Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-24
NOT FOR YEARS
win Canada Have Reciprocity
With the United States.
Mr.. Foster, Financial Secretary,
Gives the Reasons.

Canada offered Full and Free Reci-
procity on All Products = Secretary
Blaine Insisted That Manufactures
Should Be Included; Canada Refused
to Agree to This, and There You Are.
OTTAWA, March 24.-In the house of
commons Financial Secretary Foster
made his budget speech for the session,
dealing at length with facts and figures.
The most interesting point of his whole
two-hours' speech was when he touched
on the trade relations with the
United States. Only Monday Mr. Laurier
twitted Sir John Thompson with the
fact that, as far as the report of the
Washington negotiations laid on the
table went, nothing appeared of any
discussion of trade relations. 4eiA
This Mr.. Foster dwelt upon. He said
the question of reciprocity had been
touched during the recent visit of the
Canadian ministers to Washington, al.l
that the Canadian ministers had offered
Secretary Blaine full and free reciproc-
ity on all products.
Would Not Include Manufactures.
On this Secretary Blaine and General
Foster, who was with him as the United
States representative, took time to con-
slider the whole question, and after due
consideration, said that during all the
negotiations for reciprocity treaties
which the United States had recently
had to consider, it had been sine qua
non on the part of the United States that
not only natural products but also the
manufactured articles of each country,
should be put on the most favored nation
principle, and in the case of Canada it
would be especially necessary for United
States manufacturers to be protected
against Great Britain's competition, as
that nation was the United States great
and almost only competitor. The Cana
dian minister replied that they coulGrot
discriminate against the mother country,
and they lked Secretary Blaine what
his own opinion of the case was, as he
had experienced much more of the
troubles of negotiating reciprocity
treaties than the ministers had. The
ministers al-o suggested return to the
natural product reciprocity treaty of
1854. a,.. ha
No Way Out of 1t.
Mr.. Blaine suggested that the Cana
dian government might see their way to
discriminating against England, but
after fresh consultation with General
Foster, Mr.. Blaine saw no way out of
the dilemma but of making Canada's
tariff uniform with that of the United
States. 1t was evident that the only
way to adjust the differance was for the
Canadian government to make their
tariff coincide with that of the United
States on all points.
Any other Plan Useless.
So long as this policy was observed
by the United States, it was useless for
Canada to Try any other plan of re-
ciprocity than iat laid down by Mr..
Blaine. 1t was evident that the only
scheme he would consent to would he
that of including manufactures, as well
as natural products.
Settled for Years to Come.
1t might be well for the people and
the country that this matter was set at
rest. The agitation was ended for years
to come and an advantage would come
to Canada. Let Canada for the future
have fair idea of what she had to do,
and where to discriminate in doing it.
Canada had to meet market--let her
meet her naional market, the market of
Great Britain. 1t might be in the near
future, in this war of tariffs, which
needed care and attention, that Canada
would have to stretch out her hand to
the country that helped her give fair
treatment to Great Britain. ,""'