The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-27
CANADA COOL AS
TO RECIPROCITY
Neighbors Across the Northern
Line Will Not Take the
Initiative.
Manufacturers Turn to Mother
Country with Olive Branch
Yankees Rejected.
BY w. w, Jermane,

Ottawa, Can, June 7.-Reciprocity
with the United States is fast-fad-
the views of public men at Ottawa as
of the country. AS people, the Ca
nadians no longer care for. it, and it is
manifestly the Intention Of the govern
ment not to take the initiative in any
movement seeking to bring it to pass.
A member of the liberal party in the
commons, a reciprocity advocate, told
me with great frankness that, so tar
trade agreement between the two coun-
tries had been abandoned.
"There are two spots in the United
States where reciprocity has some ad-
vocates,' he said, Massachusetts and
Minnesota; elsewhere in your country
the people care nothing about it, and
are not even giving it any thought.
Gin Canada, popular sentiment has
undergone marked change since 1898,
when the joint high commission held
much whether either political party
here would think reciprocity at this
time offered anything worth the effort
about. Our people, like yours, care
Don't Need American Help.
"Our population is increasing very
| rapidly, and in all essential ways we
are making great strides forward. For
this reason we do not need your help
as we once did, and Canadian states
manship is devoting itself almost ex-
cIuslvely to questions OF internal i'm
provement. .~.-...--z,-
| Personally I am still a believer in
reciprocity, and should be glad to have
an arrangement made between the two
trade of both I do not look for it,
however, nor do any thinking men on
our side Of the line. Even if we were
strongly in favor Of it, nothing could
never ratify any treaty which our coun-
try would accept. So, what's the use
of wasting breath overta discussion of
reciprocity9 At least, what's the use
until your country gets ready to revise
its present tariff laws9 When that
time comes it may be posi- BILE to make
an arrangement looking to better trade
relations; but as for the. present time
the issue is dead on both sides of the
| line
J No ''Joint High Meeting.
In this connection, it may be proper
government, and talked with several
of them, is expecting the joint high
commission to meet. Steps toward 8
meeting were taken several months age
by Mr.. Fairbanks, now vice president
at the suggestion Of President Roose
Welt, but nothing. came Of them, and in
W tRf opinion Of the Canadians '' nothing
! Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian
| premier, who is the chairman Of the
Canadian section of the commission
took his own time in replying to Mr.
Fairbanks letter, and for several weeks
the impression prevailed in Washing
ton that he did not intend to reply
isfactory, in that it did not suggest thai
the Canadians cared anything about {
meeting, and there the matter rests.
Laurier Took His Time.
| Laurier, at the time when Fairbanks
wrote him, was recuperating at Lo
Angeles. Fairbanks first letter to hin
was addressed to Ottawa, and was an
said it Would be given to Sir WWilfrit
on his return. Then Mr.. Fairbank
tried to get into touch with Sir Wilfri(
at Los Angeles, and letters and tele
grams were sent him there in plenty
If they were ever received, nothing ha
happened to suggest that TACT, an
finally, after wait OF many weeks
the answer came under an Ottawa dat
line.
It is apparent, judging from this cpl
sode alone, that Canada is not deepl
interested at the present moment in tn
reciprocity situation, and that thos
Americans are all wrong who insis
that if the United States wants re
ciprocal arrangement, all it has to d
is to say the word.
Canada's Development.
In Montreal, the Washington CORE
spondents now touring Canada discov
cred that the last few years have in
tensifed sentiment against any trade al
rangement with the United States tina
will imperil Canadian manufacture
> industries, now being developed at
, truly wonderful rate. Millions of cap!
tai, mostly American, are going int
Canadian manufacturing plants ever
year, and making the creation Of rec
: procity sentiment, especially in easter
!. Canada will for many years to com
control Canadian national policies, b
reason of it's preponderance Of popul:
z ton and of wealth, it may be that 81
,, Wilfrid Laurier's present attitude {
Indifference is related to the easter
constituency which he represents.
{, Canada s advancement in wealth an
=. population during the last six years ha
had no parallel on this continent, III
less a parallel is furnished by the grea
f movement Of Americans to the Missi
sippi and Missouri valleys, immediatel
= following the civil war. It ought to b
}. later period approached in rapidly {
: development the past six years in Cal
ada, and the Canadian movement seen
= | Only to have begun