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The Wingham Times, 1894-11-16, Page 5,lw • SIR RICHARD RTW IG T TALKS PROM ,rS ORIECT I.P.S:tUNtt OP TIIE I.:iST SES S- SI:1X.--SOANDAL AXI) ('ORIlUP- `L'R) AT OTTAWA. ---um tempo' siOVEMENT. Sir Richard Cartwright ably die - cussed, the political questions of the day in a speech to hie constituents at Otterville, hist week. Ife was listen- ed to with interested and apprecia- tive attention. IIe arraigned the Government upon its policy and adntinietration, and delutuetratecl that in the common interest of the people a change must be made. He said -- On this occasion, in the first place I ale desirous of giving a short resume of the proceedings of the last session of Parliament, and I am the more inclined to dwell upon that a little because I am aware that you recently passed through a somewhat exciting Local election, whimh may have diverted the attention of the electorate from tke questions discus- sed at Ottawa. It is also perfectly true that, although little was done at Ottawa (luring the last session, a very great number of valuable and pro- fitable object lessons are to bo learned from the way in which we managed tb de nothing on that occasion. The main business for which the Govern- ment proposed the summoning of Parliament together was to effect a revision of the existing tariff. They - had a year to consult the electorate throughout the country, to eousult their friends the protected manufac- • tnrers in various parts of the country, and they had nearly a full year to digest that information; therefore we felt that the proposition which they laid before us at the commencement of the last Parliament ought to be the fruit of the deliberation of the united Government, and more par- ticularly of the Minister of Finance. I have hacl the honor of sitting in ets Parliament for close on thirty-two years. I have myself taken part iu various tariff revisions. I have seen a good matey occasions in which the Government of the day have submitted for °the ap- probation of the representatives of the people their proposals to reform the tariff. These have been made under peculiar circumstances; some- times when the Government was ,s very weak. They never were sub- mitted by a Government numerically oi so strong as the Government that now rules Canada, and which posses- ses a majority of nearly two to one on the floor of the House. Never have I witnessed a series of proposals brought down by any Government so ruthlessly hacked and mangled by its originators as were these pro- posals. I am not sure that when they were first submitted I thought any great relief was likely to take place, but at least they were pro- posals to abolish certain of the worst features of the tariff, and they pro- posed to lay down one or two whole- some principles, as, for example, the principle that they would in future as far as possible dispense with special duties, that they would as far as possible endeavor to lighten the burdens on the necessaries of life to certain classes of the ,population. I am sorry to say that with whit -toyer good intentions the Government started, long before the session had , -made much progress it was apparent to all of us that while the present Government might calltheniselves the occupants of the Treasury bombes, there was a power behind the throng a great deal greater than the Govern- • ment of Canada, and that that power had very little intention of relieving the burdens that the Parliament (,f ' Canada was ill=adviscd enough to impose on the people. Itt was a pain- ful sight to see the spectacle of the Government spending , six weeks or ,'thereabouts in preparing to revise the tariff, and then at the dictation not of the people's representative,, but at the dictation of a fere protect- ed industries, deliberately reversing their entire previous work, and re- storing almost all of those iniquitous provisions which they had taken such great credit to themselves for removing. It is a feet that while the Government proposed something like ,e t00 changes in the. direction I have specified, by the time they had com- pleted what they called the revision scarcely more than two or three dozen of these were allowed to re- main as the (Government had intend- ed they should, and the reason is this s ---The moment it became ai - parent •that the sacred privileges that THE WINUH .M TIMES, NOYEMBEU 1 y, 1391 had been Created for the benefit of a4 few lx,reona to the detriment of the great mass of the people were going to be interfered.with Or imptdred in any degree, we had delegation upon delegation, representation upon. repre- sentation, coming down to Ottawa to interview the Minister of Finance, not in public,. not stating opinions that we coukd hear or arguments that we had an opportunity to refute, bat in private, for his sole and per- sonal advantage, where there was no possible chance of understanding. why and wherefore the Government was induced to depart from their resolution ; and I ant sorry to say we he absolutely refused to cousicler the found that in a number of eases they !proposition, I put it to you,What fair had been successful in obtaining -play or reason is there in a tariff re - their ends. I am not going to occupy • vision that singles out one solitary ar- the time of this audience by going title and reduces •the taxation Spon it over iu detail all the numerous cases while it refuses to allow the raw ma- in which proposals for the relief of trial that another manufacturer noes the people were submitted and then to 1)0 introduced at a reasonable Tato, afterwards abandoned, but I will and what justice is there in a regale - take two or three of the most notor- tion by which, if the agricultural bil- ious cases, in order that you can plement maker is going to make a judge for yourselves to flow great an lnaeline of any description for the extent the interests of the people ;purpose of selling in South America, were provided file in this revision, Australia or at the enols of the earth, and how far and to how great an he is to have his iron free, he is to extent the Government constituted • have a rebate on the article he sells themselves, not the real governors of to the foreigner, which will enable Canada, but the mouthpiece of the your foreign competitor' to get a association of protected manufactur- - cheaper article than he could othor- ers. There was ono ease, a caro to wise get while the Canadian consumer which I had called attention on eight, had to pay the full duty? That is or ten different oce(isions during the , the fashion in which the tariff was preceding six or eight years, the revised. I defy any man to see why absurd casein which the Government it is more meritorious to make a yard have placed immense burdens on the , of cloth than it is to make a reaper or people for the protection of one or binder. Surely in all conscience, it two men who do not give employ- is as meritorious to make a farming ment to more than 20 or 80 hands. , tool as it is to make a yard of woollen I refer to the article of rice. I may or cotton cloth, and yet in one case state that we consume in Canada five ?tot one cent, not one copper, of tax and twenty million tons of rice in the Li put on the raw material, and in the course of a year. The Government other a duty of sometimes 50, (10, 70 had do iciccl that, they would put a and as much as 80 per (sent. is levied duty of l cents a pound on cleanedon the raw material which go to rice fit for consumption, but they form the farmers' tools. (Applause.) deckled that they \would allow un- CORRUPTION AT OTTAWA. hulled rice or paddy to be imported Yon are all aware no doubt of at a perfectly nominal rate of duty, those very disgraceful disclosures in order that the parties who import- which brought a blush to the cheek ed it ?night levy a tax equivalent to of every Canadian, without distinc- thc difference between the duty cn tion of party who has the smallest paddy and the tax on cleaned rice. regard for the welfare of his country. It was admitted by the Finance You are all aware of the facts which Minister that this duty was a most leen to the withdrawal of Sir Hector extraordinary injustice. Though the Langevin—a tried and experienced rice-lutlling industry employed only public servant --from all connection 20 or 30 hands, a tax of some $ 200,- with the Ministry. You are aware aclian customer the benefit of cheap material for the manufacture of these tools." But no, Me, Foster drew the , line there, rip. 1oos;ter was quite 'will- i ing that the manufacturer of cotton and woollen cloth should have hist raw materials absolutely and completely free, but he was not willing that the num who manufactured agrieultural implements to be hold to the fiu'nlers should have irou, which constitutes 1 his raw material, free, and he refused over and over again when, I proposed that iron should be reduced ,.1 (they oi• made absolutely free in thetnteres'; of the great bulk of the eoinmunity---- 000 was levied on the people, scarcely that it was proven in the public one-tenth part of which went into courts, that it was proven before the the public treasury. You were pay- Judges of the land, that a sum very ing one or two merchants who were closely amounting to a million dollars employing 20 or 30 hands $200,000 had been fraudulently abstracted for being good enough to hull your from the public treasury in connec- rice for you. lir. Foster could not tion with certain works at Quebec possiblyresistthe facts that had been and elsewhere. You are aware, also, 1 laid. before him, and he proposed not that two individuals, Messrs. Me - to do away with the duty altogether, Grecvy and Connolly, who were held but so to modify it that, to use his by the courts to have conspired to I own words, he might at ono and the • defraud the people out of this vast - 3ame time reduce the tax 011 rice and sum of motley, had been sentenced put a large suns of money into the to twelve months' confinement in the treasury. He did not go far enough common goal, but perhaps you are —the people shoulcl have got the not aware that you have a paternal' entire benefit of the tail if a tax and a most merciful Government were to be imposed—but so far as Scarcely had these gentlemen bee he %vent I was willing to support - committed to gaol in Ottawa him. r2110 gentlemen interested in as first-class misdemeanants .lulling rice waited upon Mr. Foster, fore we saw those good Samaritano. SirFo's- , `l Costigan and iLdol ?h(, Caton Mr. a.1cl five or six weeks after lir. 1 tor came downy and told us that al- —at the goal visiting those poor,in- though he had found the facts to be divicluals to console them in ,heir % � • � • affliction .incl to ascertain whet er i# elnis- 1.ould any to the stated that he could reduce the tax corrOspondence of Sir Adolp a Caron without adding to the burdens of the and, Sir Hector Lange in, by people, and pet a large suns into the whi4h the columns of T e Globe treasury, be deliberately went back \\•ere adernecl some few ears ago, to his old way and re -imposed the - (Apt louse.) A merciful-'ovcrl,ltlnt old duty on cleaned rice, and very took,a merciful view of he case, the truth of the matt r being that ohn Thompson a1 his colleagues KNOWLriaSGB Bring comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when ri;'.)tly used. Tho many, who live bot - tor than others and enjoy life more, with less~ c pendituro, by more prompt:;,• adapting the world's beet products t.) the needs of physical being, •rill atte:.1 the value to health of the puro zativ� 'principles embraced in t'_-: :sly, Syrup of Figs. J'.;l excellence is duo to its proeontiag the form most acceptable and pleas- c:tt to the taste, the refreshing and truly ! beneficial propertiest'of a perfect lam. tivo ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fcvcrt and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions nrc1 snot with the approval of the modicc.1 profession, because it,acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weal:- -ening them and it is perfectly free f:ol:. .very objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- gists in 75o. bottles, but it is manu- factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose naive is printed on every paokage, also the name, Syrup of Figs. ;net being well informed, you will not aocept any substitute if offered. 0 as they were stated and as I bad , stated them, it was going to destroy they sero promised an early the industry of hulling rice if he did sion of their sentence they not allow the tax to remain as it was - forego giving' to the count' before. Though he deliberately more correspondence similar nearly- the same duty on unhulled plait rice. That is just a specimen of the . Sir J mode in which the entire tariff re- --a d I and Iepeatin what I told Sir vision was conducted. iso similarly Jolt Thompson o the floor of the with a description of manufactures Hou e and what ' either he nor any rvith which you are all acquainted, of h , colleag dared to answer— Mr. Foster made a reduction of duty were' obliged to release these men of which I highly approved. He re- who iiad been guilty of conspiring to duced the duty on agricultural im- abstiitet a million from the public pienlents to a. certain extent. That treas,try, at the expiration of less was good. If there is one thing than :three months, on the ground more clear than another it is that the • that stele health was liable to suffer farmer's' tools should be liurchasable from confinement. I remember in - et the lowest rate at which they can quiring of Sir John Thompson, the be manufactured, and so far I highly Minister of .Justice, whether ho Was approved of his course in reducing prepared to release all the unfortu- ,the duty on agricultural implements,(. nate prisoners in confinement who but I said to iiim ; "If you are could be proved by competent mail - going to redtice • the duty on agri• cal authority to be suffering in cultural implements, go a little health in consequence of their in - farther, and in the interest of earceration, but Sir John Thoutpsen the farmer and as a matter of did not conceive it to be in the public eommon justice to the agricultural interest}to make any reply. If there: implement manufacturer, reduce the is one thing that should be strictly duty on iron of whichthose articles insisted upon it is that when a man are composed, €(c) that be might have is sentenced for an offence such as a fah• opportunity of giving the Can- was proved against these parties he is not released simply . because lie happens to be a man occupying a good position in society and in Par- liament. (Hear, hear.) Let there be one law for the poor offender, who is oftentimes sent for two, three, five or seven years to the penitentiary for a crime which does not involve per- haps ii,•20 of money, and for the rich offender. Ia it tolerable that the thief of a million dollars is to be punished less severely than the thief of $20? Is it tolerable that such a maul should be severely punished and that these thousand times greater offenders should he allowed to go practically scatheless, practically set free because. they possesses documents - wllicll it might be inconvenient for the Government ut the day to allow to see the light? That is not British justice, and I hope it is not Canadian justice; and this is one of the many reasons that incluce:4 rue to call upon the electors of Canada to insist that a Government that trifles with the sacred principles of jtstico should no longer be al -lowed to rule the destines of tlfis country. (�ipplause.) That was another illustration ofs the position the Government 1�i ve chosen to assume with the great offenders. but we had a it more curious illustration of excessive leniency that was dis- played when money was taken from the public chest for their own benefit. You may remember how some years ago ani extraordinary and full dis- closure was made in the columns of The i. 1'lic (x1oLe of the mode in which the present Government had been obtain- ing honey for the purpose of carrying elections in Lower Canada. It was proved by the production of every single voucher that Sir Adolphe Caron and Sir Hector Langovin had taken $112,000, mostly obtained by the granting of railway subsidied to certain corporations or from the coffers of McGreevy and Connolly, and that they used it to contest elec- tions in 21 counties in Quebec, the names of which were given and the CONCLUDED ON 4TH PAGE. • Consumption. The incessant wasting of a con- sumptive can only be overcome by a powerful concentrated nourish- ment like Scott's Emulsion. If this wasting is checked and the system is supplied with strength to combat the disease there is hope of recovery. 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