The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-22
What America Must Do to Get
Reciprocity
EQUAL DUTIES DEMANDED
On Farm Machinery-Also Like Require
ment on Farm products--New Ca
qadian Law May Hit the
Elevator Owners.

Yorktown, Sask., july 22.-sir Wilfrid
Iaurier Wednesday Indicated TO large
audience, which was heartily in favor Of
reciprocity with the United States, what
the attitude Of Canada win be in the ne
gotiation Of natural products reeiproe.
ity treaty. 1t is exactly what the Com
seryatiye premier, ST. John A. MaeDon-
.ald, proposed in 1870, and Sir Wilfrd
called IL Canada's standing offer. The
Canadian tariff act Of 1879, section 6,
said: ANY or oil Of the following artl-
cles, that is 70 say, animals Of all kinds,
vegetables, including potatoes and other
roots, plants, trees and shrubs, coal and
coke, hops wheat, peas, beans barley,
rye, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and
all other grain, butter, cheese, fish lsalt-
ed or smoked, lard, tallow meats
fresh sailed OF smoked and lumber
may be imported into Canada free Of
duty, or at less scale Of duty than is
provided in this act. upon proclamation
OF the governor in council which may
be issued whenever It appears to bis sat
is faction that similar articles from Can
ada may be imported into the United
States free Of duty ar at a rate OF duty
not exceeding that payable on the same
under such proclamation when imported
into Canada Il can be stated authori.
tetiyely that this VIII be toe position
Of the Canadian negotiations in the fall.
The premier took the mounted sailor
boys as an opening to discuss the ca
madam navy. Il was plain that the pres.
ent Canadian tariff vas unpopular with
the audience. The premier undertook q
defense Of the schedules pointing out
that after careful investigation the
IN 1907 bad reduced duties
on 1850 out Of 4sl articles in the tariff
and had free listed seventy. Moreover,
he contended that the tariff preference
OF 80 per cent. accorded British goods
operated as a price regulator Of all i'm.
ports, and that the Liberal party had
reduced the Canadian tariff by at least
ssiz per cent
Answering the second request or the
grain growers, reciprocal free trade with
the United tsates in agricultural nipple
ments, the premier again stated if farm
machinery could enter the United States
as freely as American machinery could
enter Canada, he would favor the stand
ing offer in the Payne-Aldrich law. He
would not consider 4, he said until the
United States stood ready to reeiprocally
free list all the parts Of agricultural
az well as the machinery IT,
self. Under the present American tar
III, the separate parts would be As per
cent.
American interests controlling both
terminal and line elevators in the. ca
madam West will be seriously affected
by the decision Of the Laurier govern
ment to separate the business Of grain
elevation at terminal points like Port
Arthur and Fort William from that Of
grain buying in towns throughout the
wheat growing area Various American
houses now operate under different cor
porate names, both as purchasers Of
grain and as terminal elevators, So that
grain which these elevators receive as
Avery excellent No. hard IS sold
barely qualifying as No ! hard There
fore. the farmers feel that the terminal
elevator companies manipulation tends
to reduce the price Of wheat, and since
the same interests under different cor
porate names are engaged in buying |
wheat. this has caused the agitation for
government ownership. It can be stated |
THAT the premier, while not disposed to
favor government ownership Of the ter
minal elevators, has not rejected the sug
gestion, Possibly it may be the only
way for the government to effect a com
plete separation between the terminal
elevators and the buyers Of wheat.
After consultation with Sir Richard /
Cartwright, minister Of trade and com
merce, Sir Wilfrid Laurier has decided
that the separation must be effected and
legislation will he introduced to reach /
The holding companies, both Canadian
ind American, which now operate both
terminal elevators for the storage Of
train at the head Of Lake Superior,
whence it is shipped BY water to Eu
.ope, and as buyers Of grain throughout
ne prairie provinces The chief Amer
can interest which will be affected is
he Peavey company Of Minneapolis
The Dominion government has ample
,ower to appropriate the property Of this
II other companies, and it is needless
o say that with the ever increasing
Of Canadian wheat for ex
,ort any such enforced change in the
.etivities Of the great grain controlling
iouses will have a far reaching effect