The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-29
CANADIANS AT BANQUET.
Postal Board Changed to Scene of De-
 hate.

Boston, Nov. 2S.-The sixth annual banquet of the Canadian Club Of Bos- ton at the Hotel Welcome tonight, re- solved itself into an international de- bate on the reciprocal trade relations between the United States and Canada Hon. George F. Foster, M. P. P. from North Ontario, one of the leaders of the conservative party of Canada, op- posing the doctrine championed by Eu- gene N. Foss and others. The ban ouet was attended by 150 former resi- dents of the Dominion.
 MT. Foster, who formerly was inti- mately associated with the late Sir John A Macdonald and later assist cd Joseph Chamberlain in spreading the protection propaganda through England, was greeted with great ap- plause when he arose to speak lie said in part:
 There is not a great gulf between the Canada of forty years ago and the Canada of today, but during the past thirty years great progress has been made in the country north of your borders.
 Tn Canada we started with only the beginnings of an industrial life. With confederation VIC began to build up our manufactories by giving such degree of protection as would make IL feasible for capital to engage in indus trial undertaking.
 Before I came to the banquet I was told that I would be expected to speak on reciprocity. What Is absolutely a dead question with us is very much alive with you.
 During my term of service with the Conservative Party and while mem Der of the Canadian Government, l made two or three pilgrimages to Washington and begged your Senators and Representatives to grant us reclp- rocal trade relations. l failed in my mission every time And now that the question Is dead with us, 1t has been raised from it's grave by some of you Americans"
 Canada" said the speaker in con clusion, has passed from the provin- Cial to the national stage and from the national to the imperialistic. At present Canada Is a great part in the world wide empire and we intend to give the mother country and the colo nies the benefit of our products and our trade rather than negotiate a treaty that will give a favored nation preference to our own kindred. Eugene N. Floss, who was then intro duced. made a plea for reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion. In part Mir. Foss said:
 Fortunately for a partial solution of the vexed question of trade rela- tions. our own necessities bid fair to force our Government to look the Can adlan question squarely in the face. In several commodities our demand all ready has outrun our supply and we are buying heavily regardless of tariff taxes. In others the exchanges be- tween the two countries are so general, for geographical and other reasons, that a lively trade in competing pro ducts has developed both ways. In still other cases where the demand is great, the United States tariff Is yet so high that no purchases are attempt ed.
 These three classes furnish the basis upon which a consistent scheme of tariff revision by which l mean re- ciprocity. must rest"
 i MT. Foss presented a table for prin- cipal articles in which the two coun- tries have an interchangeable trade. and continued:
 Now here Is 6 natural and neces' sary trade of $55,000,000 and whicf might be two, three or four times that amount. hampered and narrassec | by tariff restrictions which are of nc 1 possible benefit but on the contrary
 work absolute injury to every interest concerned.
 Tt is the evident purpose of our leg islators at Washington to refuse tC