PO gat 0 CHIE RS SRR TH A oo ~ Lockhart St. Sayre. FOR RECIPROCITY Ee Maser CRYISC NEED FOR A CREAT CANAL — Suceres of Interstate Trade Proves Benefit That Wonld Fallow Tear- Ing Down of Customs Houses All Aleug Frontier. CHICAGO, Nov, 12-3. J. Hill was thie Merchants’ club and delivered au extended address upon “Chicagos In- terest In Reciprocity With Canada.” Mr. Hilt was introduced to his audi tors by Charles D. -Norton, president of the club, who sald that Chicago in its history had sufferad two great ca- lamities, the first being the great Chi. cago fire and the other the fact that James J. Mill passed through the city without stopping when he went to make Lis home In the northwest. After outlining the commercial great. ness of Chicago and giving sowe of the reasons therefor, Mr. Hil sald: “Today the entire country Is suffer lng from want of transportation facili- ties to wove {ts business without un- reasouable delay. The prevailing idea with the public is that the railways are short of cars, while the facts are that the shortage Is In tracks and terminals to provide # greater oppor tunity for the movement of the cars ™ The speaker declared that the cout try today faced a transportation prob- lem which only time, patience and the expenditure of enortious suis of mon- ey will remedy. He asserted that there Is a crying need now for the construc. tion of a fifteen foot chanvel between St. Louls and New Orleans, and he said that the necessity for this would in- crease with time. There was no wore important general work for the gov- ernment to perform, he sald, thao to toustruct a canal capable of carrying vessels of fifteen feet draft Mr. Hill recited figures showiug that the trade with the people whom the L'nited Statds will be able to reach by the construction of the Panuwma canal mounts to only about $54.500.60 an- nually, white our trad: with Cenada Is over §200,000,000 per annum. He as Sorted that the couservation and in crease of this trade Is of Eredler im- portance thao anything that will ac crue to the United States because of the constructiou of the canal. Concerning reciprocity with Cana. da, Mr. Hill said: “The plea for more liberal trade re- lations Is negativeq only by unreason- ing Individual selfishness. The con. clusive argument for rec iprocity with Canada always has been and must be the experience of the several Aweriean states. Had It not been prohibited by the constitution each state of the Un- lon would bave levied a duty on all Solmmerce crossing Its boundaries. Yet all acknowledge now that oue great factor In the development of the Unit- od Stutes bas Leen the comercial elimination of state lines Uurestrict- #d trade between the states hag favor- ed all of them. . “Whatever commercial policy con- fers the greatest benefits on the whole continent will best advance the various parts, and this city would receive and confer inestimable benefits under a wore liberal trade convention. Canada will In any event and under any rys- tem be opened up and highly devel- oped. Would it then be disadvanta- geous for us to share In the products of the fields of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan? “The mavufacturing luterests of both countries are the first to raise an tlarm, but there is no danger here. We have as much, reason to dread Cana- diag competition as Peunsyivania bas to cry for protection against North Da- kota. Canada would be no more in danger than is Montana by the compe- tition of Ohlo, “The time Is opportune for nu practl- cal movement toward better trade re- lations with Canada. There has Leen lucrensing irritations toward our atti- tude, and already the fact that our av- erage tariff against the Dominion is 49.83 while that of Canada against the United States 1s 2483 causes comineut and suggests reprisals.” In closing Mr. Hill sald: “What is the first practical 8tep? The Consummation most to be wished Is the wiplog out of customs houses along the northern frontier and the establish- ment thereof of absolute free trade, If the tune is uot ripe for that the least that It demands is ample reciprocity. There canuot be a Leglnonlug until we have xed in our minds the desirabil- ity of a free Interchange of naturai products aud raw materials, giving to the New England manufacturer his fuel sud to the farmer of the western plalus bis lumber aud to the makers of books and newspapers everywhere thelr priut paper free from the exac” tous which a needless tariff now per- nits wouopely to lmpose, From this as a beglaning work may go forward to- ward larger liberty by an enlargement of “markets and a progress of public sentiment that reciprécity omce In oper ation will assure.” Two Drowned In Salem Creek. BALEM, N. J. Nov. 12. Through the eapsizsing of n small rowboat in Salem creek, near Course’s landing, Herbert Guant and Harry young men, lost their lives, Charles Tounlson, a brother of the = WOULD HIT STANDARD HARD, Attarney General Moody Flans te Down Great O01 Monopoly. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 An impor fant conference, at which Attorney General Moody and special assistant Uulted States attorneys were present, was held at the department of Justice to consider plans for a prosecutioy which will prove the deadliest blow yet delivered to the Standard Qi trust. The following propositions were under conskleration: First. —An application for an injunc- tion to dissolve the Standard Oil com- pany as a combiuation In restraint of trade, such prosecution to follow lines closely analogous to the Northern Secu rities prosecution. Second. — Criminal prosecution of the corporation for violation of the Sher nan antitrust act, Thinl. — Criminal prosecution of the officials of the Standard for violation of the Sherman act, Fourth, Criminal prosecution of the officials for violaflon of United States Statute 3440. which prohibits and pe- nalizes a coaspiracy against the United States, The question of Jurisdiction was slso under discussion, with a view to deter mining ln what court to bring the inl- tial action, Cleveland and St. Louls ap. pearing to be the most favored districts for this purpose. St. Louis was fSually chosen, Many reasons are given why St Louis is preferred. That city Is con- vellient for the witnesses, as it Is the district within which the most flagrant violations of the Standard Ol company are alleged to have been committed. The sentiment of the people in the sec tion of the country Is Lelleved to Le with the government. —— Four Rulers Faver His Flans. ROME, Nor. 12 Professor Charles Waldsteln, professor of fine arts in King's college, Cambridge, England, has arrived here for the purpose of perfecting nu agreement with the Ital- lan government concerning bis project for the excavation of the auclent city of Herculaneum The professors plags to this end have been accepted by the Italian government on the con- dition that the participation of for- elgu countries in the work be only un. der the form of private coutributions and that there be wo foreign odficlal in. terference. Professor Walldsteln has secured the active co operation of King Victor Emmanuel as president of his organization as well as that of Em- peror Willlaw, King Edward aud Pres. Ident Roosevelt Would Curtafl President's Power. CINCINNATI, Nov. 12-