The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-22
THE CANADIANS
AND AMERICANS
Hawkes. Told What Each Did
for Canada and United
States

DOsSou' Marcn l2.-ln an address
to the Intercolonial club and within
sight Of Bunker Hill an Englishman,
Arthur Hawkes. Of the Canadian
Northern railway. today declared that
the declaration of independence with
the Magma Charta and the declaration
Of right of England were of inestima-
BILE benefit to all Britain and colonies
Of Britain. The resistance to King
George he gloried in, he. said, what
ever such professed Americans as
Stark might say in belittling the open
resistance to tyranny which began
with the Boston tea party. "The
notes struck on the liberty bell," he
said, insured not only independence
for the thirteen colonies, but autono-
my for all oversee dominions of the
British empire
This was the spirit of Mr.. Hawkes.
address notwithstanding that, on the
eve of a rupture of present tariff re-
lattons between the United States and
Canada, he dwelt upon the serious
aspects of the tariff increase April 1
Of twenty-five per cent by the United
States and the expected sequel, a
thirty-three and one-third per cent
increase by Canada. 1t must be re-
membered that Mr.. Hawkes. chief, D.
ID. Mann Of the Canadian Northern
railway. recently said that the dis
tribution Of. natural resources in
North America will .ultimately-per-
haps quickly-modify the tariff poll
cies of the United States as we'll as
Canada. ut is really for you to be-
gin as you began tariff building" Mr..
Hawkes. said and he gives seven years
for the abolition Of the duty on the
hard wheat of western Canada.
Tariff an Expedient.
"The preponderance of pulp wood
in Canada" Mr.. Hawkes. said, must
soon lead to large readjustment in
the conditions of most important
series of industries. Your coal de-
posits are greater than ours in the
east and west. In the heart of the
continent ours exceed yours. Where
you give US coal we shall be able to
give you grain. To quote Mr.. Mann,
the. tariff Is, at best, an expedient.
AS its crude necessities are outgrown
and the distribution of natures favors
is better understood, = the courses of
trade will find their natural channels,
and Canada, handicapped at the be-
ginning by the wider range of busi-
ness possible to her southern neigh
Dor, will come into her own
with this l entirely agree. Only
short time ago Mr.. Mann showed
me several letters he received from
industrial leaders ON this side which
indicate that there is largo. in
fuential body of similar opinion in
the United States. The increase in
from the United States to which
have referred is only promise Of
things to come. Realizing this. as
we'll as profiting by the school MASTER
ing of the tariff, many United States
houses have established branch fac
tories in Canada result of our
tariff which probably would never
have come about II your statesmen of
the early sixties had been big enough
to perpetuate the reciprocity treaty
of 1856.
Richard Grigg, the able trade COM
missioner for Canada appointed by
the imperial government to organize
a service that will do for Britain
trade in Canada similar work to that
which is so admirably performed by
your own consular representatives.
estimated a few years ago that at
least S125.O00.O00 Of capital from the
United States had been put into
branch industries
II could find ten thousand men who
work in tha head Offices Of biz busi-