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THE WIN GUAM TIMES, MARCH 30,1894.;
DOMINION PARLIAMENT.. the true measure of our success and
advancement is found in our expel'.
SPEECH BY art. ItI:.Vno:S:,I,n, tations to foreign countries. NOW, I
desire to draw the attention of the
(Front Mansard) p Government and the country to the
Mr. Macdonaald.Huron . In risin extent of our exportations to countrie 3
•to make a few observations on some which the Government, when they
of the topics touched upon in the established the National Policy,
Speech from the Throne, I beg leave, in promised us should afford large mar -
the first place, to extend my congrat- leets for our products. Take South
Wakens to my professional confrere, America, for instance. In 1889 we
sent to the countries of South America '
the hon.1 member for Ottawa (SIr products of Canada to the value of
James Grant),
int'1
on the very able a11(i
e1oquetl,: speech he Malde in moving 1,Y89,000, all(. in 1890 we sent
the adde(ski in answer to the Speech `:1,''11,000, a much less quantity than
from the Throne. His graceful and itis year before. Iu 1891 we sent
*1,063,000, a tel in 1892
1
well-timed
' o•
TC 1 aTl" ' 1t the
l 1 >� concerning 1 1
LO
1 n
' Last year there was a slight increase
Earl and Countess of Derby, whooto *1,327,000. Thesefigures prove
th
r left our shores a few mons agob
after having so ably filled the Slice- that these countries, which the lead -
regal position in this country, are , et•s of the Government said would
well de,ervillg oI compliment. His • afford a large and lucrative market
reference to the worthy and noble for our exportations, have actually
Lord and Lady who are called to reduced their purchases from us
CSitl('. over the destinies Of this : within the last five years under the
.try -was also exeeecliu ly appro.paternal care of that trade by the
te. I all] sure that er it ".nen]- party now fu power. If we look to
y : Uermany' a country with which we
f Parliament, and evert- citizen .
country, will agree with these , should carry on a large export trade,
we find the Sault;condition of affairs,
sent' cuts, so kindly and scselequent; In 1892 we exported exported t0 Germanyly efpressed by the hon. member for
Ottawa (,air James Grant). Mr, goods to the value of $943,000, but
Speaker,. we in this country aro a! last year this export trade had fallen
loyal people. It is sometimes alleged off to x 51,000, a reduction of about
by the Conservatives that disloyalty '200,000 in one year. Now take
pervades the ranks of the Liberal , another country. You will remember,
party of this country, but ala happv : Mr. Speaker, that efforts have been
to say there is very little disloyalty made by the Government now in
in. the eotnitr * and that .rve are ' pow to establish trade with France;
always proud to give that allegiance . several plenipotentiaries have been
to the mother country to welch she sent to Franee within the last few years
is entitled. But, while we are will- I for the purpose of negotiating a treaty
mg to do that, rr e must remember with that country. And you will
that we have a country of our awn acknowledge, and the country will
deserving of our allegiance, and our , acknowledge, that there is no other
coup • - onthe, Continent of Europe
tar C
patriotic efforts fo • hP
p
1 her advancement
,
,n
• ... , with which t, should d h � larger
(.
and while we love and revere the 1t r 11 rt s o 1 12>< c. aa ,, 1
..
love andtrade than with I ranee,
C
landour,
of fathers, we for c,
,
rovers the land pf our children still said before, a largeprop
more. It is the sentiment of the 1 population is of French
Liberals of this country, and I have , habits, customs and feeth
no doubt it is the sentiment of a large ' ly the same as those of tl
proportion of the Conservatives ars !France, and it wool(
well, that in our consideration Canada naturally be expected t
should be first, Canada should beI rd' two such peoples trade ould grow
last, Canada should be all the way rapidly. But, instead of that, our
between, and it is from that stand- i export trade with France i'f falling
point I .have always endeavored to !off year by year, and we' are losing
discuss Canadian questions, irrespec- ` our grip upon the trade of that coon=
tive of the interests pf any other ; try. Let me give a few figures to
country. I desire to .make some re- , corroborate the statement 1 have
ference to our external, trade. The made. As far back as 1873 we sent
Speech from the Tllroniv tells us that; to France products og this country
•. 1883,
). 0
to the value of. (4- 0 0. In
this trade '
..a,
Ib increasing a a,
ci sl year r ftel
year. Now, Mr. Speaker, that should ; ten years afterwards, this trade was
not surprise an who knows only $617,000, and notwithstanding
Canada, for it could . not reasonably :'all the efforts of the Government, and
be expected that five millions of 'notwithstanding their eiailns for the
people, possessing the intelligence, success of their policy, What trade last
:the skill, the energy, the push of the !year fell off to $264,Q00, or only a
Canadian people rvili halt in their ;little more than one-third of what it
upward progress. The cause of sur- ; was twenty years ago. Now, Sir,
prise shoulcl not be th, at we are as this proves to my mind that, so far
prosperous as we are, but rather as the trade of these countries is
that our prosperity is Apt still greater.. concerned, the efforts of the Govern-
ment have been futile. There is a
group of islands lying:to the south of
us, and a few years ago I heard the
eloquent Finance Minister of this
promised to gain years ago. You country say that there was a likelihood
will remember, Mr. Speaker, that of a great trade being established
when you were on the floor • of the between Canada and the West India
House and taking part in its discus- Islands. Indeed, the hon. gentleman
cions, the Governmeq you supported was sent there about two years ago
promised to open larger markets to at the expense of the Goverment to
. ur people in which our industries confer with the people of those islands
would realize high( profits than in order to establish better trade
before. This was p rticularly the relations between them and the
case about three years ago, when the people of Canada. He went there,
McKinley Bill had been passed, and and, as a result of his visit, or the
Canadian products were prohibited result of something else, our s trade
from entering what I believe to be has been falling off instead of increas-
the natural market for many of our ing, with the West India Islands.
products. Sir John Macdonald,years One of the reasons of that decline is
ago, said that the Liberal party when
in power neglected to extend the
trade of Canada among these coun-
tries that required so much of our
produce, and grew so much that we
required for consumption il
this
s
country. But, Sir, if We look at the
results of the efforts, made by- the
Government we find that they have
signally failed in extending our trade,
with. the countries of South America;
indeed, the trade of Canada in these
countries was greater a few years
ago than it is now. The lneln-
bers of the Government and
their.supporters generally put impor-
a't .tions and exportations together
ben thcyspeak ofthe external trade
thin country. Now, it is well
own that the measure of our sue -
item is found in our exports rather
our imports, for what we, sell is
r, as I have
0
,;
tof 1 lour
t
)rigin, their
g are large -
c people of
therefore
Flat between
In looking over the 0:eternal trade of
this country,onec aunt but observe
that the Government hits failed to gain
for us a number of Markets which it
favours in that he would not give them the same say in regard to the statements made mors
the United Statesnl'1d In their inlrkrt t by the Minister of Trade and Com- the
melee before the Manufacturers'As- leen
They said they could not continue sociation in Toronto. He asked talose
has
to buy from us when we would not Inanufucturers why they did not send 1)lc ti
let their rode is into
ours
Q Ilarke •
tb 011
pre .
. ..d
I a Ial Lalreg
a'
terms as the United States as' ge
amount is their eas into
allowed their products into their Australia, and he reported as say- nttl�
markets. Now, let us see what. our Ing' •
trade has been with the West Indies. In 18929tho United States sent to Ails -
Ill 1873 longbefore the National trails. over $11,000,000 worth of goods and
� importad• Over. $8,0100,000 worth. What
Polley bad any existence, our exports were Cho principal goods they sent in whi t
of those islands were $8,989,000. In wo Can compete? I find that they wore in
1888, ten years afterwards, and five
agricultural
brushes, carriages and horses,
years after the National Policy was patent inediciries, cliemical tries and rriedi•
introduced, trade had fallen off to cures, cotton goods, Ssh,, canned aglucon,
$3,125,000. In 1893, still under the cordage, l d fruit,
Y t r
expressed in the Address from the
Throne in regard to the extension of
our trade. Sir, do you see any reason
for satisfaction in these facts ? 1)o
better markets Land better prices pre-
vail for those to whom better markets
alh(1 better prices have been prom's.
ed ? Sir, I wish now to refer to
another country, a country at the
antipodes to our own, the Australian
Colonies. It has been maintained by
the Minister of Finance fors the last
few years that a very largo trade
could be established with thatcountry
in many articles that we produced;
and last year the Minister of Trade
„ ,
and Commerce was sent by this
Government on a visit t0 Australia,
and they paid all his expellees to
ascertain if there was room fur the
products of' Canada, and if a trade
could not be profitably established.
After making a full investigation, lie
came back, a11(1 a few weeks ago he
addressed a meeting of the Manufac-
turers' Association in Toronto; and if
he is properly reported in the news-
papers, he used these words :
Look at what the Massey -Harris Com-
pany has accomplished iu the hu t 1)%e
years. I hove under ray hand now lignres
of their operations dining the lavt ye'are
Five years ago, when they first. sent their
agent into Australia to sell reapers and
mowers, they were Ianglied at and toll to
tako them back to C,Lu,H:a. "Where is
Canada?" We know nothing of Canada.
We aro dealing with the • United crates;
their goods are ,good enough for us in that
line, and we don't see why we. should buy
from yon.
Fell, certainly that slhorys a great
deal of ignorance on the Art of the
people of Australia. I suppose the
lion. Minister of Trade and Commerce
took a geography with film in order
to point out on the map op the world
where Canada was. 1)0 you suppose
that the people of Australia were as
ignorant of the Canadian industries
and Canadian products as he repre-
sents them in that portion of his
speech ? Is it not wonderful that five
years ago, when the Massey -Harris
Company went -there and founded
tlhis trade, the people of Australia
were so ignorant of Canada that they.
took from this country more than
double the value of the products they
take to -day, 01', t0 be accurate, 5(i'
per cent more? Docs he mean to
tell ane that the people of Australia
were so ignorant of the products of
Canada and of our industries that 20
years ago they took inpre of our pro-
ducts than W sent; thele t
c , e 1 last -oar,
notwithstanding the ipercasecl facili-
ties for trade which have since been
established ? Now, figures, it is said,
do not lie,. and in order to establish
my position, I will 4iv0 you the
figures of our trade rvitll 'Australia.
In 1889, the very year tliat the
Minister of Trade and Commerce -said
,,,.
that the people of' :.lustralia rr (•1 a .,so
ignorant of Canada that they askedt
where she was, we sent *6(51,000
of Canadian products:into the Aus-
tralian Colonies. Sure1x,r, they were
.lot so ignorant of CanaC1a when they
took so much from us. One year
after that they were getting more
ignorant, for they only took $471,000.
1111891, still forgetting ri•1Lere Canada
was, they only took $589,000; and
still forgetting the positipn of' Canada
on the neap of the world, in 1892,
they took $437,000. Lost year,whcn.
the Minister of Trade and Commerce
was there, they had almost forgotten
Canada and only tock $289,000
worth of our products. Is that a
satisfactory showing for the exports
of the products of this country to ape
Australia? I cannot agree with dlna)
those hon. gentlemen who think so.- state:'
Now, I have a few words more to legal
facturers of this country compete with
them ?
Now, Sir, the Minister of Trade and
COnitner'ee has given away the whole
principle of protection. I ask you,
Sir, and I ask the people of the coun-
try, if Canada can compete in the
open and neutral markets of the
world with England and the United
States, in those articles here men -
TOR tho removal of
J. worn of all kinds
from children or adults,
use Ds, SMITH'B
GERMAN WORM
0 ENGES, Always
prompt, reliable, safe and pleasant, requiring no
after medicine. Never failing. Leave no bad after
effects, pride, 25 cents per Box
LOOK
HERE !
tioned, why should the consumers of —.
this country he burdened by a high r
tariff to protect then. in their own T ! ('Will Interest I �� P rl I
country ? - If the manufacturers of
this country can nlalce those articles
and send then. six thousand miles
across q the sea, paying the freight,
the
paying agencies, paying insur-
ance, and paying everything that is
involved ill sendinthose articles into
g os
a foreign country, and then go into
the open market in competition with
English cottons and English machin-
ery, with United States cottons and
United States machinery, with Can-
adian cottons and cottons from other
countries—I ask you why it is that
nine out of every ten of the people
of this country should be burdened
with these night duties i1. order to
prevent these parties from having
competition in the country of which
they are citizens ? I challenge any
honorable gentleman on the other side
of the House to answer that question
'satisfactorily to himself or satisfac-
torily to any reasonable man in the
country. But according to the speech
from the throne we aro to have the
principle of protection continued ; we
are to have the policy of the last fif-
teen years continued as a burden
upon the people yet. Let me read to
the House the paragraph of the Ad-
dress which refers to this subject and
to the o' 1 lic • of
C f the policy r
l
protection. It is as follows :
.At an earlydatea l eaanre will be laid
r
before you having for its object a revision
of the Duties of Customs with a view to
meet the changes which time has ef-
fected iu liminess operations of all kinds
throughout the Dominion. While my
Ministers do not propose to change the
principles on which the existing enactments
on this subj'et are based, the amendments
which will be offered for your consideration
are designed to simplify the operation of
the tariff and to lessen, as far as can be
done, consistently with those principles and
with the requirements of the Treasury, the
imposts which are now in 'force.
You will notice, Mr. Speaker, there
are two conditions on which this tariff
revision is to be made : the first is;
that care m x
c must be 1 ' � cl not
e c ee to
touch the manufacturers !end to pre-
serve the principle of protection, and
the next is, to be very careful to have
sufficient revenue for the next election,
not to affect the treasury of the
country. Not one word is said about
the interests of the consumers who
.have been burdened by this tariff
during the past fifteen years, not one
word is said about they laboring
'elasses; tariff revision is not to be
Consistent with their well-being but
with. the principle of protection on the
oneShand and with having enough
money in the public treasury on the
otheta 'rise c= ween ]e)lt will dis-
appo
whet
redu
mem
carni
inter
MOTH
n1s11
facts
for tl
most
10 c g , ca Inc e p ORlveit, ins Iselin!,
rubber boots and shoes; india•rubber,
nianufac tures of irall Lwstin 's • niacltiu-
ata the efforts that have been cry, nails, saws and tools, scales and bal., rai
made, to promote that trade, in- refs, s, sewing to:whines, engines,atctionary; Of
National Policy., and notwithstanclill
const
of tl
Mr.
"tar
nam
on tl
shor
buil
and
r h, C'1111
eluding two lines of steamers run- o' ors an parts, stoves, r t o gee, t •O„ wire, liar,
ali other tnanufwcturos of iron, leather,
ning between Halifax and the West
true indication of our prosperity. Indies, our exports had declined to
its= ill all departments of life. $3,14t1,000; this great reduction tak-
e Ift,11furer counts his prosperity • tr , ' g ,
p p III lace nOtrVItllStalIC11I1„ the, facil-
what he receives, not by what he Wee, and notwithstanding the expen- sane, lubricating; paints and painters' 1 the tariff levy one-third or one-fourth
for his living; the 1)118111088 11111Th diture which the Gofi'ernnlent of this dolours; paper, prtntiug and wrapping; of the whole value, and is not an ae1-
hi.s prar,;;s es.: in business by country had undertaken to establish J platod wire; soap, toilet and cuoeis lou; to. ditional price paced oil the balance
bacco, chore, vegetables, canoed, thnber, sold to the C011sunlera
be is able til earn, not by WIltlt those facilities, Nowt I cin not think manulactaron of. 'These are the ankles ,the 1I1t1I]1tfAe•
for the: Mupport of ins family. there is any Cause for' satisfaction 111 which the united States havo`heeil sending tul'01'N tlll(1 merchants thus recouping
with the trade of tlieeonntry, these facts. Satisfactiolt has been to Australia. Why should not the menu. (CONT•I:iUh:D ON I'.IGE 8.)
ly
boots and shoes, harness and saddles ; t11e1i _
other manufactures of leather; oil and 011 t )11. angio and made' the eon.
cement, malt liquors, shite tooling, stone, sultlers pay it Is not that the prin.
hotly;
'Vo are selling
Best Coal Oil at 12 1-2
cents per Imperial gal-
lon, or a can containing
the equivalent of live
American gallons for
50c., exclusive of pack-
age.
American Lives, 500. to 65c.
each.
Crosscut Saws, 45c. to $L.00
per foot.
We to -day reduce our
quotations on Binder
Twine one cent per ib.
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themselves front the pockets of ti,
consumer's ? Very truly can it
said that the tariff' isa robbery of 11,
may for the benefit of the VOW. III
again, protection is t1 promise to sit
ter the Manufacturers. What dc
the Government say t0 the nitlllUf2
tures ? It says, you go on and rut,
ufacture yoiu' goals. It is the yly
cannot manufacture them as cheat
a5 lllannfactulers in England, 0
1 r
many an and other •
y a t(1 countries, 1 rl
your skill may not be so great a
your machinery not so perfect, a
there may be a waste of capital ; 1:
we will see that the waste which tal
place is counter -balanced by keepi
you from the competition of produc'
in other countries. Is not that
very sentiment expressed by til
who support protection, and is it :
thus the manufacturer receives an
vantage ? Again, protection prot(
the product of labor froiu comp
tion, while it puts labor itself on
• free list. I ask every honorable nu
1)ea who will look upon alis subj
in a reasonable and sensible light
it can be supposed for a moment t
protection is being afforded to •
laboring class, or that protection c
raised the wages of the people n
cent ? When the labor market
fully'silpplied the value of labor
low, and when the labor marke•
stringent then°talo price of labor rt
When we have spentover $3,000,(
during the last fifteen years in try
to bring laborers here , from fore
countries, and have sent agents
London, Liverpool and
a
c
ues
and to France and other counters
the world, lotting forth the ads
g
tto l
tages )e obtained
he•1einla
market, and urging workingmer
come hero to compete with our la
ers,,is it not hard on 0311• laborer
have to meet this competition, ow
to the action and influence of
Government, while at the same f
the products of foreign countries t
not come in here because our int
facturers want to make large pr
out of their product;. The w
system is wrong from the founds
to the last shingle on the roof, w
east, west, north and south, the ry
system has no basis on which it
be J• ' Lled. Therefore, 1
fi. eh efore, til
e cou
will regret very ly i1h that at t11
s I
ciple is to be continued. Prete(
compels 70 per cent of our peep:
pay a bonus, a. subsidy, to s int•
pockets of the other one-tenth; o:'
population, and at the -sale
forces the 90 per cent to sell ills
boo in the free market of the n
Take the farmers of this countr
has been acknowledged by Cons
tives last year, and probably i
be acknowledged by them this
that it is impossible to protect th
I11C 'Sl
1 ,tItLt
5050011 a5 there is tL SU
in the country which is to be sc
the foreign market, and which (
into competition, with the produ
other countries in the open ms
the bushel, pound or ton, whiel
into that foreign market gives a
to the bushel, pound or ton o
products of a similar cluarapte
remain at holue. That .is an
onlic question • on which there
divergence of opinion. It is in
sible to protect the farmer ext
some snial.l localities, special
geographically close to the 1
States; but taking the broad •
ple, it is impossible to prote
farming interest, because i"e c
a surplus of products. The f
constitute two millions and a x
our people, and when you a
laborers on the farm, and the 1t
employed on works such as
and .railways, they constitute
cent of the population, and tb
only about 10 per cent of tilt
Wien receive direct benefit fi
National Policy, even. if they
very much advantage. Is i
and just to take money out
pockets of this 90 per cent of
plo, whom you eatmot protect
place it directly in the pot
those who receive the, advai
proteetion? I say that it is
der and"
1t 1stL .;`
policy I1"
V fell rV.'
p y
develop the interests of this
AS these interests should be de
But there is another argunton
protection which I think st
considered. Protection is th
of combines,. trusts and Inc
which fleece to e0r13ttmer, I
I need no argument to cm)
honorable members of this I
that point. The Controller
touts, a few years ago, sari
Snell all extent that he axle
merit to give hint a eotnmit