The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-16

sent across from Eastern Canada and
taken In steamers as far down as Bos-
ton Many Of our French farmers de-
pended upon the American market When
the bill was passed the hay had to DC
used at home, and the priests who rule
the French populations ordered their
farmers to add 20 per cent. to the num-
Der OF their stock and to raise cheese
and butter. They did SO, ana we now
have IA great dairying intcrcst5ias the
result The farms of that region are
doubly and ,rebS as fertile through reed
ing the grain and hay at home. we are
now annually shipping about 34V0oo
pounds Of butter and e3O.coo, 900 pounds or
cheese to England. and this is largely
the result OF your Mckinley tariif.
iCanada's Trade With the United
States.a
Give me some idea OF your trade with
the United States, Mr.. Hutchinson, SAD
I'VE arc doing more business with the
United States than with Great Britain,
saId the commissioner from CANADA. our
trade with you last year amounted 10
more than s2l6 COo, 900 II was more than
two-iittis of our foreign trade " tn's
DIR American sales footed UP about So
GoO,OCp, and yours to us over twice INV.
Ona per capita basis You hlhuaiis seii
us an average of more than S2e' or more
than $40 per family. OF course the
goods ID nos absolutely amount to any,
think like that per family. as great
part OF them Is composed OF raw ma ma
teria!s which we use in manufactures.
Canada's New Tariff.
.rhe conversation here turned to Cans
nda,s new tariff laws. which are now
about to be put Into force Mr.. liut-
chinaon said: IN.
canada is now cnactlng, or rather IS
about to enforce, somcSnew laws as 70 llef'
foreign trade. She does not propose TO
he the dumping ground OF the factories
or the foreign nations. the place Wnerc
they can ship their surplus and sell u
NJ lower prices than they are asking at
home we do not oonsider8this fhl:' 70
our own factories. we propose that
such goods shall DC Kept out Q I the cotll-
trv or admitted on such conditions tll '' :
they will not have an atlSantage over
our home products AS it Is now your
factories here Will sell goods to Amefl--
cans ut high prices through the trusts ISIS
o. tariffs, and then dump their surplus
into Canada-and sell IT. at q little aboVc
cost. No country can build up manu-
fucturing Industry under ch5cond y y
How Canada Taxes Great Britain
Again., continued tic Worlds Fair ialir
commissoncr$for Canada. we are g,lflu-
Inc ourselves from Europe III the same
way, We have you know, e q preterleh-
tial tariff with Great Britain and the
I colonies. by which the goods sent from
! such places have Il discount OF 30 per
cent. Wc5nnd thatsth German and other y TN
continental exporters are sending thear
goods into England and are having them
repackcd there and reshippcd to Canada
as English goods ~ we don propose 4 70
stand that either. a 5esE5A, 81,
How arc the trusts deal ling with can n.
ada? 81 Is all your business being Cobb e e'
81 great combinations OF capital 2
mot as In the United States, va: was
the reply. 1--WE have some great syndi-
Gates, but nothing like you have here.
Our chief trusts are the railroad conf
!, panies and the Hudson Bay CompanS.aS
The Hudson Bay Company.
; ..How bout the Hudson bay Company,
Is 1t still strong In Canada SE
.,Yes, / t does an enormous business III
tile north ana northwest. t has ~ IS
agencies all over that country blylna
furs and dealing III all sorts OF things.
III has millions of acres Of farm lands
for sale and altogether It's business 81 Is
enormous III vi
pay?'' Fll4 I'd 5sl
81 cant say, replied the Commission