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Show Canada proposes to slop the "dumping" "dump-ing" of surplus stocks, manufactured or otherwise, within her Dominion. This result will be achieved by putting on a punitive customs charge, thus: "If an article whose price in the United States is ?100 were sold in Canada for ?00 and the regular duty were 30 per cent, $10 would be added to the 530 duty. If the S100 article were sold In Canada for ?S0, not 520 but $15, namely, half the duty, would be added to the regular duty of ?S0, making $45 in all." That has not beer, done yet; when It is, things will jump, und a new bash; for tariffs will havo been established, which Canada will not be the only country to use.( But in all that sort of thing, what become of the Great British "principle" of free trado7 |