Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-15
NEW HOPE OF NEW ENGLAND.


 by MT. wiman-The Vast Resources
 of Canada-Annexation POssible-A
 Large Audience Present.
 Notwithstanding the disagreeable wealth CT last evening the room of the court of common pleas was filled to it's utmost seat ing capacity at the meeting of the board | of trade. This fact was due to the pres- | ence of MT. Erastus Wiman, .who had l come in acceptance of the invitation ex- tended by the board to address them on Reciprocity the New Hope of New Eng land" The audience was composed of the leading business and professional men of the city. :. Among whom were: Mayor Peck, Henry G. Lewis, General Potter, Rev. MT. Squires, Judge Sheldon, N D. sperry, c. s. Mersick, B. R. English, Judge Munson, H. E. Warren, D. o. Connor, Cap
 tain Townsend, Max Adler, Major Strong.
 None of the routine business of the board was done save the reading by the president of committee of twenty one appointed to see to the preparations of the chambers annual banquet, which will take place in November sometime between the 10th and 2Oth.. President Dewen in in troducing MT. Wiman said: "Gentlemen, have the pleasure of introducing to you this evening one who, although not citi- zen of the United States, is known to you all as a true Canadian Yankee"
 MT. Wiman was greeted with liberal ap- plause, as indeed he was all through his able address. Seldom is it the fortune of New Haven people to listen to more forcible or appealing speaker than Mir. Wiman. And for this rare treat unani- nous vote of thanks was extended. Ladies and gentlemen, he said, it is great pleas ure for me to meet you this wet night to speak on a subject that is so dry. It is very gratifying also for me to see that every seat in the house is taken.
 An old but not often used maxim IS that "the greater the good the nearer the soil" The universal rule, that lurking near every Eden serpent lies concealed, is true in economic policies, as in social or intellectual conditions. There seems to be no great advantages possible in any line of human achievement, but side by side with it exists 8 disadvantage. One cannot be enjoyed without the other is risked and not infrequently that which begets the highest reward is accompanied | by the greatest danger. Thus it is that | in the trade policy of protection, which | New England more than any other section of the country, has fostered and pro | noted, is found a reflex condition that l seriously menaces her prosperity and | threatens to paralyze her industry. The | policy which built up New Enlgand as a great manufacturing region, at the ex- ponse of other sections now threat ems to build up these sections at the expense of New England: The | well merited claim of the protectionist is | that industry is stimulated and production | increased by the enforcement of this plan, but the increase is greater in production l than in the power to consume, the equl- 1 librium is disturbed and danger ensues. | It is especially dangerous and distressing if the extension of the principle of protec- tion not only stimulates production in ex- ness of consumption, but if this produc- tion is in regions heretofore serving as markets for the absorption of products and now transformed into regions of man ufacture with conditions far more favor able than those which formerly supplied l their wants. Thus it occurs that New l England finds in the west and south in stead of market competitor and com petitor armed and equipped with advan- tages which New England can never pos sess. Entrenched in the midst of a mar ket for manufactures that constantly increase in the presence of the | ready assemblage of those great essential l elements of wealth-coal, iron and lime
 stone; in many quarters enriched with
 that marvellous force that for so long has existed beneath the earth's surface, that
 mysterious power so full of possibilities,
 known as natural gas, it is impossible to
 conceive of circumstances more favorable for profitable manufacturing energy than
 is found in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in Indi.
 ana and in numerous other southern and
 western states. But added to all these ad
 vantages is the presence of enormous forces
 in the production or the most nutritious
 food at 8 minimum of cost and with mini
 mum charges for freight or expense of dis
 tribution. The great development of iro1
 in the Lake Superior region, the low cos
 of water carriage to central lake ports anc
 the equally low cost of coal, even iron
 Pennsylvania by the same mean.
 of communication, make these places
 ideal manufacturing towns, located, al
 they are in the midst of the finest agri
 rich and prosperous people, creating a
 once a great and profitable market for tn,
 output of these establishments. Whel
 one recalls the fact that the home of the
 Corliss engine has gone west from Provi
 dence, R. l., to Milwaukee, Wis, pointed | illustration is afforded of the influence O.
 this movement. Competition is compe
 tition still, no matter from where it comes
 and all the elements of waste reduced
 price, and of increased cost of marketing
 is endured, even those of our own house
 hold carrying on the conflict. But thu
 competition is between sections so ad versely situated as New England and th' | western and southern states, is . conflict O
 0 most unequal character, the result O which no one can doubt. New Englant
 with all her historic pluck and persistenc
 in the great struggle that impends, cal
 hardly maintain herself in this unequa
 battle, and hence, prudence dictates t.
 her as policy that while it will not il the slightest degree injure her competitors will open up new field for her enter for her children, and restore her to he pristine glory as a successful manufactur
 ing region. A French writer has said "In ancient days when fortunes wer made hy war, war was a business; but il these later days, when fortunes are mad
 by business, business is war" If Ney England is the sagacious, far seeing Ney } England that the world gives her credit fo ] she will shift the scene of warfare iron the unequal contest on her own groun'
 with the western and southern states
 and seeking some new markets with fre
 raw material, and cheapened food products
 lay broad and deep the foundations for
 great trade that nothing will hereafter dis
 turb.
 The hope of New England therefore
 lies in some change of policy and as i
 seems impossible for that region entirel to reverse it's ideas, heretofore so pro nounced, in favor of protection, there
 new hope for it in the principles of reef
 procity. While the tariff recentl
 enacted put up barriers higher than eve
 against Europe it recognized at the sam
 time the desire for reciprocal trade witt the countries of this continent. But il order that any practical results shoul. come to New England from reciprocity must be extended to the whole of America
 Tie cheap raw material which it is possi ble for New England to obtain only il ! Canada is quite as essential t. success in competing for the south
 ern markets, as subventions or reciproca advantages. The nearby supplies o iron, of coal, of fish and othe food products in the maritime province would be immediately available under reef procity with Canada, and would giv New England an advantage in manufac
 ture, both foreign and home trade, of in calculable value. Reciprocity with Canad would also mean a development in tha country eqnal to that of the United States
 in which our people could equally partici
 pate, thus enriching themselves and tn
 world at large. Markets would be created
 for New England manufactories whicl
 would readily absorb the surplus of pro
 duction, and which would have the advan tage of free admission to so large portion
 of the British empire, while goods iron
 Great Britain and foreign countries would be burdened with tariff equal to that o
 this country. In Europe, Germany ani
 England are seen dividing continen
 in the hope of trade with Africa