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BEING A PAPER READ BEFORE THE COMMERCIAL UNION
CLUB BY T. D. LED YARD, OF TORONTO.

In considering the mining interests of a country, and the
wealth which profitably worked mines bring to it, coal and iron
are by far the most important factors. These minerals are the
source of much of England's greatness, and nature favours any
country in which they are found in abundance. They do not
enrich any individual or any class of men so much as they
benefit the whole community. Coal, certainly, except in the
case of coke, undergoes no change until it passes into consump*
tion, requiring only mining and transporting before it reaches
the consumer ; but iron requires the labour of many hands at
every stage, and its value is multiplied many fold before it
reaches the consumer. Take steel rails, for instance, which is
only one case out of many ; one and a-half tons of high grade
iron ore are required to make a ton of steel rails. This ore
costs, say $3 to mine, but the ton of steel rails is worth at least
$30. That is, the value of the steel rails is ten times the value
of the ore which made them, showing that nine-tenths of their
cost is distributed in the labour of smelting the ore, the cost of
fuel and of transportation, and in the different processes they
undergo until the perfect steel rails are produced. By far the
greater proportion of this is expended in labour, and therefore
it is that iron and steel manufacture benefits a country more
than any other. For this reason the state of the iron trade
is the financial barometer of a country's prosperity; if the
iron trade is prosperous wages are good and freely distributed,
and other lines of business take their cue from it. My remarks
on the subject will be chiefly confined to our iron interests.

Canadian Mines and Reciprocity,

THE SPANISH MINES NEARLY EXHAUSTED.

Here is one very important point in considering the Cana-
dian ore question. While our grain markets are being cut off
by Indian and Kussian wheat, our ores are likely to be re*
required at an early date. England derives most of her Besst-
mer ores from Spain, whence also the United States get the
greater part of their imported ores. For some time past re-
ports have appeared showing that the Spanish ore deposits
cannot last much longer. Recently a statement has been pub-
lished that the Campanil district, one of the most important,
has very much reduced its production, and that before long it
will cease altogether. The exhaustion of Spanish ores will
produce far-reaching consequences ; if England were deprived
of these ores she could no longer produce the cheap steel she
now manufactures, and a great and radical change must take
place. When the Spanish ores are exhausted (and a very few
years must see the end of them) no part of the world will offer
greater inducements for the manufacture of steel than our own
Canada, and if a sufficient market is opened to her, there is no
reason why this country should not become a large producer
of iron and steel, and obtain a share of that prosperity which
naturally follows. In that case it would not be at all surpris-
ing to see some of the large English iron manufacturers trans-
planting their works to Canada. Wo should then have an op-
portunity of seeing how far their loyalty goes ; the boot would
then be on the other leg. I am very much mistaken if these
same English manufacturers, having transplanted their busi-
ness to Canada, would not be the most enthusiastic Commer-
cial Unionists of us all. This is no visionary dream, for al-
ready Eiiglish manufacturers are looking towards Canada ;
within the last few months I have had several inquiries from
England regarding our ores and iron mines.

EFFECTS OF THE UNITED STATES DUTY.

There is at present a duty of 75c. per ton on all iron ore enter-
ing the United States ; this, of itself, is a handsome profit on
mining iron ore, and even 50c per ton is a good profit on the
whole output of a large iron mine. The duty of 75c. per ton
then prevents many iron deposits from being worked. There

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are some large beds of very pure ore ho favourahly bituate<l that
they will pay in spite of the duty, but these are comparatively
few. The opponents of Commercial Union tell us that wo have
the Canadian market ; this is true, but the Canadian market
does not amount to much ; 300,000 tons of pig-iron is about
the annual consumption of Canada, rcipiiring about .')00,000
tons of ore ; half a dozen good mines would produce this ; in
fact two of the leading mines in Michigan would easily do
it. The Chapin mine on the Menominee Range last year pro-
duced over 330,000 tons, and the Cornwall mines in Lebanon
County, Penn., put out in 1887 the enormous quantity of 700,.
000 tons, or over 2,000 tons a day for every working day
throughout the year. One single furnace company in the
States, The North Chicago Rolling Mills Co., uses 1,700 tons,
of ore a day, as much as would supply the whole of Canada.

A LIMITED HOME MARKET.

Our market, besides being so small, is very much scattered,
and distance tells heavily in the transportation of iron. Jn
Nova Scotia iron and coal occur in close proximity and there
is every facility for cheap iron manufacture, but where is the
market 1 The freight to Montreal is high, still higher to To-
ronto, and prohibitory to Winnipeg. The natural market for
Nova Scotia coal and iron is, of course, in the Enstern States,
and the market for British Columbia coal and iron is in the
Pacific States ; and did not the tariff prevent it a great trade
would be done to the mutual benefit of both countries.

RICHNESS OF CANADIAN IRON ORE,

During the year 1887 the United States used 13,250,000
tons of iron ore, of which 12,000,000 was produced from their
own mines, and one million and a quarter imported, mostly
from Spain, but very little from Canada. The ores imported
from Spain are of Bessemer quality, and very free from im-
purities, but are not so rich in iron as some of our Canadian
ores, the average Spanish ore not yielding more than 50 to 55
per cent, of iron, while some of our ores run as high as G2 to
67 per cent, of metallic iron. Under reciprocity with the
States a great part of these Spanish ores would be replaced by

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Canadian, to the great advantage both of our neighbours and
ourselves. The advantage to the United States blast furnaces
importing Spanish aud other Bessemer ores from Europe is
that, at certain points on the Atlantic coast, or contiguous to
Atlantic ports, these ores can be laid down cheaper than Lake
^upe:i.cr Bessemer ores. The advantage is simply in the cheap-
ness of these foreign ores ; they give employment to no one in
the United States, either in mining or transportation to the
Atlantic ports, as they are generally brought over as ballast in
foreign vessels. Whereas, if the duty were removed from
Canadian ores, these could be delivered from the Ontario iron
districts to good distributing points on the lakes, such as Char-
lotte, Fairhaven, Buffalo, Cleveland, Fairport or Ashtabula,
cheaper than Spanish ores can be imported, and American cars
and railways would have the carrying of them. Other things
being equal, American furnaces would, no doubt, for several
reasons prefer Canadian ores to those imported from Spain
of equal quality and at the same price ; but if it can be shown,
as it certainly can, that without the duty, richer Canadian
ores can be delivered to many American furnaces at far lower
prices, a great benefit would be conferred on the iron industry
of the United States. And this could be done without inter-
fering with domest'c ores, for it would be some time before
Canadian ore would more than replace that imported from
Europe, and then the increasing consumption would absorb all
that we could send them without diminishing the consumption
of their own ores.

CONVENIENT LOCATION OF ONTARIO'S MINES.

Ontario has large deposits of excellent Bessemer ore so situa-
ted that it can be delivered at Buffalo very cheaply. Go down
to the Esplanade and walk from the Don to the western boun-
dary of Toronto along the railway tracks, and any day you will
see hundreds of coal cars which come here from the coal regions
of the United States, laden with coal, some of which go east
to Belleville, perhaps further, and some north-east to Lindsay,
but after unloading their coal they mostly go back empty.
Now, when these cars are at Belleville or Lindsay they are not
far from our Bessemer iron ores, which they could take back as
a return freight, and deliver at furnaces in Pennsylvania, close

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to their destination. A large trade would be done in this way
if there was no duty ; our iron mines that are now lying idle
would be developed, benefiting our back country more than
anything else, giving employment to numbers of miners, a good
market to the farmers in the neighbourhood, as well as business
to the storekeepers.

COMMERCIAL UNION DISCUSSED.

This trade would also benefit the United States, for in the
consideration of the great question of Commercial Union we
should not look at it only from our own standpoint, but should
see how it will affect our neighbours. Buffalo is now becoming
an important distributing point for iron ores, and will be still
more so in the future ; ores are delivered there by vessels from
Lake Superior and distributed by rail to furnaces in Pennsylva-
nia. Lake Superior ores are taken from the mines to Mar-
quette, Ashland, or Two Harbours on Lake Superior, or to
Escanaba on Lake Michigan, and then shipped by boat a dis-
tance probably of over 1,000 miles to Buffalo, whence they are
again transhipped to railways which carry them to the furnaces,
thus necessitating three diii'erent handlings, and this route is
open only during the season of navigation. But our ore dis-
tricts in Central and North-East Ontario are within 250 miles
of Buffalo, from whence our ores can be delivered by rail all
the year round in returning coal cars, which can be run direct
to the mines without going much out of their way, and from
thence run through to the furnaces without transhipment and
with only one handling. The return freight of ore is so much
additional business to the American cars and railway compa-
nies, as well as to our own railways, and the furnaces can get
cheaper Bessemer ore much closer to them than- Lake Superior.

THE DUTY THE CHIEF DIFFICULTY.

I have been endeavoring for some time to find markets for
our ore in the United States, but it has been up-hill work, the
duty being the chief difficulty. There has also been in the past
considerable prejudice against Canadian ore ; for this, I will
freely admit there has been some ground. While we have ex-
cellent ores, we have also some poor ones containing objection-
able matter. Through ignorance partly, and perhaps some-

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times through dishonesty, these bad ores have been sent to the
other side; there are places through some parts of our mineral
districts where the ore contains titanium, the worst enemy to
iron ore. These ores should never have been touched, but in
some instances they have been sent to American furnaces for
trial, only resulting in their condemnation and in giving the
furnace men the impression that our ores are titaniferous.

UNFAIR STATEMKNTS ABOUT OUR MINES.

Sulphur is also an objectionable element, and some of our
mines, as in nearly all iron districts, contain too much sulphur.
Injury has been done to our interests by ores too high in sul-
phur having been shipped. Some of the United States mine
owners have not been slow to circulate the statement that all
Canadian ores contain titanium and sulphur, but nothing is
more unfair than to condemn a whole country, and especially
such a mineral country as Canada, where the ore districts ex-
tend for hundreds of miles, because objectionable ore is found
in some parts. There is bad ore in almost every iron district.
Titaniferous ore is found in Minnesota, on the north shore of
Lake Superior, not far from the district where The Minnesota
Iron Co. produces the very best Bessemer ore, and similarly,
ores too high in phosphorus and sulphur are found in the Mar-
quette and Menominee districts, not far from the most cele-
brated mines of pure ore. It is most unfair therefore to give
our ores a bad name, because in some parts of our vast mineral
districts are to be found some objectionable matters. Not only
owners of American mines have spread these reports, but some
of our own people are much too quick to condemn the products
of their own country. People who know nothing about the
subject have told me that our ores are not good, but strangely
enough these are generally the opponents of Commercial Union,
who arrogate to themselves all the loyalty in the country. It
is a curious loyalty which refuses to recognize whatever is good
among our own productions.

ANALYSIS OF CANADIAN ORE.

Wiihin 110 miles of Toronto, close both to the Midland
oranch of the Grand Trunk, and also near to the Canadian
Pacific railway, are deposits of Bessemer ores of excellent
quality. An analysis of ore from a large bed in the Township

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of Belmont shows sulphur, only a slight trace ; phosphorus,
0,002, or one-thirtieth of the permitted limit for phosphorus in
Bessemer ore ; metallic iron, 65.36; the chemist remarking on
the exceptional purity of this ore. Another analysis of average
ore taken from all over this deposit gives metallic iron, 66.29 ;
manganese, 0.42; phosphoru*^, 0.024; silica, 3.19; titanium,
none ; sulphur, practically none. These analyses were made by
chemists of large blast furnaces in the States, and have fully
confirmed the first analysis made by Prof, Chapman, of the
Toronto School of Science, from surface samples of this ore.
The latter remarks : — " This is an exceedingly good ore, not too
close in texture, rich in metal, quite free from titanium and
practically free from phosphorus and sulphur, while the rock
matter would be almost self-fluxing. It is well adapted for
final treatment by the Bessemer process." Dr. Chapman's opin-
ion has been fully confirmed by practical iron men. Another
analysis gives iron, 68.88; silica, 3.18; phosphorus, 0.006;
titanium, none ; sulphur, none ; which is about as nearly a per-
fectly ideal Bessemer ore as can be conceived. One prominent
man in Cleveland writes, " I can sell all the ore of this quality
that I can get." Professor Thomas Heys, of this city, who ex-
amined this ore bed, makes a similar report regarding the
quality of the ore and estimates that there are at least a million
tons of ore within a hundred feet of the surface. The Snow-
don iron district, 40 miles northeast of Lindsay, contains good
Bessemer ore, very free from impurities. Analyses show 62 to
63 metallic iron ; phosphorus, trace ; sulphur, 0.02.5 ; titanium,
none. In order to be of Bessemer quality, the amount of phos-
phorus must be very small, the limit in a 60 per cent ore being
0.06. When the analysis shows a trace only, this means less
than 0.005 per cent, phosphorus, or less than one-tenth of the
allowance for Bessemer ore. These analyses, therefore, show
our ore to be more than usually free from impurities even for
Bessemer ore.

ADVANTAGES OF THE IRON INDUSTRY.

To be convinced of the benefit of working an iron mine, a
person should go to the neighbourhood of an active mine and
judge for himself. The Blairton mine, in Peterboro* County,
at one time employed between 300 and 400 men, at wages from

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$1 to 1.25 per day, paying out from $1,800 to $2,500 weekly for
wages alcie. There was employment for every able-bodied
man and boy for miles around. The farmers from surrounding
townships found ready sale for produce at prices equal to the
Peterboro* market Think of the good this would do to the
country ! An iron mine, with a production of 400 tons a day,
would steadily employ 400 men ; the labour of these men would
be fully equal to that expended upon 100 farms in our back coun-
try, and the benefit would be fully as great as the cultivation
and production of 100 farms. Within a few months after
starting, several of our large ore deposits could give employ-
ment to this number of men in each mine. So that if ten
good-sized mines were working they would employ 4,000 men,
and do as much good to the country as 1,000 well cultivated
farms ; but unlike farms, which take several years to clear and
cultivate, the mines could be brought to a considerable state of
efficiency within a few months.*

The production of Lake Superior ores last year was about
4,000,000 tons, a third of the whole domestic production ot
the United States, while only about 70,000 tons of Canadian
ore were produced in 1886 and considerably less in 1887.

The greater part of the Lake Superior ores go to furnaces in
Pennsylvania and Chicago, and are of course subject to no. duty ;
it is because they have free entry to the whole of the li^nited
States that these ores can be profitably produced in such large
quantities. If they were subject to a duty of 75 cents per
ton, many of their mines could not work. It is the duty that
makes all the difference. Our ores are similar to those of Lake
Superior, many of them fully equal to the best ; our labour is
cheap and shipping facilities good, but there is the duty against
us. The manager of one of the Michigan mines, after visiting
the Snowdon iron district, writes : " You have good ores and a
good country, but the duty is the killing of Canada." But the
most remarkable instance of prosperity from access to the larger
markets is to be seen in the Southern States. Many timid Can-
adians fear that if we have free trade with the States, they

* Nowhere can be seen greater prosperity on the same scale than in the
iilagea which are called into existence by the working of a large mine ; good
wages are regularly paid and so much cash distributed through the district
where, but for the mine, there would be a barren waste.'

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being so much wealthier and more populous, would wipe us out.
Have the Southern States been wiped out by free commercial
intercourse with the richer Northern States ? Let us look back
and see in what position the South was twenty years ago, after
the War ; the whole Southern States appeared to be com-
pletely crushed, so mucli so that it seemed doubtful if they
could ever revive. If Northern competition is so fatal, surely
the stricken South could never have made headway against it.
But what do we find in the South to day ? We find a most

ji^ surprising revival which is phenomenal in the rapidity of its

development and in the actual progress of the country. This
prosperity is owing in a great degree to the deposits of coal and
iron in the South, and to the enterprise which has developed
them, with the assistance of Northern capital. Northern com-
petition has not injured the Southern States, but on the con-
trary their free trade with the whole United States is the reason
of their prosperity, and has caused their rapid development.
Does any one suppose, that if the South was cut off from the
trade of the Northern States by a Customs line, it would benefit
them ? In that case, would they not still be sunk in depression
and despondency 1 Undoubtedly they would, and yet that is
just the position in which our restrictionists want to keep us.
1 Canadians are not cowards, far from it, but it certainly seems

i "*** a most cowardly doctrine to suppose that we, the vigorous young

^\,,^ Canadian nation, should be crushed out by competition with the

United States when the crippled South has revived and pros-
pered under it. Our iron ores will compare favourably with
any in the world ; all we want is a market. What Michigan
and the Southern States have done and are doing, we can do,
if we are admitted to the market of our own continent on equal
terms.

WHY THE MINES ARE NOT DEVELOPED.

With many of our iron deposits the duty of 75 cents per ton,
simply prevents their being worked ; it makes all the difference
between a profit and a loss. It is a question of existence ; to
be or not to be. Yet some restrictionists have asked, " Cannot
you work your iron mines at a profit and pay the 75 cents per
ton duty?" After inspecting the Belmont mine, before re-
ferred to, an American expert stated that within a short time

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after commencing work on it he would be taking out 400 tons
of ore a day ; the duty on this would be $300 a day. Perhaps
the restrictionists will kindly tell us how they would like an
unnecessary tax of $300 a day on any one of their businesses.

SUMMARY OF THE VIEWS PRESENTED.

The points that I have endeavoured to prove are that we
have first-class ores ; that in many cases the duty of 75 cents
per ton prevents these ores being mined ; that the removal of
the duty would benefit both Canadians and Americans alike.

SMELTING FURNACES.

I have so far only noticed the question of exporting ores
to the United States, but there are large quantities of poorer
ores which would not pay to export, but which could be very
profitably smelted on the spot if we had a market large enough
to induce capitalists to put up the necessary works. A blast
furnace takes a considerable capital both to erect and run it.
There are many suitable points for blast furnaces in our mineral
country where ore and charcoal can be had at the lowest cost
and where there is every fticility for making iron, the market
only being wanting. There are numerous deposits of bog ore
or brown hematite containing 35 to 45 per cent, of iron, which
are suitable for a local furnace but are of no value otherwise.
One ordinary-sized furnace would employ in its own work and
in the prejjjaration of charcoal a number of men, and would make
a good local market for the farm produce of the surrounding
country.

AN ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION CORRECTED.

The Canadian market is too small to induce capitalists to put
up the expensive works necessary to make iron and steel, but
if the whole North America market was open to us there are
many points where furnaces would be erected. And here let
me correct an erroneous impression with regard to the amount
of fuel necessary for smelting iron. It was stated recently in a
Kestrictionist paper that it required two tons of coal to smelt
one ton of ore. This is not the case, the fact being almost the
reverse of this. Mr. John Birkinbine, of Philadelphia, editor
of the American Journal of Charcoal Iron Workers^ a very high
authority, in a letter to the Iron Age, computes one ton of coke

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only to make one ton of pig iron. A correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser last fall stated that 1,900 lbs. of
Pennsylvania coke smelts IJ tons of Lake Superior G6§ per
cent, iron ore, which yields one ton of pig iron in the furnace.
An account appeared recently in the Iron Age of a run at the
Union Steel Works, Chicago, where only about half the weight
of fuel was used in smelting a quantity of ore, the proportion
being about 1,750 lbs. of fuel to 3,500 lbs. of ore.

FURNACES SHOULD BE CONVENIENTLY SITUATED.

This makes a vast difference in considering the favourable lo-
cality for a blast furna(fe. If we had free trade with our con-
tinent, why should not Toronto be an excellent point for a blast
furnace and a good distributing point for its products ] We
have the best of ores within 125 miles of us and are much nearer
to the fuel than many furnaces in the States. Connellsville coke
is carried GOO miles to the Chicago blast furnaces, and still they
do an immense and very increasing business.

A BENEFIT TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

Although the manufacture of iron and steel benefits a com-
munity more than any other, one impressive fact may be stated
to show the apathy of Canadians in these matters. Take the
C. P. R. east from Toronto, and when you get a little over 100
miles down the line you will be in the mineral district and close
to deposits of Bessemer ore suitable for making steel rails.
This mineral district extends for hundreds of miles, the C. P. R.
traversing a great portion of it. Were the steel rails over
which you are travelling made from Canadian ore 1 Not at
all. These rails were bought in England, probably made
from Spanish ore, and in their manufacture did not contribute
one dollar's worth of beneOt to any Canadian, although simi-
lar ore from which the rails are made lie almost alongside the
railway track. Is this loyalty to ourselves to send money out
of the country for articles which we can manufacture ourselves,
four-fifths of the value of which would be distributed to pay for
the labour of our own miners and mechanics ? Instead of doing
this, our money has gone to pay Spanish miners and English
labourers, who care nothing for us and could not probably point
out our country on the map.

Canadian Mines and Reciprocity,

CONSUMPTIOy OP IROX PYRITES AND OTHER MINERALS.

The consumption of iron pyrites for making sulphuric acid
is rapidly increasing in the United States. In 188G 112,000
tons were consumed. The duty of 75c per ton is a heavy tax
on this article, as pyrites is only worth about $4.50 per ton in
New York, but if there were no duty a large trade would be
done, as we have many deposits of pyrites suitable for this pur*
pose. Large quantities of copper ore would be shipped to the
States were it not for the duty. In the Nipissing and Algoma
districts new and important discoveries of copper have lately
been made ; but here again the tariff bars the way. The Unittd
States duty on lead ore is prohibitory, and there is little en-
couragement to develop our galena veins, although, no tloubt,
we have abundance of this useful mineral, and the same remark
applies to several other minerals, notably to the salt industry,
which suffers greatly through restriction.

Few people are aware of the extent and importance of our
mining districts. There are at least sixteen constituencies in
Ontario which are emphatically mining districts. Commence at
Peterborough and go east through the counties of Hastings,
Addington, Frontenac, Kenfrew, Leeds, Grenville, Lanark and
Carleton, or commence with Victoria and go north through the
districts of Muskoka, Parry Sound and Nipissing, and for hun-
dreds of miles through the great district of Algoma you are still in
a mining country, while in the Province of Quebec many coun-
ties are fully as rich. No country in the world possesses such
mineral wealth as Ontario, where so little is done to develop it.

The mining districts of Michigan and Minnesota are much
smaller than ours, yet from those States the market value of iron
ore mined in 1887 was about $24,000,000, of which $10,000,-
000 was paid in freight and probably as much in labour, while
from a larger area of mining territory we in Canada produced
hardly anything.

I am a strong Protectionist, but I do not carry the idea of
Protection so far as to advocate a tariff wall between the Pro-
vinces of Ontario and Quebec or between the States of Ohio
and Pennsylvania.

If it is profitable for Ohio to trade freely with Pennsylvania or
New York, why should it not be just as profitable that Ontario
and Quebec should trade freely with those States 1

Canadian Minps and Reciprocity.

Our commercial interests are identical, and the fact of our
having different political arrangements should not make trade
between us less profitable.

Now-a days when there is such keen competition in every
branch of the iron and steel business, — and whenever there is a
period of depression we hear complaints that there is so little
margin of profit, — the question of cheap ores becomes of vital
importance.

While every device is resorted to in modern furnaces to
cheapen the cost of production, the most important question of
cheap ores appears to have been somewhat overlooked.

Our Canadian Bessemer ores are so favourably situated that
they could be delivered to Pittsburgh and many furnaces in
Pennsylvania much cheaper than other ores of the same qual-
ity if there was no duty.

Under the present tariff our mines remain undeveloped, while
on the other hand the furnaces are anxiously seeking cheap ores.

If the duty was removed this trade would find its natural
channel, to the great benefit of the United States furnaces and
of our mines.

ABSURDITY OF OUR PRESENT TRADE RELATIONS.

Let any unprejudiced man of common sense, either Ameri-
can or Canadian, stand before a map of North America, and,
after carefully tracing the boundary line between us, say why
the inhabitants of this great continent, who are of the same race,
the same language, the same religion, and who have the same in-
terests, should interpose hostile tariffs against each other. Did
nature ever intend that artificial barriers should be placed
where only an imaginary line separates us 1 I would suggest
that the Commercial Union Club hang on its walls a map of
North America, on which there should be a black line, drawn
broad and deep along the boundary line between Canada and
the United States, so that the absurdity may clearly appear of
trying to keep apart two portions of the same continent which
nature intended to be commercially one. Then if you like, run
a red line round the outside boundary of both showing the vast-
ness of the country we should have to trade in were the barriers
thrown down, and on the heading of the map place this motto,
which should also be the motto of our Club, " Let us have free
trade with our own continent, our natural market ! "

-T3IE-

COMMERCIAL UNION CLUB

O^^ TOI^035^TO.

GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L,, President,

H. W. DARLING,

A. H. CAMPBELL,

S. H. JANES,

W. H. LOCKHAKT GORDON, i Vice-Presidents.

CAPT. WM. HALL,

WILLIAM CLUXTON, '

GEORGE KERR, Jr., Secretart/ and Treasurer,

02 Wellington Street West, Toronto,

G. Mercer Adam,
J. N. Blake,
C. W. Buntinff,
W. H. P. Clement,
H. H. Dewart,
W. G. Douglas,
E. E. A. Du Vernet,
H. P. Dwight,
W. D. Gregory,

M. H. Irish,
A. F. Jury,
Robert Jatfray,
T. D, liedyard,
Geo. S. Macdonald,
A. MacdougaH,
W. D. Matthews, Jr.,
Hugh Miller,
Thos. Muivey,

Samuel D. Mills,
Peter Mclntyre,
Wm. McCabe,
W. B. McMurrich,
James Pearson,
G. B. Smith, M.P.P
R. C. Steele,
W. J. Thomas,
Fred. W. Walker.

CONSTITUTION AND l!Y-LA\VS

OK THE

Commercial elnion €lub

oip ^^OT^OIiTTO.

CONSTIXLJTION.

1. This Association shall be designated The Commercial I^nion
Club op Toronto.

2. The objects of the Club are to improve the trade relations and
develop the industries of Canada by securing unrestricted recipro-
city of trade between this country and the United States.

3. The Club is not connected with any political party ; it invites
the co-operation of persons of whatever political party, who are
favourable to Commercial Union.

4. The Club will welcome to its membership, and regard as eligible
to its Executive Committee and otticars, any who may be favourable
to its object, in whatever part of the Province or Dominion they
may reside,

5. The agencies which the Club employs are public meetings, the
diffusion of literature, and co- operation with local associations which
may be formed with the same objects in view.

6. The administration of the Club shall be vested in an Execu-
tive Committee [not exceeding forty in number (irrespective of ex-
officio members), to be elected by the Club.

7. The OflScers of the Club shall be a President, Vice-Presidents,
Treasurer and Secretary, all of whom shall be members of the Exe-
cutive Committee.

8. The Constitution of the Club may be amended by a two-thirds*
vote of the members present, provided that notice of said amend-
ment shall have been given by motion at the previous meeting, that
a week, at least, shall elapse between the two meetings, and that
the proposed amendments shall be set forth in the circular conven-
ing the meeting.

9. Any person may become a member of the Club by assentisg
to the Constitution, and paying an annual membership fee of One

Const ihition <tnd Ihj-Laius.

Dollar, nr any larger sum he may see fit to contribute tu the funds
of the Club, the first payment to be made at the tiiue of his admis-
•ion.

10. The Pi'esidents of Local Associations shall be exojficio mem-
bers of the Club.

1. There shall be meetings of the Club on the Lat and 3rd Thurs-
days in each month, at 8 p.m. The Club may also be convened at
any time at the call of the President and Secretary.

2. The Executive Committee shall meet at the call of the Presi-
dent and Secretary.

'3. Five members of the Executive Committee shall be a quorum,
provided that the President or one of the Vice-Presidents shall be
present.