Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-24
RELATIONS WITH CANADA.
Erastus Wiman Argues for Commercial
and Perhaps Political Union.

KINGSTON, Ont, Nov. 23-Erastus
Wiman spoke here this evening on
"Closer trade relations between the United
States and Canada" He said in part:
I'm the United States circumstances are
extremely favorable to some arrangement
whereby trade may be extended to all
parts of the continent, north and south.
The demand for free raw material in lum
Der, irop, copper, coal, fish, fruit and wool
and also small grains is very strong, while
the necessity for enlarged markets is
equally apparent. The Pan-American
congress is an indication for desire of en-
larged relations with neighboring nations;
why not then with Canada, already the
best customer of the United States? The
enormous treasury surplus calls for
a reduction in customs and as those levied
on Canadian products amount to only S.,
0JO, 900, equal to less than 10 cents per head
to the population of the United States,
nothing would be more popular than Its
removal If an extension of commerce to
continental proportions and the opening
up of an abundant source of supply could
thereby be achieved.
"In Canada also circumstances point
plainly TO the necessity of change in the
pc icy of the country. The population is
declining, the debt increasing and the fig
years ago the deficit between exports and
imports amount to SIS, 0O0;00O while the eX-
cess in the United States during the same
period amounted to SS,000000 England
is exacting interest from Canada at the
rate of So, 5000 a year, more
than her total export of bread stuffs. Mean
time the young men of Canada ask what is
the good of British connection if it pre-
vents the country from an alliance with
the United States, by which alone the vast
resources of the dominion can secure prop
er development. If commercial union
could be achieved by concurrent legisla-
tion great stride forward would be taken
toward unification of interests between
tine two countries. If this resulted in a
political union in time it would be well
come to the United States, and perhaps in
time to Canada. IT, on the other hand,
independence from Great Britain
was desired it would not be SER
iously objected 20. With British
capital pouring out at its present rate it
would take less than fifty years for Great
Britain to control one-half of the indus
trial establishments Of the United States
aud with the country paying annually at
least 100000 to London in the shape of
dividends or interest the United States
would be far more important to Great
Britain than Canada.
Apart from this momentory interest it
England recognize in the United States
the representative of English civilization
on the continent of North America as
shown by the remarkable speech of Mr..
Gladstone at Paris, in which he predicted
In America in hundred years a popula-
ton of 600,000000. If with the United
States of Brazil following in the steps of
the United State of Columbia, which
followed in the wake of the United States
of America, there should be created the
United States of Australia, and eventually
the United States of Canada. Great
Britain would not be injured but rather
glorliied by thus permitting nearly so
per cent of her empire TO assume a posi-
lion of independence, self-reliance and
prosperity, SO glorious as that of her
neighboring republics. The world moves
rapidly in these days, as shown by the
Brazilian revolution and if at the next
general elections a verdict is rendered in
favor of closer commercial relations by
Canada with the United States, great
step will have been made forward in the
interests of the two great nations. which
by harmony of action would develop for
the good of miukiud its abundant riches"
SANTA FE REORGANIZATION A
SUCCESS.
Boston, Mass, Nov. 23-The following
document WAS given out this afternoon
from the office of the Atchison, Topeka d
Santa fei -1si~
BosFeN Mass. Nov %. lSS9.-At
meeting of the Board of directors held to-
day the following preamble and resolu-
tion were adopted:
Whereas. The stockholders Of the COM
pany have provided for the necessary
funds to meet the requirements of the
com DaDy subject TO the terms of circular
No 63, ana
Whereas. The holders of 4 majority of
all outstanding bonds of the Atchison
system both in Europe and the United
States have asSenJed to the plan of re-
organization dated October 10 1899, there
fore be il
Voted, That the said plan of reorcaniza-
tion be and is hereby declared effective
and that he official announcement of this
fact shall be made by the chairman
accompanied by notice that bondholders
10 secure participation in the benefits of
the plans should deposit their bonos on or
before December Il, 1889. and that after
that date bonds will only be received under
such equitable conditions as the board OF
directors may establish. BY order of the
board of diI ecgors. c. MAGoUN,
Chairman.
London dispatches received by the
Atchison people last night indicate the
ample success of the Atchison plan abroad.
Deposits there which to Wednesday last
aggregated $4,000, 600, now reach over SIS
100000 and 1t is stated that reliable ad-
vices from other sources indicate that the
London opposition has ceased.
NSURRECTlONlSTS GET OFF EASILY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 23-Hawaiian
advices received by the steamer Zealandia
today state that Robert Wilcox. leader of
the instruction at Honolulu last ,Juiy.
has been acquitted. The other persons
Engaged in che Instruction have also been
tried The Chinaman who was convicted
was fined $3.50, and light fines were inn
posed upon the ten or twelve natives
Summons, the Gelgian who was the first
one of the conspiraIors convicted, has had
his death sentence commuted by King
Kaiakua to one years imprisonment, after
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