New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-24
LIGHT FROM YORKSHIRE.
IN THE CANADIAN PREFERENTIAL
TARIFF, WITH AN IMMENSE SNUG
CLING TRADE SOUTHWARK
London, May s


GUM has been widely discussed by the Eng
Ish press Stress has mainly been laid upon
imperial and International relations The new
Canadian policy Of discrimination in favor %
the manufactures of the mother country has
been commended as conspicuous example %
loyalty worthy of the Queens year The in
ternational effects of reputation OF treaty obi,
cations have been debated with searching Of
heart and secret misgivinC. The text Of tho
treaties with Germany and Belgium is explicit
in providing for equality OF treatment with the
most favored nation. Reputation Of that obli-
cation would inevitably expose England to re-
taliaton on the part Of Germany Advantages
gained for English goods in Canada by prefer
entail schedules would be heavily Offset under
retaiatory policy by losses In trade in Ger
many, the larger market
These questions are academic and DO not in
tercst the English merchants and manufact-
urers They assume with feeling OF confidence
that Lord Salisbury and Mr.. Chamberlain be-
tween them will look after oil matters Of treaty
obligation and imperial interest. What they
are chiefly concerned with is the new market
which Is to be opened TO them by Canadian
loyalty. Reduced duties English textiles,
woollens cutlery and other manufactures are
gratefully received az a proof OF good feeling
and loyalty: but how large is the market 10
be opened by these concessions? Canada occu-
pies great deal Of space on the map Of the
British Empire. but the population does not
coed five millions or six millions, and It's pur-
chasing power has always been inconsiderable.
British trade with Canada under the most IA
vorable co lditions. when the tariff was lowest,
has never been more than petty fraction OF
the enormous aggregate Of England's world
wide commerce. The example of the Dominion
in lowering its tariff for the exclusive beneht
OF the mother State is recognized by the mer-
camille community as truly edfying ana one
which ought 70 open the way for an Imperial
Zollverein based upon free trade within the EN-
pire but the immediate results are not con-
sidered important since the market is one OF no
great value.
YORKSHIRE TO THE RESCUE
II is az this point that The Yorkshire Post"
comes TO the rescue Of the Canadian tariH-
makers. and explains the real scope of the
preferential schedules. In the course or long
letter under the heading yorkshire and the
New Tariff" from its correspondent in Ottawa
occur these striking passages:
Nor will these lower duties affect only the uad ,
Of Canadia1s II Is only ntsG ststee how COM
paratively near Halifax 81 Jonn' ~ QuspTe Pee,
ronto and other OF the large cities, East and West,
.a~e 10 the United States-and TO recall, also. the
fact that before TINS year IL oat Of the
wool growers will be in operation in the United
states-to see that there will be an immense
smuggling trade southwark across the three thou
sand miles of frontier which separates the DO
cana Ui had low tariff and it must be even more
now, because American duties on woollens, ana
other textiles are higher than ever they nave pee
and railway and steamer communication between
the States and the Dominion Is much Deer ta
during the first few years following conieue.a'loi
when Canada had tariffs first of 10 per cent, ana
ihSn up 10 ne OF IN pSr Of Toronto and Mont
real should have no difficulty in meeting the Aner
en6 aS mq la w Of doing 50
fore the Two tarifs-the Canadian tarin re-
and trebling them-have been long in operation.
London must lose some Of its trade WIN rate
and Of the restrictions In the United states
in respect TO goods which returning touTist can can
he London's loss may be Toronto's or MontreaIs
Is the Dingley tariff lasts, and England enjoys
the new preferential trade arrangements with Can
f tb 1e oniY measure OF the demand from Canada
for wooens and other textile goods from England
from Canada TO the United States must see how
difficult IL will be TO prevent the 81, smuggling OF
will be easy in fact and so profitable that y VIII
pay man living in New-lorX or boston on TO 30. nring
his family up TO Canada Tor spring a summer or
an autumnal holiday In order to TT them ,, out
Tor people living in Chicago, Detroit or Buffalo II
Will be easier to trade in the Dominion than In
Ncw-York or Boston
After this revelation OF the promise Of the
potency Of the preferential schedules there can
hardly fail TO be increased enthusiasm in York
shire over the remarkable display OF colonial
loyalty which Canada has made in opening her
market 10 the mother country With sixty-ive
millions of Americans to the south Of frontier
Of over three thousand miles the Canadian mar
ket is indeed q promising one, which English
manufacturers and merchants can hardly afford
10 neglect. With smuggling all along the line
and with increased facilities Of frontier transit
there will be great opening for British trade.
which will draw the Dominion into the closest
relations with the mother country and pro-
mote the glorious ends OF Imperial Federation.
Indeed so large is the range Of Illicit trade
outlined in this forecast of the practical opera
ton Of the preferential schedules that wary
and thrifty Yorkshire may be willing TO let the
most-favored- nation treaties go and TO take the
risks of retaliation from Germany so long as
there is a prospect of capturing the American
market by stealth across the Canadian border.
A WEST INDIAN EFFORT.
few years ago was in the British West
indies when the Canadian Minister Of Finance.
Mr.. Foster, was advocating British Colonial
tradebund Canada, as he announced in ia
maica Trinidad, and the Leeward and Wind
ward Islands, was willing 10 discriminate in
favor OF the produce OF the British West Indies
II they would offer her in return preferential
advantages over the United States. Canada, he
commended could supply the islands with every
thing which could be imported from the United
States and in return for preferential tarln OF
% per cent on her own products would open her
market N their coffee sugar logwood and fruit.
He enlarged upon the imperial domain Of the
Dominion, its continental line OF railway ana us
subsidized steamers which were TO whiten every
sea and forecast period Of immigration and
growth in which its consumption Of sugar. cof-
fee. oranges and bananas would be enormously
increased.
T,baee headings fell on dull ears, because the