Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-11-24
MR.. HILL ON TRADE HANDcUFFs.


to devising schemes for annexing
more of other peoples money, Mr..
James j. HILL says Golfers, frequently
thinks on large subjects, and is cause
of thoughts in others. Mr.. Hill adj
dressed the Merchants Club of Chica-
go on November TO- primarily upon
the subject of reciprocity with Canada.
Reciprocity is topic in which Cana
dams used to take a great deal of
interest and Americans very little
Now it is one in which Americans are
beginning to take a very keen interest
while Canadians profess Indifference
1t is fashionable in Canada now to
say that the Dominion has no use for
reciprocity, but this is the natural re-
Election of the illiberal attitude hither-
to maintained by the United States
A fair American offer would probably
change Canadian sentiment
Professor Goodwin Smith, who had
been invited to the Merchants Club
dinner, sent letter of regret in which
he told of his early efforts for freer
trade relations, efforts which did not
meet with a hearty response upon the
American side and added: "Reciproc
ity is the voice of nature, and her die.
tate to all whom she has made part
ners in her bounty on this continent
| hope yet to see it triumph before ]
die"
Mr. Hill told the business men Of
Chicago that, speaking geographically
commercially, or in any other sense
except that of politics, their possibil
tiles and therefore their duties were
contained not in rectangle with the
forty-ninth parallel of latitude on one
side. but in a circle centeriDg at the
southern extremity of Lake Michigan
place pair of dividers with one
leg on Key West, Florida; then swim
the letter TO the northwest and it viii
not reach the limit of good agricultur
al land. There is the field for your
lahors"
We have had rosy dreams of the
South American trade to be won BY
the Panama Canal. but Mr.. Hill re
minded his hosts that this trade wae
only with the little fringe of country
between the Andes and the Pacific
ocean, containing three-uuarters o.
one rer cent of the population of the
world. and having a total commerce
with all nations of ciily $3.50 100000
year-considerabiy less than Can
ada's commerce with the United
States alone. North of us, separateS
only bv an imaginarv line, needing ne
caral TO reach IT. 'lies country o.
enormous possibilities for develop
ment. inhabited by between and c
million people. 1t has 10000 miles
of railway. with several other grea'
projects actually under way. 1t hae
a foreign trade of only little short o.
ha'f billion dollars per annum. Ite
capital invested in manufactures is
over s400 00O Ono and the value of the
product is $3.50 100000. It's people
hava derosited in their savings banks
$50 0o0 600. It has achieved this
growth without outside aid. exactly as
the United States has grown. by vir
the of its inheritance of fertile land
rich mines and noble forests, and BY
the industry and integrity of it's PEG
pie, And it is only at the beginnino
of it's DEVELOPMENT. It's unworked re
SOURCES are immense. There is lapT
enough in Canada, if thoroughly titled
to feed every mouth in Europe. There
are more than quarter of million
square miles in each of two northwest