The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-25
SHAW ADVOCATES CLOSER
commerce With CANADA

New York, May 23.-Predictine
closer and more friendly relations with
Canada than ever before. both com.
mercially and otherwise. Leslie M.
Shaw, former secretary of the treas
ury, went farther in his address be.
foret he Canadian Club, and declared
his belief that Canada and the United
States will eventually stand shoulder
to shoulder in the matter of tariff up-
on imported manufactures.
II am free to express the opinion
ne said, that both the United States
and Canada will settle down to the
policy of making one-priced markets.
They will, in my Judgment, perhaps
not Immediately, but ultiamtely, say
to all the world:
We levy such tariffs as we think
will best conserve our own interests.
We are selfish, and while we wish ev-
cry country we'll we legislate solely for
our own. But when we have given our
own laborers that degree of protection
which we think appropriate, we have
no pets and make no distinction as
between commercial competitors
1.-The French producers of knittings
and other textiles, cutlery and other
hardware, china and glass, will now,
as ever, enter the United States and
Canadian markets on exactly the same
terms as the products of like articles
in other countries.'
Outrage Upon England
After pointing out the fact that
Great Britain consumes onethird Of all
American exports without imposing
one penny more taxation than upon
internal revenue taxes on Their own
domestic articles, Shaw declared that
it would be an outrage to admit the
products of Germany, France or italy
on more favorable terms than those of
England.
81 have often thought" he said,
'tof what England would say if Canada
were to admit our manufactured arti-
cles upon lower taxation than she
imposed upon those of the mother
country. If England will consent,
then I am ia favor of commercial
union with Canada. coupled with the
same tariff laws and the same immi-
grafton laws for Goth countries.
81 am disposed to think that such
an agreement would be mutually ad-
vantageous. grant it might at first
slightly affect our food product states,
but it would very soon result in an
increased market for American labor
satisfactory to Offset it. 1t would
work to the very great advantage of
Canadian agriculture, although it
probably would retard the develop
ment of Canadian man ufactures.
"Our interests are so identical, our
future so full of joint hope and prom
Use, that I think it would be of great
advantage to insure the greatest posi-
BILE infancy. I confess, however, that
this is a consummation for which I
have little hope. As have intimated,
fear Great Britain would seriously
object to the admission of American
manufactures free of duty and the
imposition of protective tariffs against
similar products coming from the
mother country.
"However, let me return to my orig
inal suggestion, that these two great
American republics q use the term
abstractly rather than technically
continue to live each in the admira-
ton of the other, and each pursuing
such policy as it believes best calcu-
lated to further the interests OF its
own. without special reference to the
effects upon the other, but having
done this, let each ever extend to the
other the glad hand and glad wish"