Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-09-29

ADVANTAGES TO THIS coUNff,Y b
UNION WITH CANADA.

1
The Annexation of Canada Viewed rs .
Question of Trade-what Continental
Union Would Mean as Far as the Public
lands In Canada Are Concerned.
The total value of the imports into Cana
da and Newfoundland for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1892, was in round num-
bers sls5, 100000, or $27 per capita, while
the total value of the imports into the
United States was $s27, 200, 600 or only sl26o
per capita. We are more wealthy than our
good Canadian cousins and therefore pur-
chase more luxuries, expensive goods and
works OF art per capita than they do which
are not produced upon this continent The
same is true of some Of the necessaries of
life-viz, OF sugar, of which we are con-
suming at present % pounds more per capita
per annum than the Canadians do.
1t may be safely estimated that with con-
tinental union consummated--or, in other
words, the political union of the United
States and British America--the people who
live north of the existing boundary line be-
tween the two great countries will not Inn
port more foreign goods per capita than we
do In this country at the present time-that
Is, Sl26O per capita, or total of $63, 900 600
Under the present tariff of Canada and
Newfoundland we supplied $54, ZOO, 600
worth of the total imports of the two coun-
tries in 1892. With absolute free trade be-
tween British North America and the Unit
ed States and with practically the present.
tariff of this country as against ali other
nations extended to Canada and Newfound-
land we should be better able than we are
now to furnish all we supply.
We now sell to Canada SIC. so per capita
OF her total imports. If with continental
union her total per capita imports are re-
auced to Sl2.60, the same as in the United
States, it will leave only S. 10 per capita to
De supplied by other nations, or a total of
$3.50 1000, which, deducted from $fS5, OOO,-
| o0Q, her total imports for 1899, leaves $124,-
o0O,OO0 to be furnished by this country. OF
this we now supply s54, 900 600 worth. which.
deducted from $124, 500, 900, leaves $70. 5O0.-
900 of new trade to come to us through con-
tinental union at our very doors upon our
own continent with an intelligent. hiRh
minded, honorable people Of our own race,
free from the risks connected with most
foreign trade--a trade that will be ours for
all time to come-that cannot be taken
from us by any other power in q market
all parts OF which can be reached by rail-
way by every merchant and manufacturer
In the United States within 10 DAYS and
collections made as cheaply and as prompt
ly as within our present territory--a trade
which can be indefinitely, rapidly and per-
manently increased under the laws, legis-
lation and flag of the republic of the United
States.
Dare any one estimate the effect upon inn
migration from Great Britain and ireland
and northern Europe of the opening up to
settlement of half continent, rich beyond
description in natural resources, In a most
healthful and invigorating climate con-
tanning 900 acres of public land open
Tor settlement, upon which wheat of the best
quality can be profitably grown, and like
amount suitable for grass and grazing, un-
der the American flag, which has already
drawn 12,0O0,0 900 of immigrants from Eu-
rope and would be, with continental union
contaminated, unquestionably the most
powerful, wealthy, prosperous and peaceful
nation in the world-a nation in which the
per capita value of production and the
earnings of labor are the greatest and are
rapidly increasing, while the cost of the nee
essaries and comforts of life is the cheapest
ana is steadily decreasing--a nation lavish
In the distribution of the good things of
THIS life, but most economical in the ex-
penditure of human labor in productions
Where else can we at one stroke add SO.
100000 to our export trade under such
favorable conditions, with q certainty of
rapid and permanent extension, and at the
same time add enormously to the power.
prestige, influence, resources honor, glory
and safety of the republic and the peace Of
the worldY
In 1879 the value of imports of iron and
steel and manufactures thereof into British
North America was t15, ZOO, 900, or So per
capita. The imports of manufactured cot
ton goods for the same year was IS, 0O0, 900,
or u per capita, and of manufactured
woolens $10,0OO,OOO, or 81 per capita. Total
fer the three lines of manufactured goods
$50, 00O, 600, or IS per capita.
The total value of the imports into the
United States for the same year of the same
three lines of manufactured articles was
s94, 0O0,0 or 1.43 per capita. With CON
tinental union consummated we should
transfer trade in these three lines of man.
fractures alone equal to the difference be-
tween 70 per capita and 81. 40 for ., 600. 900 of
people, or $50, 750, 900 less than the value of
our present exports to Canada of these
goods. Steel rails are now admitted free of
duty into British North America and are
supplied chiefly by England. With CONT
mental union we should transfer that trade
to our own steel rail mills, and as 5000
miles of railway have been constructed in
Canada since 1880, and renewals are re-
quired for 1900 miles now in operation.
the Canadian market is well worthy of CON
sideration by our steel rail manufacturers.
To the manufacturers of mill, factory
and mining machinery and machinery for
the construction Of public works continental
union would open an immense market. as
well as to those engaged in the production
of agricultural machinery and Implements
Every increase in our consuming power
enables us to make more advantageous
treaties with other nations for
'he admission OF our surplus products into
heir markets. The contamination of CON
mental union assures an enormous devel-
'pment Of the internal commerce of the
continent under the American flag. Every
merchant. manufacturer, carrier by rail or
water, artisan, railway builder, ship owner
and capitalist should give it active moral.
political and financial support.-Francis
Wayland Glen in New York Sun.
The Woman of the Future.
Susan B. Anthony is of the opinion that