The herald., 1896-04-17
Improved Trade Relations Are
Desired by the Liberals
BLAINE's PROPOSED TREATY
Suggested as a Basis for Interastloaso
Traffic
Canada Wants chesper Manufactured 0ee1e
In Return for Her Natursl Prsducts
and Raw Materials
Associated Press Special Nirs.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-In r..
ponse to the invitation. Hon. Edward
t'arrer one of the leaders of the LIB
cial party in Canada, has submitted to
the house subcommittee ON ways and
means on reciprocity a long statement
giving the Liberal view of a reciproc-
ity agreement between the Unite4
States and Canada. Mr.. Farrer shows
by figures in what particulars he cons
siders that the plan of preferential du>
ties prevailing before 1876 failed to help
either Canada or England. He points
to the remarkable growth Of Canada
under the reciprocity treaty in 1884,
and recounts the heroic though vain
efforts of the Canadians to prevent tho
lapsing of that treaty Touching the
treaty negotiated by Mr.. Elaine I'm 189Ds
to bring about reciprocity between the
United States and Newfoundland
which was pigeon-holed by Lord Saliss
bury, he alleges, because of the jeal>
ousy of the dominion authorities, Mr..
Farrer holds that it contained princis
pies upon which a treaty might now 6d
framed that would be acceptable to the
Liberals in Canada, seeking, aS the6
do, the commercial Independence Of the
dominion. Referring to that treaty Nh
F'arrer says:
These articles were selected with 4
triple object. First. that they should
be articles Of common daily use among
the people or affect the prosecution oI
our leading Industries; second. that
they should be of such character a. ia
be difficult to smuggle across the lines
and easy of identification as . genuine
production Of Canada or the United
States: and, third, that they should be.
as far a. possible, the production OF
branches Of industry natural to Can
ada or the United States, and In which
a considerable inter-trafIic between the
two countries might reasonably be ex>
pected.
"A sliding scale, by which the EXIST
ing customs duties were to be grudual-
ly reduced, was provided for I'm order
to give the manufacturers some tina
for preparation for the change.
'The Liberal party would Be pre-
pared to negotiate a treaty with the
United States on somewhat similar
lines IL 1t should be returned to power
at the approaching elections. 1t is
safe to say that 1t would be prepared to
negotiate on even broader lines 1t
fully realizes that the proposition OF
the present government at Ottawa for
reciprocity on natural products only Is
scarcely fair to the United States, for
most of the gain will be to Canada:
that any equitable arrangement must
permit the United States to pay In fac
tory goods for the natural products and
raw material coming from Canada.
Moreover such a treaty would be BEN
eficial to the farmers, lumbermen, fish
ermen and miners Of Canada in pro-
viding them with cheaper factory
goods than they can now obtain in Cam
ada"
In further support of a reciprocity
agreement, Mr.. Farrer contends that it
would check the immigration of Cana
dams into the United States, which has
now grown to. be very formidables
that it would accord with natural COM
ditions and wants of both countries,
and would place upon a more satisfac-
tory basis the now delicate and dubious
question of the bonded privilege as exc
ercised byCanadian railroads.