Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-25
h 7he Halls of Congress
BY TAV.
Special Washingtnp Correspondence


 shall be able to certify before that time that there is no undue discrimination against Amer ican goods in the operation of the Canadian tariffs?
 The best answer to this query are the reports being received in Washington from Canadian commercial centers. These reports are to the effect that manufacturers and jobbers of Great Britain and Germany are rushing their sales men and representatives into Canada for the purpose of soliciting the business that has here tofore been handled by, American manufactur- CTS, but which we can not hope to retain after the tariff war opens.
 The exports from the United States to Can ada in 1908 exceeded $157 ,O00000 The chief items were agricultural implements, animals, books, brass, breadstuffs, cars and carriages, patent medicines, coal, raw cotton, cordage, fruits, electrical appliances, manufactures of iron and steel, machinery, boots and shoes, meats, writing paper, tin, tobacco, manufactures of wood and manufactures of wool
 If we put our p per cent ad vaIorem duty in effect against Canadian imports Canada is pre- pared to immediately put into effect against imports from the United States surtax equiv alent to one-third of the regular duties. This will deprive the United States of probably 80 per cent of our Canadian business. Will any body in the United States be advantaged by a tariff war that curtails the export to Canada of the $157 100000 worth of articles enumerated above? If so, who?
 Not only will the United States lose the great CT part of this business during the life of the tlr'ff wal, but we will lose a certain large pro- portio, of the business forever, because while the tariff war is on, English and German firms will have an opportunity to build up large clientele in Canada, very considerable pro- portion of which they will naturally be able 70 retain.
 When the Dingley law was framed in 1896 the exercise of little foresightedness on the part of American statesmen would have made of Can ada an economic dependency of the United States. At that time the Canadian leaders were eager and willing to establish free trade between Canada and the United States. Such a move would have laid open the tremendous sources of raw material in Canada to the manu- faCturers of the United States. and would have made of Canada an immense buyer of United States manufactures. The American statesmen however, proceeded on a grab-it-all- Land give nothing back policy, which has made of Canada an independent commercial nation.
 Canada s broad-minded offers of 1896 having been turned down by the United States, she has since repeatedly refused to consider reciprocal commercial concessions with us. In 1897, one year after the Dngley law was enacted, Canada took slap at the United States by granting to Great Britain and most of the British colonies preferential reduction of 12 1-2 per cent in it's tariff rates. In 1893 the reduction was increased to p per cent and in 1900 to B 1-3 per cent. and 1t now averages 30 per cent and applies uniformly on all articles It is because of prefer entlal rates to France, that the American Cana dian commercial struggle will begin.
 Back in 1896 Canada was not a manufactur- ing nation in the sense that it could hope to SUD- ply its own needs in manufactured goods. It has not even yet approximated such condition, but a tariff war at this time with the United States will go long way toward making Cana da independent of our markets
 The result of our refusal to be liberal to Can ada in the Dingley law was that there were es- tablished in Canada during the succeeding ten years not less than 150 important industries. One-half of the iron and steel industry and one fifth of the lumber and woodworking establish ments of the entire dominion were thus estab- lished. In Hamilton alone there were thirtv-six manufacturing firms established, part or all of the capital for which came from the United States. The Illinois Manufacturers association in report, stated that 122 of the leading man ufacturing concerns of the United States had established branch plants and mills in Canada during that period.
 These facts are significant They mean. on the one hand, that large American manufactur- ing concerns have found it cheaper to establish