Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-25
TRADE RELATIONS WITH
CANADA.


John Charlton, who has been for 25
years a member of the Canadian
House of Commons, is now in Wash
ington. Mr.. Charlton states that he
is not here in an official capacity.
In an interview with representa-
tive of the United Associated Presses
Mr.. Charlton, in discussing the ques-
ton of the desirability of more liberal
trade relations between the United
States and Canada, stated that the
recent change of government in Can
ada has brought the question of re-
ciprocity to the front. The liberal
party of Canada has always favored
the United States The conservatives
had uniformally been averse to re-
ciprocity except upon unattainable
conditions.
Canada, said Mr.. Charlton, will un-
questionably attempt, in the near
future, to obtain treaty of recipro-
city in trade with the United States
that will admit to freedom of mutual
interchange of all natural products,
and will cover, in addition, as wide
list of manufactured articles as the
establishment of a just equilibrium of
mutual interests shall require.
When the conditions of trade be-
tween the two countries are careful
IT, o-o1,zo1 co;1 M, Cl,orltor, ;t mill
be found that the advantages to be
derived from a free interchange of
natural products are not entirely on
the side of Canada. The removal of
the Canadian duty upon Indian corn
would lead to an enormous consump-
ton of that grain in Canada for stock
feeding and other purposes Ameri-
can pork would be largely used by
Canadian llmbermen, if admitted
free, and the repeal of the Canadian
duty upon flour and meal would en-
able the United States to supply Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince
Edwards Island with breadstuffs to
the exclusion of Ontario and Mani
packing houses would find extensive
sale in Canadian cities and towns,
and the repeal of the duty of go cents
upon bitunninous coal would crowd
out the use of Nova Scotia coal in all
of Canada west of and including
Montreal.
To the objection raised that re-
ciprocity would make Canada richer,
Mr.. Charlton said it would make
both Canada and the United States
richer. Canada, he said, would glad
ly meet the United States half way in
the water. She was prepared to
settle the vexed Atlantic fisheries
question on the basis of good neigh
comfy. She was prepared to make
arrangements for a deep waterway
from Lake Superior to the ocean,
providing for the cost of construction
on the basis of relative interests, and
for fair system Of joint control; and
in all Of these purposes Mr.. Laurier
and his government would be actuat-
ed not only by a desire to establish
the relations between the United
States and Cana da upon a mutually
advantageous and friendly basis, but
also by the hope that such an en-
couragement would prove conducive
to the peace and welfare of the two
great Anglo-Saxon nations of the
world.
The court of appeals at Albany, N.
Y, has decided the Fayerweather will
contest. The effect of the decision is
to distribute the three millions of dol
lors involved among the following
colleges in equal proportions, viz:
Amherst, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Will
liams, Yale, Columbia, Hamilton,
Lafayette, Lincoln, Maryville, Mari
eta, Adelbert, Wabash, Park, Wes
leyan University, Universities of
Rochester, Cornell, Virginia and
Hampton, and Union Theological
Seminary. This decision, which
gives $3.50, 900 to each of the above
named colleges will be great help to
them, as some of the colleges are very
much in need of the money and
doubtless all Of them can make good
use of it.