The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-12
THEY FAVOR
RECIPROCITY
Railway Masnate Favors Free
Trade With Canada.
NEED OF AGREAT CANAL
Interstate Trade Proves Benefit
Would Follow Tearing Down
OF Custom House.

CHICAGO. Nov. III. j. lin was
the guest of honor at the banquet Of
the Merchants club and delivered an
extended address upon "ChIcngo's In.
terest In Reciprocity With Canada"
MIR. Hill was introduced 10 his audi
tors 10y Charles ID. Norton, president
OF the club. who said that Chicago In
It's history had suffered two great en-.
families. the FIRST being the great Chi
cago lire aud the other the fact that
James j. IIill passed through the city
without stopping when he went 10
make his home In the northwest.
After outlining the commercial great
ness of Chicago nnd giving some Of the
reasons therefor Mr. Hlll said:
To-day the entire country Is suffer
Ing from want OF transportation facill-
ties 10 move It's business without I'M.
reasonable delay. The prevailing idea
with the public IL that the railways
are short OF ears, while the facts are
that the shortage Is In tracks and
terminals TO provide n greater oppor-
tunity for the movement of the cars"
The speaker declared that the coun.
try today faced n transportation prob
lem which only time, patience aud the
expenditure OF enormous sums of mon
ey will remedy. He asserted that there
Is crying need now for the construc-
ton OF fifteen foot channel between
st. Louis and New Orleans. and he said
that the necessity for this would In
crease with time. There was no more
important general work for the gov
eminent TO perform. he. said than 10
construct n canal capable Of carrying
vessels of fifteen feet draft. O..
Mr.. Hill rccited figures showing that
the trade with the people whom the
United States will be able TO reach by
the construction OF the Panama canal
amounts to only about SjI 100000 an
nually. while our trade with Canada Is
over S200,000,0O0 per annum. He as
serted that the conservation and in
crease of this trade is OF greater i'm
portance than anything that will ac-
crue to the United States because OF
the construction OF the canal.
Concerning reciprocity. with Cana
da. Mr. Hill said
1.-The plea for more liberal trade re-
latiops is negatived only by unreason-
ing individual seIfshness. The con
elusive argument for reciprocity with
Canada always has been and must be
the experience of the several American
states. Had ii not been prohibited by
the constitution each state of the I'm
ion would have levied a duty on all
commerce crossing its boundaries. Yet
all acknowledge now that one great
factor In the development of the Unit
ed States has been the commercial
elimination of state lines. Unrestrict
ed trade between the states has favor
ed all of them.
whatever commercial policy con
fers the greatest benefits on the whole
continent will best advance the various
parts, and this city would receive and
confer inestimable benefits under
more liberal trade convention. Canada
will in any event and under any sys-
TEN be opened up and highly devel-
oped. Would it then be disadvanta-
geous for us to share in the products of
the fields of Manitoba, Alberta and
Saskatchewan?
"The manufacturing interests of both
countries are the first TO raise an
alarm, but there Is no danger here We
have as much reason TO dread Cana
dian competition as Pennsylvania has
to cry for protection against North Da-
kota. Canada would be 40 more in
danger than is Montana by the compe.
tition of Ohio.
'The time is opportune for practi-
cal movement toward better trade re
lations with Canada. There has been
increasing irritatlons toward our atti-
tude, and already the fact that our av-
erage tariff against the Dominion is
1888 while that of Canada against the
United States is 24.S3 causes comment
and suggests reprisas"
In closing Mr.. Hill said:
what is the first practical step? The
cousummaton most to be wished is the
wiping out of customs houses along
the northern frontier and the establish
ment thereof of absolute free trade. If
the time Is not ripe for that the least
that it demands is ample reciprocity
There cannot be a beginning until we
have fixed in our minds the desirable.
lty of Il free interchange of natural
products and raw materials. giving to
the New England manufacturer his
fuel and to the farmer of the western
plains his lumber and to the makers of
books and newspapers everywhere
their print paper free from the exac-
tons which needless tariff now per-
mits monopoly to impose. From this as
a beginning work may go forward to-
ward larger liberty by an enlargement
of markets and a progress of public
sentiment that reciprocity once In oper-
alton will assure"
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