St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-04

tiio treasury, CuardcteTiZeU dS 'aCCS or
barbarlsm fit only for savages." We
purchase exemption by tribute.
SecOnd-The Dominion government
maintains an unjust discrimination of
Is cents a ton against American ports
on Lake Ontario and the st. Lawrence
river, against which President Harri-
son has issued a retaliatory message.
Thlrd-The Dominion government i'm
poses unjustly discriminating entrance
and clearance fees upon American YES
sells In Canadian waters, contrary to the
express terms Of the treaty of Washing
ton.
Fourth-The Dominion government
refuses to allow American citizens to
go to the relief Of American vessels and
their crews when wrecked III Canadian
waters.
Fifth-The Dominion government i'm
poses an Insulting and unprecedented
discriminating duty of 20 per cent on
silver coin of the United States.
Sixtt-The Dominion government has
at public cost built railroad across
the continent, and, in connection with
heavily subsidized steamer lines on the
Pacific coast, is now seeking to divert
American commerce from American
ships, American Pacific coast ports and
American internal transportation lines.
hS pdlu W tiiS GULL
blnatiOn amount to 100000 600 yearly.
Seventh-The Dominion government
has the audacity to impose discrimi-
mating duty of 10 per cent upon tea and
coffee when imported from the United
States. This is part of the scheme to
divert commerce from American ships
and from American Seaports.
Eighth The dominion government,
by express statutory provision, empow-
ers Canadian railroads to ''make any
partial or unjust or partial discrimina-
tlon" which may be necessary in order
to grasp American commerce. This en-
the long and short haul rule.
Ninth-The dominion government re-
fuses to extend the privilege of copy
right to American authors, after the
United States has extended such priYi-
legeS to Canadian authors.
Ienth--The dominion government is
conniving at the practice of importing
Chinese and running them across our
border.
Eleventh-The dominion government
has used all her power to throw the full
force of British diplomacy and military
influence In favor of Canadian depreda-
tons upon our sealing interests in Beh-
ring sea.
He concludes that two are settled:
''First, that the Canadian aggressions
and encroachments will be righted by
responsive and retaliatory course pur-
sued ty the United States; and, second,
that the conduct of our commercial re-
lations with Canada will in the near
future be initiated and dictated by the
government of the United States which
ever way our pending presidential
struggle may go next November. Dem
ocratic and Republican statesmen stand
together in regard to that NATTER
The next division of Mr., Nimmo's
subject is the consideration of deep
water navigation from Lake Superior to
the sea. A ship canal large enough to
admit the passage of sea going vessels
across New York, he figures, would cost
100000, 600, and was impracticable in
this age of cheap railway transportation.
The American railway system, he con-
cludes, after it was properly brought
under control, would solve the question
of cheap transportation. AS to proper
control, he says:
l believe the solution of this great
problem must come first through agree
ments in the nature of self-restraint
among the representative and leading
men now engaged in the conduct of the
transportation interests Of the country,
such agreements being dictated by the
lessons ofexperience. Then maintain
that the legislature should take up the
formulated principles and rules thus
wrought out by professional traffic man
ayers for the maintenance of order and
Justice in our transportation affairs. and
in so far as they may prove to be bene-
ficial to the commercial and Industrial
interests of the whole country give
these rules legal sanction. In this way
alone, as l firmly believe, can we reach
beneficial exercise of the power con-
ferred by the fathers upon the national
government in the words of the consti-
tuition, Congress shall have power to
regulate commerce among the states
His conclusion Is as follows: Turn
your eyes toward the South. In front of
you and on your right hand and on your
left behold within the borders of your
own country the grandest opportunity
for the exercise of commercial enter
prise On the globe. A vast system of
transportation by rail, unsurpassed in
efficiency, connects your farms and
your various industries with the mar
kets reached by those lines"