Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

as Canada would get market among co.
900, 900 while she afforded one of only
5000, 900. But in the case Of Canada, she
encounters q great difficulty in even offer
Ing free market with 5000, 900 for Amer
loan manufactures, because she is part Of
the British Empire, from which she now
derives fully one-half of her imports, and
with whom she has market for her ex-
ports just as free as she expects from the
United States under reciprocity.
If she admits American manufactures
free, in common fairness she ought to admit
British manufactures also. To admit both
would be to utterly annihilate her revenue
and bankrupt her finances, already in the
the lowest state. In ten years her public
debt has increased 81 per cent.
Might Ignore John Bull.
There are, however, a vast multitude in
Canada, and especially those among the
Liberal party, who see the enormous ad-
vantage that will result from free market
In the United States and especially the
saving that will be effected by the consum-
ers in Canada, who could then use largely
of American manufactures, that do not OBJ
ject to discrimination against Great Britain
by the free admission of American goods
This, it is urged, is the necessary price that
Canadians will have to pay for the best
market under the sun. They hold that as
long as the United States pursues the pro-
tective policy, Canada must levy tax on
products of Great Britain, Just the same a.
she does on the wines of France, the fancy
goods of Germany and the fancy goods Of
Spain.
Meanwhile, however, this advocacy Of
discrimination against Great Britain is held
up by the Tory party as the rankest dis
loyalty to British connection and its open
advocates are dubbed "perjured traitors"
The Tory Government now in power in
canada was sustained at the elections last
spring mainly on this loyal cry, and this,
with their dependence for the sinews of war
upon the local manufacturers who naturally
oppose reciprocity, will make it exceed |
ing]y embarrassing for the Tory negotiators
representing Canada
Not a Friendly Commission.
1t is with these gentlemen that Mr.. Har- |
rison and Mr. Blaine will have to deal, sup |
plemented also by representatives from |
Great Britain, who, of course, will view |
with alarm the tendency of Canada toward |
fiscal independence, or indeed independ-
ence of any kind. Should the English rep
resentative be the Right Honorable Joseph |
Chamberlain, his instincts for the preserva-
tiou of the interests of Birmingham will be
keenly alive. His individual fortune came
from the manufacture of screws, made in |
the suburbs OF that city. If the screws from
Connecticut and Rhode Island are admitted
free into Canada, while those of Birming-
ham continue TO be charged with duty
equal TO that of the United States tariff,
Mr.. Chamberlain is likely to strenuously
object, not because of his personal interests
alone, but because this discrimination would
apply to all manufactures.
But these complications would largely
disappear with a change in administration
in Canada, which is most unlikely. The
Tories are anxious for 8 perpetuation of
power, and will doubtless yield many |
things which would have been deemed i'm
possible year or two ago.
A Chance for the LiberalA
The shaking up they got in the recent
in the reduction BY one-half of
their majority; the tact that this majority is
derived from the outlying provinces who
ire least influential and who do not pay the
bulk of the taxesj this, with recent dis
closures of corruption, the death of the
master mind of the combination, Sir John
Macdonald, and above all, the operations of
,he Mckinley bill, in its exactions of the
agricultural section, have changed the atti-
.ude of the Tory party toward the United
States. A recent resolution introduced
into Parliament by the Premier, Mr.. Alb
oott, requesting the Imperial Government
70 relieve Canada from ths operations of
.he 'most favored nation" clause in foreign
treaties, is significant of the determination
10 let the bars partially down between the
,wo countries
But it may be relied upon that the whole
policy of the Tory party in these negotia- |
ions will be to yield Just as little as posi-
lie, in order TO obtain the free admission
nto the United States of natural products.
BY this free admission of natural products
chance will be afforded the Tory party in |
canada to secure the support of the farmer, |
ne lumberman, the miner, the fisherman
nd the shipper, which once obtained would
ettle the tenure of power in that country for
he Tories for the next 20 years.
What the Tories win Not Do.
If the United States demands an unre-
tricted market in one-half of the Continent
n exchange for an unrestricted market in
he other halt, the Tory party can hardly
ield such q concession, and, failing to Sc
ure even partial arrangement, their ten
ire of power will be doomed. Should they I
hus fail, the Liberal party will, with the ,
id OF bye-elections, now likely to be nu- .
nerous, and by pressure of public opinion,
DON come into power, and different party
av1ng a much more liberal policy toward ,
he United States will prevail s.;
Diplomacy, originated and controlled In /,
treat Britain, will hardly lead to fiscal in
ependence in Canada, because it is against Q
he apparent interests of Great Britain that ]
,anada should be fscally free. Hence t
rom diplomacy much cannot be expected t
D these negotiations. A larger and better q
asis for intimate relations between the two q
ountries would flow from legislation, and s
hose who look with the keenest interest at Z
he impending negotiations doubt their i'm t
lediate success, and rather hope that the t
ubject will be in time remitted to the Q
odies in which originated the tariffs which c
ow divide the two countries t
It is true that q legislative action of q
anada admitting American goods free
ould have to be consented to by England; I
ut if the movement in this direction sprang t
ON the people of Canada through their n
arliament it could hardly be resisted by
le imperial power, unless at the risk, n
hich she would hardly assume, of Offend \
g 40 per cent of her empire, imperiling n
s control or forever booming it to slow b
'owth and stinted development.
ERASTUs WIMAN. Ii