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PAGE POUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1904. Ok morning flstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. . k . , . -, By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month . 50 By carriers, per mouth CO THE SEMI-WEEKLY A8TOKIAK. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Reciprocity with Canada is apparently to be the 'paramount issue" in the coming campaign in Mas sachusetts, if not in New England, says the New York Commercial Practically all of the republican mem bers of the Boston Chamber of Commerce committee of one hundred have just signed an appeal to Massa chusetts republicans to send delegates to' the ap proaching state republican convention who favor a trade reciprocity treaty between the United States and the dominion of Canada. The appeal goes on to say that "realizing as President Roosevelt realized, in his message to congress in 1902, that no treaty can be made which may not affect injuriously some in terest, even if it should conserve the greatest good of the greatest number of people, we favor recipro cal treaties 'when, in the language of the president, 'the minimum of damage done may be disregarded for the sake of the maximum of good accomplished.' " The contention of Senator Lodge and other New England republican leaders is that they are wholly and enthusiastically in favor of reciprocal trade ar rangements with Canada, but that such arrange ments must be consistent with protection to every branch of American industry. This amounts to say ing that these republican leaders are absolutely op- ply toying with words when they declare to the con trary. Canada produces pretty much the same sort of things that we produce. Some of these things she produces more cheaply or in greater quantities than we da, and some of them we produce under greater advantages than Canada does; and real reciprocity with that country means that there shall be a free, or a freer, admission of Canadian articles into the United States in the production of which the domin ion excels and vice versa, that goods in the produc tion of which this country excels shall be admitted under similar terms into Canada. There can be no real recoprocity in "non-competive" commodities. No nation levies duties on such products except for purposes of revenue. One of the "arguments" that is advanced against reciprocity with Canada is that in spite of the pres ent preferential tariff which that country maintains for the benefit of Great Britain, our exports of mer chandise to the dominion are steadily increasing these exports having increased from $57,000,000 in 1894 to nearly $124,000,000 in 1903. It is a strange sort of logic that sees in this fact a reason for not extending our trade with Canada. If it is a matter for congratulation that our exports to our northern neighbor are constantly increasing, why would it not be a matter for greater congratulation that under reciprocal trade arrangements, they should increase still faster. Such an increase would imply a wider market for American products as a whole, and, con sequently, more employment for American capital and American labor. Canada is developing rapidly. Immigrants, both from this country and from the old world, are pour ing' into its western and northwestern provinces by the thousands; vast stretches of territory are being settled and put under cultivation, and railroads are being built to connect these sections with the older portions of the continent. These new comers, to gether with the people of eastern Canada, are large consumers of classes of things that we produce, and their demand for such commodities is destined to in crease enormously. To continue to pursue a policy that prevents us from supplying them with these things is a piece of insensate folly. It is the very reversal of the policy of encouraging American in dustry. The movement in New England for Canadian reciprocity is a protest against this irrational policy, and the fact that many of the leading participants in it are republicans, indicates clearly that a sharp change is taking place in republican sentiment with regard to the subject. migrants in America, is hopelessly faulty and incor rect. The supposed analogj 'does not exist. In the one case, there are restrictive laws in direct violation of an international treaty. In the other case, there are restrictive laws in accordance with and in ful filment of an international treaty. The Russo-Ainerienn treaty of 1S;12-'M, article I declares that "the inhabitants of their rospectiv states shall, mutually, have liberty to enter the ports, places and rivers of the territory of each party. They shall be at liberty to sojourn and re side in all parts whatsoever of said territories, and they shall enjoy, to that effect, the same security and protection as natives of the country wherein they reside, on condition of their submitting to the law and ordinances there prevailing." It is held by this country that those stipulations should apply to al American citizens without discrimination. It is held however, by the Russian government that disorimia ation mav be made between Americans oi various religious faiths. That is the issue upou which the controversy hinges. In the case of our exclusion of Chinese, it is quite true that under the treaty of 1868, which these Ri sian journalists seem to have in mind, conditions were much the same as in this Russian case. But under that treaty we did not exclude the Chinese. There have been made subsequent treaties, in 18S0 and in 1894, expressly regulating Chinese immigration and authorizing the United States to enact and enforce restrictive laws. If Russia should secure a revision of the treaty of 1832-'33, and should get America to agree to the exclusion of certain classes of American citizens from Russia, then the cases would be sira ilar, and Russian exclusion of American Jews would be as lawful as American exclusion of Chinese coolies. Until Russia does that the two cases are radically different. BOILER BURSTEO. AMERICAN JEWS IN RUSSIA. The somewhat excited remarks of some of the Russian press upon the subject of the status of American Jews in Russia are not to be taken as con clusive, says the JNew lorfc Tribune, ine premise of their argument, based upon the supposed analogy between American Jews in Russia and Chinese im- AUTOMOBILE TOURING. The automobile has made it possible for a pi ran to journey any distance in his private conveyance at his own option and convenience as to time or route, provided only there are passable roads to travel over. This could not have been done with horses when traveling by coach was at its height without relays of horses at great expense. Nor could a satisfactory rate of speed be attained for any great distance with the best of horses. But the automobile will make railway speeds if desired and permitted by local au thorities, and there is no limit to its endurance, says the Tacoma Ledger. The Scientific American mentions the fact that out of 75 autos that participated in the recent tour from eastern cities to St. Louis, only one American Car failed to reach its destination on account of serious breakdown. One machine collided with a rail way train and one was burned. One touring car only met with numerous mishaps, culminating in the breaking of its crank shaft when 30 miles from St. Louis. Another car of the same make, however, went through without mishap. Lightweight cars seemed on the whole to make the trip most satisfactorily. One new York automobilist ran from New York to St. Louis and back again without stopping the motor. This record non-stop run of 3400 miles shows what an auto can do. The car was run for 13 days and nights over good, bad and indifferent roads, in eluding some of the worst in America, without its motor having a second's rest. In fact the motor ran 15 days and two hours unceasingly before it was finally stopped after the journey was ended. No steam locomotive has ever been put to any such test. It is marvelous that such a result can be obtained with a motor jolted about in a car over rough, dusty or muddy roads. Another enthusiast touring across the continent reached Denver in 16 and one-half days from New York. 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