The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-01

to sell our goods; England would &C.
ment Canadian trade to English man
ufacturers by giving preference to
Canadian raw products; England
would stimulate agriculture in the
northwest and in the Dominion gen.
orally, would supply the Canadian de-
mand for manufactures, and would
effectually bind Canada to the empire.
In short, we can get along without
anything Canada has to offer, and Can
ada needs what England or the Unit
ed States can manufacture. Reel
procity, on the sole basis Of give and
take, would be one-sided at the pres
ent time but a more longsighted view
includes cognizance of the fight now
being made by Chamberlain.
Moreover, a kind of community of
the North American continent enters
into the matter. We do not desire to
see Canada bound to the empire.
We look to eventual union between
more closely the two are linked to-
gether, the better, and the farther
apart differences, such as the row
over the Alaskan boundary award,
carry the Dominion and Great Brit
ain, the better-for Canada and the
United States.
In the light of such reasoning even
sticklers for the tariff are beginning,
in many instances, to make exception
in the case of Canada, as they have
in that of Cuba. Their logic, being
somewhat solicitious of elstifying a
long adherence to the prohibitive Idea,
is very conservative and, while con-
vincing enough, does not tell One-half
the story. AS to the rest, what does
the Canadian tariff do for US as it
stands? Simply protects the beef
trust, the leather trust and some
of the minor lumber Industries.
The whole thing swings around the
beef trust, and, if a way exists .og
getting out from under that incubus,
that way lie the interests of the people
of the United tSates. However, out
cry against the beef trust is no new
thing, and, despite it, the necessary
pressure has not been brought to bear
to break down the embargo upon this
single item. The old talk about pro
tecting the manufacturers" has car
ried weight sufficient and still has mo-
mentum enough to keep the Canadian
tariff barrier intact. The peculiar
feature is that now, if the action of
ing, the manufacturers are denounc-
ing the very thing which they Great
ed. And yet we hear from the
"stanch" republican press that thrill
ing slogan, stand pat
In Iowa, in Minnesota, here and
there throughout the land, even from
Roosevelt until he was muzzled, there
has been evidence of a decided unrest,
a dissatisfaction with conditions, a
demand for tariff revision.' The
action of the republican chiefs, in this
connection, has been such as to con-
clusively prove that nothing in this
direction may be expected-from re-
publicans.
Small manufacturers at home are
"kicking' because the tariff-nourished
trusts, making enormous profits where
they absolutely control the field, can
undersell the small man in his par
ticular province. The trust mag
mates, even now, looking across the
ocean at Chamberlain, are secretly
trembling in their boots, and are in
clined toward reciprocity" on a scale
that amounts to revision" Though
these signs of the times are so plainly
evident, the old refrain, stand pat,
is served up to us upon a platter of
specious jargon about the protective
principle, and in the spirit of over
done, afraid to-act conservatism.