Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-01
The NewTTreaty with Canada.

The xew!Treaty with Canada.
The new treaty with Canada. present.
ed to the United States Senate for rati-
fcation few days before the adjourn
ment of that body, was laid over MI
next session. There is general out
burst agr.nst il. Before the Senators
return next session they will have been
impressed with the fact that the country
Is largely agains, the treaty.
The Philadelphia Inquirer in writ
ing on the treaty, saJs: Are we not
now down low enough Are We IN al
ditiou TO our present depressed condi-
lion to be handed over to competition
with Canadian cheap labor, cheap agri'
cultural products and light taxation.
while we are carrying an immense load
If national, State and municipal taxa
tion1
The fact is the attempt to nsgotiate
this treaty is an usurpstiun Of power,
and if a subseryient Senate ratities 1t
the Senate will be party to this usur-
patton. While the Constitution of the
United States expressly provides that
"All bill, for raising revenue shall
originate in the House of Representa-
,ives," this treats cut. OF the House,
without its concurrence, from raising
revenue for twenty one years from i'm
ports from Canada.
Now, if the State Department and
,h. Senate are competent to do this,
what is to prevent them from negotia-
ting similar treaties with all the world,
and thus providing for the free admis-
sion of all foreign merchandise OF every
description FIR twenty one, hfty or one
hundred years TO come ! Nothing,
whatsoe .er, not even the will OF the
people, for they are not consulted by
this modern system.
In such q case, aud il is well now to
contemplate the consequences, tae
House of Representatives would be en-
sbled to levy only internal taxes, aud
We should, ir addition to crushed and
ruined industries, have restored the IN
terns, taxes Of the war. Then 1t would
remain for the people TO determine
whether they would submit to foreigners
having rights il their own country
which they did not themselves possess,
or whether they would o5lige congress
to abrogate these treaties and run the
risk of war with Great Britain and
other countries for a violation OF them.
We call upon the people now to rise
up and protect themselves against this
dangerous entering wedge OF u'urpa-
tiou before it becomes too late, aud
while they can do it IN peaceful man
per. Let them not place any reliance
in the msgnauimity of Great Brian IN
releasing them, but bear IN mind that
when Frsnce was almost ruined she
was given TO understand by tina, Power
that she need not ask to be released
from sry of her treaty obligations be-
cause her requests could not and would
not be granted.
Independent of the ruin to our inter-
ests, agricultural mining aud manu'ac
turing: independent of the usurPation
of personal and Senatorial power now
threatened them, We demand tine rejec-
ton of this treaty on the ground that
no present Executive, Senate or even
House of Representatives has the right
BY treaty to deprive future Execu-
tive and Congress of the power to levy
such taxes as the onstliution OF the
Uuited States permits them to levy on
either foreign or domestic products.
1t is not orly che entering wedge tor
free trade between Great Britain and
this country, but 1t is free trade ITSELF
absolute and unrestricted. u hen the
last Reciprocity Treaty with Canada
was abrogated there was universal SAT-
isfacrion expressed by the country, aid
vet that treaty was in every single par
ticular more favorable to our Industries
than the ons now before the Senate.
This one means ruin for the manuiac-
rurers Of our State, and it should there
fore be so vigorously contested as to
make Its ratification impossible.
We fear there is more than we i'm
sgined in this third term sgiratlon.
The Washington Republican is out IN
an article, boldly advocatingit. Among
other things 1t says: Frequent
changes in the Executive lave ten
dency to make the policy of the coun-
try, both foreign and domestic. fuctu-