Show J CANADA US i J Now that Con Congress ress has lias begun work again it will probably not be long before we shall be he in the midst of tariff discussions of one kind or another The Telegram wishes to call the attention of its Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast and northern border contemporaries to a phase of the that most vitally con concerns us I At the Republican n National convention in Chicago Chi cago in 1888 Col Elliott H. H Shepherd Cornelius Vanderbilt's son law owner of the New York Mail and Express a a. man who through h his bis in father-in- law had intimate knowledge of the unseen forces which actuate and dominate er over national politics and policies said mid to the writer hereof The controlling controlling con con- trolling influence in this convention the dominating i ing g power which will edit the platform and dictate the nominations i is little suspected by hy the general p public and by br a majority of th the delegates them them- 5 selves hes If they ther were told the they would find lind it hard to believe it That power is the Canadian Pacific rail way Xo No man can be he nominated here who is not acceptable ac ac- ac- ac c to that flint railway No o platform can call be le adopted here till after it has been heen revised by that railway Its representatives arc are in the committee rooms and anel on the convention floor I have haye s seen en them there and in the hotel The Canadian Pacific Kail Railway way company is the supreme supreme dictator in our politics It may be that Col Shepherd in this utterance spoke too unqualifiedly unqualified but some things in r recent cent history indicate a marked partiality by the legisla legisla- and executive departments of the United States toward that railway For FOl very many years in successive tariff bills biB the United States has imposed an additional and discriminating dut duty of 10 per pel cent upon goods imported imported imported im im- im- im ported in foreign vessels except those of nations which are arc excepted by bJ treat treaty or by bJ I law w of Congress When the present tariff was pending in Congress Congress Con Con- gress a little litHe group of patriotic Congressmen led by ly a Representative from Minnesota or one of the Dakotas worked through an amendment to the effect ef er- ef- ef that this additional and discriminating dut duty shall he be paid a also so on goods which being heing the production pro pro- Auction or 01 manufacture of any tny foreign n country not contiguous to the United Stat States s shall come into the United limited States from such contiguous country This of course was intended ed to divert our ur Asiatic imports from the Canadian part of Vancouver Van Van- cOln couver r to qUI our own on Pacific c ports and to knock out Canadian Pacific railway dividends by hJ g giving ging ing the thelong thelong thelong long haul of these Asiatic imports aero across s the continent continent con con- to our own rail railways a s The foreign contingent in both houses of Congress Congress Con Con- gress th those se members whose yoi voice e and vote ole can always always al al- ul- ul ways ways be counted upon in favor of foreign n interests whenever conflicting with 1 the interests of the tile people peo peo- pIe jle of the United States bestirred itself to introduce introduce intro intro- duce lace into the tariff lull hill a i prO i provision iou which should suspend the HIe action of the for foregoing going amendment But ut somehow in the haste and confusion attendant upon the final perfecting and amI enacting of the bill hill the amendment got ot in and aud by bJ some fome oversight ight of the foreign contingent the suspending and arid nullifying provision was left loft out Vancouver con er thus wa was deprived depre e 1 of its U. U S. S commerce com corn merce in iii transit and the C. C P. P railway way was deprived of its Ion long haul of o our r the pon con Coil in in the office omec of the C 1 C P. P n. n RI And how certain Representatives and Senators were Ia taken ken to to task for their L' L carelessness and neglect But th the blunder ha had to b be le remedied f somehow Vancouver el and the C CV e. P. P R B. B must not 10 lose ioe l' l that very Ven large e and l profitable business President lent l r referred the 10 per pr cent clause in iu the tariff net act to his At At- General torney-General l of California for inter inter- General Attorney promptly discovered eco that when the Con Congress of the l I. United States decrees that imports into the United States b by way WilY of contiguous countries shall pay an additional additional addi addi- 10 per cent it t means thereby to decree that such tich imports import shall not pay an additional 10 per pel cent So Bo Vancouver cr l keeps tH U. U S. S transit tra trade c and und the te C C. C P. P K It l keeps Cps its lon long haul I Now Kow New ew York i is iH complaining that in one w week k last summer OY over l' l t L million b 1 bushels hels of grain went abroad via Canadian routes a and ports while le lets less s til thin a n bu bushels went abroad from froni all the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic ports of the tile United States Slates That is to toay say ay as the New Kew York Tribune Canada only 1 fourteenth the size of tho United States StateR and selling only one tenth one as us much grain i is shipping about 3 35 per cent more than our Atlantic ports The Tile explanation explanatIon nation is of course course that it is our grain she he is ship ship- ping i g. g It all It-all all seems seems- to illustrate Cal Col Shepherds Shepherd's statement state state- ment as to the tile then n unseen een and unsuspected f forces that operate in our n Hairs and amI rule them against our interests interests in iu and desires |