The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-02-11
TRADE WITH CANADA.
We Continue to Do Business with
Our Neighbors.
Increase of $4,000, 900 I'm United States
Exports to the Dominion as Com
pared with Amount for
Preceding Year.

showing or success by the revenue poll
cy of the United States. After loudly
asserting that the protective Dingley
tariff would not furnish revenues, and
being confronted by customs receipts
for each. month during the present fis-
cal year more than the estimated aver
age OF S5OO,OOO a day, the free traders
have now taken new tack. They are
asserting that we cannot adjust the
protective policy to the expanded con-
dition" of the United States; that pro-
lection has outlived its usefulness and
must give way TO free trade. The OPP
ponents Of protection are yainly seek
ing consolation in the figures as to
United States exports TO Canada. Not
only in the customs receipts, and in the
marked increase of our export trade
during the past year Of restored pro
lection, but in the last analysis OF the
Canadian trade, the free traders may
find room for reflection.
What will be the next claim OF the
opponents OF protection in their Efforts
to prove the failure OF the Dingley
TARIFF" Surely they have made dis
NAL failure in their protestations that
the new law would not furnish the de-
sired revenues. Every month witnesses
an increasing fund Of revenue drawn
to the treasury by the operations Of the
protective tariff. Notwithstanding the
sweeping reductions in the volume Of
imports during the past six months,
with the attendant advantages 70 the
domestic producers, the receipts from
customs revenues far exceeded those 81
the Wilson-Gorman tariff period, for
any corresponding months.
But what Of the Canadian trade? Are
the free traders 10 find consolation in
a study OF the changes in our trade
with that British province? There is
excellent British authority for the
statement that Notwithstanding The 25
per cent. preferential in favor Of Brit
ish manufacturers i'm the Canadian
markets the manufacturers of the
United States have largely increased
their exports to the Dominion during
the past year. On iron and steel prod
ucts The admission Is made by Canadian
authority that even the 20 per cent. adj
'antage will not avail 10 prevent the
manufacturers OF the United States
controlling the Canadian market as
against the iron and steel manufactur-
ers Of Great Britain.
II IS well to note the fact that there
has been an increase OF about $40, 00O,0 600
in the exports OF the United States to
Canada during the past four years, and
$5,0OO,0OO OF that increase was in 1898.
BY dealing with percentages, The ia
vorite method OF the tree-traders, 1t is
easily shown that the greatest proper
tomato increases were on lines OF com
modities into which machinery meth
oGs entered tothe greatesteX extent Only
slight increases are noted on meat
products and with the exception OK
wheat and corn, notable increases in
exports OF which were MADE in 1897 and
last year, the general lines OF goods
and products into which hand labor
largely enters, and on which there Is
little opportunity for machinery meth
DDS 10 reduce the cost Of production,
comparatively little adyarce was made
by the exporters OF the United States
TO the markets Of Canada. But four
fold increases were made on exports %
agricultural implements. two-fold in-
creascs on builders hardware, and abb
solutely new markets were made on
many other lines Of manufactures from
this country.
These are facts convincing TO the pro-
tectionists Of this country. not that the
"od policy Of protection has outlived
its usefulness but, on he contrary,
that II is developing a lire Of manu-
featuring In this country that Is des-
tined to make its way In claiming the
markets Of the world by reducing the
cost OF production by the employment
Of the best machinery methods, and. az
the same time, maintaining the high
wage standard Of the employees Of the
mills and factories Of the United States.
These facts have dawned upon the
Canadian commissioners engaged IN
representing Canada and Great Britain
on the joint high commission that Is
striving TO secure a treaty FOR closer re-
ciprocal trade relations between this
country and Canada. They are no long
q DItSaiNR LOT Ittlp Ipcii y on INES ol
manufactures which would bring com
peting products OF the Canadian mills
and factories into the markets OF this
country. They have been informed by
senator's from the border states that
treaty making such concessions 10 the 1
Canadians would not be ratified by the
United States senate. The work Of the
commissioners has been directed dur
ing the past few weeks almost exclu-
sively TO secure, II possible concessions
on agricultural products. This Is re
sisted by the border states whose pee
pie have investigated the history Of the
operations Of the reciprocity treaty
with Canada In 1890.
Under protection this nation has de-
veloped into an exporting instead OF an
importing nation. The claim OF the
frcc-traders always has been that such
result was utterly impossible under
protection Their claim has been, "if
we do not buy abroad We cannot sell
abrond." We are daily buying less
abroad and selling more abroad Thus
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