Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-08

look ing after their wants. sea and
| shore fisheries. 1t is a great enter
| prise in the State of Maine, great
, enterprise along the coast of Maine.
The great state of Washington is the
FIRST state in the Union in the matter
| oi fisheries What about those fish
| cries? Pass that treaty and You
! wont discuss the fish question in Il
| Maine Legislature: it won't he necos-
! sav,.: there will be no fish question.
and there will be no fisheries aiohE
the coast of Maine. W" cannot com
! pete with the Canadian waters that
are full Of fish: the packing houses
along the coast of Maine and Massa :
chusetts and oregon and Washington
cannot compete with the pacNihs
bouses that will be erected Whefe
the fish are. Have you any douet OF
that! Premier @. II. Murray :" '>oN "
Scotia in discussing the provisions "'
the treaty before the Canadian faf I'D
ment on February n said
IT see no reason today Why ''e
fishing fleet Of Nova Scotia should iiot
increase threefold l see no reason
WHY we should not become the p'"'-
! ciual fish food producers OF TINS con-
| tinent' a.,,-
! For n quarter Of Il century the hS"-
ing portion-one- -third--oi our P'pu-
latiqn longed for ii free narket WIN
w. na,ion to tne south" he continued.
Nov that great wish seems sat's'''"'
and hone is fiiling the heart oi ',S
man who follows the sea Tor IiNe-
lihood.' cid
WHAT about the farmers sfti"
IL was not a matter of politics i'ci.-
ocrats and Republicans aike "uen'
IN 10 agreed in the State OF Maine
upon this matter. Even the Water
Vile Sentinel, on February - said;
The scheme of reciprocity with Can
! ada proposed by President Taft is
not a fair proposition. Judged either
from the viewpoint of u tariff for Il
/ protection or from the viewpoint of
| free trade or from the viewpoint OF
| a tariff for revenue. From the view
| point of Il tariff for protection its aim
| is to take away from the farmers
| of this country what little of special
privilege is extended 10 them. From
the viewpoint of trade it fails to cor
| rect the favoritism granted to other
lines of business besides farming.
From the standpoint Of tariff for rev
cnue it is an absolute failure be-
cause it still adheres to the policy of
a tariff for the protection of privi-
lege.
The Bangor Commercial Ct February
14th said:
The ratification Of the proposed
reciprocity measure in its present form
would be blow for the future as well
as for the present. a blow To the Maine
industries depending upon our forest
products would mean 4 blow to hun
dreds of thousands Of people whose
livelihood comes from these industries.
We are glad to build for the future but
not ut the expense of the present. and
cannot but object to Il measure that.
if adopted. Will injure Names inter
ests until such time as it is abrogated.
But it is not alone the lumbermen.
the paper and pulp manufacturers and
| the dealers in the manifold forest
products who will be dealt a vital blow
should the reciprocity agreement be
ratified for every potato farmer. dairy
| farmer, cattle raiser and hay produc-
or will find his prosperity very seri-
ously menaced.
This is a question that is of vital
| Importance to every farmer not only
| in Maine but of all states adjacent to
| the Canadian boundary for naturally
| the interests more directly affected are
those near the boundary. They nat
urallv can see no justice or equity i'll
giving the manufacturer protection on
| the articles that they must buy and
| proclaiming free trade on the products
| oe the farm, of protecting meat and
| not livestock.
/ 1t has been said that Carada does
not raise vast amount of farm
products but this does not mean that
she cannot. Open to Canada the mar
| kets of the United States on more
| than even basis with our farmers, for
our neighbors across the border can
| buy their farms and obtain their la
| Dor more cheaply. and the result is not
| far to seek Right across the Maine
| line IN Canada are thousands and
| thousands of acres of fertile lands.
| Give them Il profitable market and
| their production viii be vastly In
| creased at the expense of Maine. Oui
| farmers will suffer in lower prices for
their products and depreciation OF
| their farms and the State will suffer
| iii the removal of many of it's asricul'
| turalists across the border. And what
| Is true of Maine is equally true of the
| other states that are adjacent to the
| Canadian border.
II is not at all surprising that tho
| sentiment in Canada over the proposed
| treaty is one of gratification mingled
with surprise for Canada is by far the
| larger beneficiary.
| p. B. Carvcll. Liberal member from
| New Brunswick. said recently:
| 1T is practically the unanimous wish
! Of the electorate Of the Maritime prov
| inceS. Conservatives as we'll as Lib
| eral. that there should be frecr access
| to the American markets for the nat
ural branches products of Canada"
| Under the agreement he felt sure
| there was 40 possibility that any Can
| adian interest would suffer. On the
| contrary. they would all be greatly
| stimulated. In his own country. hc
| said, hundreds of Canadian farmers
| had crossed the International boundary