The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-29
Britisher Says Issue is P :
 h Canada
TOSS, HOWEVER, IS CONFIDENT
Says Both Canada and the United States Will Be Greatly Benefited If an Understanding
 s Reached.

Boston, November 2S.-The sixth an- nual banquet of the Canadian club of Bos- ton at the Hotel vendome tonight re- solved itself into an international debate on the reciprocal trade relations between the United States and Canada, Hon. George E. Foster, M. F., from North On- tario, one of the leaders of the conserva- tive party of Canada, opposing the doc Urine championed by Eugene N Floss and others
 The banquet was attended by 150 former residents of the dominion.
 MT. Foster who formerly was intimate- ly associated with the late Sir John A. Macdonald, and later assisted Joseph Chamberlain in spreading the protection propaganda through England, was greet ed with great applause when he arose to speak. He spoke in part as follows
 There is not a great gulf between the Canada of forty years ago and the Cam ada 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 con-
  ufactorles by giving such a degree of protection as would make it feasible for capital to engage in industrial under taking.
 Is Dead Question.
 Before l came to the banquet I was told that l 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 a member of the Canadian government, l made two or three pilgrimages to Washington, and begged your senators and representatives to grant us reciprocal trade relations. I failed in my miscion 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 conclu- sion, has passed from the provincial to the national stage, and from the na- tional 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 colonies the ben eft of our products and our trade, rather than negotiate a treaty that will give a favored nation preference to our own kindred"
 Eugene N. Foss who was then intro duced, made a plea for reciprocal trade relations with the -,oninion. In part Foss said:
 Eugene N. Foss Speaks.
 ''Fortunately for a partial solution of the vexed question of trade relations our own neces slties bid fair to force our gov ernment to look the Canadian question squarely in the face. In several commo- dities our Lemand already has out run our supply, anu we are buying heavily, regardless of tariff taxes. In others, the exchanges between the two countries are so general, for geographical and other reasons, that lively trade In competing products 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 attempted.
 "These three classes furnish the basis upon which a consistent scheme of tariff revision, y which I mean reciprocity. must rest
 MT. Foss presented table for princi- pal articles in which the two countries have an interchangeable trade, and con tinued:
 Now here is a natural and necessary trade of fifty-1ve million and which might be two, th.s.e or four times that amount, hampered and harassed by tariff restric- tives which are of no possible benefit, but on the contrary work absolute injury to every int crest concerned.
 Ut is the evident purpose of some of our legisla ors at Washington to refuse to reduce the tariff on Canadian goods, because as they will say Canada will make no concessions. The only real thought in iN~' minds is to discover the cleverest method for each standing pat"