CANADIAN FREETRADERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 11

CANADIAN FREETRADERS.

PREFER DIRECT TAX TO TARIFF. Nearly a thousand fanners, representing the united fanners ol Alberta, the Farmers’ Association and the Canadian Society of Equity of that province, and the Grain Growers’ Associations of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with a combined membership of about 30,000, waited on the Dominion Government on the 16th December to demand an immediate increase of the preference on British goods from the present figures, which range from one-fourth to one-third of the general duty, to 50 per cent., and the introduction within ten years of free trade between Great Britain and Canada. They also asked for reciprocal free trade bet., een the United States and Canada in all horticultural, agricultural, and animal products, spraying materials, fertilisers. 1. illuminating and lubricating oil -. <:it. fish, .lumber, agricultural implements, machinery, vehicles, and parts thereof. And they desire that any trade advantages given to the United States in reciprocal trade relations be extended to Great Britain. They expressed the .willing ness of the farmers of Canada tn face direct taxation in such form as may be advisable to make up the revenue loss under these new tariff relations.