years, happen what may, fixed and ire
v0cahle. however disastrous it might prove
to many Of the great interests of the coun-
try, and however repugnant the Innovation
may he on the ancient and usual nterpre-
taiion Of the constitution relative to the
imposition of duties on imports.
MORE LEARNING FOR FARMERS.
There is one subject to which the atten-
ton of farmers cannot be called too often.
nor too earnestly, and that is the subject of
general anG special education. They pay
the most taxes for its support, and in pro-
portion TO numbers. derive the least advan-
tage thcrefrom. They need more help on
the farm and too seldom permit their boys
wien able to work, to attend school IN
spring, summer or autumn, and only let
them browse in winter on the scaniy twlgs
of learning supplied by the common school.
Then. if there 10 one of the family whose
physical condition is puny and weat, so
! little of the JFdre that the Algonquins
might have thought lot worth raising
that one often to the exclusion of all the
more robust, is pushed forward fer liber-
al or collegiate education. For those stout
enough to carry ON farming, it is some
times taken for granted that nm education
| is wholly unnecessary. These are all sad
| mistakes. The life of the feeble child
would often be prolonged and inyigorated
| by employment in the open air. and the
! life of The strong would be more than
| doubled in value by liberal culture. The
iniicXiblc rule should be, to educate rs
many and ms much as possible, and by no
means to cripple those having the most
vigorous faculties by untmcly neglect.
Professional ominence is rarely achieved
except by those possessed of full measure
of health and muscular energy, and who
have learned on every page of history that
hard knowledge and vigorous industry is
an over-match for even instinct and mother
wit. The stamina which bears the strain
in life of intellectual activity always has
| been and always must lie largely recruited
from the robust, ccar-hcaded ranks of the
farmer. Professional men have TO work,
and are seasoned and made happy by work
perhaps because, like congressman, they
fix their own wages. In the only consul
tation ever had with Daniel Webster Gin
1859 he told me that he never pretended
to be one of your inspired geniuses, and
had never done anything without labor.
Newton talked in the same way, and so
talk all professional men, whose talk is
worth hearing.
"Renown is not the chud Of indolent iepese."