Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-31
carrier; prevent any foreign carrier from
engaging in domestic transportation. He
thus illustrates:

engaging IN uomesuc transporIatlon. ne
thus illustrates:
Freight originating in the United States des-
tined to intermediate and Pacific terminal
points. is shipped into Canada, and transported
part or the whole distance to the coast on for
eign territory, transferred at Vancouver TO
American steamers, and delivered IN American
ports. And further, if destined 10 intermediate
points. il recTosses the boundary in the same
cars that received it at shipping points East. If
there be return freight, the cars reload with
American products and return over the same
route, subject to restrictions of the interstate
commerce law-whiie the same freight carried
over American lines the wholedistance is subject
TO such restrictions under Section ofthe Act, as
to make the loss of this competitive traffic less
serious than the reduction of the local rates
that would be incurred If itSyere carried. Under
its operation enough traffic has been diverted
to the foreign lines in Canada to make profit
able the operation of the Canadian Pac4hc Raj
road, which without this traffic could not be
5seIated.
So it is that Canadian cars loaded in
Boston by iRterseeting roads reach the
foreign line and are rolled 2,eoe miles
through foreign territory at rates below
the average charge for carrying its own
domestic traficaard its legitimate freight.
The gcsds are then delivered TO the con-
signees and to the American receivers, and
| the cars reloaded with American goods to
be rolled again through foreign territory
over the route first described, for delivery
to American owners on the -seaboard. But
a Canadian ship. is by law inhibited from
thus handling American goods, because
foreign water craft cannot engage in
domestic traffic. If, then, it is necessary
and wise to place such restriction upon
water craft that are foreign, how much
more should the more frequent and the
swifter vehicle be prohibited.
Congress and the Administration art
pledged to protection to American indus
tries. Are not the 10000 miles of Amer
lean railways, American industries? ask
Mr.. Totyl. Is there not included in the
designation the business, the equipment O
the roads, and the interests of the millior
of their employees? And let us add to the
essayist's questions, are not the interests o
| the millions of local commercial men, pro
dueers and consumers whose prosperity de
pends upon the roads along which they
reside and conduct their business worthy
also of protection through the maintenance,
ofthe independence of the American roads
and their capacity to compete with th'
foreign lines? Certainly, when the Amer
lean people pronounced for protection a.
they recently did, they excepted no in
dustries; they certainly intended to include
all industries that are at all likely to suffer
by foreign competition. The essayis
adds;
The benefits derivable from doing our owl
| domestic and foreign carrying are cumulative
| propOrtiOned to their magnitude. WhateYe
the income may be, it is income on American
| capital and is revolving fund" expanding
and increasing in its various evolutionS. Thi
money collected under protective tariff by tht
| Government, if not locked up in the treasury
but judiciously distributed so as to expand
| American commerce, makes no one any poorer
| but each industry in turn secures a benefit, ans
| enterprise is stimulated.
Our inland transportation industry is autsgon
ICED by foreign rivals, backed by powerful Gov
| ernment aid. Canada 10 the north of us, aideC
and abetted by the most powerful martins
nation on earth, is permitted free trade in tn
interstate carrying business of the United States
She has presented the Canadian Pacific Railwa,
Company with an equipped railway from tn
Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, with branche
inteTsecting American lines at couvenien
points for traffic. his road is exempted from tax
alton. and subject to no law other than the Law
of common carriers. There is appropriateness
III the appellation. Canadian Government OF
wheels" which has been applied TO it. II :
| backed by the Imperial Government of Grea
Britain, which has granted large subsidies il
money to powerful steamship lines plying OF
four oceans for the purpose of diverting traff
| to itself
Inyiew OF these facts-which have only beer
limited at-what is the duty of our Government
| with an overlOwiDg treasury derived from
| taxes paid by American industries-amOng tn,
first of which is that of the American railways
| the mileage of which outranks that of am!
nation?