The fque6tion is one which has an im portant bearing upon every industry and mercantile interest in the city. En couragement to our own manufac tures and a liberal treatment of raw materials oughb to influence the policy of all our public bodies. As large land-owners on the sea-frontage the Board are doubly interested in developing manu factures, and we hope that they will not retrace a step which is so unmistakably in tho right direction.
CANADA AND THE McKIN LEY TARIFF BILL.
It would seem that one of the great ends anticipated by the supporters of the Mc- Kinley Tariff Bill, if the speeches of eminent Canadian sbatesmon, the remarks of the leading newspapers of Canada, and the " London Times " aro to be relied on, waa to drive Canada, if possible, to seek recipro city in trade by one of two courses—either by joining the American Ropublic, or by throwing off the British connection and setting up as a Canadian Republic ab the side of the States.
