The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01


BY n. q. r. BRIGGS.
MONTREAL. Can, April Mon
|trfal il the metropolis and great port
OF Canada. Here center the Domin-
ions railroad. banking, shipping and
manufacturing interests. And all are
united against any form OF reciprocity
Win the United States.
Why? Because they have been
bQIH up by protection" just as Big
B1einess In the United States has
&RIOwn fat behind the American tarin
Wall. Canada isn't as trustified as
~ afe--yet, but her captains OF In
dQstry are just as shrewd and far-see-
tnG 40 ours. No reciprocity for them.
Take the railroads. Canada's main
afker7os run east and west, linking
tie broad grain fields OF Manitoba and
61skatchewan with the -four mills
and the docks Of Montreal The Uni
ted States tariff that shuts the west
ern farmer away from his natural
nearby market in Minneapolis forces
y him to ship his wheat by Canadian
Pacific or Grand Trunk to Montreal.
b Tha Canadian tariff in turn forces
him to have all his necessities shipped
the aame great distance. The Cana
dian railroads have a great monopoly.
why should they favor reciprocity?
Bir william Van Horne, master
builder OF the G. p Rand an ex-
unkrfaked American, by the way-sees
JalnesJ. Hill on the border. ready to
extend his seven or eight lines OF
railway into the Canadian northwest
lines which have for years rested
<heir noses on the boundary waiting
. (or reciprocity Canadian Pacific
&focks sells around 227. Let well
1Dpugh alone!
This shameful thing" says Sir
yllliain, was put through hurriedly..
vfthout consultation with any OF our
chiness interests.
~The United States looks to us with
~covetous eve" he says, "and this
'1rbposal Of reciprocity is the result.
~. II humiliating and disgusting to
s md such deal being seriously en-
ottainedly ~
&. And he. too, sees the nightmare OF
~Iunexation Larnexation to his ma
ki$e land, I'VE are making bed to
me in and die In" he says.
Take. the, milling industry. 1t has
doveloped wonderfully In few years.
Does Il want Canadian wheat milled
h. Minneapolis? My word. no! But
/ went TO the chief men or the swo7
bic concerns to make sure. .s
n FIN dead against reciprocity, and
that's. all I've got to say" snorted +.
Nv, Thompson, the keen head OF the
Oxilvy Milling Co. That was quite
+ ouficient.
Then I asked Robert Meighen. pres.
- he ~ "A
Milling Co. He's an imperialist OF
& uronounced type. To him the empire
lss first, last and always. He dreams
81 q great preferential tariff wall
y built up around all the British pos
SESSIONS, each favoring the other at
the expense OF the rest of the world.
!. England, he says, should put high
duty on American wheat and -four, |
while admitting Canada's product
< free.
.Reciprocity with the United States
means commercial suicide for Can
ada" he told me, and painted vivid
picture OF silent factories, devastated
forests, impoverished farms.
f Canada, like the United States, has
tAfked about her meat trust" This
the packers vigorously deny, in the
ssme breath that they tell their farm |
ERR and workingmen how ruinous rec
ipxoeity will prove. All Canada's
beautifuliy patriotic trade with Great
Bxitain will be spoiled IL her farmers
bAgin catering to the peculiar and I'M
stable American markets. And X
American live stock Is imported, Can
ada viii have to fight CHAMBERS mango. |
hox cholera and the dread foot-and- !
mouth disease, SO prevalent in the
United States!
John Gum, president OF the Pro- !
dr5ce Merchants. association, told me
bfthe dire DISCRIMINATION OF Canada's
produce trade with England, II Cana
dian farmers get wider market In
the United States!
Always that love for dear old Eng