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afternoon said that the district that a large portion of un- the five years when ale, � eleckeneie
Rratfo '
' c , ' , , , ' ' i t protectedthe settlement, and no calculation what- wits expended because of the res
would write to the manufacturers of farmers, it must give increased) nver'vralt made by the 1411 iSte' f •'t , respell-
fel
this coltntry and tell them that if n 1 for sl )lI_trG� thrown upolr him by the
prices to articles produced on the theinercase, but he simply took the preceding (><overnMent. I want you
his party calve into power, he would farm, Dere is what one of the quer- value (incl to attain his object added to listen, Mr. Speaker, to at few
be willing to support the very pr'in-'tette, as I may properly call them, the value of live stock to farm values words which I w°'Iquote r
eiples whieh he thus condemned, fs who went West last December in the of 1893)of fauns in 1.882 and h p from Sir
'� utterly preposterous, But ho des: 1893 , Leone l alley s Budget speech of
onf to giver us his opinion of goes Government car, sand on the public and made the comparison. If you ;1873, in whieh he says:
National Policy p platform. Senator Ferguson uson told the add to $1,`i8,00U,U00 the money eti- j We are further entering nen„ new and
3'' farmers d a waste ei engageumentti lnvulvintt very
the effect of the National Policy as sideration the increased number of and to other gentieznen on the other
• increasing prices of farm products. farms between those years. We lonely side et the House, that a large pro-
, The lion. melltbe, who addressed the that in L1Igolna and intheliainvRiver portion of tile money 8lerlt (
That a Ivan, speaking in this way
:II s ill'
;National Policy protected the farm- Weaved land has been brought under wa•t at the head of the Libck•al •pal
with regard to the N tt`onal Pali 3 , cis and therefore, if it
THE WIN r. J.A1'% TJ .�,!lit�#+ fJUNE l& 1695
litrrng
pen eel fon the clearing of wv t t tncr .s f
It has loft qs with an enormous debt, an I wansivent to show you tlent no Gove,nmelrt lands, which is an unknown amount, large aurae of money. �! a taro entering
to dlf, pith restricted expenditure taaritcttt, with metra trade can keep your prides up. Under the law that expended for drainage works moon works --we have already dune so—
ot supply and demand, the world is to g' wutrh will requ,reo large incr. use in our
diverted from its natural into less profitable (hieingpply an wheat #o da than the s pm- established by the various tnunici- debt We have $30,0,10,0•,0 for rlrr' Cana-
Ohaunelp• y panties for the improvement of the diatt Pacific ltnailway, we 111.ve $10,000,000
. can consume, and, therefore, tho prices •
p" p'
And still further he goes on to trust go down.laud, for under -draining, which in to spend on the Intereoloui•t1 Ituil�tay, and
characterize this National Policy, i the west particularly the canal system flint hal. hew. i cepted by
Now, that is Liberal doctrine; that is pa ' icularly leas been car- the Government, will ;evolve tan , xpendi-
which, it is said, he supported : • what we contended in 1878 when , ried out to a very large extent, all tare et at least $20,1100,000. These are
Worse, far worse; it has loft us with a ' the present Liberal - Conservative of which iinprovemellts cost an error'- serious matters, inasmnoh its they add
1
ower standard or pnblio virtue ; it has leftparty- wished to impbse the National , mous sum of money, the depreciation 600,000,000 to our existing debt.
es with
edur hands tied, our future core- Policy on the people, and when the in value will not prove very far Now, these were the burdens loft a
then Government declared that such short of $200,000,000 the sum men- a legacy to the Hon, Alexander Mac
Sir, does that sound like a lean who a policy would keep up the prices. tioned by the hon. member for South kenzic when he came into power
would support the National Policy, We were then told by the present Oxford. You see, Sir, instead of and both parties were then agreed
who would send
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a elreular to the • Minister of Railways and Canals being $9x,000,000 berter ofI' to clay, as to the necessity of spending money
manufacturers of this country, telling that the National Policy would in-, they are nearly $200,000,000 worse
upon these great works. There was
them that they need not fear nim, cleave the prices of their products to oil' than they were in 1882. I ask un -
no difference of policy with regard to
that if he came into power he would the farming community, Let me ,the hon. gentleman who will reply to ttlle m,i.butthe work had to be un -
not interfere with the protective fortify myself with a. greater author- Isle to take these figures and go to by the Ilou. 11 r, Mackenzie
system. Now, I hope that the hon. ity even than the one I have quoted, i the reports of the Bureau of Industry and the funds provided for the ex -
gentleman who reiterated this charge and I think one that the hon gentl' of 188 and to the report of the ecution of these works by liar. Now
will male i1 good, •or have the lean- man will not deny is a greater 1Bnreau sof Industry of 1893, and he
liness to withdraw it. Here is what authority than himself. This author- • can convince himself that the figures
tile Secretary of State said upon that ity said: 1 that I present to the House and to
oecaslon : The price of an article at hump must be the eountr y are perfectly carteet, and tell1should have, that there were $3,-
time was the Hon. Edward Blake, and you protected markets, and therefore, even ifMinister of Railways and Canals is 690,000 of the forty millions voted
will remember in the campaign of 1887 protective duties are prescribed upon tho , in 1872, previous, to the advent to
that Mr. Blake's public announcements Statute -book at home their effect t fol• away from the real facts. I
e power, rain absolutely null, so fax as that ar. want now, 111 Speaker, tit male •k pewee of the Liberal Govcrl•nmerlt
the lion, gentleman, (sir. Foster)
says that 141r. Mackenzie increased
the debt $40,000,000, but he did not
were, that he would,' if elected to n • taus re. • ,
not disturb the defensive fiscal policy ticnlar article is concerned p few remars i regard t r ''Che Minister of Finance also forgot
Canada adopted in 1878
which to e'� r o some corn to tell the country, a;nd to tell this
Again he said: parisons instituted b the M' ' t F
y Minister
U , ' 1
Then he says further on : It is beyond human wit and power to Finance, and I want his attention, Parliament, that $5,277,000 was
WellSir, not only wa t1 t th but d '
s to a case, u give the grower of wheat or cotton in the He gives a table in his speech set- vote in 1873, previous to the Lib -
a private circular—and •I have no doubt bushel or ,bale beyond what the price in Dies ting forth several comparisons. I
th
there are some manufacturers here who market of export will allow hits, trust admit that it ryas a very ingen-
will bear me out in this statement—to I said that this authority was even ions speech, and must admit, too,
every manufacturer in Canada, advising greaterthat if it went throue•11 the hands of
him that he need not be afraid of the Lib- aone than Senator Ferguson; • b
oral party, for they would not disturb his this is'tho testimony of no less autho-parties who were not willing to ex -
protection. rity than the Right Hon.1V. E.
Iamine all the figures, they would
Now, Sir, that appeal was made to Gladstone, the greatest statesman have a plausible effect, and sup -
the manufacturers in that large living to -day. His vi:w is that pose, lie being a plausible man,
audience that evening, most of them whether there is a protective duty wished his speech to be plausible in
were Conservatives, but not one of placed on the statute -book or not the country; but I want to point out
Dar. Blake, as you remember, was sending United Status the teeth part of tL cent
them said he had got the circular ; such legislation cannot give increased
and I have not yet found out a single prices in a foreign market. I desire
manufacturer in the country who to refer a little while longer to the
ever got that circular, and I do not speech of the Minister of Railways
believe it was ever, issued. Now, I and Canals. The hon, gentleman
hope the bon. member for Ottawa endeavoured to bring into disrepute
will say that be was in error, and a, statement made by the hon. rnem-
that the Secretary of State will bee for South Oxford (Sir Richard
to him that some. of his comparisons
wore unfair and misleading. You
may say that the figures were fairly
correct; , but in the way he placed
one statement against another, it
would mislead many persons „ who
would read the. statement. He said
that the customs tax during the Mac -
withdraw his charges against Hon. Cartwright) with regard to agri- kenzie Administration only fell
Edward Blake. eultturll lands in this country. 11 : 1,400,000, but he was $220,000 out
Sir Jaynes Grant, As the hon. appears that the hon. member for in his figures, but that is not the
gentleman has mentioned my name South Oxford stated that in his point of attack, that discrepancy
in connection with ihis hatter, suffice opinion the valve of farm lands in may have been a slip. Now, let are
w. �'1Ve you $o•
it to say that it was pretty well Ontario had fallen by nearly u20Q - gthe „ares. The customs
known and generally circulated 000,000 and the Minister of Railways • tax in 1894 was $14,422,000, while
throughout theDominion, what the . and Canals sought to show that lie the customs tax in 1878 was $12,
.
policy of the'lion. Edward Blake was wholly wrong, and that instead 796,000, or a reduction of $1,626,000
was on the subject of protection. It of the value having diminished it had or 14 per cent. decrease during the
five years of Liberal Administration
was well known that he had studied increased by $95,000,000. To en-
eral Government, and for which
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie had to
make provision when he came in.
Now, on these very works which
Sir Leonard Tilley had referred to,
and which had been accepted by the
Government and decided upon by -
both political parties from the 1st of
July, 1874, to the 1st July, 1879,
Mr. Mackenzie spent on the canals,
$16,232,000; on the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway, $11,362,000, and he
spent on the In tercolonial $10,103,000,
or making a total upon these three
public works of $37,797,000, whieh
was nearly the entire increase of
debt which is attributed to him,.
Mr. Mackenzie did not undertake a
single new work with the exception t
of the St. Peter's Canal, which cost i
him two or three hundred thousand l
dollars. He simply ea.rried out the t
obligations and • engagements that t
were e ntert. a
d into
before
the Hon.
Mr. Mackenzie cattle into .power.
Our eanais, on the whole, cost $62,-
500,000, and before confederation
'$20,500,000 were spent by the pro-
vinces and by the Imperial Govern- 4
the question of the fiscal policy of able hien to make up the amount, he Now, the Finance -inistea comparesInert. Since confederation $4> 000
INGHAM SA' l"ILtS
The untlersign(-d in rett:rn3ng thank
for past fu.vnrs,beg IRRv(i r(l say that they
have a very large stook or
LUMBER, $Ill iOLE$, LATH'
:+
BARBELS, WOOD, 84.1
on band, which will be sold at very Ulnae
prices to meet the requirements of the
hard theles.
First Class
Shingles, 1.70 per
Square.
Wood 75ots per Cord deli d
BANK or��W�lR8,T01�
WING IAIYI. . i
Capital, $1,'350,000. Lost, $650,000
President—Jen:: ;'Tuner.
vice-President—A. 0. RAatser.
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allowed.
Sppotal Deposits also received at currant
rates of it -.rest,
Drafts on Great Britain and the United States
bought and sold
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f Gere ,
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not be
undersold.
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000 have peen spent, and out of this L
•this country, and he thoroughly* added the value of live stock and that reduction to a reduction from .t
understood Char the only way for implements to the value of the land'
G
t rnuch larger income from customs sum y 1 h,33..,000 were spent by the
taxes. You roust know the sums Government of the
a political party in this country to so as to make up his total aHon. Alexander "T
lnronnt. Mackenzie or considerably
hold power was by the exercise of Who ever heard of addding the frons which the reductions are made third of of the entire amountof mmoney
the principle of moderate protection. value of the live stock to the value in order to form a proper conception that has b(sn eexpended on them
Some hon, Members. No, no. of the land, and then call it all land of the comparative degree of reduc- ,
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Sir James Grant, And in that value? So important does this state tion. Now, the Conservative partyway, Sir, he informed , the menu- ment appear to. be that nearly all commei)cecl with a customs tax, as I
facturers of this country--- the Conservative papers which I have said, of $12,796,000, and they
s tax of
This is o vies explanation at all • Order, publisiedd the pportunity of this statement.Slto shove w $23 17?,000, oin 1883r an iy a ncrease during
Mr. Macdonald (Huron). The that the hon. member for South Ox- these four years of $10,376,000, or 31.
Hon. Edward Blake was a man who ford was wrong in the statement and 'Per cent. It is from this increased
always expressed the opinions he en- ! loose in the figures he used, I de- tax that the Minister of Finance
tertained. He travelled through the sire to show the House that the hon. made his comparison with the tax -
country in 1887 and delivered near- member for South Oxford was nearly
ly 100 addresses, touching every correct and that the Minister of
phase of the political questions in Railways was wholly and entirely
atien of last year. Froin 1878 to
189-1 thele was a net increase 6f 51?;
per cent.; that is from $12,796,000 of
Canada, and I have road all those :