The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-29

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while she seeks our markets for her sur
plus natural products she prefers <
make her purchases of other classes OF
goods from the mother country Al
examination Of the agreement indicates
| that while she seeks to sell her butter
in the United States, she prefers to
purchase her churns abroad, and by ar
rangement Of her schedules it is evi'
dent that her people prefer to be laid
at rest in English-made caskets rath-
er than those made in the United
| States.
In this enormous concession on the
part of the United States of duties
on imports, nearly $2,000,000 will be
RENTED on account of the free trade
provision relating to the products OF
the farms, daires and fisheries of Cada-
da. OF this ! have not the slightest
doubt that the producers of these com
modities In Canada will receive their due
share and, owing to the increased vol
ume OF Canadian products in the great
central markets in the United States,
have not the slightest doubt that the
importers and wholesalers of such prod
ucts will insist upon corresponding
reduction in prices on the part OF the
American farmers, but for reasons
which | have already stated, the loss
sustained by the American farmers will
not he transferred as a benefit to the
American consumer. Even President
Taft does not hold out this hope.
| have stated that the duties thus re-
mitted would be divided between the
Canadian producer and the American
importer because past experience has
shown that such has been the fact
when duties have been lowered or re-
moved. When the duties on lumber
We're reduced under the provision OF
the Payne bill, the Canadian producers
demanded Of the American purchaser
an increase of prices equal to 90 per
cent. of such tariff reduction, but if
anyone but the importers has ever
shared in the remaining so per cent
the fact has never boen published.
In considering the effect Of the pro-
posed arrangement upon the East,
have you stopped to consider that the
population of New England is only
about one million less than the entire
population Of Canada, although the
area embraced in the Dominion is fully
as great as that of continental United
StatesH Have you stopped to consider
that in the three states, Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island and Connecticut, there is
population Of over five millions, or
about five-sevenths of the entire popu-
lation OF Canada from ocean TO ocean?
Have you stopped to consider the
nature of the competition our farmers
will meet in the agricultural products
OF the Province Of Quebec alone? This
province lies directly north Of and con
tiguous to New England; it is con
veniently situated for trade with Bos-
ton and other Of our grcaj central mar
kets; she has q population of 100000
Ia population greater than the com.
bined population Of Vermont, New
Hampshire and Mainel Of whom rs
per cent. are French Canadians and p
per cent. English, Scotch and Irish. II
is essentially an agricultural province
and produces nearly 30 per cent. of
the products of the farms in the en-
tire Dominion of Canada, in horses,
COWS, theep, fruits and vegetables,
meats Of animals slaughtered on farms,
while in dairy products, which will most
come in competition with Vermont's
cheap agricultural asset, she produces
CTS per cent OF Canada's entire prod
uct What do YOU think will happen
when these competitors Of another ma
ton turn about and ship to Boston and
other New England markets the sur
plus dairy products which are now
shipped to Britain, which shipments
amount annually to S2l 100000 in val
ue? On not forget when consider
ing this proposition that Nermont's
dairy products of the same class
amount only to about S6,500,000 an.
nually.
Who will receive the benefit of this
great wrong? The Canadian who
bears none Of the burden Of citizen
ship; who pays no reciprocal price for
the privilege, and the American i'm
porter, jobher and distributor. Our
importers viii pay the Canadian farm
er more than he has been receiving and
the New England farmer less than he
is accustomed to expect but where will
the ultimate consumer come in?
Can we successfully compete with the
provinces of Quebec and Ontario? 1t
is claimed that conditions are essen
TALLY the same, that the wages are
as high there as here, but it is not
true.
If conditions are equal, why is II
that 35 per cent. of all the foreign
element in New England is of Canadian
parentage and what inducements have
led them to come to "the States Z"
The propensity on the part of the
public to attribute to tariff legislation
the marked increase in the price of
during the last decade is
marked and emphatic and in looking
about for remedy it is apparent that
the masses expect to find it in a modi-
fication of the tariff schedules. They
forget that i'm the commercial and in
dustrial expansion of the leading ma
lions of the world the number of con
sumers has increased in vastly greater
than the number of pro-
ducers and that the industrial expan-
sion which has been witnessed in the
United States during the last decade
has served to illustrate the truth OF
the doctrine that supply and demand
govern prices.
Do YOU think that the movement
toward free trade viii stop with one
class of commodities? VIII the class
selected for sacrifice under this agree
ment submit to being sacrificed alone
Has not the slogan gone forth already,
and is it not being proclaimed from
farm 10 farm along the borders from
Maine to the state OF Washington