The San Francisco call., 1898-08-03
FaVOring New Relations
 With Canada.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ACTS
REQUESTS PRESIDENT McKIN- LEY'S COOPERATION.
Osborne Howes Delivers an Inter esting Address Upon the Volume of Trade Between the Two
 Countries.

osborne HoweS representative Of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, addressed a gathering of representative merchants of this city yesterday in the rooms of the . Chamber of Commerce. His subject was the reciprocal relations between America and Canada. President Hugh Craig in troduced the speaker, dwelling upon the , friendly relations between the two coun- tries. MT. Howe, who spoke eXtempora- neously, said, in part:
 We have to the north of country nearly as large as our own, but sparsely settled by about :, ,Oe0 900 people, who by descent, tra- ditions ana customs closely similar to our own population For nearly century we nave en- Joyed together the commerce of the great lakes. As 1t Is the present time, Canada possesses. through her enormous natural Te- sources, many commodities that we desire. We buy generously of the Canadians While they. on their side, purchase from us not only more than they do from any other country, but form & market for the United States superior. when the number of people is taken into ao- part of the world. This can be best shown by, a few comparative exhibits. The sales or ~ American merchandise in Canada during the last fiscal year. for which returns have been made up, represented purchases by them the child living in the Dominion. Great Britain products to the value of s1O 50 per capita. Ger many has bought of us in recent years goods to the value of s1 90 per capita; France to the value of sl 9 per capita; Mexico's purchases are approximately Sl S5 per capita; Venezuela buys Of S1 60 for each head of population; the Argentine Republic sl 15 and Brazil sO cents
 It will be seen from this showing that ttfe countries of the world where have appar- ently done the most. to stimulate trade, as, for Pan-American congresses and the like, are not large purchasers of American goods Fl
 in 1854 treaty for reciprocal trade was ranged between Canada and the United States, Under this treaty the following domestic prod ucts to be admitted duty free into each country; Grain of all kinds, flour, seeds, vege- tables rice and broomcorn; animals of all kinds meat. butter, cheese, tallow. lard, horns. manure, poultry, eggs and fruits of all kinds; cotton, wool, unmanufactured flax, hemp and tow; timber. and lumber hewed, sawed and un- manufactured, wholly or in part; bark. pitch, tar, turpentine, ashes plants, shrubs trees and 1rewood; coal ores of all kinds stone and marble in its crude state, gypsum, ground and unground, and grindstones, hewn. wrought or Cnwrought; fish of all kinds and the products of fish and fish oil; undressed hides, turs and skins, unmanufactured tobacco. dyestuffe and rags. Those who read this list will probably say that it must have been drawn in the Cana dian interests, for. while it represents a great try such as the. United States might expect to buy in Canada, it represents very little that country like Canada would be likely to buy in the United States and yet such a Judgment, bssed upon what would appear to be obvious conditions. would be altogether false. During the eight years prior to the treaty of reciprocity annual sales in Canada little that the reciprocity treaty in force annual average sales were more than $25, ,000, 000 that Is. there was an increase in our trade of more than l50 perz cent, and during the thir teen years that the reciprocity treaty in force Canada bought of us. s33, GOO 900 In goods . than bought of her.
 Gentlemen of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. as the leading representatives of the commercial interests of the Pacific Slope. l appeal to you to do all that lies in your power to aid your sister association. the Boston Chamber of Commerce. in placing the dipio- matic and trade relations between the Donin-
 ion of Canada and the United States upon better and a permanent basis. You must real aize. as those making up the great business communities all over the country are now realizing. that in the future the people of the United States must look for large number of markets outside Of their own borders. There is part of the outer world which offers for us greater inducements in the way of trade than the country just to the north of us. IL Is because of the eminentfy practical character of the end proposed that l ask you bus-' ness to do whatever lies in your power, by encouraging public sentiment and by to aid President Mckinley in successfully car irving out the work upon which he has started, Of bringing closer together, through union of common interests the English speaking peo- pie of the North American continent.
 At the conclusion of his address the speaker was rendered a vote of thanks upon motion of Charles de Haven. The following resolutions were adopted upon motion of Captain W. H. Marston, sec onded by Colonel C. l.. Taylor:
 reasons 1t Is desirable that the most friendly relations should exist between the United States and the Dominion of Canada; therefore
 Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco trusts that the international commission, to convene for the purpose of adjusting tho differences now existing be- tween these two countries. will succeed In making a satisfactory settlement of these. and that this settlement will include such a moval of existing barriers as will promote the mutual interests in trade and commerce of the people living upon both sides of the border line.
 Resolved. That copies of this resolution be sent to the President and the California dele their power to bring about International understanding upon the lines indicated above