CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5

CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

— • TARIFF MATTERS. By Telegraph. — Presi Association.— Copyright. NEW YORK, 18th March. American manufacturers ore urging President Taft to avert a tariff war, Canada^ being the larger buyer. The New York papers, regardless of party, jare urging conciliation. LONDON, 18th March. The Standard's New York correspondent quotes Mr. Deakin's statement that the seller is courtier, but the buyer is king. OTTAWA, 18th March. Canadian opinion is united in counselling Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Dominion Prime Minister) to resist pressure from Washington and make no concessions. A message from- Washington on the ,16th instant stated : — "President Taft •and Messrs. Knox and Pepper (three •members of the Tariff Board), and Senators Aldrich and Crane, are conferring in reference to the tariff negotiations. President Taft remarked that there was little chance of reaching an agreement with Canada. . . Advices from Toronto state that President Taft considers Jhat the Canadian treaty with France involves undue discrimination against America, and possibly Sir Wilfrid Laurier will have to make concessions -to avoid a tariff war." While shrewd observers in Washington are hopeful that President Taft will yield to the advice of the commissioners rocently sent to Canada to discuss tariff matters, the authorities at Ottawa apprehend that a trado war with America 14 imminent. It is stated that if America imposes the maximum, Canada will reply with a surtax of thirty-three and a third per cent., and prohibit the export of pulp wood and wood pulp.