The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-26
Canadian Railway Official in
Boston Speech Expressed
Unity of Feeling Be
tween Dominion and
United States.
TARIFF WAR WILL Be BLUNDER


Boston, March 23'--ih uH "'''
IN the Intercolonial club and withih
sight of Bunker Hin an Englishman'
Arthur Hawkes., of the Canaulan
Northern railway, today declareu
that the Declaration of independence
with the Magma Charta ana the De
c,aration of Right of England We're
az inestimable benefit to all Britalh
and colonies Of Britain. The resist
tance of King George Is Glorleu III,
he said. whatever such protesseu
aner,cans as stark might say in be-
littling the open resistance to tyranny
whicb began with the Boston tea
marty. "The notes struck on the
iihertv belT' he said, insured not
onlv independence for the thirteen
colonies. but autonomy for all over
soo domInions of the British Empire.
This was the spirit of Mr. Hawkes.
address Notwithstanding that' on tne
eve of a rupture oi present lain
relations between the united States
and Canada he dwelt upon the serl-
Gus aspects of the expected sequel,
az l-3 per cent Increase by Cahaua'
II must be remembered that MI
, Hawks chief d. d. Mann OF the
Canadian Northern railway, recently
said that the distribution OF natural
resources in North America VIII
ultimately, perhaps quickly, modliy
the tariff policies of the United States
as well as Canada. ut is really Tor
you to begin as you started tariff
building" Mr.. Mann said and he
gives seven years for the abolish-
ment of the duty on the hard wheat
Of western Canada.
"The preponderance OF pulpwood
in Canada" Mr.. Hawks said, must
soon lead to a large readjustment OF
the conditions of most important
series of industries. Your coal de-
posts are greater than ours in the
east and west. In the neart OF the
continent ours exceed yours. Where
YOU give us coal we shall be able
10 give you grain, To quote Mr..
Mann, the tariff Is at best an eXped-
tent. AS its crude necessities are
Bupgrown and the idistributGn ot
Natures favors is better understood,
the courses of trade will find their
natural channels, and Canada, ham
dicapped at the beginning by the
wider range of business possible to
her southern neighbor, win come into
her own.
with this / entirely agree. Only
n short ago Mr.. Mann showed me
several letters he received from In
dustrial leaders on this side which
indicate that there Is a large influen-
tial body of similar opinion in the
United States. The increase in pur-
chases from the United States to
which / have referred is only a
promise OF things to come. RealiZ-
ing this, as well as profiting by the
school mastering of the tariff, many
United states houses have establish
ed branch houses in Canada, a re-
suit of our tariff which probably
would never have come about If
your statesmen of the early sixties
had been big enough to perpetuate
the Reciprocity Treaty of 1856.
"Mr. Richard Grigg, the able trade
Commissioner for Canada appoint
ed by the Imperial Governement to
organize a service that will do for
British trade in Canada similar
work to that which Is so admirably
performed by our consular repres-
entatives, estimated a few years ago
that at least $l25. 100000 of capital
from the United Etates had been put
into branch industries.
81 could findten thousand men who
work In the head offices Of big
business houses in New York Boston
or Chicago, who imagine that be-
cause they work in the head Offices
that they are peg above the fell
lows who are on the frontier of the
business, creating the trade on which
the house and alls its employees live.
They are little Gorges, without
their predecessors excuse.
HYour revolution was because the
stiff necked, English born German
who sat upon the throne did not re-
alize that an Englishman across the
ocean was just as good as, If not
better than. the man who stayed at
home; ard that an intent commune
ty. like an infant individual grows
into an adult with all the natural
rights and emotions of an adult. The
slowness to understand changed con-
ditions was not peculiar to George
Third and his ministers. The notion
OF superiority has been confined TO
Fnglishmen, living or dead.
Let us take the war of Independ-