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oODLRICH. THURSDAY. FSB. L 1,11.
THE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT
•
A magnificent contribution to th
fiscal and commercial history of l'ai
add is written In the trade agreeme0
with the United States which M
Fielding and Mr. Paterson brougb
back with them from Washingto
e
t- According to some of lee critics,
t Mr. Fielding'. bargain is so unfayor-
r. able to Canada that the United States
t Congreve' will throw it out !
0
Ithe fact ilia
ti the egrsaaemat ad -
the United Sates had
which l4nada could
. u chow ,_��"1 ring in Mg
itself believe that nee -
will result. It le int.
vet, to get away from
the uprising of the
United Skates market will be of im-
meose advantage to Oaasdian agricul-
ture, and with prosperity <,s cared to
the agriculturists of Canada there is
nc Deed to fear for the material well-
being of the country.
Outside of the purely eomutercial
aspect of the matter, there is cause
for congratulation in the better feel-
ing between the two neighboring
countriee of which the new agreement
is an unmistakable sign.
EUITORIAL NOTES.
lits cab for Fielding!
Hurrah for Paterson. too!
They have done a gregt work for
Canada.
Again the Laurier Government
prover that it is a Government for tbe
people.
Every feral in Huron county will
be iocreaded in value by the teipeoc-
ity agreement.
Huepn voted strongly for reciproc-
ity in 1411, and her interests lie in
that direction now almost al much as
they did then.
last week. It is the most important
departure in Canada'. trade relations
since the adoption of the preferential
tari(f on British goods in 181/7 and will
supplement the preferential tariff as a
step towards freedom of trade for tbe
people of Canada. All this provided
the United States Congress gives Its
assent to the agreement, which is in
some quartets considered unlikely.
The chief idlest - aI ribs awre•entent
will be to open to the farmers, the
fishermen and the lumbermen of Can-
ada the fminense market ache United
States. There will be practically free
trade in natural products bet sten the
two countries, with a reduction in
duties on a comparatively small list
of manufactured articles.,
That such an agreement has been
secured indicates a radical change of
attitude on the part of the United
States Government. The high cost of
living in the Republic has opened the
eyes of the people and of the Govern -
meant to the advisability of letting
down the ban against Canadian prod-
ucts and alloying themselves to
purchase Canadian beef. butter, eggs,
poultry, fruits, cereah
noted. in a free market. The Novem-
ber elections in the United States,
which resulted so disastrously to the
Republican party, turned largely on
this question, and President Taft
apparently realised the need of
prompt and decisive action to relieve
the heavy strain upon the household-
er's tune for the providing of the
necessaries of life. The Republican
party's extremity was Canada's op-
portunity. and the Canadian Minis-
ters were thus able to secure an
estremek- favorable agreement.
Those opponents of reciprocity wbo
asked that the United States !Mould
first reduce IN tariff to somewhat
more of a parity with the Can&dian
tariff will find that, tbe agreement
goes a very long step in this direction.
Take these example! :
At present wheat is dutiable in the
United States at 26 cents a humbel and
in Canada et 12 oeots a bushel. Under
the new arrangement wheat is to be
free in both countries.
Barley is d'iUahler at 30 0enta •
bushel in the United Stater. The
duty in Canada is 15 cents. Barley is
put on the free list In both countries
by the arrangement.
Oats are to he free. The American
duty is now 15 cents a bushel : the
Canadian duty i. 10 mote.
Tbe duty on potatoes In the United
States is 25 cents • bu.hel : in Canada
Scents Potatoes will be free if the
agreement becomes law.
a pay • duty of 45 cents •
bushel entering the United Staters,
and 22 cents enterfag Canada Thay-
er, to he duty-free in both cottotriee.
Dried perp pay Me Denta duty in the
linked States : they pay 15 Dents in
Canada. They will he free on Loth
sides of the line.
The American tariff on Indian corn
es 15 tents ; there le no Canadian duh'
aow, and there will he oone In the -
United !;tates easier th. ,eciprocity
pact
The data os honer • d seats
a pound In the ranted Stats* : in
C•*ads t Bute ►• cbeese it 1s 5
Dents ann 1 cont. respect I mil
on
Iazseed and tin...o. 25 cents , bushel
and 10 mats. iesperilvsly on hay 14
and SI her ton These oneemodities
are to be non -dutiable .x both .ides
of tbe leo.
There a.. tam.... N m.uroe who
object w the agreement The dour
eervat/ve press wee a, firer date ny
tbe announcement re • rw•gain so
favorable to °•made but the c )pport
*inn editor. are astatine .yen 'be
.bort and are Soieg their new or
their wesetlts ebnw twat ed. deaf M
not a good one. Th. Tenet. News
for iredtone. which the ca. aftA test
Ricini we say that Canada had
nothing to fear :wben her interests in
the negotiations at Washington were
in the hands of Fielding and Pater-
son?
The Taft-Fieldiog pact is just the
kind of reciprocity- arrangement Sir
John A. Macdonald would have liked
to get in 1801. Uocle Sam is growing
mamma* hburly.
The new-found solicitude of the
Conservative press for the British
preference. for which it neper had a
good word since the Liberals intro-
duced it in jg07, is beautiful and
touching.
The reciprocity pact should put a
stop to the decrease in Huron's rural
population which has been going on
for many years. The opboing of the
United elates market will be an im-
mense boon to Huron county farmers.
The reciprocity -agreement does not
interfere with the preference to Great
Britain. Those who are feslful of the
b o natlpn•I sentiment of
intimate trade reletion.hip with
the United States will be able to use
their energies in advocating a further
preference to the Mother Country.
But will they do itc?
The Canadian manufacturers will
have tbem.elves to blame 1f they do
not benefit by the opening of the
United States market to Canadian
farm products., The fernier with
more money in his pocket will be in •
better position to buy the products of
the factories, and increased prosperity
all round will be the natural result.
Tbe most enthusiastic endorsatlon
of tbe Fielding -Taft tariff agreement
The Salmi bas beard came from a
Godetich citizen, a strong Conserva-
tive, who declares that this town will
boom under the arrar:gement for freer
trade with the States. Goderich may
well hope that the United States
Congress will not Moak the measure
For pure, unadulterated boggi-
ness the Niagara district fruit -grow-
ers take the prize. Behind a tariff
wall which prevented Canadians from
buying United States fruit and formed
up the prices of the home-grown prod-
uct, they have been growing rich and
greedy : and now that the Canadian
consumers are to have tie. privilege of
importing from the other side when
the Canadian fruit is not readily
available. at the same time the Can-
dido fruit -growers being given the ad-
vantage of • free market fn the States,
they are crying blue ruin and demists -
Hoe. For the make of the people of
Western Oanede, wbn cannot raise
fruit, the duties.bould have been re-
duced long ago. and Dow that there is
to be free triode on both sides of the
line the grower. barn no e'enae ex
rept their own sellieb greed for refus-
inn to •.•rept the tesla With ebeerful.
nese
th.r.elve. .s s new departure in
Oanadhn periodical literature It is •
little monad', magazine published at
Sr Thomas by Pete, Mt. A et bur and.
re its title might Indies,* ,1 is fun of
bum*, nterw, FON w e all like tt.
thin). and rale about -selves. The
Jamtars numb.. n.ntat n• s lute of
1'tewr tun lot ,slash we take the
liken. it reputoluhing in Th. Algesi)
•nn at.t . r•.prodnntion of that. fensle-
rnan . •o.entre wilt, •rhk9, almost
• reeeberd. Ie Huron pre road and
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Weibel' Over ca some tilos or other.
An arUd. In the sane Dumber which
should ooauoaod wide attention is up-
on the subject of our banking system.
The Canadian banking system bee
been such admired. but it baa at least
one serious drawback : It tends itself,
through the spite= of branch offices,
to the drawing of capital in the shape
of deposits from the oouotry districts
to the big cities wherein the head of-
fices are located. Anybody who has
tried to get a little apcomModation for
• legitimate busineei in a small town
know what this means, end tbe article
in "Ourselves" urges that the people
who suffer from this condition of
affairs should make a serious r (fort to
get the.watter righted. And we are
inclined to thipk that the writer of
the article has the coursed view of the
situation. At. any rate. "Ourselves"
is decidedly Interesting, and should
soon have • Iai ie circulation.
NEWS FROM OTTAWA
FARMERS' BANK FAILURE DISCUS-
SER IN PARLIAMENT.
Ordinary Procedure Was Followed in
the Issuing of the Charter -Sir
Wilfrid Lanrier on Senate Reform
--West Huron Member's Bills.
Ottawa, Jan. l7.—Parliament re -
twined on Wednesday lest, with the
members full of curit.ityy in regard to
the re.• procity negoti.tioos at Wash-
ington
'('be • •position launched a series of
qudtio - in order, if poesible,`to ex-
tract e information as to what
would likely be the outcome of the
conferences now proceeding between
the Canadian and United State.
representatives. Tbe Premier stated
that any agreement aryyed at would
be subject to ratification by the Holes
of Common.. Mr. Borden wanted to
know whytbe Prime Minister bad
chtanged hangede l his
mgienrid on to W matter of
Stir Wilfrid replied that he bad not from tbe position he had taken
wben be bed declared that his Gov-
ernment would never again go bat in
hand to Washington. The visit of
the Ministers to the United States
capital at the present time. be pointed
out, was in r•espooes to M invitation
from the Wrahington Governeuent
A Libel oa Western Caosda.
The Western members had an ops
portunity ort indulging in some vivre.
true talk on Thursday. when. noun".
Lively, they fell all over the writer of
as article in an English periodical
edited by Horatio Bottomley wbicb
thew a startling picture of hardships
and evil conditions experiences by
settlers in the West_ The article was
the production of a "knocker," and
the Western members knocked back
in good style. One member expressed
the opinion that the article was writ-
ten by "a degenerate, uelea. English-
man who had failed to make good,"
The Premier and the leader of tbe
OPptime both took • band in ex -
meaning the indignation felt that such
a libel un the West should beiperpe-
tr•ated.
i Iaaataetrnrs Fewest Their Side.
The manufacturers have put in their
reply to the argument for a lower
tariff recestly preeaated to the Gov-
ernment by the farmer.. On Friday •
depatation of fifty manufacturers, rep-
resenting the Oanadien Manutae-
terer: As-ociatioo and manufactur-
ing internee,. generally. waited upon
the Government and promoted their
views.
The cave foe the maaufaet.arers
was presented by T. A. Russell,
of Tomooto, chairman of the tariff
committee of the Manufactureni
Asene'ation, in a memorial setting
forth the dangers of opening tbe (iso-
adien market to competition from rice
United Meese.
The wain points in the memorial
were beaked up, as each was made, by
the quotation of facts and figure..
submitted In • series of eleven appppeenn
cher., touching on tbegrowing niedsof
United States exporters for access to
the Canadian market, the preterit un-
equal tariff 000ditiooa along Om bor-
der. the disadvantages under which
Canadian exporters now. labor in re-
spect of United States customs regula-
tions. rice danger of sloppiest the
present steady investment of Britt..
European and United States capital in
Canadian industrial enterprises. the
effect of reciprocity on Canadian
transport•tkt interest*, the import-
ance of teetering industrial growth In
Canada as w inane of developing •
profitable home market for the C•0a-
dian farmer, and the dangers of
reciprocity even to the farming in -
Opposed to Increase of Pretveac..
The memorial Made it plain that the
maaufacturers are not willing to
accede to the request of the farmers
for a lowering of the tariff arsine( the
Motber Country. An Increese to fifty
per cent. in the -British preference as
advocated by the farmers would. It
was declared, Imperil the axitersee of
many Canadian industries.
Sir Wilfrid L*urler, In Iris ,.ply. ex-
pressed the opinion that it migbt be
possible to bare morn* measure of recd
proem7 with the United States with -
alt lb firing either the farmers or the
manuttaetnter& He believed that the
negotiations with the Waehiogion
Government were In coed hands, sad
pointed out that it bad always Mesa
the Alin of bin Government to praised
carefully so as not to create •fieturA-
anee in Industrie/ condition.
The Maclean PregTarn
W F Mewl/era, the hnmpt.o.,smem
her front South Ynrk, has got into 'be
limelight again by bringing forward •
bis program for the present session. I
Re pro to provide for the public
ins oa of hanks to rapes time
double liability entente .n share.
bolder. to affirm the .lumina that
the Provinces have the right to .2950•
pries telephnee ay.ten to to oak*
stepa to further legnyte freight rws.s
on the C. P. R.. fa view a Um meet
dividend leeriest,': to provide for •
pubde-owteed cable mryt s and Say.
After 1 �I
La Grippe
"1 had suffered several weeks
with ta(,rippe. Had pain: in
my head and eyes. !i felt art
though there was el heavy weight
on the top of my head, intik it
seemed that my brain would
burst. I was so nervous that
1 could not rest or sleep. When
I dozed off 1 would awake with
a sudden jerking of my whole
body. Dr. Miles' Nervine, Heart
Remedy and Nerve and Liver
}'ills cured me. A number of
friends have since realized the
same benefits."
MRS. ALVIN ff. LOCKS,
Seabrook, N. H.
The after effects of LaGrippe
are often more serious than. the
disease, as it leaves the system
in a weakened condition that
invites more serious troubles,
such as pneumonia, etc.
Dr. !Niles'
Restorative Nervine
should be taken for some time
to thoroughly restore nerve
strength.
Pel.. 111.00 at your druggist. He should
supply you. If M does not, send price
to us, we forward prepaid.
DR. MILKS MKDICAL CO., Toronto.
graphic system ; to provide for a wide
extension of the parcel system of the
postnffioe, and to provide for the prep-
aration and administration of the
custom. tariff ny a tariff commie -lion.
That is a pretty big load for one man
to carry, but "linty" Maclean is
plucky.
A Labor Question.
Mr. Verville's eight -b. ur-day hill
was the cause of en interesting little
incident in the House on Monday.
Th. hill prottides that a workman
shall not be required to work more
than eight hours per dry on arty pub-
lic building when the work is being
done by day labor. If he chooses, and
it his employer wisher him to work
longer hours, he shall be paid tor over-
time fifty per cent. over hie regular
age. biers lit the Opposition
vied with one another in captious crit.
idem of the measure, some declaring
it went too far. others that it did not
go far enough After a stern rebuke
hem the Premier for their conduct in
playing to the gallery, and • propose!
from Mr. Verrill', the author of the
bill, that the critics be giyen the oppor-
tunity of voting"on the bill in the
shape in which it , wad originally
drafted, the Opposition member, sub-
sided, evidently not caring to go o0
record as opposed to the labor tren-
for
th�pc ding. bill was reported
West Harm on Debt.
Mr. Lewis has given notice of tbe
reintrodactioa in the Commons of his
bill of last cession to establish a load
line on Canadian ships, and of his reso-
lution declaring that the Government
should prohildt the exportation of
pulpwood.
Another of Mr. Lewin bills is in-
tended to prevent the giving and tak-
ing of secret oommissions. ••it is de-
signed primarily." he Assured the
House, "to prevent minor acts of cor-
ruption such as are rampant in the
United States and rapidly .peat eng-
in Canada." A clause in the bill pro-
hibits the prevalent practice of tip-
ping—"e relic of the middle ages,.
when masters donated small gratui-
ties to their serfs," according to the
Huron man—to waiters, coachmen.
servants and porter* on railway
train..
Another bill by Mr. Lewis, which
also secured • Beet reeding, proposes
further restrictions on the rale of a-
bsolve weapon., particularly to for-
eign immigrants and minors.
ICeetinoed on page 4)
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