The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-10-15
TO FLouRIsH AS a GREEN GAY
TREE.
Erastus Wiman Says Reciprocity
VIII Boom New England.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, October 14.-At the
invitation of the New Haven Chamber of
Commerce, Efastus Wiman spoke this even
ing in the rooms Of the Court Of Appeals on
RECIPROCITY; the New Hope Of New Eng-
land" He said in part The conditions
which confront manufacturing industries in
this region are completely reversed as com
pared with those of ten years ago. For
while New England manufactures have been
built up at the expense Of other parts Of the
country, these parts are now developing
manufactures of their own at the expense of
New England. In the impending war OF
competition, New England would be utterly
unable to maintain herself against her COM
petitors in the Western and Southern States,
with their ready access to raw material and
ample food supplies at the lowest cost for
production and production. The fact that
the home Of the C0rllss engine was removed
from Providence to Milwaukee illustrates
the change of location going on in all indus
tries of the country. The hope of New Eng
land. therefore, lies in some change Of her
present policy. As it seems impossible for
that region to entirely reverse its ideas in IA
vOr of protection, there Is new hope for 1t
In the PRINCIPLES of reciprocity. While the
tariff recently enacted has put up barriers
higher than ever against Europe, 1t recog-
niZed the desire for reciprocal trade with
the countries of this continent. In order
that any practical result should come to
New England from reciprocity it
of America. Cheap raw material which is
possible for New England to obtain Only in
Canada is quite as essential to success in
competing Tor Southern markets as the SUBJ
ventiOns or reciprocal advantages The
near by supplies of iron, coal, fish and other
food products In the Maritime provinces
would be Immediately available under reci-
rrccity with Canada. and would give New
England an advantage in manufacture both
for foreign and home trade Of incalculable
value. Reciprocity with Canada would also
mean development in that country equal to
that of the United States, in which our peo-
pie could equally participate, thus enriching
themselves and the world at large. Markets
manufactures which would readily alb
sorb the surplus Of production
which would have the advantage Of free ad-
mission to large portion of the British em-
pire. Goods from Great Britain and other
foreign countries would be burdened with
tariff equal to that of this country. In Eu-
rope, Germany and England are dividing the
continent in the hope of trade with Africa,
inhabited by savages with whom protlt Is re-
mote and uncertain. Reciprocity with Can
ada would give the United States free access
to region actually vast, possessing proba-
bilities Infinitely greater in wealth and profit.
In order to secure these advantages and to
give to the United States influence, which,
as nation, 1t should possess over the whole
of this continent, 1t is necessary to otllter-
ate the trade barriers tnat now cut it in two
parts. This can be done by Congress by
adopting the Sherman-HiIt resolution
empowering the President to ap-
point commissioners to prepare
q plan for submission to Congress as soon as
the Canadian government is ready to do
likewise. The present government of Cana
da cannot be expected to respond to this in
vitaton, but the vast ml jority of the people
of Canada favor the closest possible trade
relations with the United States. This SEN
timent will be greatly strengthened by the
operation of the Mckinley bill in doubling
the duty on their exports. A general parlia-
mentary election will soon come, and IL Con-
gress will express the same desire to trade
as freely with the North as with the South
and to enact the Sherman proposal the Lib
eral party of Canada will carry the day and
government will come into power in the
Dominion whose policy instead of restric-
ton and hostility toward the United States
will be one Of harmony and good will. Thus
will be secured active cooperation towards
the creation of mutually of interests, the ad-
vantage of which to New England aud TO the
whole country no one can tell.