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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-12-20, Page 4THE E.aeb man, .NOM= `40i child in can-; TOPICS OF A. WEEK. �+ �gy. ,j� I; ads WAS taxed 3.9 by the Liberals in ` wee lxnportent ea011t+in a :R'ewsvOW iron 0,;,ut .• voice j 1875. Their :contributions to the treas- nese. Readers. c Ar » fiAI\. Welland canal closed Friday, Chas. B, Sanders, Editor and Peop .ELU 1 SDA'' December 19th 1895 PROTECTION HELPS TRADE.. The Liberals profess to believe that Protection injures commerce and that Free Trade helps it. Experience can ;easily answer this question. Let us see just how the Liberal idea of Free Trade. ,acted upon Canadian commerce.. The Liberals took office in iS73and 'retired in 1878,The .following' figures show the effect of their administration upon the export trade of Canada ; 1878 1878 The mine $ 5,718,480 $ 2,762,762 4' fisheries 4,770,377 6,853,975 " forests 8,583,429 8,912,139 farm 29,198,357 332,022,611 Manufactures 24,460,773 17,780,776 Thas, under Free Tracie, we lost in commerce, and lost heavily Let us see, now, the tale that the official re- turns tell regarding the effect of Pro- tection upon the various itlterests. The following table put side by side our ekport trade in 1878 and the export trade of 1894: 18.78 1894 The mine $ 2,762,762 $ 5,799,837 " fisheries 6,858,975 11,102,692 forests 5,912,139 6,834,184 " farm 32,028,611 49,559,622 Manufactures 17,780,776 27,215,691 No man of common sense who care- fully examines these figures can main- tain that the experieuee of Canada is .opposed to Protection. On the contrary in live years of so-called Free Trade, we est ten millions of export trade, where- as in seventeen years of Protection we have gained $38,000 000. FREE TRADE AND FAILURES. ury in 1894 were $3.86. The Liberals are trying hard to con - vines themselves that tbe fiscal policy will 'cut no figura in the bye electious. They know that every time it is dis- cussed they lose votes. It was a rather intelligent blunder a Liberal contemporary made the other day in referring to the "slippery" elo- quence of the Liberal leader, Of course the editor wrote it "silvery," but the machines knew better." How does the Free Trade policy ef. feet the circulation of money, which is the life blood of commerce ? The cir • eulation from 1874.8 averaged $22,673- 300 uuder Free Trade, and from 1889. 9$ under Protection it averaged $33,• 140,60f). Says the Toronto Globe: "Protection is again showing its head in Great Britain," and for once` the Liberal or- gan is right. It might have been added though it had not the frankness to do so, that the same head contains a heap of common sense. It is very eddffying to see the Globe attacking the Conservative eaodidates on the ground that they have no policy on the school question Even if they have none, they are more honest with the electorate than the man who comes forward with two. A year or two ago the Liberals were for binding Canada hand and foot to the most highly protected coulitryon earth; now they want to demolish the modern protection enjoyed by the farm- ers and industrial classes of Canada. A party in extremes seems bound tufty to extremes. Commercial disaster followed closely. 'on the heels of the Liberal Trade policy when last it was inflicted upon Canada' The record of failures during those years is a tale that shows how well jus- tified is the opposition offered by the financial interests of Canada to the .Free Trade policy. The years in which Liberal ideas dominated the tariff were from 1875 to 1879, and the failures in British America during that period, were as follows: 1975 1876 1877 1878 _1879 ............ .. _ .. 29,347,000 Never since then have the commer- .cia1 failures in Canada approached any- thing like those figures. Indeed, in 1881 the losses went down to $5,751,000, but, that was unusual. Altogether, how- ever, the experience has been demon- strated that protection lends stability to the business interests of the country The average of failures during the five years of Liberal trade policy was $26,- 1300,000 a year, and under sixteen years .of Prcteetive policy only $12,000,000. THE BANK STOCS. Everyone who has stock in a bank is hound to oppose a policy that depreci- ates it; and what lowers the value of one class of securities decreases the value of all. A. comparison of the values of the shares of the leading banks in Can- ada in 1875 and 1894 throws light on the Free Trade policy so far as it affects investments, The following figures show "highest quotations for the stock of the banking concerns named in the Free Trade and Protective period of Canada's experience: 1875 1894 FREE PROTE0- TRADE TION 230 118 169 170 . $28,843,000 25,517,000 25,523,000 23,908,000 Montreal ... ... ..195 Ontario .113 Merchants 118 Molsons..... - . 117 'Toronto..... .......199 252 Commerce.. .. 138 1421 13amiltou ..95 199 Dominion. , .1217 286 B. N. A ..... ...152 156 Imperial. , l , ..106 188 Voting in West Huron by-election takes. place. January 14. Mr 0.j. Chauncey, postmaster of Mark- horn, Ont., died on Saturday, aged 47. Action is to be taken against 47 Hamil- ton cigar dealers fox selling; cigarettes to minors, Mr. A. M. Brown, a pioneer citizen of Winnipeg, died on Saturdaynight after a long illness. M. C. Cameron has definitely accepted the Liberal nomination for the Commons in West 1:Iuron. Mr. Claude V. Currie, a farmer, of Nee- pawa was fatally wounded. on Saturday, while cleaning his rifle. Mr. Gavin gross has been chosen Patron candidate for Emerson, Man., for the 1lanitaba Legislature. The warden and keeper of the Rockford, Ill., insane asylum are charged with brut- ality towards inmates. . Samuel Gompers was elected president of the American Federation of Labor on Saturday over John McBride. The order-in-oounoil promoting Capt. T. B. D. Evans to be major in the Royal Canadian Dragoons has been. passed. Lord Aberdeen has declined his patron- age to the ball to be hold on New )'ear's eve in aid of the Children's hospital in Ot- tawa; The strike of Italian laborers at Hamil- ton was ended Friday by the contractors agreeing to give the advance asked fox by the men. The xyiplioation made recently by the State of Washington for salmon fry from the British Columbia hatcheries will not be anted upon. The first step towards the re -erection of the Grand Trunk oar shops are being taken in London, and tenders for construction will soon be called for. Mr, Albert Hudson has announced him- self the Labor candidate for Ottawa, whether or not ho receives the nomination of the Labor Convention, Mr. E. G. Prior, M. P. for Victoria, B. C., bas boon offered and accepted a seat in the Cabinet at Ottawa.. It is not known yet what his portfolio will be. When the Liberals tock office in 1874 the cost of collecting the revenue was 4.35 per cent; when they left office in 1878 the cost was 5.55 per cent. On this item they increased the expense by twenty five per cent. The cost of collecting the revenue in 1894 was 4.75 per cent. Who were the economists? The deposits in the chartered banks payable after notice in 1876 aggregated $22,357,036, and in 1894 they reached 9111,633,147. The deposits payable on demand in 1876 over $34,081,933, and in 1894, they were 964,950,318. The people's deposits from 1874 to 1878 averaged 963,227,935, whereas in 1894 they reached $175,405,828. Eighty-five members of the Imperial Parliament have banded themselves to- gether for the purpose of securing some measure of protection to the industries of Great Britain. If their success would mean an import duty against Canadian produce we could best afford to wish them a failure. But when Great Brit- ain protects herself, against ruinous competition it will be possible for her to give the colonies an advantage in her markets over foreign competitors. So the British Protectionists. may be working in our interest as well as their own. The Toronto Globe is again asking its Liberal readers : "Has protection made you rich ?" If they were perfectly frank and honest they would reply that it has enormously increased their op portunities of obtaining employment in this country, and thereby enabled them to live comfortably and happily, where- as Free Trade would have brought the product of cheap labor into competition with their own, and have driven them out of their best market, the home market. Protection has done more than make the people rich; it has made it possible for them to make themselves rich. EDITOR EAL NOTES. Mr. Laurier's policy on the trade quession is a sort of accident policy. The Liberals were the most effective commerce destroyers that ever harassed the trade of Canada. Mr. Laurier is for sunny ways in Oa tario, but in Quebec he choses disciples whose methods are shady, When did Free Trade build up any industry ilt Canada exeept thebusiness of the official assignee? 1'Evefythin g .the farmer buys is cheap- •:er in Canada ander, Pr'otcetion than it was Unger free Trade. of chew (, t �ium 11 . ist 1 Free ')" radiih p P foreign label° over labor that receives a :fair day's' pay for a fair, day's work. What lean ever got rich by sending his customers to hit competitors as Canada would do under Free Trade? The farmers' beet market iithe home Market, Under Free Trade he would eacfiteo it for a market that is always at dotibtfttl one. The shipping trade is a reliable baro- meter of the state of business general- ly. In 1875, the sea going vessels ar- riving and departing from Canadian ports had a total measurement of 9,527,- 455 tons, After sixteen years of Con- servative rule, the tonnage had in- creased to 20,353,081 tons; and Cana- dians profitted by the increase in the business. The tonnage of Canadian sea going vessels in 1877 was 4;104,926 tons, and in 1894 it was 8,251,326. In 1875, the vessels corning and departing numbered 16,412, and in 1894 they had increased to 27,906, Mr, David mills estimated that pro- tection would knock $9,000,000 off the revenue of the Dominion, and conse- quently force it to adopt other methods of taxation, As a mktter of fact pro- tection has made the revenues of the Country greater and enabled the Con- servati'res to knocll off taxes on tea, which the Liber .auger, coffee and coal, , whi als were compelled 10 exact. The ignor- ance of the Liberals of fiscal question has always been their stumbling block, They do bot even know to -day -what every man in England knows, that Free Trade es they have it in •Engiand . _s direct taxation as the. will give its i' have it there A Canadian girl named Ella Bennetts 16 years of age, asserts that while posing for William Patterson, a Buffalo artist, he assaulted her. Patterson is under arrest. The Inland Revenue for the Dominion of Canada acorued during the month of November amounted to 8736, 311, as against 8744,202 for the same month last year. An approximate statement of the liabil- ities and assets in the estate of Samson, Kennedy and Co., of Toronto, wholesale dry goods merchants, has been prepared by the receiver, and shows a deficit of about 8200, 000. - Mrs. Shortis, the mother of the. con- demned Valleyfield murderer, who is now awating execution at Beauharnois, had a private interview with Lady Aberdeen in Ottawa, and, it is understood, made an appeal for her son's life. Mr. Montpetit, the gaoler of the Beau- harnois prison, where Shortis is waiting execution on January 3rd,•says that' the murderer eats and sleeps well, and does not appear to have anyfeeling one the sub• jest of his approaching death. Attorney -General Sifton, -of Manitoba, left Montreal for home Tuesday morning. In a fete remarks thathe made prior to leaving he conveyed the impression that the Manitoba Government would not 're- code from the position it had taken on the School question. The local militiamen in Ottawa who contributed • to the Hayhurst testimonial fund, inaugurated with permission of the Militia Department, have received' from Lieut. -Col. Prior, M. P., treasurer of the fund, notice that their subscriptions will be returned, as the idea has been abandon- ed, owing to the lack of support experi- enced. • A lumber camp in Hardy township, on the French river, is suffering from an out- break of diphtheria. The care of the sick men has been forced upon the municipal- ity of Powassau, and a supply of anti- toxino has been sent, with instructions to take every possible precaution to see that the men are not dispersed and keep the disease central. A. A. Dicks, arraigned at the Toronto Assizes on the charge of having murdered his. wife by setting fire to his house in St. Helen's avenue on March 2nd last, was discharged at the suggestion of Mr. B. B. Osler, the Crown counsel, by the judge, on the ground, that the evidence did not establish murder. Be is still held on the charge of arson. A fire in a large tenement building in Winnipeg Monday destroyed the north half of the four-story block. The other part •of the building was saved by a fire -wall. The New York to sosi hs strike, which has stopped work un 18 of the larg- est buildings for nearly a month, will end to -day. , .A. u eleetrie oar was struck by a:l000sno five and carried, 10Q feet at 'Toledo Fri- day. Only one of :the four passengers was lnj used, An orphan asylum near Mile' alikeo, Wis., was burned on Thursday and some 20() inmates were taken out of the burning building in the midst of a blinding suow- etorni, Allan G. Thurman, Columbus, Ohio, the "Old Roman," as the Ohio Democrats 'delighted to call him, died Thursday. }Ie was eighty-twp years of age. The Chicago brewers, who are parrying a large proportion of the saloons, have de- cided to reduce the number by seventeen hundred after the lst of January. Afore than six thousand tailors are look. od out in New York, and an extension of the trouble is threatened which will de- prive eighteen thousand garment workers of employment. A high board fence is being built around the site of all that is left of the Talmage tabernacle at Greene and Clinton avenues, Brooklyn. Inside the fence is a mass of broken brink and stone and twist- ed iron braces. Fannie Linsley, of St. Joseph, Mo., as brought a suit for $25,000 against the Cen- tral Medical College for having caused the body of her husband to bo removed from his grave and used as a. subject for dissect- tion in the college. Attorney -General Childs, of St.' Paul, Minn., gives it as his opinion that under the constitution of the United States it is illegal to open a public school with public worship, even if that devotion be restrict- ed to saying the Lord's Prayer. While Mrs. James Williams, of Jefferson- ville, Ind., was dressing a turkey for dinner, sue found in the bird's oraw a diamond solitaire the size of a pea. The fowl came from a farm close to a picnic ground, and it is thought that it picked up the jewel near there. Mr. Carlisle, Secretary of the United States Treasury, yesterday brought down the annual financial statement. Tho rev- enue of the Govornmout during the year ended June 30th,1895, amounted to 8890,- 373,203; the expenditures during the same period aggregated 8433,178,426; leaving a defloit for the year of 842, 805, 223. For the coming year Mr. Carlisle estimates a surplus of seven million dollars. Stock aking A Special Disscou It Of• 10 per. rent. Off ' STOVES HEATING AND COOKING. During the next two weeks. Anyperson Who has seen the large assortment of stos on our floor will recognize the fact that we are giving splendid bargains. A Beautiful stock. Hanging lamps from $1.00 up. stand lamps. H. BISHOP & SON. Also a full line of FOREIGN. The Spanish Ministry has resigned.. Prime Minister Crispi is i11 at Rome. M. Adrian Laoheual has been elected president of the Swiss republic. The Governor-General of Puerto Rico cabled to Spain for more troops. The Victoria, Australia, Legislative Council has rejected the Women's Suffrage bili. All Europeans in Madagascar have been ordered to the capital as a measure of safe- ty. The British steamer Sydenham, report- ed ashore in the Weser river, has been floated. Dr. Herbert Taylor Reade, a Canadian, has been appointed surgeon general to the Queen. The Queen has engaged the Hotel Cine- iez-at Nice, where she will visit in the spring. - Ring• •Humbert has signed a,eleeree call- ing into active service the soldiers of the 1873 class. • The British steamer Angerton, previous- ly reported ashore near Gibraltar, has been floated. Vessels of the Russian Pacific fleet will pass the winter in dao Chan Bay, in the Shantung peninsula. British agriculturists are agitating the formation of a party in parliament to look after their interests. Two hundred trains enter and leave Moorgate street station, London, every hour throughout the day. A small electric lamp in lieu of a bell is now being used in some of the telephone exchanges in England. The funeral of George Augustus Sala the English journalist and author took place Friday at Brighton. The Imperial Guards, decimated by dis- ease in Formosa, and by casualties in the field have returned to Tokio. Sir Julian Goldsmid, M.P., for South St. Pancras, one of the wealthiest Hebrews in England, is dying at Brighton. It is rumored that the European powers have addressed to Japan a peremptory de- mand for the evacuation of Corea. Since his elevation to the post of Com- mander -in -Chief, Lord Woiseleyis in great demand to assist at public funotions. Premier Crispi has refused to accept the resignation of Signor Callenda, Minister of Justice, who desired to withdraw. AS CLEAR AS A SELL. If a pupil Ol the FOREST CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, OF LONDON ONT.,, • clow not grasp a subject rainy we repeat and repeat until we get it. We drill—solve schools don't. We got our reputation that way, we intend to sus- tain it by giving a thoiuough grind allele ,-ntl>jects taught. We teachbook keeping and business paper by a new nthocl. Enquire about it, your money back if not satisfied. Catalogue free. M. E€ tion has accepted the position of assistant book-keeper with E. D. Smith, Windsor, Ont. J. W. WESTERVELT, Principal.' The Hamburg -American Steamship Co. has decided to establish a regular line of steamers between New York and Brazilian ports. It is feared that several of the tenants The High Court of Madrid has refused have lost their lives, and three are now the demand for prosecution of Senor Bosch, known to have perished—Major Mortice, Minister of Publio Works,for alleged brib- one of the oldest and best-known residents, cry. his wife and an unknown medical stu- The Italian Government has ordered in dent. The Manitoba, Government issued its last crop bulletin on Saturday. The total wheat acreage is shown to have been 1,- 140,276, from which 81,775,038 bushels were raised, an average of nearly 28 bush- els. per. store. The total grain crop was 61,366,472 bushels, nearly four million bushels in excess of the Government's esti- mate. The total crop of roots and potatoes was 6,827,645 bushels, Five thousand hands from Ontario assisted in garnering. the crop, and were paid $400,000 by the farmers in wages. UNITED STATES. Navigation °uthe upper Hudson has closed The Republican National Convention has been fixed for St. Louis in .lune. United States Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie were closed Friday Business failures in the United States this week` number 838, against 340 last. year, Col. W. 0. Bradley, the first Republican Governor of Kentucky, was inaugurated at Frankfort Friday, Work will shortly be commenced in the is battieshi s for the of six P scurf United States navy. Mrs, Tineline Westinghouse, mother of George Westinghouse, jr., .the inventor, dledat Now Ybrk Friday. • Thirty-five. indictments for forgery have been returned against A, K. Ward, a elti- zett of Memphis,' 'Tann. ^ Arizona pays the women teachers in her pixblio schools the highest average month= ly wages of any State in the Union -874.- 75, --rtassachusotta,on the other hand pays England one hundred thousand tins of preserved meats for the use of the Italian troops in Abyssinia. It is reported that the Prince of Wales made a lot of money when the South Afri- can market was at its height in London a few months ago. The great ship -building strike and lock- out at Clyde and Belfast have been settled by concessions made to the mon. by the masters, who found that large orders for the construatipn of foreign warships were being given to other countries. On the ground that she was hypnotised, the St. Petersburg Court of Appeals has reduced the sentence of death imposed upon a girl to rive years' imprisonment,, the evidence showing that she was com- pletely under the control of the man who compelled her to poison her rather. The Prince of Wales has given a church to Babingley, which forms part of the ex- treme portion of the royal estate of Sand- ringham andringham. Babingley is reputed to bo the parish where the first Christian church; was erected in East Anglia by St. Felix, the Burgundian, about the year 600 A.Ii.' While admitting theindiscretion of . 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