Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-05
THE HcKINLEY TARIFF.
1t Helps Foreign Railroad to a suocsas-
full Business.

We reproduce the following letter OF
an English officer and financier, ss pub
lished in the United Service Magazine,
of London, and in The Literary Digest
of New York, January 18th. A care
full perusal of the letter will demon
strate to the thoughtful reader the fact
that the Mckinley tariff is far reaching
in the injury it does to the American
people 1t will also give an idea of
what the people across the water think
| of republican methods as compared
with the democratic idea Of q govern
ment of the people for and by the peo-
pie:
The Canadian Pacific Railway has
made Canada To any one who knows
the Dominion we'll during the ten years
which have elapsed since, on October
2lst, 1880. the contract for its construc-
tion was signed, that fact is as clear a.
the sun at noon day. We are continu-
ally receiving enthusiastic accounts
from EnglishmeE of the wonderful
| work that has been done by the Rus
slams in pushing their Asiatic railway
toward the frontier of India, as if it
were matter of violent rejoicing for US.
No adequate recognition has been &C.
corded to the vet greater work OF our
II
trymen, for Canada is England, unless
we let Goldwin Smith write it away OK
Erastus Wiman sell it. The Russian
railway has been constructed by des-
potic government for strategic purposes.
and the whole resources of great en-
pire have been employed i'm carrying it
through at all cost. The English en-
terprise has characteristically been the
work of private company. absolutely
unassisted by the English treasury, and
yet achieving for the English nation.
scattered over the world, service of
the highest Imperial Importance.
The passing of the Mckinley bill has
greatly FASTENED and facilitated the
scheme for the establishment of line
of mail steamers from Vancouver,
which, connecting with the Canadian
Pacific. will carry to Australia and
New Zealand products from Canada.
the natural compliments and fair ex-
change for those which the colonies at
the antipodes will supply. The accom-
plishmeat Of this scheme viii supply \
ciiai9. of cQnlp.pnu,nieatiOn cQlp.p and com nerce
Gthfongaout the empire, Independent Of
the risks of interruption in time of war.
which will certainly attend the Suez
route.
1T was practically certain that, na-
less this railway were. hnitt, British
Columbia, Invaded By hosts of United
Atates eEigrants from San Francisco,
and having all IT'S commercial relations
with the state of Washington, Oregon
and Californip. could not be kept with
in the Dominion, and that the whole of
the Pacific seaboard, with it's treasures
of coal and gold and lumber and fish
would pass into the hands of the
United States, leaving the rest Of
Canada a hopeless c,tt de sac.
Despite the great success which
attended the railway in 1850. the pro-
gress it made was not because of, but
in spite of, the circumstances of the
year. The crop of that year through
cut the northwest was a disastrous
failure. This year tIssa1 the Canadian
wheat crop is the most magnificent that
has ever been reaped there. 1t is esti-
mated to be in quantity and quality
| between twofold and threefold Of that
of 1889. It is scarcely possible to
exaggerate the Importance of tats. fact.
both to Canada and ttS Canadian Pa
cific Railway, - Is not the transport of
the VEG, wheat, crop, alone OF cak.isefiy.
that will, make. ths. dtsesenoe to the
lline, bYt- lie Two millions Of money
(which will be poured into the pockets
during which they have been waiting
for success, it will enable theLs to
improve their homas, tbeiI. farms. buy
horaea az. aaaelinery, Will put raoney
pinto. the pockets Of tho tradesmen Of the
towRs and villages, and generally will
keep business in full activity all over
the lands supplied by the railway.
1T by no means follows that here
after the Mckinley taSiat ssis viii
injuriously af.eq. sss Canadian Pacific.
On .Aa s.aatTsry it will, probably, dur
ki6g the time that il lasts, which does
not seem likely to be very long, establish
the Canadian line as the lipk kstween
Europe and the far neutrality-suspicious..
The peap;- Of the northwestern states
lshe Union, who depend on the Cana
dian RAci6e for the cheap tranSssS 0f
their goods, MAY ee safely lett ID take
care that they s.s Has deprived OF that
msAna OF moving them. The authors
Of the tariH bill after their recent re-
buff are not likely to attempt any more
| restrictive action Of that kind. -. -
"The command which the. C. y =.