, 1892-06-29
THE FREE TRADERS.
A Meeting in London to Denounce
Our Tariff.
1t Does Not Suit the Canadians ana
the British and They want Re-
taIItatOrY Measures Passed
Against the UnIted states.

taIitatOry Measures Passed
Against the United States.
LONDON, June 29.-Among the important
resolutions to be discussed by the cham bers
of commerce in congress is the following:
The Winnipeg (Manitoba) board of trade
will move that it is the opinion ofthis con-
gress that the time has come and is close
at hand when the people of Great Britain
can, with confidence, look to the colonies
and dependencies of the empire for that
portion of their breadstuf which they find
necessary to import from year to year, that
the rapid development of the grain produc-
tion of Canada, India and Australia, in
the past ten years clearly indicates that
these countries will soon have annually an
export of surplus grain in excess Of the
annual import demand of the British and
it be altogether unnecessary for the latter
to look for supplies to foreign countries,
especially those whose tariff is so framed
as to strike specially at the trade interests
of Great Britain and the British colonies.
That this congress sees the best method of
securing this end by the system in the
mother country of tariff discrimination
against grain and other food products of
foreign nations and in favor Of the import
of such goods from colonies and dependen-
cies and similar discrimination by colonies
and dependencies in connection with the
tariff on other goods required to be inn
ported by them, That this congress favors
such a movement, and believes its enforce
ment would serve as check upon national
selfshness which at the present time seems
to inspire many nations in framing their
tariff laws, that its enforcement would
.s.,1o
would in comparatively few years prac-
tically force the great nations of the world
into much freer system Of trade inter-
course than now exists between them.
Similar resolutions, favoring tariff re-
tallation against the United States, were
presented by the chambers of commerce of
Montreal Toronto, and Regina, N. w. T.
The chamber of commerce of Trinidad
British West Indies, declares the McKin-
ley law favorable to the East Indies, and
says the general feeling is that every
reasonable effort should be made to retain
the United States market, as the best yet
found for the principal staple, sugar.
A delegate of the Regina board of trade
board of trade will offer the following:
Resolved That the board of trade of
Regina, N. W. T., Canada, would heartily
favor an extension of commerce and trade
upon a preferential basis throughout all
parts of the British empire, and it would
be of the highest collective and individual
advantage. Further, that the provisions
of any foreign treaty imposing limitations
upon the full developement of trade be-
tween Canada and other parts of the Brit
ish empire, should be at once abrOgated.
In advocating the above, we wish it under
stood. while we desire free trade with the
British empire, we have no desire to inter-
fere now or at and time with the fiscal
political liberties at present enl0yed by g
self-governing colonies, and we believe il
such a scheme could be carried out in the
near future, it would be just retaliation to
the United States for the recent legislation
affecting trade relations between Great
Britain and Canada with the United States.