The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-23
RECIPROCITY MOVE
MUST COME FROM
UNITED STATES
Canada, Rsbufed In the Past, VIII
Never Seek Freer Trade Relations
With Thh Country, Declares
Toronto Editor.
Conference Will Adopt Resolution
Asking Congress To Establish
Permanent Tariff Commission.
-. A. MACDONALD.


II reciprocity with the United States
vas made perfectly clear In an address
Il unusual force and eloquence by the
rev. J. A. Macdonald, editor OF the
Toronto Globe, In the Y. NJ c. A.
auditorium. Thursday evening, at a
session of the reciprocity conference
called by the Detroit Board of Com
merce. Mr.. Macdonald's views on the
subject carried great weight with the
delegates. as he Is a man Of consider
able influence In the political affairs OF
Canada and his paper IS the leading
government organ. That his address
made profound impression was EVIL
dent from the Grafton accorded him
at its close.
There was no beating about tho
bush on his part, lie looked the situa.
lion squarely In the eyes and gave his
American brethren some straight
the-shoulder talk on trade relations
between the two countries.
Il tell you plainly that the one Ger.
tain way for you To secure for your
PEOPLE better trade relations with
canada Is TO secure a more reasonable
tarin against Canadian goods entering
your country" he said You must
learn for yourselves. and you must
teach your people, that trade is stick
with two ends. You cannot do busi-
ness with a man unless he can do busi-
ness with you Your people need not
expect freer trade with he people in
Canada SO long as you keep your
tartff so nearly prohibitiye against i'm
ports from Canada
1t may be economically absurd for
our people 10 meet tariff with tariff
but II was from you they learned the
habit When your Mckinley tarif
suddenly killed Canadian trade In i'm
portant lines serious injury was In
nicted on many Canadian industries.
But what did our people do? They
lid what your people would have done.
Your markets were closed To them'
they sought markets elsewhere FOR
Aerly they traded south; now tney
Il ade east and west They nave prov
ed themselves. their strength. ana
either resources. They are no longer
dependent on any one inerket. Anu
ertain IL is that never again Will rep
resentatives 20 from Ottawa TO Wash
Ington 10 negotiate reciprocity
q eaty IL Is your move.
1T Is being said tnat your farmers
gre unalterably opposed 10 the admis-
ion Of Canadian agricultural products
cur cheese is excluded. Our wheat
and barley are not wanted. But your
.nillers cannot get along without our
hard northern wheat. Besides. your
.,rmers cannot escape Canadian com
letition. Our farmers ~ not leave
N the fields the wheat ey ,luded from
your markets. They export II to Lon
aon. and so sensitive is the wheat
market that Chicago feels the compe-
.ition. Life Is too complex the world
SIS too small for any country TO live
u itself or to die to itself
Trade Laughs at Tariffs.
Setting your total exports to Can
ada against your total imports from
canada and calling the difference un-
QUESTIONABLE profitable and flattering
il one OF the shailowest Of all econ
cmic decisions. Your trade with Can
lda is an exchange OF commodities,
but we do not send you neraly as much
as we take from you; your tariff for
lids. What then? Do We send You
money! No Trade Is exchange or
GOODS We send goods to Britain.
britain sends goods to China and
Japan They In turn send tea AMI
silks to the United States. The ex-
change Of commodities goes on, and
80. In the end. trade laughs at tariffs,
end the consumers pay the duty.
You are told that II would be I'M
fair To expose your American indus
tries to competition with Canadian
:, heap labor Tell that to the marines.
Workingmen in the cities OF Canada,
and the farmers and the dairymen
whose products your tar'ff excludes.
1--we as well, dress as well. own AS
lood houses. and enjoy the luxuries
Of life TO degree equal to the same
classes In the United states. The
fost Of living in Canada is not so high,
because the tariff taxation Is not So
heavy. II salaries and wages are
rominally lower, SO is the cost of food
stuffs and clothing. We have no
|.'cheap labor and our percentage OF
cut-of-works is less than your own.
Remainder OF Pasanism.
81 wish you Godspeed In your work
for better trad erelatiols between
these two countries Socially. com
mercially. even politically. we are
fairly civilized on both sides OF the
line. But In our international rela.
items there Is still the uncivilized re.
mainder OF paganism. We have among
us. in both countries, men who think
ofanat ions glory In terms OF blood
End slaughter Such men are not
GOOD Americans. They are not good
Canadians.
Here on this continent is exhibited
what cannot be see nelsewhere In all
the world: boundary line OF four
thousand miles between two nations.
without fort on the shores. without
a soldier to challenge a stranger The
world never saw It's like before. sees
|,it now nowhere but between the Unit.
ed States and Canada. Every EFFORT
10 preserve peace and goodwill be-
tween these two countries makes for
Anglo.Saxon unity, and means peace
on earth and goodwill TO men. Join
hands IN trade and you will not take
up the sword OF ward"