The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-27
IL tho Doom OF the Canadian Pacific
at Hand

IL tho Doom of the Canadian Pacific
at Hand2
who arc they that object to the clause
in the Dingley tariff act which imposes an
additional duty Of 10 per cent. dd Udtorenn
on all merchandise which shall be imported
in vessels not of the United States, ex-
cept as permitted by treaty or which, being
tho production or manufacture OF any for.
eign country not contiguous to ours, hall
como into tho United States from such
contiguous country7
To this clause, which Is obviously In.
tended to keep American trade for Ameri-
can vessels and American railways, nobody
In the United States objects. except the
Uitlander editor Of the New York Evening
Post and a few ~renegades In Boston and
Revolutionary war, would gladly sacri-
fee the nations highest interests to
private greed. Upon the Uitlander edi.
tor the degree Of D. G. L. has been re-
Gently conferred by Oxford In recognition
Of the zeal displayed by him as a pro-
Anglican missionary In purtibus infdel-
fum. Grateful for the honor, which. Of
course. Is nothing moro or less than pay for
his betrayal Of the country In which he
earns his living, Mr.. GoDK1N foams at the
mouth In passionate resentment at the
blow levelled by the clause above men,
toned at the Canadian Pacific, which is
VIGOROUSLY the prop of the anti American
party in the Dominion Of Canada. He has
the lmpudence to PROFOUND the principle
that the Attorney.General of the United
Ctotno In rnnafrpipn m Eadara1 Gtatnta
shall take for granted that Congress is an
assembly of knaves and fools, and that the
clause in question Is the outcome of q de-
liberate swindle.
AS a matter of fact, there is as little mys-
terry about the authorship of the clause as
there is about Its purpose and prospec-
tive result. The clause was inserted at
the suggestion of the American Protective
Tariff League of the City of New York.
At the request OF this body it was for
mulated by Senator ELKINs of West Vir-
ginia, and, after being submitted to ex-
perts in the league and approved by them,
It was introduced In the Senate by him, as
an amendment to the Tariff bill then pend
ing. There was nothing secret, underhand,
clandestine, or surreptitious about the mat
NSis IL ShS PssAc w ~ vi liz ohdulo
Pacific in or out of Congress were caught
mapping, SO much the worse for them.
The effect Of the clause should nave been
hnmistakable from the moment it was laid
before the Senate. 1t Imposes the ad-
dit!nnal duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem
upon all European and Asiatic merchandise
which the Canadian Pacific may attempt
to deliver through Its ranches to Ameri.
can consumers, whether said merchandise
shall have entered Canadian ports, or shall
have been admitted to United States ports
for the purpose of transshipment In bond
over Canadian railways. Obviously, the
clause kills at a stroke the Importation
through Canadian ports of Chinese and
Japanese teas intended for consumption in
the United States, and 1t also annihilates
the competition Of Canadian with Ameri.
can railways in conveying imported goods
from Atlantic seaports to consumers in ou1
Western States.
This self-defensive measure, which has
now been sanctioned by tho Federal Legis.
lature. ought to nave been taken before,
Had it been for ten years on the statute
book, the anti-American party in Canada
would have been rendered powerless Ions
ago. and the friends of annexation would
have been by this time dominant at Otta
wa. So far, indeed, as the Grand Trunk
Railway Is concerned, which is purely &
commercial road and politically inoffen
sive, the objection to the bestowal of thu
bonding privilege upon 1t has always beer
based solely upon the folly of encourag
ing . foreign common carrier to compel,
with American citizens. The argument
against comforting the same privileg,
on the Canadian Pacific rested on fal
broader and deeper grounds. The Can
adian Pacific Railway Is q political ant
military instrument, officially so desig
mated; 1t was constructed, and Is operated
In . spirit Of pronounced antagonism t,
the United States. 1t has continually uset
Its money and Its influence, both derived
principally from the bonding privilege, IL
the most shameless and %tyrannical name
for the political support of the anti-Ameri
can party.
There Is no feature of tho Dlngley nc
more credltable to the Congress that passe,
1t, or moro satisfactory to far.slghte'
American patriots, than the clause which
has laid the axe at the root of the unscrupu
lousy used power of the Canadian Pa
ciac Railway.