The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27

especially of the states bordering Canadian
territory. We hope at a near date to give
the speech in full.
The New York Sun, democratic, devotes
a column editorial to the commendation of
what Mr.. Mcmillan said. An extract is
printed herewith:
IA speech which should be read by every
American, no matter what his party prede-
Lotions, 1t says, twas that delivered in the
senate by Mr.. Mcmillan, of Michigan. The
subject was the grievous and wanton injury
which the Wilson bill. should it become a
law, would infict upon the farmer and the
the lumberman of our border states, by ex-
posing them to competition with the cheap
labor of the Canadian dominion.
"TO comprehend the significance of the
provision of the Wilson bill relating to the
importation of Canadian raw products, 1t is
necessary to compare them as Senator Nc
MILAN has compared them, with their pre-
tended counterparts in the tariff bill lately
driven through the house of commons by
the tory government of Canada.
''By such comparison two things are
made potent and unmistakable:
First, The American producer of food
staples and other raw materials, whom
trainers of the Wilson bill profess to cham
pion at the expense of the American manu-
facturer, has been needessly and ruthlessly
sacrificed to his Canadian rival, who has
the threefold advantage of cheap labor,
cheap land, and cheap transportation. Sec
ondly. this disgraceful surrender of our
national interests has been brOusht about
through certain mysterious influence ex-
erted upon the President and through him
upon those elements of the federal legisla-
ture which are responsive to executive pres
sure.
BRITISH INFLUENCE.
THE precise source of that influence, its
haps at no distant day be made the subject
Of congressional inquiry. For the presen
we'll informed persons in Washington will
at once identify it with the secret medium
jected by Mr.. Cleveland in Hawaii, was
made known to British newspapers long be-
fore an inkling of it was vouchsafed to the
American people by the publication of Mr..
Gresham's letter.
''For an act UNNECESSARILY less mischev-
GUS and offensive than the divugence of the
presidents intentions, or the stealthy ma
nipulation of important features of our tar
if legislation, former diplomatic represent
tative of England-we refer, of course to
Sackville West-was ordered not to stand
upon the order of his departure from this
country, but to depart at once"
The Sun gives Senator Mcmillan the cred
it of pointing out the extraordinary coinci-
dence of the opening of our huge American
markets to the raw products of the domiu-
ion, and the derisory proffer by the Domin-
ion parliament of ostensibly equivalent priv
ileges to American producers, to whom i'm
reality they are ahOllow mockery.
Place side by side,' says the senator,
the Wilson bill, as it came from the house.
and the tariff bill, which has just passed the
Canadian house of commons, and it will be |
at once apparent how close secret under
standing must have existed between the
of the two measures
1.-The Canadians make no concessions i'm
their tariff on our manufactured articles.
They are not asked to make any by our ex-
ecutive or by the Dominion house of repre-
senatives, for the avowed purpose of the
latter is to ruin American manufacturers
and the multitude of workmen in our
northern states who depend for their daily
bread on our manufacturing industries"