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THE BUDDET DEBATE. In this House to -day from Ontario 436 per cent, If we are satisfied to'
there are fifty-nine Conservatives and cater to the interests of the mann-
eo)PrixuEo FROU 13,pD PAGE. only thirty-three Liberal members. facturers and against the consumers,'
' In that connection 1 might state that it is time that the consumers should I
the returns for the last general elee- und,erstand what position the Gov -1
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specifie duties are not so high. From tion corrected liSr' the returns of the ernment takes, I want to say a few
year to year we impress that faet by-elections show that 182,000 words.on. the iron tariff. I am not'
on the Government and the country Liberal votes were polled and satisfied about that. The pruning,'
until we create a feeling in this 186,000 Conservative votes, If knife was applied to 'the iron cliities,
our hands were not tied, and if WO brit, in my opinion, it WEIS not insert-;
House and outside of it that brought
had. the same power to manifest our ed deep enough, The Minister of
sufficient influence to bear on the influence at the polls as the Consorva- Finance stated the other day that we
Government to cause then). to largely tives possessed, wo would have about were on the eve ofa great production
abandon specific duties, Irenioniber 46 members and. the Liberal-Conser—of iron. Nis speech wo almost as
year after Year it was said: Why do vatives 46 or 47. That would be roseate and as .hopefal as the speech
you oppose specific duties There
the position of parties as regards of Sir 'Charles Tupper in 1887, when
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arspecific duties imposed Ontario • but instead of those mem- he stated that within the towing •
e in France,
Germany, Belgium, and the United
States, itrid therefore we are perfectly
justified in placing specifie duties on
articles here, and it is much better -
than the ad valorem system. But
now the Government have come to
see that the country demands at
their hands a thange, and I am very
glad that the change has come about.
It will prove a relief to consumers,
especially to those who consume the
cheaper goods. We were told by
• the Finance Minister the other day,
and he willremember it woll, that
thisiis a free country. I•doubted it.
a little, but he, said it was so, He.
said : Has not this policy been en-
dorsed by the people consecutively
at four elections; and if the policy
was opposed to the public interests,
why did not the people then defeat
the party who framed it, and placed
it on.the statute -book ? The answer
is plain, and I am sure it will oceur
to hon. gentlemen opposite. In
1882, the first time the Conservative
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in. no trouble,
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iinprovement and
U. Jytict,t when
n ,•y, 'I1t) 1i770 bot-
oy life more, with
s, more pr. -moldy
.:ast products to
hpical cing, will cttest
health cf be pure liquid
f,nr,
rid in ,the'tri; n.t 7ivt,
noe i3 duo t its presenting
most accept .b'a and pleas-
aste, the r efre, ung and truly
properties of perfect lax-
ectually cleansin the system,
and fevers
netipation.
'Mons and
medical
ie
d-
vfKer aoi
bets we have thirty-three and hon. four years not less- than 25,000 f1ringloomfr•r:t.:
party went to the country after the
National Policy was inaugurated,
they did not appeal to the people on
the basis of that policy. They know
that as well as it is possible for me
to tell them. 1882 they passed
gentlemen opposite fifty-nine. Call people would be engaged,in the iron b,?nic:11:1
this condition was brought about, or (we years, have a ed and gone,tolgr thYan
any one ekplain what principle. industries in Canada ; but these four
except that we wore unfairly treated. and there has been very little in- adaptie the
ssless expendit•
in the constituencies. Another fact crease in the production of pig iron -the needs of
is, that for 3,159 Conservative votes up to this last year. We were only the value to
polled they have a member in the . producing 20,000 or 25,000 tons up laxative pr.
House. Why should we not have a to last year, when am glad to say rernclY) SY
member for a like number of votes? that the. production increased to Its excel.
In the for
The Liberals have a member for 48,000 tons. But how much do the
every 5,500.Liberal votes polled. Canadian people pay for this protec; tut tg°
hThesafacts prove to a demonstration don? For this 48 000. tons we pay "e!'e-eu"
that the Liberal party has been so
gerrymandered and so affected by
the legislation of the Government
that wo have. not had the power to
exercise our proper influence at the
polls, and that is the explanation of
the fact that .the hon. gentlemen
opposite aro in office to -day. The
Finance Minister the "other clay 'en-
deavoured to justify thelligh tariff's of
this country by quoting the high
tariffs of other countries. That is
the same as a boyjustifying his =or
by saying that other boys commit
the same offence. It. is no justifica-
tion'for having a high tarifrin Can-
ada that the, Un:ted - States have a
high tariff. 6We know. the effects of
the high tariff in' dm United States
on the farniers, ,We have been told
the iniquitous Gerrymander Act, in •
by hon: gentlemen on the other side
respect of which one of their own
of the HOMO that the farniers across
men who supported it, has recanted,
the border are ten timer worse off
and 'announced publicly that it was
than our farmers. They have had a
passed for the purpose of legislating
high.protective tariff in the United
into office men by Act of Parliament
States for about thirty years, and
rather than by the • voice of the
consequently their farmers and
people. This country, hon. gentle -
labourers are in a worse condition
men are aware, was divided in such
than Canadians of. the same class:
a manner that the Grits were hived
We have .only a half that period of
and had no power of expressing
_pyotection hi this country but let the
themselves at the polls, and hi 1882
high tariff go on for another fifteen
I know that my county was carved
years Canada, and ive. bairt
out for the purpose of meeting the
far -worse condition than WO are at
requirements of the Conservative
the present time:. In all the speeches
party. Sir John Macdonald, who
that have been made on the.National
introduced the Bill, did not divide
Huron ; the Conservatives in that
county divided it, and sent a deputa-
tion from the county to press that
division on the premier, and the very
division they suggested was the divi,
mon that was carried out, and that
was for political purposes. There-
fore, the Government did not go
be-
fore the same jury in 1882 as in
ing classes have been benefited at
1878, and consequently the verdict
all by the operation of the National
of the people was . thwarted by the
I find on looking over the
legislation of the Tory party. A few Policy'
average wages of- farin labourers -in
years subsequently a new general
election took place. Did the Tory - Ontario that the average from 1882
to 1892 was $161 a year, with board, high protectien, it is certainly not would have more revenue in the
party go before the people on a square
and last year it was down to $156, adapted to thy country, and we arc exchequer. .Now, I ant coming to
basis ? They passed the iniquitous
., • • • . or $5 lower. I will gime you a only keeping it up the -expense of another article which I am. inter -
on. the imparted iron we pay $253,000. , 4:,11!ifiltiNpeellitei ; colds, headaches
t
$96,000 of eborinty. For the duty .i:
it haspegt vneannesalysf-a,cotuitoillit
and the increase of price, owing togteCn
the consumer -of the home product net wilk the approval of th
by reason of the duty, was $192,000, zefessi, ii, because it nets on
cost the Canadian people for the ver and Bowels, withou
'making a total of $540,000, whith it :303's,
production of 48,000 tons of pig iron.
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ming t em ami it is perfectly fre
Now, the. cost. of production in Canada ' gist"
of pig iron this last year was $11,85 fax
per ton, and it has cost the people of Co
it. In view of that incontrovertible a d being well informed, you will n
kage, also the name, Syrup of Fi
this country $11.25 per ton to protect P
fact, I ask any intelligent Mitil. if we -
. cept any Substitute if Offered.
clo not pay too high a price for the
production of pig iron in this country.
I am sure that the people of this - $240,000. The duty and extra pro -
country. will not be satisfied to have
pig iron protected as it is' ltith $4 a
ton duty and $2 a ton bounty to be
paid out of their hard•ea.rnings.
Again, there earl arrangement male
bjectionalae substat,co.
p of Figs is for sale by all • ug -
in 75a, bo4tles, but it is m 'i -
red by the California Fig Sy up
only, whoso name is printed on ev ry
fits on. coal oil costs the Canadian
consumers $986,791, of which $430,-
565 goes to the Government, and
$556,236 goes into the Dockets of
those who deal in oil—the manu-
means new prices. ,
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Haying ler some time studied the interes f the consumer, and retill,1
ing the burdens they have borne under he d policy of long credits, ask
knowing full well that the man. who pa.% • ish helps to pay for the c
account, and for the man who never p I will, therefore, give you
by the adoption of, the
and will give you goods cheaper than any other man in Wingbana. go
direct to the manufacturers and buy for
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I am, thererefore, in a positidn to give you many lines of goods below
WHOLESALE PRICES
• Give me a trial and I will convince you of the tact that
"J.A R.E- IS KING."
All kinds of Produce taken same as Cash.
Dress and Mantle making, on the premises. Mantle Goods bought
iters cut free of charge. Cutting and fitting a specialty,
MACDONALD BLOCK.
re
G. McINTYRE,
WINGIIAM.
rowing
any Corn this- Season? If so, we dah simply you with the best
la (0 CO 3EE. Tie
in the country. We have in stock the following varieties of
Ensilage and Fodder Coi•n:
RED COB, MAMMOTH SOUTHERN SWEET,
RURAL THOROUGHBRED, MAMMOTH CUBAN,
LONGFELLOW, GOLDEN BEAUTY,- •
.to reduce the duty somewhat on facturer and the middleman. In COMPTON'S EARLY, LI?.AMING,
puddled bar, which, I understand, is view of these facts, I hold that it is PRIDE OF THE NORTH.
one degree liigher in fineness than the duty of the Government to relieve
Several other standard kinds are coming in. We have made arange-
pig iron, But, you will remember, the consumers of this burden. The
milts with one of the largest and most reliable shippers in Canada. for the.
Mr. Speaker, that while the Govern- hon. Finance Minister said that they
merit proposes to .reduce the duty specially selected Seed Com at a very small advance on the cost •of ordinary',
from $i).a ton to $5 a ton, theyepro-' point out a way in •which revenue
pose also to give this $2 a ton bounty can be obtained, and with greater IElevator Feed. Corn. Past experience' has proven that Elevator Corn is dear
at any price for seeding Purposes. Get the best Corh for seed.
for. five years. There is hardly an facility, and with greater advantage
article of the • farmers'- implements to the consumers. We often hear
it is the raw material of their hidesof free tea and free toffee, and a free
that is not .composed largely of iron ; members on the other side speaking AIL Er [lli
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try, and they demand of Parliament breakfast table. I am sometimesi
W 11 I • handling of their Seed Corn. By - this arrangement we are able to furnish
that some greater reduction of duty
Policy by hon. gentlemen opposite I , shall be made in the tariff on this
have never heard the statement made article. Mr. Speaker, I now come to
that protection has 'increased the anothsquestion and I hope that the
wages of the labouring classes of this hon. member from Assiniboia pin
country! As I understand that a Da/in) will .be here to assist
large number of gentlemen on the ask why did not the Goveyriment
other side have yet- to speak ou this make .soine reduction in thegtxtraor-
question, I- hope they will be prepared: clinary ditty on coal oil, wlychis now
with figures to show that the labour- about 100 per cent, if' ,Srou include
the duty on "the barpf. I • cannot
conceive why any industry that is
suitable to our conetry, should need
a protective dutA:of 100 or 120 per
'cent Ig the indastry requires that
nauseated. when. I hear such stuff. Is
not tea a legitimate article of taxa-, .
tion? Why should we make tea free
any more than any other article ?
Will any hon.. gentleman on the I
other side tell me that? We import
tea from foreign countries, and every
person in this country, both the poor e."------- -
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uv THEW
NI, ,iceromo
and the rich, use tea ; but every • (.11;;4';•0)4
person does not use coal oil. There-
fore, with a reasonable duty say 7
per cent, put on tea, which would be
equal to 3 cents on coal oil, the con-
sumer would be relieved to a great .
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land.
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GO BY iT1101/T
extent. and the Mimic° Minister
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keeping Liberal voters off the list sample of • the increase of wages the consmyrs. Coal oil ikan abso-
ancl placing their own friends on the
under free trade in England, and no lute necessity to every householder in
list, and. by appointing friendly
protective eouin
ntyy the world can this cot:airy; especially to the farmerS,
,•
revising officers, securing every- pos-
show anything it. Under free labourefs of all classes, because in
• 1 • • • 1
, 1 thusin1887 thetrade in England the, wages of farm eitiesAnd towns, gas dr electric light
and othey, labourers went up as is. tb6 means of. illuminating, and th.e
people at the general elections were
follows : The wages of miners under richer people are not extensive user's tibuts°11'1H Pl""ed . t" thy' hat, and
again handicapped, notwithstanding. tout eer ,alt-inakers Iri%e now to COW-
ahchigun and Syracuse. I am to
ested ; that an article produced in
the county Loin which I come, and
I want the Finance Minister specially
to note What I have to say. ,The salt
interests of this country chiefly uelong
to -the uounty of Huron I understand
• d free trade 4ent up 50 per cent.; fa a: of coal oil.'Therefore the poorer pete with the American Halt•Inakortt3d of
free people. But passing On WO C01110 P i " 1 ) , p say th a t o u r Htiit-Illuktors are pellet:My
cont, bricklayers, 65 per cent, sea- oil tax. I will prove to you that it %vitt i e a to compete, priwided they are
men, in Bristol, 66 per cent, in Glas- falls ou their shoulders: Last year ,pilitilxiivi,:ipnea H. bitetioi Di equality with the
to the general elections in 1891.
Did the Conservative,s go Were the sult•inakers. Hut. while the
gow, o5 per cent, in Liverpool, 25 to we imported of coal' oil 6,980,000 PiD;;;;t; miliis.i,,',; hiih ".'11"11"a"'d with
people qn the merits of the National
70 per cent ; unskilled labourers, 70 ,gallons. The ,otiginal cost of that ' Mi'11„1.rI'1? '
Policy ? Not at all. Sir John Arm- ,,i i t.,,ii.:,,i,,1.,ipyttecacii
donald issued a proclamation that he
farm labourers, 60 per cent Can $430 565 The average price of the ..ree .isyilt.! salt Maim vitutuirtali la
to 90 per cent, and the wages of was $437,692 ; the duty we paid was on the l• 1 :.
was about to dissolve Parliament. . , •
., you show any protective country in best American coal oil was 7.1- cents
For what purpose ? That the Gov
the world. whore the wages of the per gallon, including the dUty, on the
eminent was about negotiating a
different classes of the community barrel, or -without the barrel, duty
reciprocity treaty with the 'United
have increased so rapidly as under was C. 4-9 cents net. Now, that duty
States, and he wanted a Parliament
the free trade policy of England? 1 of $430,000 which we paid went into
fresh froni the people in order to
see from the 'Globe' of to -day that the exchequer, and that is all right
ratify the treitty that he was about
there is a strike among ihe weavers enough, But we paid $172,226 as
to make between the two countries.
down in the Maritime Provinces. It profit to those who handle that oil.
Hon. gentlemen opposite who belong Thus, we paid in duty and, profit
to the Maritime Provinces are very says: " $602 '791. ' NOW the Finance Minister
e s a y y
that wo, aro a tory hands, 20 to 80 per cent • car -
the Finance Minister entdib .„ 'or cent niasons 47 •
people of the country are compelled
to bear this heavy burden of the coal
not go before the vople of Nova Scotia Witilt,011 Strike ofy0t0rallY on 110count of a says 'that he cart get Canadian oil at
per gallon i
well aware that the Government did The weavers tbe Ralifes cotton factory
and New Brunsw-licl or reduction in wages to front 9 to
11 cents
ref the National Policy. They will take effget fr The mturgees Petioles and that the oil men do notn
4*, on the question aotice of it 10 per
member that at the cross roads and frtoiorEy, isw:. 'lit Ira no weavers in the
se tletiOe Of it re. take advantage of the duty. A coal '
that,on
on the fences there were placards (Intim of wlagestlitu 1181 ocit°11: Ines of goods. oil refiner told Me la
calling on the people to vote for . They were notified last week that a mine- the best Canadian oislt; theyYnar took d
reciprocity and the Conservative ' o
mu would take place. vantage of Math:0y, and that gamy'
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CONSUMPTION
Is averted, or if too late to
avert it it is often cured and
zhvays relieved by
t.t91*
.07,1151=22.13=Effrp.
muimon
inanttfactured 2,000,000 gallons of ,„„129•1,14:4aazu.e),,,,.&.6.4130gM'
party leading the people to suppose Heim we itrO proteetine• industries in
c,
the GoVermnent wore about to nego- this country, up to 720 and 30
per the bast No. a ia i i e,
.
On which the rate of duty would. en -
tate the treaty with the United , cent, and sometimes to thc tune of 40
able the inannfactuter to charge
States, and desired tho suppoitt of the I and so per cent, and yet we find
people to carry out that treaty. So 1 that the labourers are thrown qut of $1.44,000 extra . by reason of that
,
the hands of the people' have been employlnent or wages reduced in one duly, and that they manufactured
wholly and t 'direly tied, by the leg:s. 1 ol'the hardest seasons of the year
lative Act3 of the Government in I when we know that the sto ks oi 8,000,000 gallons of No. 2 inferior I
011, on which they take the advantage.
1 ve le
iol, r. Ti re is one fact that will these companies ,are Voted ii the of at least 3 cents a gallon,on account
.
prove the contention I put forward. different newspapers at frein 20,te of.the duty, which would seine to
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