. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. February, 1892 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 9 umber," as Mr. Huyett is in "American markets for American ; When the export duty on saw logs was $ a thousand and the United States import duty on sawn lumber $, he considered that a great injust- ice was being caused to Canadian interests, and took no inconsiderable part in having the export duty on logs increased to It was shortly after this, of course, that the Government abolished the
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. February, 1892 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 9 umber," as Mr. Huyett is in "American markets for American ; When the export duty on saw logs was $ a thousand and the United States import duty on sawn lumber $, he considered that a great injust- ice was being caused to Canadian interests, and took no inconsiderable part in having the export duty on logs increased to It was shortly after this, of course, that the Government abolished the export duty alto- gether. Mr. Little now pleads with all the earnestness of his nature for a renewal of the duty to its former figures. Mr. Little's leanings, we suppose, in matters of trade generally, as indicated by his discussion of the lumber situation, are towards protection of nativ e industries, rather than in the direction of freer trade relations with other countries. And this is really the broader ques- tion that in nearly all the leading countries of the world is receiving, more than any other question, the consider- ation of their ablest statesmen. The time does not seem far distant when in Great Britain, United States and Canada, not excepting other European and American countries, an upheavel of tariffs and trade relations will take place, that by our grandfathers would have been considered as impossible as crossing the Atlantic to-day in Diogenes' tub. But this is an age when history is made rapidly. What these changes will be it would be entering the field of prophecy to predict. In our own country there are various economical views being pro- mulgated. Protection to native industries is the policy of the government in power, and opposed to this view are the free-traders, who woidd make commerce as free as the air we breathe. There are those whose pro- gramme is a tariff for revenue only. Reciprocity with the neighboring republic is a policy that has no incon-
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