The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-30

: / ITOm the OIntTs
9 Only BY unity can the continent be secure,
? sgainst the Chinese invasion. Tho United state
policy ~ Chinese exclusion. On no subject 4,
; our people have = deeper feeling. We rigid!
and there Ia a strong disposition to extend tn,
exclusion against the lower order OF European
immigretion. But every reason obtains, agains
NO n SaT' tsint 10 tRs s blood Y N VIVA want no T new
race question. We have suffered enough cos,
another, and yet while we exclude the Chinese
Canada welcomes them to British Columbia. II
over our border, but the serious matter is that
Canada Is deliberately planting them on her
soil. with no limit imposed, on their numbers
and with the interests Of the steamship ON
Panies to transport them from China. AGAINST
this grave threat ON our welfare we have not
even the right to protest, let alone prevent.
An old aud outstanding Difference Is the fish
the treaty Of ISIS American Fishermen have no
right TO land on, Canadian shores for any pur-
pose except TO obtain Wood water, shI nh or to e
70 obtain bait, seines. supplies or outfit. or TO
transmit their catch to United states ports, To
enjoy these rights they now compel our fisher
mage Of thelr vessels. They denied 70 our fisher.
this modus yivendi or temporary arrangement
was made, though every right is accorded tn
70 Compel the United states 70 admit their fresh
fsh into our market free, and this the TariI act
gives to them without getting any equivalent
for our fishermen in return.
Another difference arises out OF the agree
Whereby each country county q gave to the Citizens Of the
other eqpal privileges in the use Of It's canals.
ment allowed a rebate Of 1S cents n ton on the
advantage o{ttSat port and 10 10 the prejudice Of
elimination President Harrison protested, and
finally in retaliation applied like discriminating
the SauIt Ste. Marie Canal.
The Canadian Government is expecting in q
short time to complete their own parallel canal
at the, Sauit Ste. Marie, and so they continue
their dlscrlmlnations on the Welland Canal to
Montreal, feeling they can disregard the Ameri-
II Canada had been a part Of the United States
we would have had n qpestion as to the seal fish
cries. No sealing vessels went out from Ameri-
can ports. Only from British Columbia was
this raid Of poachers made. At the instance, Of
oveFthrown, and we f%ooiishily, and, /, think,
should have simply asserted and maintained our
property right in the seals. That right would
war, and a new and %salutary principle OF law
would have been established. As II is the seals
on the Pacific Ocean and outside OF Behring Sea.
But these questions, though important rela.
t NV eync are sb,yia, w9 of C s0m55ai.ed r wItn nat sn 0t
upon the Internal carrying trade OF the United
the Pacific and Atlantic, oceans.
From the days of our first Congress, under the
freight In our coastwise can be car
ried on other than American bottoms, and this
whether upon the. ocean. or the lakes. Then
how comes it that freight between our States is
carried through Canada by Canadian railways2
Treasury regulation that the Secretary OF the
Treasury may any moment wipe out, and with
The origin of this practice was quite simple,
natural, and unobjectionable. II was to permit
freight to be carried across the lsthmus of On
shorten the route west, through this tongue OF
Canadian territory thrust down into the heart
If h IA GNaAAa NJ not So hAEA haa IAAn
and can be no objection to the carriage OF goods
imported from Europe through American ports,
rage Of goods from Canada over American
railways C 70 american GanP ports y for export s.f For six TX
and exit because Of the Ice: But in 1868, when
s mi,.i sts'q the w cs.ri sns''s Of b XXm e2ipsre'' p5gs sf,
territory. the Canadian Pacific Railway
had not beon PROTECTED. or the Dominion OF Can;
statute and Treasury. regulation would be put by
would have believed that a foreign corporation
would have the audacity to undermine the set
itself CONTROLLING share Of our transcontinental
and internal railway commerce, and. by sub
ton OF goods destined to interior American
points, from New York or Boston or PhiIadel-
5 Shls control aS dS OF tss eo ana ansi oy ,S wr Psc, fSo% oon ss
with the Orient and Australia. And yet all that
has been done or Is In the course OF being done.
Inc CANADIAN HhClnC, by It's connecting lines |
Of steamers from Vancouver to Portland and
San Francisco. by It's CONNECTING lines OF Ameri-
can e. c sliwfys to 81 Paul Chiesso, y Cincinnati.
sorbinR q colossal share OF the commerce OF the
continent. Not able TO earn its axle grease by
Canadian trafhc, IL can afford always to UNDER
bid Its American competitors, for, however low
may be the rate It has TO make to secure the
business II is that much better than nothing for
The American railways, especially those going
to. the Pacific, under this relentless competition,
while held as In n wise by the long and short
haul and anti-poolinRc clauses OF the Interstate
and american investments are being destroyed..
II would be bad enough II this were all. But
built TO help bind together the disiointed mem
hers Of the Canadian Confederation, aud help
hold them in fealty to the British empire. 1t Is
which the United STATES has been surrounded.
tlons he settled and permanently disposed OF,
and that Is by continental unity. There would
men had not put asunder what God had Joined
together; II, at the peace OF 1888, through the
tests OF Franklin, The unity given to the CONT
nent by Wolf and Chatham, and won In part by
The sacrifices and valOr OF the colonists, had not
The peculiar interests Of Canada in such a
settlement are far greater than those OF the
All the matters to which l have alluded as
causes OF complaint 10 the United States are at
their worst ~ us, but annoyances in the present,
or threats FOR the future. they cannot check
even for an instant, the majestic flow OF our i'm,
perial prosperity. That, in turn, rests upon the
magnitude OF our empire, OF Its solidarity, and
its resources. Canada can. prosper only as she
shares in the prosperity Of her own continent,
and participates fully In its market, the market
OF the American Union.
British allegiance is dear to her heart, but it
comes more dear 10 her pocket. And all the de-
vices of men, Dominion considerations, Pacific
and other subsidized railways and steamship
lines, VIII In vain seek to overcome the original
mistaks, that comes from violating
the law of nature. The four distinct sections OF
the Dominion the maritime provinces, Quebec
and Ontario, the Northwestern provinces, and
British COlumbiA-cannO trade with one an
other with profit, because Ot the distance be-
tween each other that time can never overcome,
and because their products are the same, The
natural trade of each is with the part OF the
United states adjacent TO them.
The Elgin treaty threw down the barriers be.
tween them and this trade. Its sbTogation put
them under the Morrill, tariff. The Mckinley
tlTirf raised them still higher, The Wilson
tiOrman tariff lowers them somewhat. But
canada builds but on the sands, and no Cana
dian can be sure OF his investment, in farm. fac
tory, or mine, until he Is made sure of the Amer
lean market bv coming under the protecting
egls OF the Constitution Of the United States.
The interest Of the United States in the union