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Show RECIPROCAL TRADE. Hon. Joiix W, FOSTER in liis address .-it the New York Board of Trade and Transportation dinner last weuk said: "Kociprocity is inseparably United to protection. It is impossible under the m stem of free trade. It is only when a (ountry maintains a protective tariff ll'at it is in a position to offer other countries valuable concessions for specific spe-cific products in return for exceptional i roil for its own products. We have c'tered upon a policy in this count rv which bids fair to givo this nation a predominating commercial influence on this hemisphere which will redound preatly to our prosperity and our na-t na-t onitl pride. "But it may be asked, if this bo true, why not extend it to our Canadian neighbor! on the north? The first au-BWer au-BWer is that with our tropical neighbors, neigh-bors, whose products are so dissimi lar to ours, reciprocity is a simple matter; but when wo come to deal with a country havinp; thousands of miles of cotennious territory and with like products aud industries, (he question ques-tion becomes more coiupie. Hut this is not the insuperablo difficulty. The fact that Canada does not possess the jijfhtjof negotiating her own treaties but must have them negotiated for her by a distant power which is controlled by economic principles entirely different differ-ent from those of both the United States Mid Canada, constitutes the chief bar i . r to an arrangement. "It is the duty and the interest of tho 1 nited States to cultivate tho most in-i in-i matoand liberal commercial relation! . ith .-uch of our neighbors a recognize America (in its broadest sense as paramount para-mount to European influence on this 1 misphero. To all such countries we should open the doors of trade as wide and as frcoly as the interests of our own e lablishcd industries will permit. Beyond that the spirit of genuine Americanism does not require or permit per-mit us to go. |