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The Brussels Post, 1885-9-4, Page 44 I3e lirll55C15 Vtort FRIDAY, Y, SEPT. 4, 1885. Canadian Wheat Prospect. Consider the subject iu its more material sense. It is admitted that the population of the world is rap- idly increasing and in Harmony with all the other operations of that Providence that rules and reigns over us, the area of produc- tion is correspondingly increasing. India is now a strong competitor in the grain raising and when her railways are in operation no doubt the output will be largely increas- ed. The quantity for export this year is estimated at 20,000,000 bushels, not more than half of which will reach the marts of Eur- ope. The great Canadian North- west is fast asserting its right to be regarded as the true home of the cereal productions that are to feed over -crowded Europe and es- pecially the British Islands. It is no doubt fresh in the memories of our readers that at a Continental Exhibition open to the world where grains were shown from every country, the jury of experts most unhesitatingly declared that the cereal productions of Manitoba (and especially wheat) were the best in the known world. Such expert testimony is invaluable. It is idle to say that the country that can grow the best wheat in the world is not destined by nature to be thickly populated, and when that consummation is achieved what a revolution will take place in the world's commissariat. In- stead of wheat coming from India to feed the inhabitants of Great Britain, fleet upon fleet of ships will breast the wave bearing to- wards the east the golden grain, the product of the greater Britain beyond the sea. It is our object in this article to consider more especially the out- look for the farmer as regards prices. The principle that de- mand and supply regulate prices must be admitted ; but there are also other considerations. For in- stance, watch the machinations of the great corn kings, the Bulls and Bears of the produce market. Every influence is used by each party to give effect to their policy. The bears claim increased produc- tion; supply exceeding demand, surplus from previous years, with- out anything to warrant a contin- uance of present prices prices. The bulls pursue the opposite arg- ument, occasionally utilizing a prospective war, a slight reported, or ascertained shortage in crops to further their side of the question ; and now come to look back for a few years the bears appear to have had rather the best of the argu- ment. Britain practically is out of the field. She cannot again produce wheat at a paying price on acconnt of the cost of the land and even if she could, her best wheat is soft and requires admix- ture with our hard dry wheat to raise the standard. Heretofore the product of India has been mainly relied upon in this regard, but although dry there is not the substance in it that our Canadian No. 1 possesses, and therefore our wheat is preferred. Again, it takes 86 days for a ship load of wheat to reach Liverpool and costs 46 cents a bushel from India while 25 cents and 15 days will carry it from Winnipeg and should the Hud- son Bay Route prove practicable a saving of both time and money will be effected. It will thus be seen if our information is correct wo will ourselves be our strongest competitor, and with a healthy climate and the most productive soil in the world and comparative- ly low priced land, we should be able to take care of ourselves. See what an exchange says on this question ;—"It seems to be accept- ed now as a fact that the wheat crop of this country will bo much less than in any other year since 1870, yet the price centimes low. Speculators complain bitterly at the disposition manifested by far- mers to hold their wheat until the price advances. What else can a farmer do if ho has just considera- tion for his own interests ? It is true, he may be compelled to sell because of debts, but if he is able to hold when the price is below cost of ,production, that is the wis- eet course to pursue. A farmer in one of the best wheat counties of this state remarked a few days a- go when he had two or three crepe of wheat on hand 'that the prise would be a dollar and a half at least once in throe years, and he made it his practice to hold his erops for that price. His general- izing, however, was sound, and will be supported iu years to come by prices that will always go high- er after along period of depression. The very fact that wheat has sold low continuously for three years and more is an argument favoring an advance, because low prices have lessened the area of produc- tion, while, at the same time, they have increased consumption, thus bringing nearer approach to that even balance between supply and demand which makes healthful competition. Careful observers of the situation have now aettlea to the conclusion that wheat will ad- vance within the present year. It may not go to high figures, it probably will not ; nevertheless, an advance is almost as sure as the harvest." THE CONDITION of CANADA For a long time, it has been ap- parent to men of independent thought, that a fatal lethargy of indifference has been creeping on the public mind of Canada. This condition of affairs is univers- ally characteristic of barbarous and semi -civilized communities, but is unique and almost unac- countable in the history of a free people. If our legislators were as eager to ascertain the cause of this political torpor. as they ars to lament it, they would soon arrive at a point from which the true remedy would be discernible. It has become very much the cus- tom to attribute this unfortunate insensibility in a vague fashion, to the existhnce of party government and its attendant evils. To see that this ready-made solution of the problem is erroneous, we have only to reflect that party govern- ment obtains in nearly all civiliz- ed countries and is by common con- sent admitted to produce the most sensitive regard for the public weal. Party government is the destiny of civilization ; it is not necessarily inimical to wise and ec- onomical legislation ; to the high est purity in social and political life, or to the equitableadministra- tion of the law ; even where it has failed to maintain its character as the foster -mother of public and private virtue, it has still been re- cognized as the fortress of nation- al liberty ; it is at once the out- come and prime essential of par- liamentary government, under which obedience to law is secured by giving the public a voice in tha promulgation of law. Various circumstances peculiar to oursel- ves, prevent our sharing the ben- efits of constitutional government. But the most potent factor in pro- ducing this national apathy is the existence of the dependent and feeble spirit of colonialism aggravat- ed, itis true by the worst features of government by party. The history of the world afords not one soli- tary instance of a colony becoming great. The experience of every en- lightened nation proves that the only force competent to establish the due relation between political parties, to adjust their conditions, to check their extravagant fervor, to maintain them in equilibrium consistent with public requirement, is a strong and independent spirit of national sentiment. Party faction appeals powerfully enough to the older nations in matters of internal policy or doubtful dispute, but when a question of vital mo- ment to the people as a nation arises, party sinks and the nation- al heart is a unit. This is where we fail in Canada. We have too much loyalty and too little patriot- ism. Wo place party before count- ry. Corrupt ministers avail them- selves of this opportunity to rifle the public coffers ; to viol- ate the independence of parlia- ment ; arlia-ment; to subvert the unmistakable spirit of the constitution ; to tam- per with the freedom of the press, the people's oracle; to convert parliamentary government into a monopolizing tyranny; to grace T7:E uRUSSELS POST SEPT, 4, 1885. their unworthy creatures with the preferments of trust and responsi- bility ; to set province against .i province and rednce eonfodoration •�; to kt solemn farce; to oppress a people who call themselves free with a burden of taxation so grievously onerous as to discourage enterprise in the present and to mortgage the prospects of the future; and when a portion of our populace rise up against this intolerable oppression, we brand then ars traitors and rebels and condemn thein to the direst punishment. Where sub- jects will be slaves, rulers will be tyrants. If the people of Canada are willing to continue to honor this with the name of responsible government, we would like to have a definition of irresponsible gov- ernment. One of the most hope- ful signs of the times is the new movement on the part of tho young men of Canada. They have chosen to call themselves Liberals, a name around which every class of the community may rally with- out sacrificing their principles or compromising their party. There are Liberal Conservatives as well as Liberal Reformers ; and the young men of the country are un- animous in subscribing to the ob- jects of tin movement. They re- quire of every candidate for ad- mission one qualification only, and that is an honest desire to promote the interests of Canada. They re- cognize politics as a science not a game. They believe in merging old differences in the supreme purpose of securing for their count- ry a pure and wise government. They aspire to see Canada occupy- ing an honorable place among the first nations of the earth. They adhere to the constitutional axiom, that the object of government, is tho welfare of the country, and not the maintenance of party or the aggrandizement of ministors. Party is a means to an end ; when it fails to accomplish that end, it should be remodelled. That the young men of Canada shall at once achieve the results aimed at, is too much to hope for; but they may turn 1111E current of party pas- sion in the direction of popular rights ; they may remind the old- er politicians that they have a country to govern which is the only object of politics; they may show that they repudiate the cabal of incapable puppets who surround the treasury beuchs ; they may ex - ort an influence for good, and 'awaken the popular mind from that hopeless apathy in which it has too long reposed. For this reason they expect and are entitled to the encouragement and co-op- eration of all patriotic Canadians of whatever party or nationality. The movement will take its initial momentmn from the platform form- ulated at the groat convention of young men to be hold in Shaftes- bury Hall, Toronto, on the 15th and 16th of Sept, an event to which the press of both parties is direct- ing considerable attention, and in which every true Canadian should feel profoundly interested. A man named A. J. Morse, agent for boat boilers, jumped off the Annie Lawrie, and was drowned. He tried to poison himself with laudanum, first. The northern part of muskoka was ravaged by a furious cycler] last Fri- day night, which destroyed an im• manse amount of property. Two children were killed in Stephenson township. The man who brings the private mail to the Hudson Bay Co. arrived in Winnipeg yesterday. Ho brought intelligence that the Government steamer Alert had arrived at York Factory over throe weeks ago, and that the trip with groat despatch only about five days being occupied in making the trip from the entrance of the Straits to York Factory. No foe whatever was encountered in the Straits - The Acton Free Press says = J. F. MoGarven, village clerk, has been ordered to furnish copies of all mo- tions, resolutions, by-laws, etc.. relat. ivo to the purchase of the steel proper- ty for cemetery purposes, and also re- lating to the exemption of W. II. Story & Sous Glove Works, ' The requestion comps from J. B, Burns, and will be required in a suit against the corporation entered by Mr, Burns and others to prevent the Steele pro. petty from being used for cemetery purposes, and to test the validity of the by-laws relating to the same. W41 •lN A6FIE6D 4110USE8 Ii, a ha Practise Jemmy By Patronizing is. 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