Show I I Canada TORONTO Out March 181ho Mail contains I con-tains a letter from Hon Benjamin Butter worth a member of Congress from Cincinnati Cincin-nati who introduced a bill in Congress for I tho largest reciprocity between Canada and the United States The following are extracts ex-tracts You are familiar with the details of the proposition contained in the bill introduced I by me at the closing days of the last session of Congress That closer commercial relations rela-tions or angry and possibly permanent I estrangement betweed Canada and the United States must in the near future obtain ob-tain seems too clear to need argument to I sustain it It is the inexorable logic of the IIi I situation That closer and freer relations are desirable from every point of view is i Ii apparent and it seems equally clear that there is no measure of reciprocity short of that which is full and complete that I can meet the obvious requirements of the t situation I repeat the way out of the present I I pres-ent entanglement will lead to the most happy and valuable and in every way sensible sensi-ble results in the way of unity of commercial I commer-cial and social interests between ourselves and our neighbors and kinsmen on the I north or an alienation and estrangement which would be alike discreditable to our statesmanship and oar humanity Either we will take down the partition wail which forces our commere back upon ourselves and stops its flow along the natural channels which it unerringly seeks out and I give it full scope so that trade between be-tween I the United States and Canada I will be as free as it is between New I York and Ohio or we will line our northern borders with the evidences of a retrograding I civilizationforts on laud and cruisers on ilakes picketing 3700 miles of our frontier I with custom officers and spies Such a con is alike unnatural and un I i dition of things I wise I have not time nor inclination to increase the length and enlarge the scope of this letter by canvassing the resources of I Canada which we need and ultimately must have and the mutual dependence of one I country upon the other Suffice it to say that no intelligent person who carefully investigates in-vestigates the facts will hesitate to pronounce pro-nounce in favor of the fullest and most complete reciprocity Fortunately Canada Can-ada is as free and clothed with as full power to conclude arrangements as is the United Stated The former by such a course will in no wise disturb her relations with the mother country The ties that bind her to England are not commercial Thev are those which reach from hearthstone to hearthstone and could only be destroyed by the mother country in an effort to interpose inter-pose barriers in the way of the prosperity and happiness of her children on thisside of the Atlantic This England will not do Of course in case of full reciprocity as proposed in the bill to which I have called your attention the internal revenue of Canada would require some modification but this relates to matters of detail and presents NO SEBIOUS OBSTACLE Worth considering Our tariff systems are now substantially the same and would be made identical and that system which has placed tho United States in the front rank of manufacturing nations would speedily do like service for Canada The settlement of the question about mackerel and codfish is not difficult and compared with tho vast interests in-terests affected by the settlement all tho fish in the controversy would not make a noticeable side dish If Canada in the interests in-terests of attaining what I am persuaded fivesixths of the people of both countries desire could for one year extend the privileges privi-leges heretofore enjoyed by but now denied to our fishermen all the causes of attrition would be removed and the result would bean be-an adjustment of the differences by a full reciprocity and a renewed prosperity to us which we have hitherto not known This would possibly involve a little sacrifice of pride but it would be meton this side by alike a-like spirit of compromise and adjustment In other words the concessions would be mutual |