The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
THEY FAVOR
!. RECIPROCITY.
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for timber in one form or another as she
Is dependent on us for cotton
The time is fast coming when we shall
nave need OF Canada's mineral resources
and possibly her farm products. On her
side she stands In need Of many natural
products her colder fields cannot raise, and
the great bulk of her population being
rural and agricultural she affords mar
ket for American manufactured articles,
which are produced in our great centers Of
industry. more cheapy, oftentimes, than
they could be produced in Canada, but
which, after paying the tariff, often reach
the Canadian consumer at an exorbitant
price. Canada Is a new country and will
for decades be chiefly occupied and alb
sorbed In agriculture, numbering, mining
and fishing. She will produce great sur
pluses Of these natural products and will
nave to seek markets abroad for them.
They will naturally be exchanged for
manufactured products not raised in
Canada:
Canada Wants Reciprocity.
The Canadians buy our goods because
they need them, but they would like to
see us rsciprocate and buy more Of theirs.
II we don't reciprocate, they will do their
best to reduce their imports from us by
putting up their tariff walls. They think
it is for US to take the initiative in es-
tablishing fair trade between the two
IN interfering with it.. AS Canada, in
proportion to population, is the best Gus
toner we have in the world, her views are
entitled to respectful consideration.
!! Every man, woman and child in Canada
represents an annual purchase Of $40
worth Of American goods. Surely this is
a patronage worthy Of courteous treat
ment
Good as the Canadian trade is now, it
will soon be greater In It's possibilities, tho
whether we maintain our present share re-
mains to be seen. In the last five years
Canada has enjoyed wonderful prosperity
and has witnessed an amazing develop
ment Of her resources.
Last year the land department of the
Canadian Pacific railway sold more than
600 acres of land and the total sales
by other corporations and individuals were
much more, while homesteaders took
$500, 900 acres in $4,000 claims. It is es-
timated that Americans already own
Is, 100000 acres in western Canada. Prac-
tically all of the great land companies
that have handled the population move
ment are American. I will not stop to
tell you how in western Canada American
money Is going into hundreds Of enter
prises from nickel mining to water pow
ers and banks. 1t is enough to say that
1t Is going on q big scale. A combina-
ton of natural resources, abundant capt.
to produce wealth, and wealth makes
markets.
Americas Part.
care we Americans going to share as
much as we should in this development Of
our own continent by our own people and
money? That Is a question to which we
can give only part Of the answer. A more
liberal, a more statesmanlike policy in the
past would have given us commercial
union with Canada by this time. Trade
would as it should, be as free between
the provinces and territories on the one
hand and the states and territories on the
other as it is between the units Of the two
groups"
AS the best means Of getting reciprocity
Mr.. Knappen urged the creation of active
organizations in all the states especially
interested.
At the close of Mr.. Knappen's address
the following resolutions offered by r. G.
Staver of Chicago were adopted: T.
Resolved, That in view of the demand
Of our growing foreign trade and the
Strengthening tendency Of other nations
to- meet our high tariffs with equally high
ones on their part, the time has come
upon a policy Of reciprocity in customs
duties, granting favors in our country to
alI nations that do or shall give us rea-
sonab1e access to their markets.
sResolved, That in view Of the con-
tiguity Of Canada and the close ties of
kinship, social intercourse and commerce
between her people and those Of the re-
public and the desirability Of strengthen
ing them, we cite the dominion as a coun-
try deserving Of reciprocity in a. special
sense and without regard to a policy of
general reciprocity.
Resolved, That we urge every member
of the association to constitute himself
a committee of one to see that his con-
gresham and senator's are enlightened
as to the demand Of great business inter-
ests Of this country that our growing for
eign trade be conserved and assisted by a
policy Of genuine reciprocity"
unanimous choice Of Frank L. Wright Of
st. Louis as president, the other two can
didates having withdrawn.