The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
IS A CLOSED DOOR.
CANADA'S ATTITUDE UNFAvOR-
ABLE TO RECIPROCITY.
Stringent Measures Adopted by the
Dominion Government for the Pur-
pose of Restricting the import of
Manufactures from the United
States.

Canada's unwillingness to serve as
a dumping ground for the surplus
manufactures of the United States has
been repeatedly urged by the Ameri.
can Economist as fatal to the hopes
and purposes of those who yearn for
r trade between the Dominion and
the Republic. Time and again we
have endeavored to make clear the
futility OF such a project because of
Canada's determination to build up
her own industries and not to insure
their destruction. How accurately the
Canadian attitude toward reciprocity
in manufactured products has been
estimated by the Economist is now
demonstrated by an official nOtifica-
ton to the effect that Canada will re-
fuse to submit longer to the dump
ing" process. In the New York Jour
nal of Commerce of June 10 is printed
a dispatch from Ottawa in which it is
stated that the announcement by
Mr.. Fielding, the Minister of Finance,
in his budget speech, of the intention
of the government to place a counter
"AtAAS ouhy oh 6OOuo Oli LII IL
United States and incidentally other
countries "for export" has attracted
| general discussion and enthusiasm in
industrial circles throughout the Do
miIion. Canadian industrial circles
have for years been complaining of
the competition they have been COM
PEELED to meet in the way of foreign
| 'Ecr1r N1r,c, o0oIr F0n r,hi4I 1pt1oIo
has become a veritable dumping
ground" The countervailing duties
are designed to end this by adding an
amount equal to the difference be-
tween the invoiced price and the real
value of to so per cent Of the duty
in general lines, and Is per cent in
the iron and steel items.
The Canadian plan is to meet cut
prices by the imposition of additional
tariff duties. Under this plan it will
be no longer possible for American
producers to sell in Canada cheaper
than they sell to American consumers.
Plainly Minister Fielding avows the
stalwart p~rotectionist doctrine that
control of the home market for the
home producer is of greater import
ance than cheapness. Evidently he be-
lieves that in the long run nothing is
cheap which is purchased abroad
When it might have been produced at
home. Unequivocally he declares that
%cheapness may, and probably will,
prove to be at best but temporary, |
while in the end it turns out to be
costly and injurious. On this point
the Canadian finance minister said in
his budget speech:
I'VE find to-day that the high tariff
countries have adopted that method
of trade which has now come to be
known as Strengthening or perhaps
the word more frequently known now
is dumping That is to say, that the
trust or combine, having obtained
command and control of its own mar
ket, and finding that it will have a
surplus of goods, gets out to obtain
command of the neighboring market,
and for the purpose of obtaining cor
troll of a nelghboring market, will put
with regard to the cost or fair price
aside all reasonable considerations
of the goods; the only principle is that
the goods must be sold and the mar
ket obtained.
IF those trusts and combines in the
high tariff countries would come I'm
der obligations with sufficient bonds
to supply US with these goods at low-
est prices for the next fifty years, it
would probably be the part of wisdom
for us to close up some of our indus
tries and turn our people to other
branches. But surely none of us i'm
AGNES that when these high tariff
and combines send goods into
Canada at sacrifice prices they do so
for any benevolent purpose. They
are not worrying about the good peo-
pie of Canada. They send the goods
here with the hope and the expecta-
ton that they will crush out the ma
tive Canadian industries, and then,
with the Canadian industry crushed
out, what would happen? The end of
2heapness would come and the begin
ming of dearness would be at hand.
Artificial cheapness, obtained to-day
lnder such conditions, at the expense
If dearness at a very near day, is not
/ system that we could approve, or
hat any Of us on either side of the
House should encourage"
Completer coincidence with the pro-
%ectionist claim that only through the
lpbuilding Of home industry can per- +
nanent economy be secured. COM l
dieter condemnation of the free trade t
that it pays best to buy in /
he cheapest market, could not be put
n words than has been lone in this t
statement of the value of c
competition. Minister Field
ng is a protectionist from the ground t
Ip, from top to bottom. I
In this program there is no hint of 4
disposition on the part of Canada u
0 invite a larger volume Of manufac- L
ured imports. On the contrary, Can I
da proposes to take less and less of t
uch imports. Canada intends to do =
1ore Of her own work.-Amer;can u
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