INDISPOSED TO YIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1910, Page 5

INDISPOSED TO YIELD.

CANADA AMU THE TARIFF. POPULAR FEELING GROWING. (By- Cable.Press Association.—Copyrlgnt> (Received 9.15 a.m.) LONDON., March 22. / The "Times'" Toronto correspondent states that although Mr. W. S. Fielding, I Minister for Finance, is more disposed to make concessions in order to avert I tariff warfare, the popular temper I against yielding grows steadily stronger. President Taft, in a message to the Press, states that he sympathises so profoundly, with Canada's aspirations as a part of the British Empire that he does not wish to haggle over mere trade advantages. The '"American Journal of Commerce ,, foreshadows a tariff settlement on the basis of -small concessions on Canada's part, America granting the Payne minimum, with mutual promises that negotiations will be undertaken toward? the conclusion of a reciprocity agreement. In a recent speech upon Canada. President Taffc said:—"We Americans have been going ahead so rapidly in our own country that our heads have been somewhat swollen with the idea that we were carrying on our shoulders all the progress that there was in the world. But thai is not true, as you will realise when you think for a moment. We have not ■been conscious, or as fully conscious, as we ought to be, that there is to the north of us, with a border-line between it and us, 5000 miles long, a young country, a young nation that is looking forward, a* well it may, to a great national future. They have 9,000.000 people, but the country is still hardly scratched,- it is undeveloped. They have two great strains o£ blood in them, French and .English. They are under a Government abroad, to which both strains acknowledge full loyalty, which has exhibited great wisdom in its treatment of the Dominion, and ill giving to the Dominion practical and almost complete autonomy. The bond between them and the Mother Country is sweet, but light, and there is nothing that prevents indulgence on the part of each, whether French or English, in the traditional pride of race of each. Now they are going on, they arc building railroads ] they are exercising great discretion, and j they are taking from us many oE our bes; farmers, who are in search of wheat fields in the West. All of these things, if Wu adopted a short-sighted policy, -would, perhaps, arouse in us a jealousy and a desire to event growth on their ~>&x\ into what we might regard as a competitor of ours. That, I think, is a most short-sighted policy. They cannot haveprosperity that we cannot and must no: share, and we cannot have a prosperity on our side that they will not derive benefit from. Therefore each may look upon the growth of the other with, entire complacency, and with an earnest desire that the ideals and conditions they have formed may be carried to fruition."