Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-03
Canadian Duties Gradually Re.
stricting Sale of Products
From United States
HOME FACTORIES GROWING
Tariff Policy Of Canadian Government
Building Up Many NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
lean Capital Finding Investment
Across the Observation-Disclosures
News.

and the crowding out Of American
manufactured goods are contained IN
reports made to the department OF
commerce and labor by American con-
suls In Canada.
They show an almost unprecedented
growth in population and product'on
of farm crops, but the sale Of Ameri-
can manufactured goods has hardy
kept pace with this development. Ac-
cording to the consular reports, Can
adian manufactures are now develop
ing the strength to ente: nearly every
line Of activity demanded by the new
northwest, and while American made
goods still dominate the market IN
many Of the large lines and command
the best prices, the market is becoming
more and more Canadian market.
The consumption Of manufactured
goods is $11O per capita, according to
one American consul located in the
province of Quebec, and Of this amount
all but $25 is supplied by home produc-
ton, the United States supplying
something over one-halt of the bal
ance. The amount of the United
States inportations to Canada is nee
essarily growing, owing to the phe-
nomenal development of the country,
but the home production is increasing
at much greater rate.
From 1901 to 1906 the population OF
the prairie provinces Increased from
466,O00 to 100000 and the grain crop
from 100000 to 200,000,000 bushels,
according to the reports made to the
government Between 1897 and 1906
nearly 100000 immigrants came into
the Canadian provinces.
One result Of this great growth has
been the expending of millions of dol
lars Of American capital in the devel-
opment of the manufae turing inter-
ests.
American capital to the extent Of
$196,000,000 has been invested in Can
ada in the last few years" says one
consul.
There seems to be growing ten
dencys in this part Of Canada for
American manufactures" says Consul
Jones of Winnipeg. Canada cannot
begin to supply the Increasing de-
mand."
The sale Of American shoes in Win
nipeg and the surround ng country,
where the American manufactures
have long held an aim 3st exclusive
market, is seriously affected by the
new Canadian tariff, according to the
Winnipeg consular agent.
The Canadians openly state that the
home government is trying to encour-
age the shoe industry thru a protective
tariff and with evident success.
The tariff is now 80 per cent ad
valorem and Americans cannot enter
the market. In Winnipeg there is an
extraordinarily heavy demand for
cheap shoes, owing to the great i'm
migrant trade in the city and sur
rounding country, and the Canadians
are successfully pushing cheap shoes,
which the American manufacturers
cannot duplicate after paying the duty
and selling expenses.
The department reports show that
Canada's trade policy has built up an
industrial system, the invested capital
of which Is now about $IS6,0O0,000, as
against s146,ooo,ooo in 1881.
''The south is pretty nearly as strong
for President Roosevelt IS the north"
is the report brought to Washington
by Capt. A. G. Bernard, Of Minnesota,
chairman Of the executive committee OF
the National Drainage ass ociation.
For month Capt. Bernard has been
touring in the southern states, making
his headquarters at New orleans.
"That city," he said, will be practic-
ally rehabitated by the time OF the
completion of the Panama canal. Mil
lions are being invested right now and
the contracts which sOutherners have
with the government for material alone,
to be sent from New Orleans to the
canal zone, also runs into millions.
Roosevelt's administration gets credit
for this boom, and hence the southern
democrats, strange as it may seem, are
talking for him. Whittier or not they,
would vote for him if he Msere nom
mated again is question, but this
much is manifested:
IF Roosevelt is nominated next year,
you need not be surprised if he car
ries home Of the southern states"
Capt. Bernard will atterld a drainage
at Memphis July II. The
has taken deep root in the
south, and bids fair to become fully as
as irrigation in the north.
Information of the fact that there is
no apparent discrimination as race
against the Japanese who made appli-
cation in San Francisco to establish in
telligence offices and who were refused
this privilege, has been received with
evident satisfaction by the officials Of
the embassy here, and they say that,
this being the case, there is nothing for
them to do, nor have they any comment
to make.
A dispatch has been received at the
from the Japanese consular
in San Francisco, which
conveyed the information that they
would not be entertained because the
police commissioners had decided to
permit such establishments to be con-
Quoted by American citizens only.
This, in the opinion of the officials
here, seems to put an end to any con-
troversy over the matter.
Edison's Courtship.