The question of reciprocity between the United States and Canada
is the subject of very varied comment in the American Press. While many journals favour a lowering of the tariff wall so that the American consumer could obtain more Canadian cattle, wheat and other products of the soil, nevertheless, as I mentioned in these notes on a former occasion, the United States farmers' bloc has to be reckoned with, and it certainly would not favour the lowering of the rates on Canadian agricultural commodities. Many writers in the Eastern Press main- tain that the proposals of the Canadian Liberal Govern- ment should receive a sympathetic hearing. " America would have nothing to lose by such a policy," says the New York Tribune. "Both this country and Canada would in the long run be greatly benefited by such an arrangement," declares the American Journal of Com- merce. The Buffalo Express sums up as follows :— " Only one country—the United Kingdom—is a better customer of ours than is Canada. We sell to the Dominion each year, to about 8,000,000 persons, commodities to the value of one-fourth the amount that goes to Europe, which has a population of 475,000,000. We sell to Canada one and one-half times as much as we sell to South America, and slightly more than to the whole continent of Asia. Spellbinders should not be permitted to persuade us not to enter into a trade agreement with Canada which would be mutually beneficial."
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