Show CANADAS RECIPROCITY IDEA I Hon John W Foster exSecretary of State has a strong article In a recent re-cent number of the Independent in which he recites efforts in the past of Canada to obtain reciprocity treaties and tariff concessions The working of the reciprocity treaty of 1854 between Canada and the United States is gjvent the general result proving unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory Its operation was confined to a freeexchange of what are termed natural nat-ural products almost entirely the output out-put of mines farms and fisheries our fishermen and fhrmers wero injured and our manufacturers got no benefit from it Every effort of Canada has been for the same kind oCa treaty with us to let In free her natural products and bar out our manufactures that Is Canada wants to sell to us but not to buy from us Secretary lnc accept I ac-cept d this Canadian attitude as a bar to any true reciprocity and President Garrison said it I must be accepted as Utpo statement oC a condition which laces an Inseparable barrier in the way of that large and beneficial intercourse inter-course and reciprocal trade which light otherwise be developed between the United States and the Dominion That barrier still remains and as long as it does remain It will be idle for Canada to ask reciprocity with the United States |