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#2-- "R. + * o ' C /| A Matter of Geograph«, d : f gan esn msin -- -- |da ne oo asiote anter Oifterent distance to Liverpool was but 4,174 | flags, would 1"4{! e world, gi an *\ miles, while from Winnipeg by way pbjective realization 'to continental| {Jof Chicago and Iilinois to Liverpool O tope, Abpremind U . imuftarin the distance was 4,826, or 65% miles of the fact that that was not the best % in favor of the Canadian route. "And way to live, that man was not made '| yet they say we will lose the trade!" [ to kill his fellow--man, but that Chris-- he commented. * ¥f tianity should mean as much to the _ He condemned the Conservative collective individuality called a nation members for their stand that Cana-- as to the individual man himself, and' dians with all the raw products right that it was not the duty of one nation' at their door could not compete with to try to overthrow another, but to the manufacturers away down in the seek for the advancement of all in States. the arts of peace. '"We are a miserable -- lot if we Hon. Mr. MacKay then moved his can't," he summed up. amendment to the resolution, sec-- He gave the view of the American , onded by Mr. C. M. Bowman (North [ paper men, to tge effect that the r;a; Bruce). duction of the duty on paper woul« mean that the paper mills would all Sir James Repudiates. o to Canada, American capital would C :o into mills in Canada, and the Am-- Sir James Whitney rose on -- the erican mills would be forced out of point of 6: o'clock to speak 'to the business. question of t,hg amendment, sjmply In wheat, ham, bacon, fruit and moving the adjournment of the de-- dairy products Hon. Mr. MacKay bate, but first saying that he "te-- maintained Canada could compete pudiated and resented on behalf of with any producers. Senator Hale hon. gentlemen of this House, of both had himself admitted that he could sides," the suggestion of the conclud-- not compete with his peaches with ing paragraph of the amendment that the fine Mlavor of the Canadian Canadian loyalty was purchasable by peaches. The Canadian farmer did Great Britain by tariff -- concessions not fear competition in the Oopen and salable to the United States. "I market. throw it back," said he, "to the hon-- He was glad the hon. member for orable gentleman. No human being South Grey (Dr. Jamieson) had come in the Dominion of Canada except the | out squarely and said a dozen such honorgble gentleman who has kept us agreements would never hurt the listening here for two hours and a loyalty of Canadians. > If other hon. half" to a speech which Sir James! gentlemen had unburdened themselves said '"had not come within sight o f similarly they would feel better. > the resolution that was before the As for the "favored--nation" argu-- House." He "congratulated the rol-, ment, Hon. Mr. MacKay showed in lowers" of the honorable gentleman | detail that where there was now any on following "the only man in British trade either way with these it was North America who so far had dared small and negligible as a competitor to suggest that the loyalty of Canada with Canada. was purchasable."' The Hon. Minister of Agriculture Sir James then moved the adjourn-- was not, he thought, in good company | ment of the House. ' when he aimed to help the farmers «Te neneieriecer teaeeniea ie e ves tamrerraeg _by taking his advice from the com-- P t t fat o. ) bines and the trusts. } Canadians Not Afraid. k Canadians were not listening to the + predictions of the opponents of re-- s 4 ciprocity ; they were acting in the living present, knowing that they ¢ could not be beaten in their own pro-- ducts. Only four days ago there was an announcement of a big industr; coming to Winnipeg. Even the men of the west, he maintained, had a better outlook for the eastern manu-- facturer. It was a natural law for ig man to buy in the cheapest market he could and sell in the dearest. He s n quoted extensively in support of his argument from statements of west-- ern men. Dealing finally with the annexation s argument, Hon. Mr. MacKay wonder-- * ed whether he need really touch it. only it was in the resolution. He thought if what the resolution averred were true, surely the miners and farmers and fruit--growers and manu-- -- 'facturers, too, would all . now be | 4 ahouting for Old Glory, as the share | of their trade with the United States | , was a very large proportion of the whole. Not Safe Advisers. ® _ _ He was not going to take lessons / $ in loyalty from Sir William _ Van * Morne, who took Canadian money , ' and invested it in Cuba, a dependency -- of the United States. He would not follow those who quoted Sir Edmund /' 'this and Sir Edmund that on how, to develop Canada, when their money | was going to the United States. He | |quoted British papers of leading in-- | fluence as to Britain's position on | what Canada should do ; they advo-- cated trading where trade was easiest. Looks to Co--operation. In a fine peroration Mr. MacKay 5 expressed the confident hope that the land of Bryant and Longfellow would join with the land of Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare, the land of Burns, ' and the land of Moore; that we were s coming to a day when the little dif-- ferences should be things of the past,