Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-17
WHAT RECIPROCITY
REALLY IS.

has been maintained. not without diff hculty along our northern border fo- nearly a century. It makes for peace in two ways It largely secures the benefits of freer commerce between the countries. and this is a great gain because it is the hindrances 10 trade that cause bad feeling. which the liberty of mutual trade tends to prevent and replace by countless ties of good feeling. In this process the agreement opens the channels of commerce northward and southward and practically puts an end to the policy of the British tories. which aims at blocking those channels and directing the currents Of trade east
 ward across the ocean to the spec. ial gain of England. Incidently. our acceptance of the agreement would also destroy the hope of the British tories to establish. a tariff wal about the markets of England, with the avowed purpose of reducing American trade. These are results of great and permanent value which in themselves are enough to decide the votes of reasonable members of congress.
 In the second ploce. reciprocity is the beginning Of policy that will powerfully protect the natural re
 sources of our own country. to the |conservation Of which the. nation has devoted years of study and is pre- pairing 10 expend many millions of dollars. It would at once open to us the immense actual and inereas- ing supplies of food and of forest products existing in the great do- minion, and give to us the same priceless advantages We have derived in the past from like resources with in our own borders. Our growth has been so rapid that We have only late ly begun to understand its effects. A score of years ago we still looked upon these resources as practically boundless and their exploitation as the sure means of incalculable pros perity Within ten yeas we. as a nation. have come to know that their limits are quite within comprehen- sion and that our constantly and
 swiftly advancing demands are out growing the certain supply. The basic need of food and shelter and the infinite industrial needs of a
 great people for wood in its varied uses are now becoming distinctly se- rious and are bound to become press ing. The agreement with Canada
 offers us free access to resources comparable to our own before our tremendous growth encroached upon them. To refuse this would be as crass an act of folly as for the
 commander of a besieged garrison
 to decline conveyance of provisions.
 It would be all the more foolish because our varied industries supply
 us with ample means to purchase all
 that we may require. Already Can ada takes nearly two-thirds of it's i'm ports from the United States-S223. 7
 OO0.O 900 out of s376,OO0. .OOO-and with
 it's sure advance in population and in
 all forms of activity will constantly
 take more. Cur trade with Canada
 is in its infancy. We took from her
 last year some $2O.OO0.eOO in luIn-
 Der. some se.OOO.OOO in fish. and so
 on through what is an insignificant hist considered in relation to her resources and our requirements. The
 proposed treaty. measured by the
 actual trade that it would immedi-
 ately influence. is not CT great i'm Iportanee. Some s22.OOO. 900 of Can
 adian goods and $3O.OOO.O00 of Ameri-
 can goods are freed from duty, while duties are reduced on some sS5,00O.. 900. But the possibilities Of the
 future are very great There are
 not in our own country 6.O0e 900 of
 people better equipped by native
 Qualities and by trai8irs than are
 the people of Canada for the progres-
 sive development of thei- rich inher-