Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
mind that we are likely 20 gain as great
ly by what we give as by what we get.
Canada's Purchases From Us.

ly by what We give as by what we get.
Canada's Purchases From Us.
When population Is taken into ac-
count, there is no country In the world
that approaches Canada in amount OF
purchases from the United States
When cotton, in which we have q prac-
tical monopoly. and which foreign ma
tions must buy from us. is excepted.
the United Kingdom is the only coun
try which purchases q larger aggre-
gate of our products. Our splendid
trade with the German empire takes
only 1858 100000 of our exports each
year, as compared with $4,000, 900
which we sell to Canada. When cotton
is deducted from the two accounts
Germany, with eight times as many
s120.000.o00. as against Canada's $231,-
100000. France annually buys from US
s1f6,000,000 in total value, or $4,000
600 with cotton excluded. Even the
United Kingdom imports from this
country but 1907 100000 in value ex-
elusive Of cotton, or barely one-third
more than is taken by her colony Can
ada buys from us SO per cent more
than she takes from all the other ma
lions of the world combined. Each year
her seven or eight millions Of people
buy of our products twice as much in
value as Great Britain exports to the
800, 900 900 people in her Indian empire.
He must be blind indeed who cannot
see the significance of her remarkable
pre- commence in the commerce of the
United States. In methods OF produc-
ton, scale of living and in racial char
acteristics no other nation SO strongly
resembles this country. The forces OF
nature draw the two countries COM
mercially together. with potency
which cannot be nullified by mutual
tariffs and by the other devices by
which statesmen keep nations asunder.
Common Frontier 3,70O Miles.
1T will help us to understand the pol
icy of the bill to look at the map and
consider a few primary facts. The hab-
liable part Of Canada forms an extended
rim across the summit of our country
and is shut in by our northern boundary
on the one side and by the extreme cold
upon the other. This rim is narrow In
the eastern and central portions and
broadens out toward the mountains and
the Pacific under the influence of the
chinook winds. The two countries have
a common frontier of 3,7OO miles-not
including the Alaskan boundary, which
would add 1000 miles more. No two
other countries in the world lie along
side each other for nearly SO great dis
lance 1t is not q natural frontier made
up of mountains and other barriers diff
ficlllt to cross, but for the greater dis
lance 1t is purely artificial In character,
and for the rest it is composed OF great
navigable lakes and rivers. Nature never
more greatly tempted two nations &c
trade with each other.
The attempt to set aside the plain
DEGREES of nature by artificial tariff bar
riers has injured both countries, out on
account of her configuration Canada has
suffered far more than this country. 1t
was a problem of the utmost difficulty
fish q great and coherent industrial and
commercial structure over vast stretches
of longitude and little latitude, with deep
valleys and almost impossible mountain
ranges running north and south.
"A semblance Of unity In such a fabric
could only be secured at great cost. Com
merce would naturally follow the circles
of longitude and break across the boun-
Diary in hundred torrents. But the cur
rents of Canadian trade flow feebly and
become cold forced as they are through
an artificial channel for thousands OF
in the warmth that would come from
lateral lines discharging themselves into
the main artery. To this artificial con-
dition is due the slow development of
Canada, for that q country with her vast
wealth Of forests and mines. and with
hundreds Of thousands of miles OF rich
and unsettled lands. should only have in
creased from $500, 600 people to 5000 ,OOO
in half century is striking circum-
stance, and one. 1t may be added, Tor
which we must accept large measure
of responsibility. When we yielded to
the influence Of the lumber interests and
denounced the Elgin treaty We suffered
in consequence the tragic waste of our
forests and we forced upon Canada a
condition under which she has had but