The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-02
CANADA TO ERECT
A TARIFF WALL
Maximum and Minimum Rates,
with the Maximum for
Uncle Sam.
HISTORY Is MAKING
IN THE DOMINION
Work to Be Begun on New Law
in February-Serious Men
ace to Our Trade.
By w, w, Jermane,

go. BY w. w. Jermane.
Washington, Sept. 2.-American poll
ticians are looking for Canada to adopt
the average, as the Dingley rates, and
perhaps higher. It is believed here
that Canada is about to become a high
protective country. A commission, APP
pointed to consider the general ques-
ton Of tariff rates, will probably re-
port to the next session of parliament,
and upon it's report tariff legislation
is no Canadian sentiment in favor of
reconvening the joint high commission
and why the American branch, headed
by Vice President Fairbanks, may make
o final report at the next session and
Setire.
Maximum and Minimum Rates.
q maximum and minimum scheme, with
the present tariff rates as minimum.
This existing tariff law was enacted
wears ago, before Canadian manufac-
lures had begun to develop, and when
it was felt that the country should
not discourage the importation of goods
which she was not yet ready to supply.
a rapid change. Eastern Canada has
begun to compete with the United
States in manufacturing. More CAPT
tai, proportionately to population, is
being annually invested in manufacture
ing plants in that country than in the
United States, and much of it is United
States capital, DESTROYS of escaping tar
if reprisals, high taxes and labor COM
phcations.
Western Canada continues to be low
tariff in sentiment, and this will be the
case until that section has sufficient
population to warrant the building, at
Winnipeg or other convenient points,
Of plants large enough to compete with
those south Of the boundary.
Lines of Tariff Cleavage.
In the United States the line Of cleav-
age between the protection and free
latitude. The old soSth, having no no
manufactures and, therefore, nothing
to protect, for years stood solidly for
free trade, or for tariff for revenue
only; while the north, with its expend-
ing manufactures, stood for protection.
AS manufacturing invades the southern
states, free trade sentiment declines,
and it is significant that in the gulf
states, and the. states of the Atlantic
seaboard, where, within a decade or
forward at a rapid pace, free traders
used to be- If it were not for political
differences, based on the old antebel-
lum sectional feuds, it is believed that
the majority Of southern states would
today be republican in sentiment. In
Canada, the free trade, or low tariff,
section is divided from the protection
section by parallel Of longitude. The
provinces of Quebec and Ontario, where
the most Of the wealth Of Canada is
located, and which are also the center
- C.
district, are strongly in favor Of high
protection. They claim that tariff
schedules should be at least as high as
those of the American Dingley law.
The provinces and territories of the
Canadian west, being, like the old south
cultural, and having nothing to protect,
favor low duties. They want to i'm
port American farm implements on IA
vorable terms, and claim that Montreal
and Toronto are so far away as to
make it impossible for them to compete
80 far as this class Of goods is. con:
cerned, with the nearby cities Of this
country, such as Chicago, Milwaukee
and Minneapolis.
Why Protection Will Win In Canada
Rural sentiment, however, is in the
very nature Of the case unorganizec
and therefore relatively unimportant
Rural forces are widely scattered, ani
the closely concentrated and highly or
ganized forces which favor protection
It will suffer defeat. That has Away
been the rule in this country, and i
will be the Il rule in Canada S t., For whicl
italistic - forces of Canada, located s iA i
the provinces Of Quebec and Ontario
will win their fight, and parliament will
enact high tariff law.
Position of liberals
Premier Laurier has foreseen thi
struggle, and put his party in condition
to meet it successfully. Traditionally
the liberal party in Canada, which i
now in power, is a low-tariff party
while the oppositior conservative part
is additionally for high protection; bu
y Sir Wilfrid has, by shrewd manipula
ton, stolen the tariff thunder Of his or
ponents, and the proposition for a high
er tariff, which is soon to come befor
the country, will be brought forward b
him as the liberal leader. His manage
ment in this particular is somewha
akin to that of the republicans in thi
country in the campaign of 1904; whe
they appropriated the best of the arg,
ments and issues Of the democrats, an
thus helped increase republican major
ties.
We Get the Maximum.
LII Is Del1eVoO mere JndC C10 new Cdns
dian tariff will be a maximum and min
mum affair, and that the first thing til
government will do after it goes int
effect will be TO stick on the maximum
as against this country. We are s
close to Canada that her manufacturer
insist that they must be more ampl
protected than they are. It is the
condition of unrest that has led to tt
appointment of the Canadian tart
commission, and it is their inf1uent
which will undoubtedly shape tn:
commissions report. The claim (
Canada is that she can get justice in I
other way; that the United States wi
not yield in trade matters without cor
pulsion, and that compulsion can be
be applied thru general tariff &C
This act in force. Canadians believe IL
United States will be ready to me
them on an even basis, and make co
cessions which at present are not eve
considered. And whether this is II
outcome or not, Canadians believe tn
the patriotic arguments is altogether
favor of the high tariff wall If it h:
worked well in the United States, the
say, why would it not work well
their country7 And if it has BET
prompted here by patriotic. consider
tions, WHY, they ask, are not the san
considerations as strong with them
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