The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-15

MaCker0l ana SALMON.
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These are, as the Economist says,
precisely the things Canada would ex-
pect to have admitted into the United
States free of duty under any reciprocity
treaty she would be willing to make.
Every one would come into competition
with an American industry and into
direct competition with Vermont in
dustry. The New England farmer,
and especially the Vermont farmer,
would be hurt-and seriously hurt
at a time when he needs protection,
and when, under the protection con-
gress has provided, his prospects are
beginning to brighten. Reciprocity
with Canada existed by treaty during
the ten years ended in 1856. The fol-
lowing articles were on the free list of
both countries:
Grain, flour and breadstufs Of all kinds;
animals Of all kinds; products Of fish and
all other creatures living in the water;
poultry and eggs; hides, furs and skins un-
dressed stone and marble in its crude or
unwrought state; slate; butter, cheese and
tallow; lard, bones and manures; ores Of
all kinds; coal, pitch, tar, turpentine and
ashes; timber and lumber Of all kinds,
round, hewed and sawed, manufactured in
whole or in part; firewood; plants, shrubs
and trees; pelts, wool, fish oil; rice, broom
corn and bark; gypsum, ground or I'M
ground; wrought or unwrought buhr or
grindstone; dyestuffs; fax, hemp and tow
manufactured; manufactured tobacco
and rags.
Vermont farmers find in this list
nearly everything they produce. Do
they want reciprocity with Canada
again? They have not been seeking it
and they do not want it. The Canadi-
ans have been seeking renewal of the
old treaty, because they derived great
advantage from it, and new COM
mission has recently been constituted
to 60 to Washington and press the
matter upon Mr.. Blaine's attention.
We do not believe the latter's re-
ciprocity schemes contemplate any
such arrangement as was once made
with Canada and which that country
would like to renew. They certainly
do not if he still holds on this subject
the same views he expressed in 1886.
In speech at Lock Haven, Penn, in
October of that year, he said:
Some time ago one of the eminent men in
Canada asked me to use what little inf1u-
ence possess to urge upon our people the
propriety of a reciprocity treaty, which it
was understood, he said, our minister was
then negotiating at the Court Of st. James.
I asked how it would do to make clean
thing of it, and let into the United States
free Of duty everything they produced, and
everything we produced to be let into
Canada free OF duty. but no." he said,
"that would interfere with England" l
replied, "If understood you correctly, the
idea then is this Canada has practically no
manufactures and plenty of raw material,
and England has no raw material but plenty
Of manufactures, and the United States is
expected to be kind of obedient pack
horse for the convenience Of both; and that
we will let in Canada lumber, Canada coal,
Canada hay, Canada potatoes and other
products free of duty" and I said, Will
you let in our cotton and our products Of
leather, iron, STEEL and the thousand and
one others of our products?" He answered,
"I don't think England would agree to
that" In the reciprocity with Canada in
1854 thirty-eight articles were embraced !;
thirty-four or thirty-tive of them were i'm
ported into Canada, and five, or possibly
only four, could be exported from Canada;
and, when they came to form their tariff,
these articles were placed on the free list.
They were articles which they could not
produce, but which they wanted imported,
30 that they could manufacture from these
raw materials cotton, tobacco, etc.
Mr.. Blaine showed that there was no
reciprocity in that for the United
States. In another speech he referred