Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-04
Echo of Civil War.

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in connection with the revocation Of the
treaty of 1854 to which Mr. Laurier al
ludes. 1t was always asserted and gener-
ally believed that the reasons OF the
United States in reyoking that arrangement
were to relieve our business men from
an Improbable trade, but l have often
been told b. those who We're on the
"inside" in Washington during those
days that it was due TO the animosity
Of President Johnson and Secretary Sew
are toward the Canadians for furnishing
an asylum for thousands of Confederates
population of the province of Ontario
Sympa hiZed with the south, and. as
everybody knows. johnson was bitter and
resentful. Mr.. Stewards eagerness for the
purchase of Alaska has been attributed
to the same motiye-tO prevent Canada
from getting that vast territorfty
The opponents of reciprocity evidently
have never read the text of the compact.
They are fighting an Imaginary bogy and
are attacking things that do not exist. II
simply removes the duties upon natural
products and agricultural implements. and
as Mr.. Laurier recently said:
The agreement is concerned chiefly
with natural products The only industry
affected is that of agricultural implements.
on some of which the duty has been re-
duced from 17l2 per cent to IL per cent
and others from IN to - per cent. 1t
would have been pleasing. for myself at
all events. to go beyond that. but We
considered that If We did would
perhaps not do justice to the large body
which has invested money in these es-
adjustments. The government does not
exist for the farmers alone. or the man
ufacturers alone. for any one class,
but for the manufacturers and the far
mers and for the classes which compose
eur population. I do not mean that there
10 oy1x. Iotr,
and class. I do not admit that there
should be any antagonism between the
manufacturers and farmers. The manu-
facturer Is the best customer of the far
mer. and the farmer is the best customer
of the manufacturer Let them walk
hand in hand: let each profit"
In spite of high tariff and their 10y
atty to the motherland the Canadians
buy two and half times as much from
the United States as from Great Britain.
and more than twice las much as they
sell to
Canada's fiscal year ends March 81
and the returns for the twelve months
ports of 500. 600. of which about 20
per cent went to the United Kingdom
and ~ per cent to the United States
Of her imports 60 per cent came from
the United States and . per cent from
the United Kingdom.
Increase of Imports.
During the last twenty years the i'm
ports from the United States into Canada
have increased from sas.147,77s in 1891
to $215. 5000 in 1911: and the exports
from Canada to the United States have
increased from $50 Os7. 7So in 1891 to sa5,-
1885, 800 in 1911.
1t will be noticed in the first place that
we bought more from Canada in 1891
by $94O,O4 than she bought from US. But
the tide turned the next year. and the
balance of trade has been piling up in
our favor without an exception until last
year we sold Canada $40, s61 .fH1 more
merchandise than she sold us. In 1907
the balance in our favor was s1o9. ST. ,452,
and it has not fallen below fifty millions
since 1898
Taking the trade of 1910 basis, the
United States would remit duties under
the treaty to the amount of A.SI0.0O0.
and Canada to the amount of s., J6O.OD.
The principal articles imported into the
United States from Canada on which
duty would have been RENTED in 1910
If the new treaty had been in force at
that time and the amount of duty re-
mftted upon each would have been as
follows:
Sawed lumber. 81, 2Oo 600: fish. s464 900;
hay, 1886. 600: fiaxseed and linseed. $352.-
eco: wood pulp. s3OS. 900: five animals,
$4,000; vegetables. $4,000: printing pa
per. $163, 600; oats, s1i2, 900: mica $4,000:
dairy products. slO5Oo: gypsum. $780,.
GOO; railway ties and telegraph poles,
so, 600; wheat -four. $4,000.
On the same basis of the trade of
1910 Canada would have sacrificed the
amounts named by renting the duty
upon the following articles:
Coal. AsS50U: fresh fruits 3112 600.
$4,000; cotton seed Oil $780,
coo: live animals, s162,OO0: paper. $101,-
600; cornmeal. $4,000: agricultural inn
lplements, $4,000; fish, $4,000; meat
products. sf2 900: motor vehicles. sol 900.
That Is ALL and | doubt whether any
one who examines this list could be per-
s,raded that the alleged financial depres-
sion in the United States will be relieved
by the remission of these duties or that
the loyalty Of Canadianse to the British
empire will be shaken. J