Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1910 — GLAD HAND FOR CANADA. [ARTICLE]

GLAD HAND FOR CANADA.

Eminent Commercial Authority Pleads For Breaking Down Trade Berrien. : Henry M. Whitney, ex-president of the Boston chamber of commerce, struck the right keynote at the Economic club dinner in New York on May IS m regar.l io the tariff dispute with Canada! He did not plead for timid, half hearted measures, but insisted that rhe sweeping away of all tariff restrictions between the two countries was the goal that should be aimed at and courageously fought for. He said: . , "if the tariff barriers between the two countries were absolutely removed manufacturing interests would gradually find their way to the western sections of Canada, and this development would be more rapid if the capital, the energy and the enterprise of the American people were joined with the sober industrial qualities of the Canadians in bringing it about.” What can be more stupid than the attitude of the protection Ist parties in both countries that stand between both parties and the realization of this great scheme of common benefit? Even our manufacturers, for whose benefit we shut out Canadian products. would gain far more in the end than they would lose temporarily by the- destruction of their monopoly. Fresh avenues for them would bo opened tip by the new opportunities which unrestricted trade would bring about. Mr. Whitney said .that the first step toward satisfactory trade relations with Canada should come from this country. This also is sound advice. We have shut Canada <>ut of our markets for years and have compel led her to seek markets elsewhere. We should open our door and invite her to treat with us. Let us not lie content with cheeseparing reductions, but k<nq> before us the grand fact that Canada and the United States arc* one country naturally, divided only by an imaginary line, and that the commercial advantages to be reaped by blotting out that line are as great as those which have accrued to us from the adoption of free trade between the various states.