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proposition, and the delegation has returned to Canada. The authorities of the 

 provinces have given notice that the American fishermen will not be permitted 

 to fish in British waters. On our part, Mr. Morrill has introduced a bill into the 

 House of Representatives imposing duties upon nearly all imports from Canada, 

 but to continue the reciprocal use of the lakes, canals, rivers, and fishing grounds 

 of the two countries, as provided for under the existing reciprocity treaty, and 

 admitting the transportation of foreign goods through the territory of one country 

 into that of the other. But this measure has been defeated. 



In condemnation of the course of this country and of Congress for not con- 

 tinuing the former treaty, the United States Economist bitterly censures the 

 majority in Congress by declaring that "narrow protectionist jealousies have 

 blinded them to the fact that we have been doing a most valuable trade with the 

 provinces which we can ill afford to throw away, and that the numerous interests 

 threatened by the abrogation of the treaty begin to cry aloud, now that the day 

 of suspension draws nigh, and the abrogationists are learning from these com- 

 plaints the egregiousness of their folly." It follows this condemnation with a 

 statement of the imports and exports from and to the provinces to show the 

 total of the trade prior to and since the treaty, now abrogated, was executed. 



We have shown, heretofore, the deceptions character of these tables, by reason 

 of the different basis of valuation on our exports into the Canadas, and their 

 imports from us. Nothing need be added on that point. But the following 

 statistics, given by the London (Canada) Free Press, show the operation of 

 that treaty upon the agriculture of this country, an interest not crying aloTid 

 against the abrogationists, but demanding and sustaining the action of our gov- 

 ernment. 



That paper says : 



" The importance of the export trade of Canada, stimulated by the reciprocity 

 treaty, has been imderestimated even by the people directly interested. From 

 the last half-yearly trade returns it appears that there were exported from Canada, 

 in six months, 15,000 horses, 103,810 horned cattle, 158,000 sheep; the total 

 value of this class of exports being S7, 923, 355. Of wheat, grain, and other 

 agricultural produce, the value of the exports was $11,954,878, the most of 

 which went to the United States. The total exports for the half year were 

 $33,655,463, being an increase over the coi'responding year of more than 

 $10,000,000, arising, for the most part, from the excellent harvest, though com- 

 bined with higher prices than usual." 



In the January number of these reports we showed that the Canadas had 

 reaped the harvest of high prices occasioned by our war expenditures and the 

 condition of our currency, without incurring the taxes and military duties which 

 the American farmer endured in the prosecution of the war. The above statistics 

 prove the correctness of this showing. 



A more gross injustice to the American farmer than the Canadian treaty could 

 scarcely be conceived. It was a selling of him for a fishery and a New York 

 transportation. Now these two interests may as well understand that they can 

 make any equitable exchange with the provinces of their interests with a like 

 Canadian interest, or of any other that is local to them, and which the parties 



