The Portland daily press., 1893-10-19
Jr. and Tom A., they being tied in posi-
suMMARY-F1Rsr CLASS.
UP IN CANADA.
What Farmers and Merchants Say North of
the St. Lawrence.


the St. Lawrence.
Kingston. Oct. ALI the week / have
been ferrying back and forth on the st.
Lawrence river-one day at Ogdensburg,
then over to Prescott in Canada then up
to Brockville and Kingston, and then
across to Mofristown in the States. have
been finding out from the Cutsom House
officers and citizens about commerce
across Chinese wall between the Do
minion and the States. If there are
twenty-four shutdown factories in Am
sterdam and still wheels in Little Falls,
there is also great depression in Ontario
When I asked Mr.. Macpherson, BROCK
vile farmer, if he was shipping any sheep
over the line, he said:
"Only few. We used to ship droves
of them in old reciprocity times, but
now we have to pay dollar and halt
tariff on every sheep, and it seems hard
on us.
"But this 81. so comes out of the Yam
KEGS, doesn't it," I said.
No. When this dollar-and-a-half tariff
was put on our sheep in Canada, they
dropped the same amount in value here.
The value of sheep did not change in the
States. We Canadians have to pay the
tariff
"And suppose this tariff were taken
off; what them"
aWhy sheep would be worth just 81. 30
more in Canada, or the same price that
they are worth among the Yankees IN
Ogdensburg or Morristown."
"And about Canadin horses?"
at is just the same with them. They
are worth just $50 less on this side OF
the river than on the other"
do you remember when the present
tariff went into effect?" 1 asked.
Perfectly. I've always been shipping
farm produce over to Ogdensburg."
We'll, what was the result?n
why, we Canadian farmers simply
marked down our prices to match the
tariff
How do you account for this?"
Why, your country is a much bigger
one than ours. There are 60, 900, 600 Yam
KEGS and 100000 Canucks. You raise
II, 600, 600 sheep, and we only raise 1000, :
O0O The comparatively little stuff
which we ship to the States doesn't in
fiuence the American prices. We pay
this tariff ourselves. 1t Canada were
bigger than the States. then we would
control the markets and you would pay
the tariff"
And suppose our tariff on Canadian
sheep, eggs, butter and horses were
taken off what would be the result?"
why sheep, horses and butter in
tariff in day. That is why we are crazy
for reciprocity with the States again"
I find while Mr.. Macpherson was right
in the main, still there are some excep-
tions. When the States put a tariff OF 30
cents a bushel ON barley it did not at
first reduce the price of barley 80 cents
bushel in Canada, 1t only reduced it
Is cents. The Canadian barley is worth
10 cents bushel more than ours. Then
reciprocity in farm products had given
Canada the barley market. All Ontario
was raising it and shipping it to the
States. But this last year northern New
York went into barley.
Again, with wheat from Mantle ba:
As soon as the tariff of 25 cents bush
ell was put on by the Americans, Presi-
dent Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific
came to the rescue of the farmers. Wheat
rates were reduced to Montreal, and the
Canadian Pacific elevators were ordered
to grade Canadian wheat a point higher.
So our tariff on wheat only made diff
ference of Is cents per bushel to the Ca
madam farmer.
I find property very low in Canada,
and estates can be bought for half value
in Coburg, Kingston, Napannee, Bellville
and Port Hope / saw one magnificent
estate in Point Hopeon which was pa
latial mansion which once sold for S5o,
600 It is now offered for S., 600.
If we should have annexation or until
eaton with Canada, it would create a
tremendous boom on the north side of
the St. Lawrence. Yankee capitalists
would rush in and pick up these beautiful
country seats fronting on the st. Law
renee river. Coburg, Kingston and Port
Hope. and all the shores of the St. Law
renee from Presco to Toronto, would
treble in value. Such beautiful coun-
try is not to be found on the continent
1t is always gently sloping shore like
Connecticut along the Sound. The ST.
Lawrence runs clear as crystal and teens
with fish. With annexation the river
and the lake would be alive with COM
merce, and Ontario would double in
population and value in ten years,
Would you like to have unitization
with the States?" asked a merchant
in Brockville.
Like it?" he said. 1--WE are dying for
it. It is the silly pride and the politi-
clans who care keeping us apart. 1t is
the aristorcacy at Ottawa and the Sir
Knights who give us to a mossback
monarchy 1900 miles away. What we
want is a homogeneous nation on this
continent. We-want a flag that we can
call our own. We want consuls, minis
tiers, and we want to treat with foreign
nations We want to be nation with
% big N, and we do not want to be a
! colony like Ireland and India. Eli
Perkins in Now York Sun.