The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-30
CANADA.
WHAT sHB Would GAIy FROM
CONTINENTAL UNION.
A speech by senator Anthouy HIeein. OF
Delaware, Delivered st the County Fair
~ Ogdensburgh o. Friday, sept. -.

a Speech by Senator Anthouy HIeeins o
Delaware, Delivered st the County Fat
~ OgdensburEh o. Friday, sept. ~
have accepted your invitation here to-day Il
discuss the subject OF our relations with gu
ncighbors in Canada. Not only these relations
but also the interests Of the people. both Of Can
ada and tho United States, and especially thos
Of you who live along the northern border ant
engage in agricultural pursuits. have been acute.
ly affected by the recent tariff legislation of the
American Congress.
In common with all the States Of the East
tho farmer Of New York can find no profit in
growing products whose price is fixed In the
foreign market, or that find any considerable
part " their market abroad. Wheat, whose
price Ia fixed at Liverpool. and which costs TO
raise twice as much as corn, though intrlnsically
worth twice ma much, to-day Is lower In price
than corn, the use OF which IL almost entirely
domestic and whose price IL fixed at home.
Tn farmer of the treeless prairies of the
West, Of the Pacific slope, Of India, and now Of
the Argentine has driven the farmer Of the East
out of the market for wheat. He can no longer
produce II except at a loss. The Eastern farmer
now puts his resources In crops that finally
reach the market in the form OF the produce Of
the domestic animal; in forage crops such us
corn, oats, peas, hay, and roots, that are mar
keted In the form Of horses. beef. or dairy prod
$50 $50 -.
products, as In hay for example, the Eastern
farmer Is protected against his Western COM
petitor by distance and the cost Of transporta-
Zion. And by the markets thus secured to you
in the articles I have already named, many Of
the men who now hear me have been enabled,
not only TO keep the wolf from the door, but
IT. h~,nu tn,o ,our Amoricon n.rto, arr
,omno,,tor ro.r a. hona yho can nroduca ,bos.
.r,In,os =, dor,os,Ic consunn,i,n az cbeanIv az
vo, do ,.nds dIroo,Iy On Io,yer the nr,cea Won
lii roco,yo s,iii moro will s,cb a comne,itor
49, nu,ooa 4, no oan n-od,co mora cb,onlv
a. = a ,hIlo no roacho. vour ma,l.,s "a
onIcttv onJ cboanlv a a vou
NJ In.srh MINNIE ,orm.r,v chic, q, N.
pnra.r ~ S,a,,s,,cs M Tho Traosrrv In N rscent
.ddra.. Chan,orouo hos co,nr ,,od .,bo, owing
80 ,hs d,gsrence in The nrico NJ land and rate NJ
SET. y, Now yort ia obout AZ mar cent Greater
,han In Tho nrovincos ~ Ontario and opebec that
g. -, 90 tnnro,od land In ,ho s,a,o ~ Me-
~ a. IA 900 nnn ocr,s chile In on,ario and
orohoo I, IA ia ooo mn ,cr.s and TIM, excen, In
A.. Ana.taa, .o,n,,as oion, a.. a, I.,rr.nc.
p,,.. 49, - L. on,ar,, .na oroho, nee
-, or,iIo - IN Noy yorL
n. ,ha ~ -, ,h..o ,oc,s ,ho r.,.,, or,I AZ,
a. sssr.od 10 It, on a. a % 60 a ton an
r,,a,o.. f.o,, o. b., I ,,pta m hnahat nm ao1a
-. -, .a,,. 20 ,oz.n hor.os "a r,r,os
s.o" sao . ha.t ~, al no. "an, =, o. y
.am,,rs al ,o,oran, h,,,,ar and ohs.so from 40
-. -. - - Co.. 40 go. ~.
- - .. % ~. 80, "a
- - g., M 80. 49, 49,, 10.
as nasn"n,r 80 ~ = oont al ,a,orom hon.
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ss.., - .np 80. =, $500 -
~ ~. - S.-.- 90 n".
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-" 800" -
1870
- =. IT.,..s $50 -. 80
yp.oy " '"'' """'' ou' o"'"
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there VIII De vast gam Every cent OF duty
now removed Ii a present from the Treasury
NJ tba ITnited States IN the Canadian farmer n,
-. .-".""m 49,
That much money on all ne may soil IN the
market. OF course. this Is not true Of
wheat mr. other articles an Internationally d.s,,
a. go, e. IT.. a. a. ahrosa NJ, =. 80
IN that lts price Is nxed ABROAD. But u Is true
of all products that can only be consumed near
nv the ,Iace az nroduotion and ,b.rs,ora In
- So r 80
the American market. For THIS reason, and be-
cause she Is subject to the conditions incident to
bar M. n mart NJ this continent Canada canno,
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thrive divorced from the american market
With that open to the products of her fields. her
anNI y"
anu grow Gut on rrom that market, de-
pendent upon what she can sell in England
or elseUhers I'm Euronc- she IA shrivelIsd and
$50
dwarred ana hopelessly handicapped In the race
between the nations. As has been we'll pointed
ont nv one of the greatest OF living Envlishmep
"s
the adoption OF the constitution OF the nited
was ono Of the greatest applications OF