The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-26
A CANADIAN TARIFF wAR

Thcre Is still q prospect ftnaI3 Canaud
will yield on the tariff question. Al
representative OF the Canadian authori-
ties is on his way to Washington,
ostepsibly to reach some understand
ing with the President and to avoid
| the maximum duties which must be
levied against Canada under the Aid
rich tariff.
Such an agreement is, of course, to
| be desired. A tariff war with any
country is never pleasant, and a tariff
! unpleasant. The relations between
this country and the neighboring
colony have been SO close and intimate
that commercial differences would
work hardship upon many merchants
in both countries. II Mr.. Fielding
comes prepared to make any conces-
sions he should be met half way with
i equal concessions, and should be en-
couraged to avoid q conflict that Will
injure both nations and benefit neither.
At the same time, 1t might be we'll
for American manufacturers to taste
have been dosed for SO many years on
| the syrup of protection. and have
grown SO fat under its influence that
they have almost forgotten that other
druggists than the United States can
prescribe. Our Government has gone
on the principle that every foreign
nation must come to our ports, with
| high duties or low, and that we should
be assured low duties at every foreign
port We have grown rich off Eng
| lisil trade. and have flooded that mar
ket with American goods; but we have
never thought for moment that Eng
land. or Canada, one of her colonies,
might use our own policy against us.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander, and what is Just in
! the way of tariff for America would
be equally Just for England or for
Canada. The effect on our industries.
| however, would soon be felt. Their
5owners would raise such howl that
the State Department would be up in
arms. Suppose, for instance, Canada
( 1aiseu E'leF tdtill, sliol only TO a plane
equal to ours. but even higher. Our
American manufacturers would then
have to compete with Canadian manu-
| facturers in Canadian markets. under
the burden of that tariff. They would
! at once declare that they could not
compete with the Cheap labor of
Canada. and would insist with viEor
. that their foreign market was unjustly
taken from them. Yet the thing
against which they would so vigorous.
~ protest in foreign country i.
: the thing they champion in their owr
7 country. They are unwilling to wear
the boot they make
There is such a thing as interna
tional amity and international Justice,
we have not shownnit in our trade
= relations and we need not expect other
y nations to show it in their commercial !
= treaties with US. We need not expect
from others that mercy we do not
. show to them.
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$ THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TREES.
S At the twentyhrst annual session of
e the North Carolina Pine Association
IN Nor1olk on Thursday President Eos
e burg attributed the failure OF an in
!. creased demand for lumber and strong
a CT prices during the last six months
$ in no small degree to the continued
y agitation at Washington, which has
4 been keeping the railroads and other
large business interests in a condition
, OF uncertainty as to Tie future"
The lumber business, as everybody
knows, is largely dependent upon the
railroads for It's prosperity. During the
y last six months the output of yellow
G pine has been so per cent. less than
+ normal, yet. according to the report of
E the Secretary of the Association, the
e shipments by the mills represented in
! the Association aggregated last year
i I20.000,00O feet, and this meant, OF
course. destruction Of hundreds of
!. thousands of trees. The milling indus
try should be promoted by every fair
!, ana reasonable means, and the rail-
roads should be relieved of the perse-
I cution from which they have been
: suffering, but there can be no doubt
: that wise policy of conserving these
! natural resources OF the country should
be determined upon and enforced in
every State in the South IN some OF
tlthe southern States the destruction of
~ forests has been little short OF
criminal--many lumber concerns look
: ing only to the Immediate profits in
( the business, without any thought APP
j parently Of the generations that are
! to follow after.
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n TIE GREAT ENENT OF Tlli; SUM
, MEE,
! Tho great body Of Tic people is
I looking forward 10 but ms event dur
! ing the summer. Everything else is
e OF minor importance Congress ma,
8 smash things up gcnerally, Enrland
] may undergo the greatest revolution