Show TARIFF TARIFF ANTI ARGUMENTS 1 The Tho ho New York Times is decidedly for or free iree trade and und it copies exultingly exultingly- fragments of a speech made mado b by J. J A. A McDonald i a Canadian journalist and says it is full of sound sense and presented in a most simple simple simple sim sim- and telling form One extract of that speech is as ns follows Trade Trado is exchange of goods We Ve send goods to Britain wheat meats cheese all cheese all sorts Britain sends goods to China and Japan They in turn send scud tea and silks sills to the United States The exchange of commodities goes on if not between two countries then between three or four or five and the clearing clearinghouses clearinghouses clearinghouses houses adjust the time bank balances and so in the end trade laughs at tariffs and the consumers pay tho the duty Very well if that is true then what hat is our Canadian Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian friend complaining of aU If trade laughs at tariffs why s should it want free trade with the United States States' In another part of this speech he lie says Indeed remove all tariffs give us a fair field and no favors either against the time rest of the empire or against the tho world and the great industries of Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada tho the industries justified by nature will keep pace in the industrial progress of tho the world Is not there a secret underlying thought in the gentleman's mind that if free trade could be declared between Canada and the United States that Canadian industries would then prosper very much more than now now And if so at whose expense would it be f That Thatis is the pith of the whole business As it is Canada has a tariff very light toward Great Britain very sovere severe se so- vere yere toward the United States A protective tariff aside from being a tariff for revenue is intended untended to protect the industries of tho time United States It is on the same principle of a large family who do their own business If they have leave separate separate separate sep sep- arate estates they buy of each other and sell to each other and all the money is J kept ept in that particular family and the money really is what counts Tho The first paragraph quoted above does not tell quite al all all the truth when it says We send wheat meats ch cheese cheese all ese all all sorts to Great Britain and Britain sends goods to China and Japan That does not mean that Great Britain sends back the wheat meats cheese etc to China and Japan but something else some of her lieI manufactured articles which sho she trades for the silks and tea of China which are sent to the United States In that trade of Great Britain when she buys goods of the time United States or Canada she deducts the time amount of freight from the amount that is paid to the time United States or Canada then she loads up a ship with her own goods sends that ship to China or Japan and adds to the cost the freight money monc- Then when she exchanges her ller manufactured articles in China and Japan for the tea and the silk an and brings those articles to America merica s he she charges another f freight And there you ou arc The Time goods from China and Japan in their cost represent one freight from our east shore to Liverpool Liver pool another freight from Liverpool to China and a third freight from China back to the United States And so if Great Britain mal makes es nothing else except the freight money she is satisfied for no matter how flow far the ships may ma- wander off to sea dr what ports they may visit isit their freight money always gets back to En England And the argument used b by this Canadian Cana Cana- Canadian dian if It it proves anything proves that the United States cannot sell her raw products and take back the manufactured products ts of England or of or China without being out a certain amount of money and all that goes into the coffers of Great Britain It would be more rapid if free tra trade e were to be announced because England can send away more goods and get more goods in exchange and the United States would have more goods to buy and less money left The argument is a Sp specious one and does dOe not i count or rather it does docs not change the fa fact that there is no count country on this earth that has bas ever tried to do I business on the free trade basis with Great Britain for fora a term of five years that has not been drained of moneY money anti and filled pith fillet nth hungry skilled worker work |