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Show CANADA INVITING RETALIATION. The Leading Commercial Paper of the Dominion Do-minion on the New Tariff Bill. Ottawa, Canada, April SO. Special. Spec-ial. The Monetary Times of Toronto, the leading commercial commer-cial paper of the dominion, is outspoken with regard to the hostility which the Canadian government has been showing show-ing toward the United States. In its last issue the Monetary Times says: 'By its action iu imposing duties on agricultural produce the Canadian government gov-ernment is beyond doubt inviting re-talia re-talia at Washington. It will scarcely do to plead that the Americans threw the first stone. True, a committee of eight had reported a tariff bill with a menacing agricultural schedule, but that waslho extent to which the action 011 the tariff had proceeded iu congress. If he wanted to insure the passage of the McKinley bill, thc best thing he could do would be to bring in a tariff of our own 'imposing heavy duties on American agriculture, and this is precisely pre-cisely what has been done. In spite of Mr Colby's opposition to reciprocity 111 raw materials, it is difficult to believe that the Canadian government, of which he i, member, takes that view of the., matter. I he truth seems 'o be - that in both countries the farmer's vote is the prize contended for, the bid being agricultural agricul-tural protection. Where protection is the avowed policy of a country, a I farmer has as much right to it as any i other class; but he cannot be effectually j protected in articles for which he must 'seek an outlet iu markets where the whole world meets iu competition. In the disposal of the produce the competition com-petition is equal, no producing nation being favored above another; but in the conditions and cost of production there may be great variations, and the producer pro-ducer will fare better or worse, accord-inif accord-inif to the position of the scale in which he finds himself. But to offer him protection pro-tection when he has a surplu to sell abroad in a delusion, even when it m not a mockery deliberately conceived in bad faith." |