The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-12

Canada and the United States" Is the
title of . paper contributed by the Mar
quis of Lorne to the North American Reyiew
for the current month. The article pre-
sents striking association of broad
British patriotism with profound inter-
est in Canadian interests and a clear,
familiar comprehension of Canadian con-
ditions and needs. And in dicussing these
conditions and these needs he makes one
of the most valuable of recent contribu-
tions to the gospel of protection, fitted
alike to Canada and the United States.
Sprung from one Of the proudest lines of
British aristocracy and welded to daugh-
ter of the sovereign, there can be no room
to question the writer's Identification with
an attachment to British institutions and
policies. There can be no doubt as to his
inclination to further those measures, and
only those, which in his judgment are best
calculated to promote the interests of
Great Britain and her colonies.
Thus inclined, his well-balanced mind
has not failed to perceive that castiron
or inflexible rule is not alike applicable to
the promotion of the best interests both of
the mother country and of her colonies.
A rule applicable to the former because of
her dense population, plethora of accumul-
ated capital and infinite diversity of in
dustries is manifestly and by the same
sign inapplicable to colonies of sparse
population, meager capital and standing
in sore need of greater diversihcation of
industries.
Looking to the interest. of Canada the
Marquis says. when country has great
natural wealth to safeguard and exploit
for her own people. the protective tariff
may often be necessary to plant factories. /"
This. he admits, els considered heresy in
England" but he has no hesitation in de-
claring, and American frce-traders would
do well to note the declaration and con-
slider its source, that England under
similar circumstances to those of Canada
would do precisely the same"
The point of difference between Eng
lands and Canada's condition is thus
| forcibly presented: ''She (England) is
now seething factory in mid-channel be-
| tween the old and the new world, and her
! interests now are to take all she can Of the
| raw and manufactured goods, because her
| territories are too small to let her people
| live except as general brokers on their own
| and other nations products. Canada is
small in population. but vast in land and
| latent resources, and she gets the capital
| of the old world to develop her latent
wealth. She can well afford to draw most
| of her revenue from import duties. for she
| becomes stronger every year to bear any
| strain"
| This writer, a Briton in every fiber and
| impulse, finds no inconsistency in approx
| ing free trade policy as best for England,
while ably and strenuously advocating the
| counter policy for Canada. 1t would be
/ well If the free-traders and tariff reformers
| of the United States could with equal
| facility free their minds from the habit of
| applying the same abstract principles to
| ali conditions, no matter how variant and
| opposed. As in the case Of Canada, so in
| that of the United States, the very reasons
| which make free trade wise and profita-
bic policy for England, indicate protection
as the wise and only policy for our coun-
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