New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-25
FOR COLONIAL RECIPROCITY.
COLONEL VINCENT URGES THE NEED OF pRoTEc-
TIVE TARIFF FOR ENGLAND.

TIVE TARIFF FOR ENGLAND.
Ottawa, July "a (speciap-LieutenantC Colonel How
ard Vincent, NJ. p, secretary Of the United Empire
Trade League of London. Eng. addressed A meet
ing OF members of Parliament and Senators here
to-day. He urged arrangement BY which England
and the colonies should trade with each other upon
basis from which the mother country would discrim-
mate In favor Of colonial products by permitting their
mpol taton tree and placing an import duty upon tho
products Of such countries LEVIED heavy duties
upon British manufactures provided the colonies would
discriminate to equal extent In favo. OF British
manufactures. There a strong sentiment IN Eng
ish manufacturing centres among the manufacturers
and especially among the working classes. who had
taken up the idea of Sir John Macdcnald's fiscal po
cy This had received an additional impetus by the
advocacy OF a similar line Of policy by Mr.. Rhodes.
Premier of Cape Colony, and Sir Henry Parhes Of
Australia. England was brought face TO face with a
problem in relation to agriculture Free trade in these
products had driven the people off the lands and into
the towns, which are now congestcd, because agri-
culture could not begin to pay I'm the face OF an
unrestricted competition from America and other great
countries and the important problem now how 10
get the people back 10 the lands again. He said the
Mckinley tariff had dealt severe blow the hard
ware manufacturers of England, and Il wns equally
true that the readymade clothing industry Of England
was heavily cut in upon by protected Germany, and
also the manufactures of iron from the protected work
shops OF Belgium.
In answering the question why England could not
enter upon terms of reciprocity with such protected
countries as Germany and Belgium, or the United
states, he replied that England had now no ad-
vantage to offer exchange which those countries
did not already possess for whatever trade
cessons England held in her hand she had voluntarily
parted with forty years ago.
Colonel Vincent emphatic upon this point,
namely, that England would make no move what
ever that would have the appearance Of interfering
vi 1p Icy Of fha had baan
releSated to their control In years gone by, and
today regarded by the mother country as
sacred compact with the colonies. Therefore, in the
matter of negotiation between themselves and the
mother country, the first practical must be made
by the colonies and especially by Canada, which
tho colony OF all others the most frequent upon
English lips today the influential and the most
attentiveIy regarded in her every movement 1t
this delcacy on the part OF England that
stuted the barrier in the way of any practical propo
sition by the friends of United Empire in
as well in politics, and of making definite propo-
sitions for basis of mutual protection In trade.
But with a simple declaration the part Of Canada
by her Parment that she was ready TO recprOcate with
the mother country and through her with the sister
colonies, upon any fair basis, for imperial and
colonial trade federation the difficulty in the way
Of practical propositions by England would be
moved and this would be hailed with great satisfaction
by q large portion Of the English people. He added
that II was ptful 10 see hundreds Of thousands of
the bounds OF the empire and passing from Canada
into the United States. This and the hundreds Of
turned going into the foreign field, certainly
matters for serious consideration by every one who
desired to secure the pcrpetuty Of the empire and to
this end desired to the lands OF colonies
occupied by people OF British blood.