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

DrOpOsp TO supnrcedp thp las treafv thntiph
lust made. BY new ono. is no canse of
alarm to orr government or to our fisher.
men, who. in the language of Daniel Web
ster, ought to be 'sprotecled hook and line,
bob and sinlker." Rearing in mind the for
mer ill-starred reciprocitv treaty. and that
the Canadians now claim to offer much bet.
ter terms, would there not be some cause
of distrust--and nut the question to those
present who sometimes swan horses-would
there not be some couso of distrust. if n
horse-trader, having oyerreached You once.
should offer to give Won satisfaction by
another and much better trade? Having
had touch of crib-bitinp. do YOU want TO
try blnd-staggers?
One treaty with Great Britain, it would
seem, ought to include all of her colonies.
If one can be treated with special favor.
why NAV not all? Fifty diverse and COM
plicated treatise would be too many to con-
cede evei. to a pologlot empire. If these
colonies are so large and numerous as to
have Heterogeneous interests. it is time they
were prepared to make their own treaties ms
independent nations, but while they adhere
to the British flag in war thew should nd
here to its fortunes in peace.
Our constitution forbids the levyinr ofex-
port duties. Dlt that OF the Canadian Dom
inion does not. and therefore ANYTHING they
NAV have which we really need can he
clogred bv an export duty, lust Ms they now
collect dollar on n thousand feet of loos
or on A cord of single bolts. They have n
versatility of adroitness which shows itself
again in their policv MS to duties on ton
This we admit now entirely free, and so do
they from every country in the world but
Al c..
commerce with us in teas. they impose n
duty of ten per cent upon
black. green and japan tea "whcn imported
from the United States This shows the
normal state of their disinterested anxiety
TO improve our friendly commercial rrln.
tons. 81 know of no wav TO indge of Nh.
future but by the past" and we must bear
in mind that in Canada the sun rises in the
morning.
Look for a moment at the question of
practical reciprocity as to wool. The Can.
adas produce more in proportion than we
do and much more than they can consume.
They want a foreign market, but we want
and must keen our own or abandon sheen.
In no event will thev Inv n
pound of our wools-that wonll he like
CARVING pepper to Uindostan or owls TO
Athens@but with reciprocity thev coull
sell here their entire elm for hiohcr nricps
than are elsewhere obtainable. and then
supply their wants for home consumption
bv the admission of chenper woods of other
for wool. like the bulk of the
articles thew Dropose To make reciprocollv
free, is already exempt from duty under
the prescnt,Canadian tariff. Thirty-fiye of
the articles they propose to eyempt from
duty in schedule 4 are now free and only
twenty-three subject TO duty. How long
would our farmers aprcc tn protect evcrv-
body else and leave themselves exposcd to
the hungry assaults of free trade?
And this brings to the front one of the
grave CONTINGENCIES involved in any possi
bic reciprocity treaty. We are solemnly
bound by the "most favored nation" clause
in our treaties with nearly every foreign
nation to grant no privileges to one that are
not at once omen and extended to the other.
We have mutually coyenanted with Mexico.
with Brazil. as well as with each one of the
of Europe, that no higher or
other duties shall be imposed on articles
the growth, produce or manufacture of one
country than are or shall be on like articles
of any other foreign country. 1t follows,
therefore, if we permit the Canadas to ''pull
the wool over our eyes, that we must per-
nit precisely the same thing to be done by
others, or admit free of duty the woods OF
Mexico, of Brazil or Of any other country
whenever we so admit those Of Canada. 1t is
evident that Il reciprocity treaty must bring
forth hydra-headed sorrows for statesmen
as well as for farmers.
In nearly everything produced on the
farm of which we have Il surplus. Canada,
whose chief industry is that of agriculture,
appears to have greater proportionate ex.
cess. What effect this would have, if
thrown upon our markets free, farmers,
who are not yet wholly relieved from the
butt end of war taxes, must judge. To re-
lease twenty millions of revenue on Cana
dian products and labor and tax our own
people on tea and coffee to make up the de-
ficiencv is not 4 very inviting proposition,
but it wears no other complexion.
In ten years from 1851 to 1861, the inn
proved land of Canada increased about 50
per cent. or from 1907. 493 acres to 10, S55. g.
SOL acres. Their wheat crop increased
during the same time IS per cent. and their
oat crop 90 per cent. The progress of Can.
ada since l7Gl is claimed to have been much
greater. but then, in comparison with the
United States. it produced moro than lis
of horses. cattle and sheen
twice its proportion of wheat; three times
its PROMOTION of oats. barley and notatoes
an average of butter. and less of swine and
corn. 1t isanew soil and n branch of our
own hardy race that leans forward TO con.
front MS do not object to their scheme
because II will LARGELY Increase the volno n
land in Canada. but because Ills will hc
done solely ot our eynense.
The climate and the soil of Vormont
makes n near and onick market ;ndis nonsn,
HE N her nrnsneritv and sbc fsnls no al.
licotion to share il whether near or renntc.
will nrovincrs retained Inv Great Pritain ~
strateeienl necessities. nor to give those
nrovincos ADVANTAGE ovcr onr sister states
more distant from Atlantic markets Inex.
oroble tronsnortotion in some sort nrotects
ms from tho Great nrairies Of tho wost but
tho C,nadas ham, directlv on onr n,nj,s
some Of the cnarsrr and rider monnfoe.
turas II is olso nronoscd shall he received
recinrocallv freq Of dntv' bnt we have been
not;do1 nat tho same nrivilegcs Granted 10
us would be conceded to Great Britain, and
thus, if there should be anything among the
enumerated articles that we might possibly