have branches established from Winnipeg to Calgary; if American implement companies and packing interests now universally control subsidiaries in Canada-why was reciprocity rejected? If it is good fo

farm south of the border are twenty-five per cent. cheaper than in the Canadian Northwest. Canadian wheat milled in Minneapolis enjoys a lower freight rate and consequently a higher market than Canadian wheat mi

to learn that one of his very first visits to Washington-contemporaneous with the Civil War period, when the United States were just launching out on a high-tariff policy-was for the purpose of seeking tariff favors for Canada. Failing to obtain even a favorable hearing, he observed the high-tariff trend at Washington, took a leaf out of his rival's book and returned to Canada to launch the high-tariff policy that dominated the Dominion for thirty years. Alexander MacKenzie, Blake, Mowat, George Brown, Laurier, Cartwright, Fielding-all the dyed-in-the-wool ultra Whigs of the Liberal party-practically held their party together for the thirty lean years out-of-office by promises and repeated promises of reciprocity with the United States the instant they came into office. They never seemed to doubt that the instant they did come into office