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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-5-28, Page 6Eli patszels %,,«st —IS rOBLzenl5D—.• EVERY FRIDAY MORNING (iu time for the early mails) at "Tho Post" Stonin Publishing iio1Se, TIi5NDEBnx Sr,, BBna8BL8, ONT, Timate OF SUBSCBlrrioa: Ono dollar a year, in advance. The,date 00 which avory subscription is Paid is denoted by the date on the address label, ADVERTISING RA lEe.—The following I'atee Will be ahorged to those who advertise by the year:— Meru 11 In, I e mo, 1 8 ho One 0otamn 880.00 I 835.00 $30.00 Half 85,00 90.00 15.00 Quarter " 00.00 13.00 8.00 k,igh th 13. ao 8,00 i 5.00 Dight cents per line for first insertion, and three (lents per line for each eubeequent 1n. sertion. MI advertisements measured as Nonpareil -12 linos to the inch, Business Cards, eight lines and under, 55 per ennmu, Advertisements without specific direr• Cons, will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. Instructions to change or dbioontinue an room of Tag Peer nomustt lateft rtthan Tuesday of each week This is imperative. VP. Ia. :i :is 13a, L` dater and Proprietor, THE BUDGET. [CONTINUED PEON PAGE 1.] We promised, further, when we were in Opposition—and I remember some res, olutions we put upon the records 00 the House on the subject—that barbed-wire should be given to the farmers of this country at a much reduced rate of duty or placed ou the free list. The Liberal genii e byplac- ing that s art line a PP ing party on the free list and has given to the farmers of this country some great advantage, and particularly giving an advantage to the farmers who went to the west, that greater Canada, to work out their destiny. The Government has come to their assistanoe in this way, and this change will leave in the pockets of the farmers thousands and tens of thousands of dollars instead of paying to the manufacturer. I wish now to draw a comparison between the duties under the National Policy, so called, of the Conservative party and the Liberal National Policy, the policy now in vogue and whioh will continue in vogue, probably, for the next fifty yeara. I want to show the duties ander' the old policy compared with those that will be charged under the new policy a year from 1st July next. The present duty will be between the two figures I shall read. In this respect I think a large benefit, a most extraordinary benefit w oome to the consumers in this will oonntry. Now let me read you a table giving a comparison between the Censer. votive National Policy and the Liberal National Policy, or reciprocity tariff, in respect to a number of articles : Con. Lib. N. P. N. P. P. C. P. C. Wire nails,shovels, spades35 26k Linens, napkin, table cloths35 26k• Cuffs, shirts, knitted goods35 26k Woollen clothes, nlothing.,,35 265 Gloves, mitts, suspenders 35 26f Braces, well paper &0 35 26j• Earthen and stone ware30 225 China and porcelain ware 30 22a Wrought iron, nails, spikes80 22} Hats, caps end bonnets 30 22k Iron castings 25 181 Builders' d: other hardware32?, 22,k Cutlery 25 22k Files and reaps 3c 200 Axes and scythes 35 181 Adzes and saws 35 22k Machinery 27k 181 Clocks and watches 25 1$ Cotton fabrice (white) 25 18:,, Cotton fabrics (colored) 25 324 Socks and stockings 37 264 Window glass, plain 20 15 Pig iron, per ton $ 4 00 51 87a Iron and steel ingots 5 00 3 00 Bar iron per ton 10 00 5 25 Cast iron pipes 10 00 0 00 One-eighth reduction, which goes into effect at once. The duty will be midway between the above rates. And Set our hon. friends on the other side say that we have made no change iu the interests of the consumers of this -country and say that we have stolen their clothes. Why you know, Sir, that the large importations which take place under the new tariff must of necessity come Yuba this country a great deal cheap- er than they came in under the old tariff. And who is to receive the benefit of this treatment ? The hondrede and thous. ands and millions of people in this coun- try who are consumers of those articles which are imported frdhn abroad, And yet these gentlemen say that nfue•tenths of our policy line been atcleu from theta. In iron, too, there has been a reduction, which is going to be an important benefit to the products of the various factories of this c0outry. The fluty un pig iron per ton was 54 and under the new reciprocity tariff it will be $1.87}. Iron and steel ingots per ton, under the old tariff paid 55, under the reclprcoity tariff they will oome down to 58 per ton. Bar iron per ton under the old tariff was 510, it will come down under the new to 55.25. Oast iron pipes under the old tariff were 510 pet ton, under the new reciprocity tariff they will be 56 per ton, One•eighth of the reduction is made now, and the figures which h will make stand equi distant, between those ranges of figures which I have given you here, Now, I ask if they have nob carried out the promises that were made, nob that we would put iron upon the free list—no such promise was never made and I Mull lenge any hon. gentleman opposite to quote one sentence or one paragraph from any Liberal who was speaking on behalf of the Liberal party, in any section of the oonntry, from Vancouver to Great Britain, who said that the Liberal party would put iron on the free flet, We said we would give the manufacturers freer iron, and so we did, We told the con- sumers of this oouutry that we Would give them freer goods, and so we did. We did not promise them free trade, it was beyond the limits of our power to give them that, but we gave them all that we believed would be in the intereste of these industries, and at the same time enable 05 to raise etlffi3ient revenue to conduct the effeiesof thlsoountry. Now, I want to show you bow rituals we have paid for the higher duties on iron for the last five years, We paid no less than 5413,858 lit bounty for the proteotion of pig iron from 1801.92 to 1896 06, We pied no less than $993,406 duty on the 247,362 toes .imported from foreign 000000ies, Now, Mr. Speaker, you know that when a duty ie placed open any par- ticular artiole, it gives an opportunity to the manufacturer in this country of the same artiole to increase the price to the consumer by reason of the duty. I do not suppose bhab the manufacturer in this country este the whole duty on. Therefore, tatting 53 instead of $4 ae the itoreased prior) on the Canadian iron, it amounts to 5667,046 which the menu• faoturere in Canada were able to plane upon iron by reason of the 54 aharged as duty against imported iron. Then, Mr. Speaker, you know that the duty on iron or any other material becomes a part of the original cost to the importer, and he places the profit, whatever that profit may be, upon the duty as well as upon the original Dost of the article, There- fore the eoneumer not only pays the duty but he pays the percentage placed upon that duty by the importer or dealer, and that has been 5248,351 during the last five years. Therefore We have paid in the form of bounty duty, and the profits on duty by importers no less than 52,- 322,676, and that was for the protection of the manufacturer of 292,302 tons. The oast to the country was 510.16 for every ton of pig iron manufactured in this country. Now, I ask if that was not an extraordinary duty 7 I say the Government deserve credit, greet credit, right in the very teeth of powerful or- ganizations, for putting iron freer in the bands of the manufacturers and others who use it to so large all extent in trimly ways. Now there is another thing that I want to bring before you. What saving do we make on that caloulation under the Liberal tariff ? Taking the same num- ber of tons as we imported in 1806, and making exactly the same caloulation, we find tpeople we have saved tothe e P Ple of this country no less than 551,000 a year, even paying the increased bounty which the Government has promised to pay. It has been a laving to the country of no less than 534,000 on the basis of that calculation. The Liberal party promised to reduce the ditty on coal oil. It is sail that some penpls ran their campaign on the coal oil. I never did that, although in this House I took an active part during two sessions in urging on the Government to a reduc- tion of the duty, and I repeatedly told my constituents that it was an imposition to ask them to pay 100 per cant. on any products that could be manufactured bare et reasonable coat ; and I also stat- ed it was a heavy burden, and that we demanded from the Conservative party a reduction of duty, and that if we oame into power we would reduce the duty. I never advocated the planing of coal oil on the free list. I was accused the other day of having stated during my speech, I think in 1892, that I advocated free oil. I suppose few hon, members in this House remember the speech, and in order to refresh their memories I will read some quotations. The speech was della,. Bred on 30th May, 1502, I said : "I am not opposed to the National Policy in respect to coal oil, but I am opposed to the excessive duty of over 100 per cent. in favor of the coal oil interest, because this enables them to control the industry of refining oil." Further on I said "Although I am favorable to extending to this industry a reasonable proteotion, it is wrong, I think, in the interest of the consuming population of this country, to extend to the refiners a protection of 100 or 125 per cent." This was the case at that time. I fur- ther said "If the Government should reduce the duty from 7 1.5 cents to, say, 5 cents a gallon, it would relieve the people of at least one third of the burdeus which they are now obliged to bear in this mat ter. I hope the Government will reaon• eider this question—not upon the basis of free trade, because I do not contend that coal oil should be pub on the free list for, so long as we have the National Policy in this country, it is only right and just, and equitable that protection should Le given to the oil producers, as well as to every other industry along the line of justice. I trust Glum the Govern- ment will try to see their way clear to re- duce the duty upon coal oil to 5 cents a gallon," I was accused here the other day of having preached free trade as regards that artiole. The Government and the Liberal party have fulfilled their promises to reduce the duty on ooal oil to 5 (mute, and I must say that I would not be sorry to see the reduotion carried a little lower, and in my opinion it would be better iu the interest of the consumer to have greater freedom in regard to the distribu• tion of coal oil in bank care. Oil in tank oars can only be distributed at 75 points in the Dominion, 39 in Ontario, 18 in Quebec, 10 in New Brunswick, 7 in Nova Scotia, 5 in Manitoba and the North. west Territories and 4 in British Colum• bis, I think the points at which coal oil should be distributed in tank oats should be inorea(•ed, so es to give the people an opportunity to bring the ail in as cheaply RS possible and thus Bare at leash one cent per gallon. The Liberal party also promised to reduce the duty on agrioultnral imple- ments. Hon. gentlemen opposite say that we have not fulfilled that promise. There were a few agrioulbnral implements on which bon, gentlemen opposite made a deep out in 1894, and it was made for a purpose—either 35 per cent. was an ex- tortionate rate, or the rate was reduced to meet the demands of the people on the eve of an election, Another promise made by the Liberal party bus been fulfilled, We promised to do our very beat for the people, not only for the farmers, bub for the whole people of the Dominion to seonre reduced trans- portation rates. Although we cannot immense the prices of agricultural pro - duets in England by any legislation en. acted here, vet can adopt measures to enable the farmers to gab their products to market a8 oheaply as possible. The Government have adopted two or three methods by which to aeoomplish this re. gulf. Ono is to extend the Intercolonial Railway to Montreal. 5 believe this is a bold stroke of polioy and one in the in. tercet of the oonntry, because when this extension is carried out, it will become an active oompetitor of the Grand Trunk and Canadian Reath() Railway at the point of reception of products from the great west, and if a combination were entered into between those two great private interests, the Government railway would modify that combination by giving proper rates to people on their preclude THE BRUSSELS POST MAY 28. 1897 Sent 0000 the west to the eon. In that way, the Government has adopted a wise policy in extending the IntereolouialRail- way to the city of Montreal, the great centre of the trade of the west. we promised to repeal the Fran- obi8e Aot, ape of the greatest iniquities ever planed upon the statutrebook of the country. Nothing so abominable in principle was ever oryatalized into the law of this land. It was conceived in iniquity, and begotten iu sin, and 15 was enacted for a political purpose, L7 1884, when the Conservative party met in mho. cue to tally over the effects of their so. called National Policy fon four or five years, Sir John Macdonald, was ab their head. That astute atatesmnn, that man who in my opinion wits one of the great- est lenders of men who over appeared in Canadian politics, that man who could talte his Conservative Mende by the nose and lead them as eaeity as you could an animal to the market—he was astute enough to fear the conning elections, and out of his fertile brain he evolved the Franchise Ad, hoping that the revising officers of his own pick and ahoie° would Bo staff the list as to return to this house a majority pledged to support him. Our friends fought that iniquitious Aot for six long months in this House, and I am almost sorry they did, for if it had pass- ed into law as introduced, the indignation of the 'people would have been suoli that it would have to be repealed within a year. The Liberals promised as soon as they got into power that they would re- peal that Aot which legislated Conserva- tive members into this ];louse, in spite Of the votes of the people. Every person who has had his eyes open during the last ten years knows as well as he knows be has a pose on his face that it was an Act for the purpose of legislating into the councils of the nation persons wham the electorate refused to send hare. We have introduced a Bill to repeal that Aot, and by eo doing we will reduce the taxation on 0515eo hle of this country. The P 1 Y p'ranohiee Aot coat the treasury of the Dominion 51,230,000, although we had only four revisions. It has cost the peo- ple of this country, both parties contrib- uting at least half a million more for revision, and now this vast expense will be wiped out, as we promised it should he, and our franchise will be placed apoe a more equitable basis. The Liberal party promised more than that. We promised preferential trade with Great Britain and we are now car- rying 0130 that promiee. The Oonserva- tive party aro very meek and humble now, because they were obliged to eat bumble pia by the electorate, but for years they claimed that they were the loyal party, that they were the men who had aesooiatione for the purpose of bring- ing around preferential trade with Great Britain. What a change has come over them. Today one speaker after another on the Conservative side of the House rises in his place to throw cold water upon this loyal and patriotic) National Policy which our Government has pro- posed. Let me bring this matter in a more tangible form before the hon. gentle- men, Let hue point out that in 1892 the Liberal party foreshadowed this policy of preferential trade with Great Britain. We offered this policy to the Conserva- tive party by resolution bub the Con- servatives would not nocept it. Let me show. how loyal and how British these men apposite are. Why, the moat Brit. ish and moat loyal man in this House— or at least he sepposes he ie—was the author of the following , esolution, In April, 1502, Mr. McNeill mored :—"That if and when—" (1 wom'er when that "when" would be,) "Ther, if and when the Parliament of Great Britain and. Ire• land admit Canadian products to the markets of the United Kingdom upon more favorable terms than is accorded to foreign countries, the Parliament of Cam ada will be prepared to accord correspond. ing advantages by a substantial reduotion in the duties it imposes upon British manufactured goods." Notwithstanding the fact that every produot of our country is permitted to go into the English market without a single Dent of duty being charged, and notwith- standing the fact that in 1892 England gave preferential treatment to our cattle over that wbioh was accorded by the United States, in the face of all this the most loyal man in the Conservative party asked for more advantages before Canada would give anything to the mother land. These are the men who Dail themselves loyal, In oonbradistination to that, we bad the Liberal party then showing true loyalty. The present Minister of Marine and Fisheries (Mr. Davies) moved this as an amendment to that resolution : "Inasmuch as Great Britain admits the products of Canada into her ports free of duty, this House is of the opinion that the present scale of duties exacted on goods mainly imported from Great Britain should be reduced." 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Please don't buy until you see our stock, not that we wish to insist on you buying from us but our stock will give you an idea of what is going to be worn this Spring. Our Linens we imported direct through Agents from the Brookfield Linen Co., Belfast, Ireland, which enables us to sell them at prices much be- low regular prices. LACES and EMBROIDERIES are one of the leading features with us this season. In Ready -to- wear Clothing we lead. all Competitors. Our Men's Suits at $3.00 must be seen to bo appreciated. OU DESIRE is to make this store to the County of Huron what the T. Eaton Co. is to Toronto. Any who haven't as yet favored res with a call we would like to specially invite them to do so, and I think we will be able to make them permanent customers. Grocery Department. Our Grocery Department is under the direction of Mr. J'as. Purcell, and he will be pleased to show you through that department. P. S.—Our Advertising Agent, Prof. Golding, a colored gentle- man, will probably call on you in the course of a week or two with Literature which will pay you well to peruse carefully. 9 Importer, Seaforth. Established 1871. 61 0051 p rn G 4k350 r7' 0m 0 00 ow hg 00 00 0 0 0 0 The Policy Contract issued by this Association is perfection itself, UNCONDITIONAL, ACCUMULATIVE, AND AUTOMATICALLY NON -FORFEITABLE, , t It leaves nothing further to be desired, Bates and full inforn oration furnished on application. W. IL EER110 Agent, Brussels.