Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-20
Secretary Hull in Canada.

1t Will aSSuredly I'LL Secretary Hull
with keen satisfaction to have oppor-
tunity today and tomorrow to pay his
respects to our good neighbors of
Canada through the medium of brief
visits at Ottawa and Toronto. In &C
cepting the hospitality of Baron Tweeds-
muir, Governor General of the Do
minion and King Georges personal rep
resentative, and of Prime Minister Mac
Kenzie King, the Secretary of State
follows in the footsteps of President
Roosevelt, who sojourned in Quebec
and Montreal earlier in the year on
similar mission of Canadian-American
fraternity, while also returning the calls
the two British statesmen made in
Washington.
To Judge Hull the opportunity to pull
the latchstring across our Northern
border has a peculiarly personal appeal
because of his immediate identification
with the United States reciprocal trade
program. The agreement with Canada,
effective January l, 1896, was not only
the first important pact Of its kind,
except the Cuban agreement, which was
in special class, but has proved to be
one of the most conspicuously profitable
mutually profitable. as was its intent
and purpose Figures tell the tale
American imports from Canada in 1886
amounted to 100000, as compared
to 1926 100000 in 1885 Canadian i'm
ports from the United States totaled
s370,oo0,0o0 in 1896, or s57,OOO.O0O more
than imports of s312,oOO,oOO in 1895.
These two-way increases have been
maintained in 1887 For the first seven
months of the year our purchases from
Canada amounted to $247O00000, as
compared to s189,O0OOOO for the same
1886 period The Dominions imports
from the United States from January
through July of this year were $279 ,00o.-.
900, as against $236,000,0 900 during the
same months a year ago. Improvement
in Canadian-American trade is a re-
Election of revived business conditions
in both countries. No less significant is
the fact that during the first reciprocal
agreement year those products, both
agricultural and industrial, on which
tariff reductions were granted, led the
way in the volume of trade growth ex-
perienced by either country. Thus it
was speedily demonstrated that calamity
howlers on both sides, who predicted
dire results to their respective peoples,
as the consequence of Canadian
American -and-take, were indulging
in baseless jeremiads.
Secretary Hull visits our fellow North
Americans at timely moment. Canada's
interest in the Far Eastern crisis is on
all tours with our own. No member Of
the British Commonwealth of Nations is
more deeply concerned in preservation
of the open door in China. Aggressive
expansion efforts by Japan across the
Pacific would impinge upon Canada's
great west coast no less than upon our
own.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King has
said that Canadian foreign policy in
major degree runs parallel to that Of
the United States. Such expression OF
North American solidarity has particu-
lar application to the grave conditions
about to come under consideration at
Brussels. Uncle Sans foreign minister
may assure his Canadian hosts. with
complete confidence, that the Govern
ment and people of the United States
have no fonder wish than the mainte-
nance, in perpetuity of the closest pos
sible bonds of friendship and economic
intercourse between the two democracies
of the golden west, which need no
Notifications to guard a frontier that
divides them only in theory.