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Show CANADIAN COMPLIMENT. The McKinley Bill is Not to the Liking of the Kauucks. Ottowa, Out., Sept. 20. Sir John MaoDonald, premier of the Dominan, delivered most important speech upon up-on the trade relations between Canada and the United States, at Morrisburg, Ont. Speaking of the McKinley tariff bill now before the United States congress, con-gress, Sir John said that no doubt Can-nadians Can-nadians would rather the bill did not pass, but as tho measure was about to become a law it would be well to consider con-sider its commercial complexion. Whether Whe-ther tho bill was dictated by unfriendly motives, or owed its origin solely to the pursuance of a deliuite line of commercial commerci-al poliey.he would not undertake to say. He had "no wish to impute unfriendly motives, mo-tives, yet undeniably its efforts would be detrimental to Canada's interests, it would check and have a tendency to dimiuish its volume of commercial intercourse in-tercourse between tho two countries. Hut the fault of such a result could not be attributed to Canada. Ho said that since the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty of 1855, the different governments, govern-ments, conservative and reform alike, had endeavored to secure improved trade relations between the two countries. coun-tries. If the McKinley bill passed the Canadians were not going to cry about it like children, but meet it iu the best way they could. After tho renunciation renuncia-tion of the old reciprocity treaty, Canada Can-ada opened up new channels of trade and in a fev years the people were 'almost 'al-most in as good a position as ever, in the same manly spirit in which they acted then they must act now. |
