Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-11-12
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA

OF u than passing significance
was the addressed delivered satur
day night before the Merchants club
of Chicago by Jas, j. hin. the rail-
road magnate,
Either throw down the tariff
walls between Canada and the Tint
I'd States altogether. or enact a lib
eral and ample reciprocity treaty"
WIS the burden of Mr.. Hlll's argu
mcnt.
Mr.. mn pointed out thai the trade
with the countries tn be- reached by
means of the Panama canal amounts
To no more than s54 .ooo. 900. while tho
Canadian trade In already worth mora
than s2oo. ooo. 900, To increase and
render more profitable this latter
trade. he considered vastly more Inn.
portant than anything that will nc,
crue to the United States CONNER
| eially through the Panama canal.
Had 1t not been for constitutional
restrictions. MIR. HIN declared that
every state In the union would have
erected tariff walls against other
states. but Ii was now universally
recognized that the n great factor
In the development Of all the states
has been the commercial elimination
Of state lines.
The speaker believed the same
theory would hold good Of the whole
American continent. and that what
ever commercial policy win do to
advance the interests Of the wholA
continent. will do the most to AL
vance the interests of the individual
states. We have no more reason to
dread Canadian competition. he de-
clares. than North Dakota has to
dread the competition of pe~nnsylva-
mia. Why should not the United
| States share In the vast development
that Is going on In Canada, ss1are In
| the products of the fields of Mantle
ba and Alberta and A~thabaska: And
why should not those provinces have
access TO the manufactured products
of the United States.
1t does seem. indeed, that Canada
and the United States have been so
placed geographically AS to he nat.
ural trading neighbors. Their pro
ducts and are such as to
promise many blessings from a libe"'
at reciprocity. Mr., Hin Is probably
| extreme In his advocacy Of the levea
Ing of all tariff walls,
But one who surveys the field care
FULLY cannot fail To believe that the
! great agricultural communities OF
Canada need the manufactured pro-
| ducts for which we are beginning to
find 1t difficult tn find a market, We
need the coal. the timber and raw
material of Canada. There IL some
thing In the agitation that Is inereas.
ing i'm the New England states for re-
ciprocity with Canada, There 70
something In the Iowa idea and the
expressions of approval made by the
Chicago business men regarding Mr..
Fftit y VIEWS.
The republicans have a safe major
lty of both houses of congress. There
can be no question but sweeping re-
| visions OF the tariff are demanded by
the people, not only towards Canada
but In other respects as well. II the
republican party does not heed this
| demand, some day another party will
| be called to do the work, We don I
want any more democratic tinke'ing
!! with the tariff. Their attempts during
the Cleveland administrations were
all In the line Of protecting the rich
privileged classes and robbing the
poor and unpriyiieged classes. They
protected the rich sugar planter amt
took the duty off wool. Give the
democrats a chance to revise the tar
iff and they are likely to admit wool
free again,
What Is needed Is a sensible re
vision that win consider the best
interests of the whole country.
We must confess we have never
had any sympathy with the view
that In expressed by the word stand
pat" This Ia a progressive and not
a stand pat country. If We stand