Preferential Trade.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 3

Preferential Trade.

(Per United Presi Aasociation-)

OTTAfWA, Deoember 13

Mir SQertwright, Canadian Minister

for Finance and Trade, speaking at

Toronto, «aid if Mar ChamberlaiiL say* - he ■caa tax foods from all countries

without increasing the price to the

consumer, he is wrong- Britain* caii Jlorc© reoip(ro;cji*y om ' ithe U'ditedl States, or stimulate immligratiori and foods produobi'on of countries* outside tihe United States, or pave tih© ww

for. a fa-axle ailiiance with Einglishnptetak^ng pjetople.: Ha believtdi the United States was willing to enter into reciprocal trade relation®, giving the Anglo-Saion. xsxe control of throe and ■ai hall continent*. If England taxed food imports, tibe tax would Hut the American' former co hard, affecting hia position by thirty we

cent that he would renounce protection). The result would; be an alliance

to the advantage of Britain, America and Canada.