The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-21
GAME THAT is PLAYED OUT
Canadians Are Giving No Ercovr-
agement to the Democratic
Scheme.

| The fact that Canada has not said q
word about encouraging the democrats
In their moves for reciprocity is evil
dence enough that the people have
closed up on that subject. like SO many
wise claims, since the talk of few
I! years ago. And there is no guessing
on that side of the issue as the Boston
reciprocity democrats are guessing on
their side, says the Worcester Tele-
gram. A New England writer who
knows Canada as an open book has
been sent into the country to find out
| what the people over there think Of
the jumps for reciprocity by the demo
Gratis of this country He writes that
| and Quebec and Ontario since the end
of June making Inquiries In view of
the approaching revision Of the Cana
dian tariff, and he finds all the papers.
with one small exception in Montreal,
and all the people and officials declar-
ing that the tariff rates must be made
higher at the revision. C
This man has been familiar with
the affairs of Canada as a traveller
since 1890. In the earlier years since
that time he heard nothing else
among the people who sought change
but the cry for deliverance from the
national policy tariffs. the protective
tariffs of the older Canada, which
have been somewhat revised, but al
ways maintained. The ..oerals led the
movement for cutting out the tariffs,
which meant practically free trade for
Canada. But later when the liberals
were victorious at the polls, there was
no demand for free trade and the re-
suit was the preferential tariff for the
products of Great Britain and the in
creasing OF the duties on goods from
other nations. The liberals had also
denounced the bounties paid by the
government for certain industries,
| which in effect amounted to the protec-
tion given industries in the United
States by the tariff. The same lib
erals continued the bounties after they
took the government and even extend
| ed them.
Now the American writer finds
that all the people favor the tariffs,
the bounties for industries, and are
calling for still more protection by
means of higher tariff schedules. This
writer declares that he has talked on
the subject with manufacturers, job
bers, commercial travellers, profession
al men and other people who are not
directly interested in the benefits Of
the tariff and bounties, and he failed
to find one person who wanted to ap-
proach free trade in any way or who
had any objection to offer to the pres
ent system of the government for the
protection of industries, the only de-
mand for change being for an en-
largement of that system. He sums
up his findings: "A short stay in Can
ada is SUFFICIENT to convince an observ-
er that any crusade having as its object
q diminution of the protection now ac-
corded to Canadian manufacturers,
whether by reciprocity with the Unit
ed States or by further preferences for
Great Britain, would be utterly fruit
| less"
| That Is the condition against which
the reciprocity cranks of this country
are to ram their heads. They will
find the country to the north so i'm
pregnable that 1t cannot be touched by
, even the theorists of Boston. Cana
dams are as quiet as clans about re-
ciprocity. They are not trying to ad-
vance backward like the democrats OF
the United States.