, 1891-02-21

annually from this Colony to British Moth
America amount, in, the case OF sugar, 10
about three per cent, and in the case otfnolas-
ses to eighty-four per cent of the total export
Of the Colony in those articles.
The class Of sugar which IS exported from
Barbados, testing as it does from $50 to 900
by the polariscope. is now subject III Canadian
ports to a duty OF from one and three-htths
to one and two-third cents per pound.
MoIasses of the quality made here pays a
duty Of Is per cent. al volorem. Reducing
these duties by one-foulth it viii be seen that
the tariff advantages held out by Canada to
Barbados in return for the reciprocal trade
relations which she desires to establish with
this ana other West Indian Colonies. are
admission Of our sugar at from one and two
tenths to one and three quarters cents per
pound, and Of molasses at all Gd raiorem r4te
of eleven and q quarter per cent. as against
one and three.hfths to one and tWo-thlrdt
cents per pound, and Is per cent. ad Ualorem
charged respectively upon sugar and molasses
of the same quality coming from other coun-
tries.
We have next to consider to what extent
Canada is IN u position to become the exclu-
sive market for the sugar Of the British West
Indies.
Excluding British Guiana, with which
SSA0N4 GAN NON0Ah AiSAiN 0SS AACS
seek to establish reciprocal trade relations,
the gu antity of sugar for refining purposes
expor ted from the British West Indies in the
year 1889, YVES in round numbers 10000
tons.
The latest Canadian official returns which
I have been q bic to consult, are made up to
the Both of June 1889. During the year which
ended at that date, the quantity OF sugar for
refining purposes imported into Canada and
entered tot home consumption was as fol-
lows -
Direct from the Country Of
growth..-........~.. 206, 474,l27 lbs.
Not Direct. -. :..~....., 1921 100
Total ....... .212, pc, 1867 lbs.
making in round numbers IA total consumption
OF 8 1900 tons.
Mr.. Foster has informed us that the con-
sumption of sugar in canada has Of late years
increased very considerably, and is likely to
increaset but after giving due weight TO.
this consideration, the oniylnIerence that can,
as it seems to me, be safely drawn from these
facts and figures, is that CanadaS is not at
present in q position to take more than 65 per
cent. of the sugar, which those colonies to-
which she offers an exclusive market, will an.
uually have to dispose Of
On the other hand, we must not fail to re-
member, that Canada is a vast and progress
i've country, with a rapidly increasing popuia.
ton, united under one flag with ourselves !
that if we take a wide forecast into the future,
her capacities are almost boundless for absorb
ing tile products and thereby enhancing the
prosperity Of whatsoever coautr les she may.
h1vo cam nstciaF dealings WITH we have
very rightly had pressed upon us the import
ant consideration. that in its climate aud
natural resources, Canada Is Ito use. Mr..
Fosters expression), the complement of the
West Indies, producing nothing that they
produce. though able to supply all that they
require from abroad SO that IN trading with
Canada, West India planters Will not have.
to fear any of that internal competition,
which .cohfronts them in the United States of
America and which is destined, some think,
at no distant date to drive them from Ameti-.
can markets altogether we are even invited
to hope that our tropical products ~ impbrted
into Canada at6sF 'essteYh2bortsfahd In ex-
cess of her own requirement, will by means
of her great system of railways he TRANSPORTING
across the North American Continent for res
shipment at her western outlets, and may
ultimately fnd a market on the further shores
of the Pacific. ."tl
The last named contingency, however, 10
one which, at the least, is not capable of be-
ing immediately realized; and in the mean
time the question presses for an answer
What, supposing that we enter. into the pro-
nOuad orNo - 0oY,nrk &c n ba 5ooo xvv;4Lo H.