The New York herald., 1879-03-18
CANADA's NEW TARIFF.
AMERICAN AND BRITISH INTERESTS AS AZ
FEcTED BY T-oUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoRs
TAKING THEIR OWN PART.

AMERICAN AND BRITISH INTERESTS AS AF-
FEcTED BY rr-oUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoRs
TAKING THEIR OWN PART.
ToRoNro. Ont, March II. 1879.
The Nail government organ) in an editorial on the
tariff changes. says:-"The policy submitted by the
government is essentially Canadian policy framed
with the deliberate intention of building up Canada,
developing her ources and protecting her nascent
industries against undue outside competition. and
our British connection is endangered by it then
so much the worse for the British connec-
ton. Nature never intended the inhabitants
Of the Dominion to remain for all time
an agricultural people. The vast mineral
wealth Of the country. its unrvalled water power,
the variety OF its productions. it's boundess area.
and above ALL the intelligence. energy and self reli
ance of it's people-all these bear witness that we
have mission far beyond the primitive calling of
bartering wheat and cattle for the products of for
eign looms or the output of foreign workshops. 1t
cannot be the British policy that shohld remain
Manchester and Shefield probably de-
white Hindoos. created to be consumers of their
adultersted cotton and cheap cutlery, and no doubt
national policy will excite their displeasure All we
say is let them be dspleased; VIC not
quered people. on whom they can thrust their
by force OF bayonents; is the national spirit vet
sunk low that w5'dare not be loyal to Canada for
fear of being charged with treason to British manu-
featuring interests British connection imposes no
such yoke upon British policy toward Canada Is
not regulated by cotton lords. It Is not founded
upon sefshness nor based upon cupidity. 1t is .
Bond mutually honorable and mutually advan-
tageous; and whatever Manchester or Sheffield may
say, the nober instincts Of the British people will
build up great British nation
policy will provoke the Mother Country en-
danger our relations with her. She would be false
to herself. to her traditions, and to the spirit
of freedom, of which she is apostle if she
bade us submit ourselves to British manufacturers
abandon our native Industries and relapse into .
pastoral state British connection on such terms
might suit slaves. but no people of British origin
would tolerate it. The cry that the new policy will
hey one for ~ should
feelings in framing fiscal policy for Canada? At a
critical period in our history they abrogated re-
starving us into annexation. For years they
have met conciiatory advances with
host hostile tariffs Our markets s". have have been
persistently kept their gates shut against They
have rejected advances and returned evil for good
in every Not the s ran Of
gress in 1874 moved them although he offered them
most extravagant terms if they would only consent
to be neighborly We have asked and entreated long
enough. The time for action has come If they arc
irritated by the new protective policy we point
to the Morrill, tariff If they accuse MS Of being
articles Of reciprocity and the contemptuous
refusals Of Congress. We can point to their
atv ses a @
cod liver o levied for the express purpose Of evading
that treaty. to the in which they discharged
their international obligations during the Fenian
raids and to their whole line Of conduct toward us
for the past thirteen years. We have an abundance
Of ta qsoqses but. better than all such. we can
mako the dignifed answer that the Canadian people
have the right and intend to exercise it, of shaping
their fiscal policy they deem best for their own
interest regardless Of the views Of foreign country
inter trade negotiations"