, 1880-06-24
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY
commercial Union Between the
Dominion and the States.
Who Are For and Who Against 1t
.. In Canada.
1rrosistablo Grnvitation Towards
: Such Uni0n.'

;, Such Union.
1.-THE Economic Forces In the Euds
y !, Must Prevail."; |
m oo'a'ots 9ss,s q To5Sr's 5o1 s Ge :" North
Sir Fratc}s lItncks Is one Of party which !
does tts utmost to give tho policy Ut Canada |
what may be called MI alltt+continental turn.
III must not reproach those who, believing !
Ills to bo mistake, tnko tho liberty Of ex-
pressing their opinion. and Ut endeavorinE to
counteract the GstrnnRcn,eMt which It Is his
obcct and that Of Ills friends TO produce
They feel that they may do this without
placing themselves in any way III q falso ro'
stt.ot,. Sir Francis Iiincks evidently thinks
That I.o plnccs himself ln no false position by
writing about tho rolations between tho two
countries In an American journal. 1lo
Is right. havo spent solne years
III the United States, not rs inerc
,o]ourner, but engaged In educational work
with my colleagues; think may say
have lad full access to tile renl sentl~
ments of the people, ard can truly say TINT
lnuver heard a syllable implying the slight
est desire OF interfering with tho lndcpend-
el,cc of Canada, or III any way doing Sio-
discuss these questions with the freedom OF
friendship md Of natural partnership III tho
advantages nlltl destfnics Of tho New World.
CANADA A1BATrnAcTED, ECONOMICALLY,
to tile rest Of tho Continent OF which she Is
a pnrt; wLih, ns tho recent application OF
The l}ostoi merchants to Congress shows. tho
5psr of the Continent Is Mt tho SHINE time at~
tracted economically her. 1lltsisthemovo-
mcnt which is really going on, anAl
which by Its increasing manifestations
excltes the alarm, OF Sir Francis
lltncks and the Globe. It IS not
tho offspring OF intrigue, but tho bchest Of
Nature. No conspiracy except tho mutual
interest of tho two nations gave 1t birth: no
tlcnuncia.ions will put II down.
Let those who think that they can for ever
ar1cst or.cvcl1 reverse this commercial grnvi-
tation consult the mnp l TO not mean tho
mup political. III which tho Dominion Of
Cat,adn appears rs q compact llnlf continent,
but the map economical. IN the map eco-
nnInicnl tho Dominion consists Ut four dis
tnct territories, separated from each other
by great NATURAL barriers. Between tho
Maritime Provinces and old Canada {Ontario
and Quebec lies the Wild country through
which the IntercolonEal Railway ru1Es; be
tween old Canatla Mud Manitoba lies the
desert to tho north of Lake Superior;
between Mauitobn and British Columbia
lies not only Il formidable tract Of
desert but Il series of nountain-raMges still
moro formidable. Encil of tho separate ter
ritories is by nature CONNECTED commercially
with IN nljacont portion Ut the unl!'n: !:
Nova Scotia uild Now brunswick with N.w
England; Quebec allu Ontario with tho
States to tho south nlld west Of them. OH
and Ohio; Manitoba with Minnesota, from
iine; Britfsil Coinnbin With California;: Tic
Maturai routes between tho four territories
lie not over Canadian but over American
ground, and
co,IsEI.cE WILL. FOLLOW THE NATURAL
not tho political routes. On tic other hallli,
the action Of tic Boston merchants Shows
that THO identity Of commercial interest and ,
Tho people Of the United States wnnt
Ca,aaIan lumber. they want the traao I'd
free a1,4 SECURE uso Of the st. Lawrence.
Thn American fishermen want free Mccess to
the CNnnl1an fisheries, rs much NJ tho peo-
ne Of ting Sare PROVINCES - wat tn,t f,a; Hs
Ilerculean efforts have been made not by
the Canadian people. properly speaking, but
purposes, and in colccft will. English lmpc'
xallsn, to reverse the. order Of tnturc. to
sover Canada commercially from hes. CONT
tlGntY ullu 10 UlIlu IltC CEullO IulCllllJ u Eli
fllose on tie otter sldc of TIC gio6c, md to
eyery. portion Of the world except the dreaded
Republic. An imperial ZolvereIn has bee,l 4
ropean nations; an editorial up
peaIed some time ago in in @ tne L;, To
Snsq aiRet Seo Ewe o woaa Ssfs
+, than compensate the loss Of these ut oul
own door. Al the samo time q sorles ol
gigantic railway enterprises has been under
four separate territories by lines running
entirely within British territory. so 9s Y
asoid any partnership IN htghways VIII, tn
he eneny IL Pat betee ca Ganada s as
the United States, d belief l1 which, rs ~
event OF the future, Is ono OF our t1nperla
institutions. Tho result. Wllile Il hos ~ beer 4
NOT BEEN SATISFACTORY TO THE QANADlAt
PEOPLE.
The negotiations sforeolnnlercial treaties hay'
falled., as 1t was likely tl.ey would. Whe!
making powers. Tho first Of the 0litlconlli
tary railways, the lntercoloMlAl. uniting
tho maritime provinces with oil CAnNda, It'll
lua ii q heavy annual cost 70 thu Cover,
,1ore Of Q burden than ever when the MI ~
nral r9u!s is opea9d - It sSnm psm VII td ' ns
nlenso expenditure involved in tho opertio
OF, extending tho llolltlco-ullitary system
railways westward, under the Iialno OF til
Canadian Tacttic, tlle less adyenturoas pol
'tlon Of the community, Including apparent
" Sir Francis 11incks htu!solf. fl bcginnn
y rec0ll. The lender ut tho Opposition u
the Dominion Parliament moved. tho otlc
day, to postpone tho construction Ut o POI
tion Of the railway within tho territory .
British Columbia He Was Defeated b
lnn1,dtng large minority. But. the1o
little doubt That III. caucus, to kce
tho representatives of Quebec and + y
eastern provinces under tho standard, til
Government had to glyp assurnnees Of cn
tion and delay. More tha,l this, the Mintstc
of Railways, IN Ills speech, allowed 1t 70 y
the construction OF tic projected line to u
north OF Lake Superior, through count
desparateiy difficult, was not 70 ba nut iiltlt
content itself With the naturA route, .Whie
runs to the south OF the lake through Amer ~