The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
ENGLAND SEES LIGHT ABOUT CANADA
The American Tariff Wall and What 1t Has DoneW Tearing
Down Result in Canadas Union with Her Natural Ally?

sacrifice had to be made, no matter what
ancient shibboleth must be renowned, or
whose reputation must go by the board,
Canada, the fairest portion of the western
hemisphere, must be saved to the mother
country.
The Danger of Secession.
e, You think there is no danger, probab-
fly, and will vote me an ala11nist when
say that Canada, loyal as she is, must
very soon change her relations with the
mother country. That is because you
have but one precedent for the secession
of a colony, and you can imagine no other
declaration of Independence than that
which could be delivered across the brist-
ling bayonets Of insurrectionists. Imagine
no bloody repetition of the American war
OF independeEce-that would be too alb
surd. 1t would be an independence which
only tariff war could procure for the
best armed combatant.
For years England has waged war with
the United States, and for years Canada
has been a faithful ally Of the motherland.
England with her free imports, could never
retaliate; but Canada, with a heavy tariff
club in her hand, struck blow for blow.
The Mckinley tariff was designed to strike
at Great Britain, but its worst blows were
aimed at Canada. 1t was at the instiga-
ton of certain unpatriotic Canadians, who
imagined that the blow to Canada would
be SO crushing that an agitation for ad-
mission into the union must naturally fol-
low, that this terrible tariff wall was
raised against Canadian produce.
It seemed likely, too, that the scheme
would be successful. But all that was
British in Canada stood up against the
injustice Of the American tariff. Indus
tries were ruined but the conservatives
who were returned to power on the
strength of the Macdonald exposure OF
the Canadian liberals trick, returned blow
for blow. Tariff met tariff. Heavy import
duties on the finished article and heavy
export duties on the raw material mostly
in demand in the states balanced the ex-
tortion Of the greater country. America s
attitude towards Canada was for long one
Of studied insolence, but things have
changed to-day.
s., ''That Is a Thought
# So Canada stands aloof, antagonistic
Remembering. There is a cause for this
awakening Of America to the need for g
better understanding. and Canada knows
it. At present America offers nothing
more substantial than the doubtful guam.
tity of her love, and Canada eyes her adj
vances with a. stolid face, behind which 6
busy mind is working up new tariffs
against her ancient enemy. But it will not
end here. America has become alarmed a,
the prospect~of Canada's closer CONNER.
|ciaI union with the mother country, ant
the New York paper that sent Stanley tt
discover Livingstone has made a discov.
cry Of no less interest-namely, that the
tariff fence erected along the border OF the
United States is calculated to do theil
new found kinsmen of the north an in
calculable amount Of harm. Let us teal
it down." cries the indignant newspaper
Perhaps if Great Britain loses her oppor
tunity now, and the United States, spon
taneously and without extracting any
promise or fixing any condition, opens he
border line to Canadian produce wonder
what will happen? AS Rhodes loved to say
n'That is a thought.