CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 23, 25 January 1913, Page 5

CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.

IS PREFERENTIAL TRADE DEAD? v ßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 8.5 a.m.) Ottawa, January 21. The West Indies reciprocity agreement was and on its second reading Mr. Mac Lean declared that the Liberals were ready to welcome the tariff agreement of any country. Dr. Clark, in a question as to preferential trade within the Empire, said it was now almost a corpse in Britain, while'’tariff reform was dead, in Canada, and they ought to follow free trade iu Britain’s footsteps. Dr. Clark proceeded to criticise Mr. Foster’s proposal to initiate trade preference with Australia and Germany, while refusing the. United States’ offer, although the trade was worth twenty times as much. The trouble with an Australian trip was the expenses of travelling, which were likely to exceed the actual benefits received. The trip was merely a frivolous piece of statesmanship.