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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1878-6-6, Page 44 'mum ;MIS 6 17.3. pe stet; q touts. THURSDAY, JUNE 0, 1878. ¥1+ SSRS. PQBTBR AND GREEN. WAY, The people had an opportunity on Friday evening last at Crediton of list. ening to the two oaudidatea for P*rlie- tntentary henore, Mr, Putter"* speech was admitted ort all asides t) be without of American commerce under protea, tion, was one of the weakest be uaed.. This calamity which has befallen our neighbors he atwributed altogether to the working of protection, because ahie decline occurred during a protective period. Now, we will not lay the -blame altogether upon free trade, though that evil syatern of trade had considerable to do therewith. But the decline eau be nomad f r Brom the following e nsu (1) the dire destruotiop of the civil war,, (2) the devaatation wrought oli: their commerce by Southern privateers, exception the ablest exposition of any sent had to p payan enormous fur Ar•e1 Ea ala 3 ale tioir eV" heard 1R OretlttoP, nay' t y the fact that the United States da not, in South Huron, Mr, Greeuway, al- protect their merchant marine. They alt though a clever man, was as at mere low oonrpetrtitaa in their currying trade, puppet in lits halide, and shrank into ad aa.a result a certaiu awount of it is . done b y vessels carrying foreign iusi ulaeance before his elcVeut "d flags. These were the only pointe 11,1 [r; wetl•direeted arguments. The agmpa- u Greenway attempted to make. He did thtes of the meeting were unquestion- ably in fever of Mr, Porter at the open - 8 iu of tris address, ata 4 at lie clone the loud eppitteee which greeted hire prate Rd beyond the shadow of a doubt that the°au:dience were 2tIntost en Manse with hire ou the great trade quaatioa.. Mr. Greenway, we edinit, spoke well, as well oe we ever heard him, but he had the wrong sitleof the slueaitiou, howev- er, and though he presented the faro able parts very forcibly, he matte headway against the sentiment iu favor oZ protection. The worn.out aaasertion of free trrelera tat Liverpool governs, our giaiu market and will continue to do se f'arined the bailie of ail his argn. meat trout beginning to end. But it is to preveut Livwepo,*I controlling our market i t a areal* that protection ie rt - quired, The trade and navigation re- turned show that we import a iergo am- ount of wheat eery year, This meet drive exactly the eauie amount fro'n the Calaatlittu market which rnust of ne oestity had a msrket in Liverpool, and if the Craveroneent plaice a duty withal article eo that the Ceoa>,dittta fernier will kayo no competition tu the donne intuit - et, Liverpool caa,not eentrul the p.zce of wheat in Centel a. TLie smelliest of any place controlling the prise of the whole world is trashy. It id free trade which permits anV place to ex. ercise each potent influence. Outside of the, Mr. Groan hay's aipdtluh wee mule up aaf words. Ha premised that protection to antallufacture•i meant mo. nopoly and a large increaxo of prices io the articles protected. and took ad vantage of the present low prises to ask the people if they wete diesatti,faatl thereat -if they were displeased be- came they haat to pay a timsaller price than formerly, T1 make thi t of any service be would require (1) to shots that the low prices in the arttclett hs• eyaenti•sned wa4 the result of free taaale, and (2) to prove that ander preteetioa. they would be i is •eased in price. This no roan can dn. But the lowness of price is to a lstrge extent due to the oollanse of trade, which occurred ,in the United States a few years ago ;aud as to protection ineteaaieg the price, a, Iet u; consider that propoai ion. At pres- ent, t e articles be apecified are made in 'other conntl ies. and before they can teach here they have to, pay not only a certain profit to every mat whose handl they pails through, but a large freight aud a duty beside. U.taler pro - teed'!), they would be made bere,antl Mr. Greenw.ty will not venture to say that the to tnnfitcturer,with the market, to himself, would require all those it- ems 0? expense we have meutionsd. ay necessary todiataet traa•t•tportntiou, acid the manufacturer`s profit besides. His referenoa to coal oil was unfortuuate. It brings oat protninerltly that portinn of the Opposition's auatiouel • policy which proposes not to raise the duty. all round, blit to lower it when neve a - nary. Ttie policy of the Government was to retain the coal nil ditty, itt spite. of all attempts to have it taken off ; so d.termioed was their potiuy in thin re• stpeet than when a member of the Opto i3itinn, deotn'•i. +idols adnt.y :inexpedient, nuneceeetrytaul isijurions, m•:vod for the rrnn v-il or the duty, the Govern• rnent 3o I their followers to a mast v, t- agtaioat the motion, and the people were fte.cedto pay $1,200,000 more fi then they lent a right to pay f.tr their ,,,.coal nit.. The p t'iev c:f the Govern- .. went is blind, fattu•►uy ; that of the 0p• jtRytti.til. takes into cotasialeratiort the enrtditinn of....every thine. ;fuel itt in- tended for flee benefit of: the penlile a.. !stare. If :t duty on. any tarp icle iii i ajnri- one, •off it Domes. Another ,.oink. which •bd .ounsi.14red very etroug, the deelitit ► not attempt to ref ite 1,ir. Porter'serg, uuiente. He could not, and perforce' allowed thorn to remain firmly 'i.m- planted in the wide of the electors. Hie appeal for sympathy iu a trezn. ulons tone which ,night do good in a rovival meeting and were he euxag. ed itt a !natter work, were unworthy the man. Tttey were altogether initialled for, and the fact Chet be almost cried bect%ttaesome one had told him be should not wall some one glee a friend, Shows how hopeless his ovuee must ap. it to hituself. Let us hear no more of that kind of thing at all events. It babyish. HAitD UP FOR A. CANDIDATE. The mnob.texed gaeetion has at been settled, and Thos. fGreeuway, le preaeztt mitt -representative of Sa0tb um, tleeke the euffragee of the neo. ale in the interest of the Reform party. Teinnoraz ntactaatar. le was ea hard pill to swallow, and many a wry ince was rued° in the effort to gulp it down. Some curious scenes were enacted at the Convention. The delegatee were an it. u favor of 'A-. Oeuerou, and only no epted IIr. Greenway when they could not prevail upon JIr. Cameron to accept the nomination immediately, se that the candidate is the dernier resort of the part}• -.a state of Weirs which must be highly gratifying to alae candidate and the I arty upou whom he has been thrust. The Reform organs m the county are lab reit•g frantically in Mr. Grseuway's 1 terest and, like the .lost boy in the ,woods, whistlltlg ouergeticelly to keep their courage op ; but of this they and al who favor hien may rest assured, he w,ll be beaten by a majority twice as large as any that ever was rolled tip *goblet hrw. Between Iter. Greenway and Stir. C.tmerou there is al, wide will. ever-wid• euiy•g breach. 'iLr.. Greeuway does all in his power to injure iter. Cameron, while Mr. Cameron recognizes and re. ciltrneates the service by using all his iulivanee to irreparably damage Mr. Greenway in the opininn of the Reform early. ter. Greeuway openly declares Ar. Caalneron to b t Ins enemy, and even. charges him with circulating a false- hood about' him -that he sold himself to the R'form party. Would Mr. Carnoron dare to circulate this story if it were untrue ? A ►d vet we have these two worthies promising to do all in their power to assist each other in the coming contest. They each know the hullo.vuess of the other's preten- sions, and Mr. Greenway tit leatst,does n it !hesitate to snake tbie .kuowledte public. Arcades ante,, Mr. Gteenway no doubt expects to receive the entire Reform aud a. portion of the Conservative vute: Iu bo 11 ex- peatatioiis we are absolutely coraatiu he will•baa wofully dittappointed. Neithe. of the parties loves treachery, and pro- minent Refor,nere profess the utmost :iibliorrence of conduct that has forever blackened Mr. Green way's. cliaractel an the eyes of all holiest men aud sunk him to the lowest depth., of infamy and ahatn•.. Nu good Con servative;ave"feel inured, east vote for a matt , whot is 60 t.gt to every sense of non,t, So b.•1.1 iu tItt shame as to tall the Reform Con- vention, in effect, that he 'sought taut c tnfidence of Lite Conservatise party orly that lie mieht betray them ; for a man who sells body stud mind to their clpponente; for cue who has placed Ir :a signature to documents promising that, if allowed to be elected unopposed, he would support diose who"lhad beets his ,'apponeots, and baselybetra y these who had been his fast as", faithful friends through the darkness of laig:continued ill-ftertttne. 'The baseness of hie trench-< eryis without a parallel .it; she ,politica' et any country. Compared writli z David Glse*`a offence pale* into • tiaig :'uifiostre. Mr. Greeuway standoesloaa and, unapproachable in meannoeJs anis, ehatne. Upon the Conservstiyeparty ha has oast a deep insult, and they owe it to their honor to forever drive _from political life the person who 89 basely betrayed the sacred truat they reposed in .hien. But the Reformers of the riding, those whoo value Personal honor and integrity far beyond the exigencies t*ztd interests of a party, must feel keenly' sense of their humiliation 1u baying a traitor thrust upou thein. 'What a bit. ter pill they have to swallow i Sow the stomach moat revolt at its recep- tion t -They bought the marl at ear nu°h °r foot, as they buy aat aait. basewoad, and what confidence, we task them, 04R the ► have of the man ? .Ue has admitted his sale to some persons, and denies it to others; but not one in a hundred be&ievoa his denial. He has. told a Conservative friend teat be sold' himself, and that be did it in the hope of recouping hiteaelf for the money he bee loot in previous elections ; and we have been solemnly assured by the moat resectable man in the Re'orm party that the sale took place, The same story has been told by a certain judge,. and why does Mr. Greenway not take the only course an innocent man would pursue at all hazards, challenge those persona to make good their assertions ur withdraw the slander and apologize ? In the fao of the evidence which nrovett Ur. Greenway to be an aban clonedman, who would *tell himself and deceive his pre: ant supporters at the first opportauity, we think all electors, of ever .arad* of politics, should unite to teach thea ante that traitors are despised. A SILLY CRITICISM, Our Seaforth cotem, tykes` exception to the suppositious example we gave in our issue of a couple of weeks -ago to show that the (lanadian pays the duty on cattle entering the United States, and itt kind enough to characterize the arguments deduced therefrom as "un-. mitigated bosh." Before considering the counter arguments it advances with the air of supreme authority that is the necessary accompaniment to self onn- ceit, allow use to remark that we shall not call the writer of the liana eriti• °ism either a ,a iiaar,'t " rogne," dor .' fool," as he is in the habit of galling othertt. Qnr friend cannot help his infirmities of intellect, and deserves. our pity rather than our reproaches. In the first place the example was only need, for the purpose of making plait• who pays the duty, and the idea that this or any other town could impose restrie'ions of the icitd mentioned and force such a result as our cotetn. nu fairly draws from our example, never entered our head. 'We quite agree with hint that the buyers would have to »a vatnonse the ranch*, or, in plain English, leave the town ; but thi• fact floes not eeetroy the argument that, if such a'sttate of things conhi be estali, liahed in any town, the seller and not the putc'.iatser would have to pay the duty. The comparison of a town so situated and the United States is a fair one. The farmers in the case of the United States and Canada are not as fortunately situated tt reespeet of con• tignity or other markets as the farmers would be in the instance we gave. They have only the United States, Canada and Great Britain, and the cost to them of sending their cattle to England wa.uld equal the duty they have to pay to send their •.cattle info the United States ; so that the farmer in this in stance cannot choose any number of tnstrketa 'with the same-fncilities of "eaching them as the (dimer could in the ot.se to which our oaten. takes exception. If, as our °Deem. says, the Americans must buy Canadian _meat, we take it as a foregone conclneinn that the lowering of the American tariff, or a reciprocity of tariff.:, would result itt an ltdditiou to the price of Canadian cattls,in the United Stistes. We won der the writer.,ofthe oriticis'i.n'we allude to hal not beat, taken in hand by the doctors after writing such, arrant, von - sense. WE are glad to notice aoard in the Blyth Ileview.from Mr. P. Kelly, con tradio log the assertion cif • the Laudon Advertiser ,batt• ltd had teelgnett the candidature., for •West flnr n.: Ma, l had a huger bonze war;" fo'r aue iitd. Kelly ill sure' -of election, and weeld be I ducts," foolish to resign. 'Ig the editor of our Clinton cotem: gets offettdedett our renearinteheshould retnezdbiii':who th1eN' the first stone.. We do not pare to enter into personali- ties durznjt,be tteotion ; it is unpleaee. ant to,u$, bdt tlufs . we would say, we shall. remonstrate;agatuet stfoll'si mis- ekeikaatraowhetz.'direoted against u8, and if that it not rfufi'toieut wee hall let our friends of the;preelt in the County of Huron ,pee, that wp can cut their feel- ings. The rnn't disgraceful epithets have been hurled et ne by it certain pa- per, and we hovelforborne to retaliate in ithaal, and e#i tit cwiz.do so when pa, hence ceasess trop,* a virtue. Tux Reform candidate: at Crediton --bow' flattered Reformers rand' feel l- attached great weight to an extract he read from a report of the Governor of New York, and , wl►2ah he tried to be - there ehowed Prateetiut to be injurious to a country. The language of the ex- tract proved the Governor to be an out - arid -out free trader, ttrimy and itndieaot. ubly wedded to the vagarioe of free trade. I heaver, be contented himself with vague and glittering- genorslities. He did not enalytie the condition of the State. Io this respect it presents a strikingly unfavorable courser with the report of the Governor of Massa °husetts, which gives. a careful and. complete nialysis of the trade of that State, and shows that every judustry bas heeu atetdiltc.atrezigtheaung while Canadian industries have been going to the wall. This report will be found sat page 6, ill itir. Colby'a speech. Let those who heard the New York Gover- nor'e report read for themselves the analytic report of the Governor of M'ac- eachusetts, One is aftutcy picture ; the other a fair represeuiation al the actual condition of trade, Ia is a mistaken ilea that protection to martnfactnrers increases the price to the farmer. It has not done so in the United Stator, and will not here. The following figures are well worth eonsid. oration by the farmers, as they dispel such zllusory ideas as free traders would Rice then thein to believe. In the United States ander a 1,'tr taanfi'iu 1857, and' c high tariff in 1875, the fulleeiolr ,prises ,tiler! in the articles placed bef,•re them 1857.' 1875. Csiieoes, per yard ..... , . $ .12* 8 .08 D.daiues, do . .... . ....... .25 ,15 Common Alpacas .73 .35 Fitter, do, 1.00 .40 Cont. Wool. Cloth 1.00 .60 Botter, do. 1,25 .75 Bast, do. .... 1.50 • 1.20 Shawls ... , . , 12.00 8,00 Cottop print cloth .08 .4i Knitted under shirts1.25 .50 This certainly ought to convince the farmers that protection will not in. crease the price, but will lower it, .for the cost of transportation and the prof its el' middlemen are saved. But now let us compare the prices of grain ial 1860 uuier low tariff, and 1870 ander protective tariff: 1860. 1870. Wheat, per bushel .118 81.28 Flour, par barrel.... 5.61 6.11 Indian Meal. °... ... 3.40 4.00 Wool .87i : .05 The average price of flour from 1849 to 1861, dui -jug -the free.ltradeperiod. was was $16.07 , frotn 1,861, .ti) 1874, nude, rigid protection, it:. wiot_ $7.33. It will this be seen that protection has bene- fitted the farmers of the United States, and if it works well for them, it must work well for us. AT Crediton, among other z,on epee, Mr. Greeltway-•the Reform . candidate -•pouli-pooped and laughed to scorn the idea that the Americans wanted our market. 1f they couldsecure four mil- lions of purchasers, they would be a much less shrewd people than they are generally taken to be, if they did not intake the attempt,. To show Mr. Gieeuway Jtud others who profess to think with hila in this particular, that the Atltea'icstwdo desire our trade, and that they da frame their policy with the purp.'se of catching it and excluding our products from the markets of their ownu eouttiy; wo shall take• a witness frotn amongst oor''neighbors. •The New York Post', a paling free trade organ, says :t _'6By 'unh devices as the drawback on sugar, and by a rigid ex; elusion of many of Canada's products, tvo have uncl,nesttouably ci'ifsliled Oise or twoofher in'lusiries, and have dine her commerce more injury than we lave suf ered•in return, how -such as we have Now, Canada is the aaaiaiti u alluded' to. and it 'cannot be denied that allow - lug their Products toe ter this eouctry free crake* (#airada •atte umoh her home market e* ie'eny State_in the Uuion. And again the Philadel$ in .ledger eayn; "AMer'ieau enterprise seems to be reaching, its. shah#a beyond the borders of the Statpq, ' Agazu, we hear of the success of Clarke Betvea & Co., one of our most proniinitt"'bridge firms, i0- wading the Dominion of Canada, and capturing orttere"for:!► large number of wrought iron bridges;: