The sun., 1919-06-10
SEES NO DESIRE IN u. S.
TO ANNEX THE DOMINION
Ellison Says Canada's Loyalty to Empire Is Unques-
toned Here-See Potential Irritation
in Tariff Question

ownership and operation in the United
States.
She now knows that fifteen months of
governmental operation OF the railroads
of the United States have proved dis
astrous and that In spite of an increase
of 20 per cent in freight rates and OF
so per cent in passenger rates-larger
than private owners had ever dared to
dream Of and producing an increase In
gross revenue Of 1856, 900, 000-net earn
ings decreased $685., 100000, the people
suffering at the same time from an in
ferior service not equaled In the country
In f1fty years or more. In addition our
people are called upon as taxpayers to
advance further s210,000,000. II
would seem that the total cost TO the
people Of the. United States of the fifteen
months experiment has therefore totaled
about s1.075. 1000, 900.
Equally unpopular has been the Gov
ernment's control of the telephone, tele-
graph and cable systems Government
ownership and operation, like many
other political fads, has exploded under
practical application. That the result
would be the natural sequence Of the
theory has long been understood by peo-
pie practically familiar with proper gov
ernmental functions.
might add that the late Timothy ID.
Sullivan (Big Tim), once a potent poll
teal power in New York city and now
long since deceased, when asked his
opinion OF governmental operation and
whether he favored II said: ''Of course
| favor 1t. have a thousand poor fell
lows in my district who need jobs"
,Interempire Trade.
This subject Is one of most mo-
mentous Importance to Canada and the
United States. involving. as 1t may,
trade relations between Great Britain
and her colonies to the exclusion of the
United States and other countries. And
II will be seen at a glance that such
an arrangement might involve many ar
ticles of commerce concerning which the
United States and Canada could agree
to their mutual advantage, but on which
this country and Great Britain may not
agree. so far as the tariff is involved.
1t may not reasonably be expected
that in the reshaping OF our revenue
laws there will be complete harmony be-
| tween Great Britain and the United
States. and should Canada involve her
self In some interempire arrangement
she may then find our tariff prejudicially
affecting many of her own products and
she be correspondingly precluded from
| her most valuable market.
This country Is welded to a protective
tariff on manufactured goods. and I am
convinced that the revision of the tariff
! now promised by the Republican Con-
gress will raise, rather than lower, the
duties to be paid on articles of foreign
manufacture. There Is however, some
radical difference OF opinion. so far az
| raw materials are concerned. and l un-
derstand that Canadian exports are
largely confined to those articles. and
am also of the opinion that this marke,
offers better advantages than any other
1t follows. naturally, that an inter
empire trade arrangement presents 9
subject that should be given the mos
mature consideration. and may lead e
friction.
That the subject is being seriously con.
sidered is evidenced by the speeche,
recently made before the Liverpool Com
mittee OF the Royal Colonial Institute
the purport OF which was to begin &
movement looking toward closer trad,
relations between Great Britain and hei
colonies.
The idea has been most cordially re
ceived in South Africa.