Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-04

~ non0r OF the 1UO years OF peace be
United States, and ! trust and believe
ing will nevor be disturbed"
Wtifred Laurier, premier of Canada,
20 the writer, after a cordial meeting
III which Canada's greatest statesman
had given some interesting views on
the relations between the two coun-
tries n the proposed reciprocity
treaty.
In his 10th year he has the vitality,
inc energy. the power of intellectual
application which we are apt to look
x0r IN q man of SO or whereabouts.
For Is years Sir Wilfrid Laurier has
Oeen prime minister, and virtually the
ruler Of Canada, and is recognized
everywhere as n of the worlds most
eminent statesmen. His tariff legisla-
ton IN 1897. giving Great Britain the
oeneft OF preferential tradew with Cam
ada. GUS much enthusiasm both in
the dominion N in great Britain. and
1ir Wtlfrtd was warmly welcomed
when he visited London to attend the
jubilee festivities. He was then APP
pointed a member of the privy council.
"Of the objections which we have
heard to this agreement" said Sir Will
irtd. some there are which seem to me
20 lack slnGularly In force of opposite
ness: others, on the contrary, are
worthy OF consideration, not from any
inherent strength, but from the circum-
Stances under which they were in
eptred by a strange misconception as
20 what would be the result and the
consequence of the agreement. The evil
0ence Of 1t Is to be found In the fact
that two parties into which the people
o.. this country are divided, apart on
III other questions. were always
aereed IN h opinion that the rela-
lions which existed between us and our
neiEhb0rs were a blot on our common
civilization. There is further proof of
tnts fact In this. that of the two par
Ties who divide the country, one after
tie other n each in succession, wore
g good deal of hoe leather travelling
rom Ottawa to Washington in order to
OBTAIN. II possible. an Improvement in
!nese relations. Still better evidence of
the fact IL to be found in this, that
oir John Macdonald in the resolution
bringing the national policy n effect
IN 1878, embodied a permanent offer of
reciprocity as follows:
Section 6 Of h tariff act GS7S):
Any or all of the following articles,
tnat 10 to say animals of all kinds,
green fruit. hay, straw. bran, seeds of
III KINDS, vegetables. G~ncluding pota-
Toes and other rOOts), plants, trees and
shrubs. coal n coke. salt, hops, wheat
peas and beans. barley. rye, oats In
dian corn, buckwheat and all other |
grains, -four, of wheat and flour of rye, |
indian meal n oatmeal or meal OF
other grain, butter, cheese, fish
lsalted or smokey. lard. tallow, meats
S1reshl, sailed or smoked), and lumber,
pc imported into Canada free of
auey or at a less rate of duty than
y provided by this act. upon pro-
which may be issued whenever 1t ap-
pears to be satisfactory that similar
e!rtlcIes from Canada may be imported
into the United States free of duty
That was in 1879 and we are now
- 1911. And what was not for us in
1879 we now have.
-Ono ground of opposition to reci-
ofoctty cannot be fiattering to this
It Is that Canada today
= prosperous as h was before.
= Canada were still In the position in
Mn!cn we found It when we took office
- 1sye. With Its vast fertile lands still
cnoccupied and untitled. with it's natur-
7! dormant as they had been
xtmce the early days of creation, with
u transportation facilities still in the
0loet r~udtrnentary stage, with industry
eea9nant, with agriculture unremun-
XxSylve-wer Canada still in that pos
ist0n. ! have no doubt that today the
e0ltcy. Ne are proposing would be re-
Selved with. and the empyrean would
eeeound with e~xu1tation. But the coun-
!sy - Instead Of being In that con-
slslon. prosperous. extraordinarily PROS
s ~: IS xe are re told ID y S,,s. y opp .a9s
POUR arms and let we'll enough alone
= : y have said elsewhere, the people
~ CHINA have left well enough alone
eeC 1000 years. Four thousand q
* sncy were probably the first nation
q eattn, ~ 20 satisfied were they that
nn0Ueh al0ssA Hnr 4 mn ,,sn.-