, 1891-07-15

i'm their American trade. In celebrating
this idea Mr. Foster told Of his recent visit
to Jamaica of what an intense degree OF
brOtherly love for Canada he found there,
of the public clamOr that was raised In IA
VOur OF turning the Jamaican trade away
from the United States into HALIFAX ana
Montreal SO soon as he showed bis Sd mpleS
and told his prices. All that Canada need
ed TO do to get This rich trade, he saId, was to
start a line of fast ships down there and SeG
up Canadian shops. The West Indian peo-
pie. he said, were eager to arrange a system
Of interCoiOnial trade.
The superlative folly of these statements
is demonstrated by orr correspondent liz
facts and figures that leave no room to sup
pose that Mr.. Foster is serious. The idea Of
competition between a nation offs, 900, 0O0peO-
ple who buy from Jamaica less than S2O0,0O0
a year, and one of GO 100000 who buy near
Is $4,000, 900 a year, more than half the
islands total expectation, IS nothing elSa
than prppO ferrous. It becomes utterly
grOtesQue when the reverse side OF Jamal-
cas- trade is shown, and it is seen that the
smaller nationsells to the islanders already
four times as much as she buys, while tho
larger nation buys nearly twice as much as
she sells. For Mr.. Foster to talk OF dis
placing American goods, or even OF count
ing a straw's weight against our effort 70
enlarge Our market there and TO induce she
islanders to buy of us in fair proportion to
the sums We spend with them ID ainO
chasing Of the siIlieSt kind.
1t is not hard to discovers motive Ofthis
business. Mr.. Blaine's great policy Of Re-
ciprocity has worried the Government OF
Canada not less Than those OF the nations of
Europe. This is not because Canada Is IN any
sense rival Of ours IN Southern markets, as
England. Spain and France are. 1t IL be-.
cause of he public sentiment the Crit lead
prS have created in fdv0nr Of their sch eme OF
commercial union 10y arguments as TO th0
bearings of our Reciprocity tire atieS. n.
Laurier and Sir Richard Cartwright lIVe
shown that the goods VT are exporting to
Brazil, Cuba and other tropical lands, upOn
which goods VT are obtaining tayOring Inn
port duties, are precisely those goods Of
which Canada has a surplus. They are using
facts similar to those which Onr Corr"HpOll-
dent so impresSiyely presents to show that II
our new DOliCy is persisted III We must soon
control the Southern iml0 Tt trade Jnst as WE
now control it's export trade, ana that no
possible combination Of foreign States cans
pmbarrass this result. From these IndlSpu'
table premises it is n short work To convince
so thoughtful q people as the Canadians
that with commercial union they WOnl6
have for nothing an important share III this
export business, and a share which by no
ether method they could hope to obtain.
There would thus be placed ut tIr'lT disp0-
sal to secure the prompt and certain sale OF
their surplus pr0dncts the purchasing
strength of 63, 600, 900 Of weIl-t0-a0 people
1t is unnecessary t0draw upon the lm;6gl-
nation to perceive Whist this BoWld userG u to
Canada.
Bnt what it would mean to the United
States is not so plain. Their farmers and
artisans are already competent to supply
the trade, which Mr.. Blaine is 80 success
fully reaching after. 1t would undOnbted-
" be agreeable to the United States 10 see
upon their Northern borders % rich and pro-
g~Tessive republican nation, true TO
American principles, welded to American
interests, free OF all European entanglements,
devoted, as is every other State npon the
two continents, not to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of foreign mOnarchieS, but to the pr0paga-
ton of the American principle OF equal
rights and plenty of them. The United
States would be most nnSelfsh in dealing
with such a community. But it i'll be hard
TO convince an American that he can find
either duty or interest in supplying "men,
money and markets" to strengthen and de-
velop a people who leaning on a foreign
Power and giving 1t allegiance, direct @
large part Of their energies toward render
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