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Show CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. How It Would Differ from Reciprocity wltli Ilruitil. Reciprocity with Cunuda would be a thing quite, different from reciprocity with Brazil. Cunudn produces very little, lit-tle, if anything, which wo need but cannot can-not ourselves produce. Unrestricted reciprocity with her would indeed be a surrender of the principle of Protection. One of the prominent features of the new tariff bill is the increase in tha height of the tariff wall along the Canadian Can-adian frontier. The legislators who utarid for the principle of Protection iu flaming a tariff bill pronounced a stiff duty on Canadian products essential to the policy of Protection. To iilKilisli these duties now would be a change of front on the tariff question. The principal items in Canada's exports ex-ports to the United States were last year iu round numbers us follows: "Horses, $1,. 100,000; sheep, $1,000,000; cattle, fi9,0U0; barley, fi.OOO.OOO; rye and oatmeal, $l."i0,0U0; wheat, $109,000; coal, (jKl.WKI.OOO; lnml-r, M,000,000; beans, $ 1,000,000; mackerel and salmon, JTOO.OOO; eggs, .fK'.J.OIiO." These are, of course, the things which Canada would expect to come into the United States duty free under any reciprocity reci-procity treaty Khe would be willing 10 make. Every one of them would come into direct competition with an American Ameri-can industry. The farmer especially would bo hurt. Wo have already tried the experiment of Canadian reciprocity. A treaty was iu force between this country coun-try and Canada from lSoo to ltftitJ. A glance at its provisions ought to convince con-vince any farmer that we do not want any more of it. The following articles were on the free lb-Is of both countries: lii'ain, flour nml lireutlstufTa of alt kixitU; animal of- all kiti'ls; fri-li. smoked unit suited nii-ats: cuttim wool, seeds And vcko 1 allies; undrlrd fruits mid dried fnum; llsli of all kinds; products of fish Btnl till other cretit tires livitiij In the water; poultry und t'liifs; liidus, furs, sklus and tails uudn'NM'd; stuiio und murlile in iu crude and uuwroiiirht Ktate; slate, lititter, cheese and tallow) tal-low) lntd, tames mid imiuures; ores und metals tif nil kinds; coal, pitch, tar, turpentine and ie-lii's: liinlier ond lumber of ull kinds rountl, hewed and sawed, uimialiufiii turcd in k hole or in part; Itn-wisMl, plants, shrutis and trees; js'lth, wimiI. lUh oil, rice, broom roru and hark; lO ptum, cround nnd uUKfoimil; hewn, wrouxht or now r.iitht burr or Krindstones; dysttilTs; tt;K, hemp nnd tow iinniannt'iu'tured; unnianu-fiu-tured tobacco and rates. Sinco the termination of this treaty i the Canadians have tried to negotiate another, an-other, and sent commissioners to Washington Wash-ington for the purpose. Tlu'ir efforts were as unavailing as those of Sir John Macdonald's commission must now prove. |