Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

) Canadian minister of the interior. and sent out
government document.
through feeding the grain and bay at
Ilome we are now annually shipping
HnN 900 'ioU'Uoo pounds of butter and 23O,-
WV,oU pounds of cheese to England and
tariff" Jul niiiey
Canada's Trade With United States
Give me some idea of vour trade with
the United States, Mr.. Hutchinson" said 7.
We are doing more business with tho
united States than with Great Britain.
said the commissioner from Canada "Onr
trade with you last year amounted to moro
than s216,OOO,OOO 1t was more than tuo-
ffths of our foreign trade or +bis o,,r
american sales footed up about $40 600 600
ana yours to US over twice that On a per
oapita oasis you annually sell us an aver
f fs,; w. more IMAM s2o or more than $12O per
iamily OF course, the goods do NOT abso-
tuteiy amount to anything like that ner
lainHy, as great part of them is com
i poSeu OF raw materials which we use in
Canada's New Tariff,
Inc conversation here turned to Canada.
no" lariI laws which are now about to be
put into force Mr.. Hutchinson said:
Sahaoa IS now enacting, or rather is
dpout 10 enforce, some new laws as to her
iorelsh trade. She does not propose to he
the jumping ground of the factories of the
Ioreign nations, the place where thew can
snip their surplus and sell it at. lower prices
elan .hey are asking at home. We do not
cohsiuer tnlS fa1r to our own factories We
propose that such goods shall be kent out
OF the country or admitted on such condi-
tlons that they will not have an adyan-
tage over our home products. AS it is now
Americans at high prices through the trusts
or tar1nS, and then dump their s,IrDlus into
canada and sell it a little above cost No
country can build up a manufa curing in
dustry under such conditions.
How Canada Taxes Great Britain.
Again. continued the worlds fair COM
missioner for Canada, I'VE are guarding
ourselves from Europe in the same way
We have, you know. a preferential tariff with
Great Britain and the colonies by which the
goods sent from such places have discount
OF 30 per cent. We find that the German
and other continental exporters are sending
their goods into England and are having
them repacked there and reshipped to Can
ada as english goods. We don't propose to
stand that either"
How are the trusts dealing with Can
ada! Is all your business being gobbled by
great combinations of capital?"
ply. I'VE have some great syndicates, but
nothing like you have here. Our Chief
trusts are the railroad companies and the
Hudson Bay Company"
The Hudson Bay Company.
How about the Hudson Bay Company, is
1t still strong in Canada?'
Yes, 1t does an enormous business In tho
north and northwest. 1t has its agencies
all over that country buying furs and deal
ing in all sorts of things. It has millions
of acres of farm lands for sale and alto
gether Its business Is enormous"
What dividends does the company pay?'
Il can't say, replied the commissioner.
'The Hudson Bay Company is a. close cor
poration and it Is safe to venture that It's
profits are very large. Nearly all the men
who hold much stock In it are rich. The
most of the stockholders live in England"
American Money in Canada.
as there much American money invested
Ill Canada outside the farm lands?"
Eyes. a great DEAL was the reply. your
capitalists have investments in our rail-
roads, our mines, forests and factories as
well as in other things. There are num-
Der of American stock raisers who have
crossed over the border from Montana into
Alberta to take advantage of the vast graz
ing ranges there. Some have shipped their
cattle from Texas and Nebraska to that
part OF the country. Cattle, horses and
sheep Craze out of doors there the year
round and just now cattle are bringing
good money. Steers were sold at from
forty to fifty dollars per head last year"
What kind of stock do you have?'
"Ail the best breeds" said Mr. Hutchin-
son. I'VE won't admit poor stock into the
country. We have laws that bulls for breed
ing purposes must be well bred and regis
tered The result is that We shall event
ually have about the best cattle on this
continent. We have as good as any ON the
average now"
Canada at the Worlds Fair.
In company with Mr.. Hutchinson L took
a walk through some of the Canadian de-
partments at the exposition here. That
country has one of the best of the for
eign exhibits, and best arranged. The
grain interests are well displayed, as are
also fish, game. fruits and minerals Can
ada is now shipping vast quantities of ap-
pies TO England; 1t Is raising tons upon tons
of honey for export; and its woods and
wood pulp products are among the greatest
of the world. It's mineral display is espe-
cially fine, showing in vast quantities those
specialties for which the country is noted
Said Mr.. Hutchinson as we walked
through the Canadian division of the
mining building
Fortunes in Asbestos and Nickel.
See those piles of asbestos; that is a
great product OF my country. We have
the best and richest asbestos on earth,
and we are furnishing 90 per cent of the
worlds supply. That pile of ore further
on Is nickel; we have tons of it here That
is another of Canada's specialties. for we
supply 30 per cent of all used by man. II
lis employed. you know, largely in the
armies and navies of the world. being
used to make shells. armor plate, &c.
Here is a pile of corundum, of which we
furnish 50 per cent of the worlds total
product. and that ore further on lis a
combination of cobalt. nickel, silver and
arsenic; 1t comes from the new mine just
discovered by little French blacksmith
who is likely to make millions out of his
find We have, IN short, almost all kinds