The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
RECIPROCITY DEFEATED
Fly SAW OYARD

Washington, october 2--(Special 1.-The che manifest and masterful development in the recent election in the Dominion inf1exible fact that Canada is loyal to the British crown as Kent or Dorset, Warwickshire or Berkshire, Cumberland or Northumberland, and 1t is notice served on the world in general and on the German empire in particular that the nation that would war with the British lion must reckon with his subs It is possible that Canada would have rejected the treaty even had the bogy of annexa- ton not been invoked; but when the re- publican President of the United States improvidently spoke of the parting Of the ways and the democratic speaker of the Congress of the United States in '1ocular" vision saw a future absorption of the Dominion, the cause of Canadian reciprocity was slaughtered in the house. hold of it's friends.
 The pact would have been of immense benefit to both countries It would have enlarged the markets for Canadian prod ucts, and it would have demonstrated 60 our own people that protective tariff is for the manufacturer. and not for the farmer. It would have led to absolute free trade between the two countries, which. relatively speaking, would be as advantageous and desirable as the abso- lute free trade between the sister states or our republic And that free trade with Canada is bound to come, and when it does come the political union between the two will be as distant as it is now.
 What may be called the free trade era was the 15 years 1S46-61. In 1854 there vas a reciprocity agreement between Canada and the United States which last cd 12 years, to the mutual benefit of both countries In 1866 the republican party then all powerful in our republic, re- fused to continue the pact, not because 1t was false economy, but because there was mistaken idea that Canada was a 'Copperhead in our big war, growing out of the fact that Canada, during that struggle, was hosptabe to southerners, a habit the Anglo-Saxon has practiced for ages. But the real fact was that Canada sent across the line thousands of her ad- venturous young men who donned the blue and aided materially in the over throw of the south. and an immense ma jority of the people of Canada, as well as "a pronounced majority of the people of fthe Unified Kingdom. including the Queen and the Prince Consort. were on the side of the north. In 1866 and for years after, everybody in Canada was for reciprocity with the United States. but we would have none oft, though tine democratic party was a unit for it.
 Hopeless of an agreement, Canada went Into the manufacturing line, and adopted the mistaken policy of protection. Her manufacturers are as short sighted as ours-they want a monopoly of the home market, leaving the great neutral markets O. the world to free trade England. One of these fine mornings the American manufacturer is going to waken to .he fact that free trade is his salvation. Give him the world in which to buy and he will conquer the world in which to sell. Thus the beginning of tariff reform is free raw materials.
 The lumber trust is the chief beneficiary of the failure of Canada to ratify the pact. It leyies on the people of the United States tariff graft of over $io.- DOO,0Oo per annum, and the head of it is