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A1C •changer+ of Advertisements, to
aasara in4itrAion in the Garrett: issiu3 .
must :be reccis'erl the o1144 swoe, talar
than Monday, • noon.. Copy .fOr
efccttr$eri received .tater than :lbw/ay
ow -swill herraf er be at the dd;;er-•
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4Aserra owf also.
WHITELY di '''l?D.p, Ptdblls>o%
to. the best of our beloved -Canada
and the edvetleement of: hie owp
welfare. And whin you slial•lretire
to .the boOOM of pouts • aonittituelatfr,.
way you receive that. Mot .cheering
and gratifying, of 411'11utltai rewards
—their cordial greeting of, "Well
done,, good and faitlifu1eorxant."' I
net prevent Mon being l:o xl that
Ciretst Respire Of which we form :no
uliimportaut part.
Mr. Wilua.0 does maple justice :te
Canada, when he says
"When it le r°called"that title region:
Over the deetiniee,of *hien • Sir John
ao long presided cgrnprieea nail a
continent, occupying a s floe: huger
bid you all a. long,last- f it ",��tban that Qf the Petted totes and
Tough theocoa8Aon did not onvi
h ovi ' farewell .remerka'
��8 :N�fr4fn News-�ecvYa fart .e t�rpr . sea
tag, spews ._.,
includes in area,forty per cant. of.
the total area, of the Brattsb Empire,;
it will, be better understood how Im-
portant a .part loyalty plays in review,
ing.a life apparently eo important in
-its .existence.. k'or while it Will he
admitted that Sir John endeavored
to do--•muchfor the Qat~t stretches of
territory' over which. °he ruled, and.
that in this patriotic service be wae.
neither selfish, nor .eelf-seeking,`, the
spirits that anitnated him was thatlie
was desirousor promoting the glory
of the British Empire, And cementing
the, ties that bind closely ,together,.
the mother'cotint ' and her greatest
colony." ..
Dir. reiman is .somewhat contra-
dictory. .•Ha first says Sir John
must be judged by "the standard of;
loyalty to Great Britain,". then he
says "he was desirous of promoting
the glory of the 13riti•h Empii•e,
and cementing the ties that. hind
closely .together the mother country
and her greatest colony."
Great Britain is the mother coun-
try, but not the British Empire.
Canada is part -of the British Em-
pire but not part of Great Britain.
Canada being part of the Empire,
whatever benefitted her necessarily
refl"eeted to the glory of GreatBrit-
ain. But the object of the late
Chieftain was not primarily to add
to the glory of Britain.
Confederation of these Provinces
primarily benefitted_ and strength-
ened Canada, and secondarily bene-
fitted Great Britain by reason of
that cumulated etrength.
The National Policy was primar-
ily intendeal to and has benefitted
Canada, and as a resultant benefitted
Great Britain, because, besides de-
veloping our home resources, it has
also increased our purchasing power
and wade us better customers to
Britain than we would have been by
isolated provinces.
Sir John's loyalty to Canada
brought about Confederation and
the National Policy, the two factors
which enabled him to build and
complete the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, which not only benefits and
etreug•thens Canada, bot has also
brought India and Australia and
other parts of the empire into close
touch with each other and with
Great Britain commercially, as it.
will assuredly in due time legisla-
tively also. For Imperial Federa-
tion is no idle dream.
Sir John's work of Confederation,
the National Policy and the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway was the result
of unselfish and far seeing devotion
to Canada. It will also redound to
the advantage of other colonies of
the eiitpire as well as to that of
Great Britain. His great works are
the corner stones of the unification
and solidifying of that much scat-
tered empire upon which the sun
never sets. It has made Imperial
Federation not only pesible but
highly probable.
Whether Sir John builded better
than he knew we will not say. But
contrast the grand idea of a British
Imperial Federation and a discrim-
inating flees' policy that will en-
we flare outlined,' we feel we are
1„5O oar•.4l4k la a4vanee
not far astray:in. s.utmisan.gWhat. it
'WednesdaY5 dutne 17th" 118911"
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ALL'S' 1. J Lr,1:.
b epito: of the ,globe's affected
eyraa}?athy for t
o , hTories" anl.
.a 1 . too r ,".-
its cock an hull fabrioatioOs of
djssat`s.Pactiou atniart , the leaders. at
1 g
Ottawa, the artemet.,bartnony' existe
among the members of the late
.,Ministry and other leading men.
Ron. M. Abbott has been called
upon ,to form a Cabinet, Sir Hee-
Langevin,. and ISir Jahn Thorhpaon
deolii#ing..The nrembers'of it will
be somewhat was formerly with,
possibly, Mr,. Chapleau as Minieter
of Railways and Canals in place of
thelate Premier. Premier Abbott
being in the Senate itis likely that
,Sir :John Thompson will be the
leaden in the Cocarnons. Tho Con-
" servatives have a straight majority
of 82, and it is believed that several
iedependent members will now
take ie;nose decided stand with the
new Ministry than they did
with the late ane.
�,r
would have :been; like', For Sir
John,. was one of nature's noblemen.
Whose beast as welt as genius,' was
of .the, kindliest: end moat geuial,.
anda usual) -acted as though
h Y v
-'Twine better far to. speak •
The stealth) word }xhieh now and then,
Makes friepi3ehip in the weak
And erring eons of :sten- ,
"One. tough of nattire wakes the
world` of kin." True Bennie 18
geniality, a power, uiivereahy felt
au.e which Sir John possessed to a
marvellaus ' extent, No fricasseed
snow was there in •hie epeeches or
conversation.
"Good sense and tru h are old enough
for turn.
Heat anything to say ? Out with it
then
And the `snore natural the style, the
better.
Your pompous wordy, y.>ur phrases
nioily joined,
Will and the people deaf as any adder—
They're but dry Waves, that rustle iu the
wind,
No eom'fort for the s •u ,--peas iu
bladder."
Sir John A. Macdonald was emin-
ently the orator of humanity ; his
speeches abounding little in learn-
ed quotation or literary decoration,
they are studded all over with the
richest vestiges of patriotic genius
"racy of the soil." His words were
always insinuatingly potent on the
hearts of his hearers. He was the
warm and invincible roaster of their
sympathies. Thousands will bear,
-testimony to the thrilling poteuey
of the deceased Premier's genial
style as a public speaker. It has
been his privilege often to have
raised the spirit sof Canadians far
beyond the height to which any
other -public men in Canada ever
carried it, imbuing. all classes with
the firmest and most- impassioned
patriotism. We ne'er shall see his
like again, nor shall we ever again
require his like. He did the 'work
committed to him as no other liv-
ing man could have done it, No
combination of 'Circumstances can
undo it. The die has been cast for
one grand auxilliary Canadian na-
tion within the British Empire, and
even inferior workmen can make its
impress on present and future
generations.
But though this Incomparable
ratan has been called away from us
full of honors and years, yet the
principles he contended for remain
and will be perpetuated. Others
will take up the work where he left
off, Who will be his successor as
Premier it is difficult at this time to
say. The signs of the times point
to Sir Charles Tupper eventually,
but as he is not in Canada at present
Sir Hector Langevin, Sir John
Thompson or ,Hon. Mr. Abbott,
President of the Senate, may he
called on by the Governor General
to form a Ministry in the mean-
time.
T.EJE .NIGHT HAVE BEEN
AND THE FUTURE.
The Hon. Mr. L ,urier, leader of
the. Opposition in Parliament, paid
a deserved compliment to the
charaoter of Sir John A. Macdonald,
on the official announcement in the
House of the death of the Chieftain.
While chary of committing himself
to approval -of the political acts of
deceeeed, M r. Laurier was not stint-
ed iu.nraise of the personal charac-
ter end undoubted ability, affability
and coneuinmate tectof his deceased
rival.
One can only wish that it might
have been so ordered that the de-
ceased statesman could have taken
farewell of his late colleagues and
fellow legislators in the House
which has so often witnessed his
triumphs, so that Mr. Laurier, in
his brilliant style, could have re
plied to a farewell address from Sir
John.
Mr. Laurier's reply to something
like the following from Sir John
would have undoubtedly been worthy
the man and the occasion :—
"In the course of•a long and
ardeous public life during which I
have held a seat in this House, in
the ardor and enthusiasm of my
nature, I have no doubt, in the
heat of debate, and in honest•
endeavt r to maintain my opinions
against adverse opinions, alike
honestly entertained, as to the best
course to be adopted for the public
welfare, I may have unintentionally,
made tree of language susceptible of
:injurious • interpretation by • my
fellow -members, If there be any
who treasure wounded feelings of
dissatisfaction produced on such
occasions, 1 beg to assure them that
I now offer them the moat ample
apology for any departure on my
part from ,_the established rules of
parliamentary decorum and courtesy.
On the other hand, I assure you,
honorable gentlemen, one and all.
that I retire from this House and
from public life without carrying
With we a single feeling of resent-
ment to the House or any one of ite
members.
"I go from this place under the
hope that we shall mutually consign
to perpetual oblivion whatever
pereenal collisions may at any time
unfortunately have occurred be-
° twoenua ; and that our recollections
shall dwell in future only on the
conflicts of mind with mind, those
intellectual struggles, those noble
exhibitions of the powers of logic,
ar timent.and eloquenCb, honorable
to the House and this country, in
whioh each has sought and contend•
ed for what he deemed• the beat
Mode of accomplishing one common
object, the interests and happiness
of our beloved country. To. these
scenes it will be my pleasure and
nay pride to look baok,in my,retire-
merit`tvith unreabured satisfaction."
"May the Moat precious blessings
or"'eaven rr:-et upon 'tfi`e wiidle '
MusD, and each member of it, and
ntay the labors of every one redound'
WALL -EYED WIMAN'S
WABBLING.
Erastus Wiman, the chief of the
anti Canadian ruined political game-
sters, who made a -run on the bank
of British Canadian loyalty prior to
and on the 5th of March, but who
to their chagrin found a reserve
fund of patriotism every time their
cheques were presented, is out with
a paper in Harper's Weekly of June
13, on Sir John A. Macdonald.
Among other
says :—
things Mr. Wiman
repodiattte d snarly tiles Wore,
notably In the one. of "ship rgtonei
and, lo repudiated by theconetltittien
ilf Britain su4 Canada today. ..At
'lila time of the ianterletala 1'004 the
people of IMO continent were carry.
il?f3: out the principles of tiro 13ritis)i
constitution which they have eek
is
bodied in theirtheiraw.- u .apnst tution.
But;' the' British oeuelitutien was:
violated as The 'Amari;an _ cotigtitu
tiara:.patterned after it, has ,been
1410144.:
Tflt.rts : s 'tut -o .ern di
B.l.r,hca~rtt- t. bo ee
the elective prinoipler::in the eboiee
Zit its chief fns:g iatrilte Called: the
q
eevereig n, j.uat as:tlle.Apiericancent
etitation embediesttlj,at prineiple in
the election Qf its chief magistrate.
The Blight difterence of the .office of
British sovereign; being: hereditary
44 long aathe, occupant is on his or•
her good behavior, while the Ameri-
can president's termof office is fixed
at four years, does not affect the
principle And is, .ve believe, pract-
ically the inest•advantageone, There
is"ko essential difference in the
principle whish lays down that the
chief officer of. the State shall hold
office during good behaviour, subject
to the will of the people, and the
principle which lays down that he
shall hold it for four years.
"The signifloanoe of the death of
SirJohn A. Maodonald, especially from
an extreme loyalist point of view,
is that it is sought to make it appear
he occupies the position of a mar-
tyr."
This is another extract from the
gospel according toWiman, and is on
a par with his other erroneous state-
ments concerning Canadian senti-
ment. Sir John was neyer con-
sidered a martyr by loyalists, be-
cause no power in Canada could
make him one. representing
as he always chid the beet thought
of the great majority of!
Canadians. He has al ways
been ton much beloved by his peo-
ple for that, though a few Canadian
Wimanites did their little hest to
crucify him and miserably failed.
"The only trade the Tory Cana-
dians will tolerate is that which
filters through a high tariff wall",
says Wiman the distortionist,.
Great heavens! how can a man of
ordinary credibility -impose such an
untruth upon the public through
such a respectable medium ae Har -
per's New York Weekly. It is as
base a slander as that our tariff is
the outcome of hostility to the
United States. It is Wiman's
fellow Americans who will only
tolerate trade that filters through a
high tariff. The Canadian tariff is
considerably less all round than the
American tariff. If he had applied
the statement to the people of the
United States he would have been
right. It is a monstrous misfit as
applied to the Conservative majority
"Sir John's opponents will admit
that to judge him by the standard of
loyalty to Great Britain will be but
to faithfully. reflect the spirit that
appeared to animate the greater
part of his policy during the long
period he guided the ship of State."
This is but part of the truth and
that part of it whioh ie not admitted
by Mr. Wiinan's Canadian political
allies. They say that Sir Johu "was
not loyal to Great Britain because
he did not admit her manufaotures
into Canada free. But the Canadi-
an policy makes no tariff discrim-
ination in favor of Great Britain
just as Britain makes no discrimin-
ation in her tariff in favor of im-
ilde too ija .nu
lt ' K dozen years.
If the • Oonadian pibwetat hod
never baguet to he Nettled up it
would have remained ixt its pritnf-
tive state until the .avast of, doom.
But it is- waking solid progreea • to
be the future granary of the world
aa. Mr. Wiman aptly ear. Ha"'
tvauld not "now be worth Faa`,e
milliou9 if bio had not oom:ntonped;
to move -up his pennies.
d3iut even 'roan dare not,
tri<vef;ity c:urre:nt history to the bitter
end; He winds up hisremarkable
contribution to Harper's.
Weekly
with : „x
• ''brou hout half centum `and
$ yi
�speoially duriragtbe;laaFthirtyyears,.
the impress ot Sir Jelin A. Mac
• donald has been felt upon the affairs
Of the greater half .of, the :.continent
to thenorth, mora than that of any
other man ; If the greatness of me11.
is to be estimated by, the impress
they make up :their own community
and the measure of influence they
exercise, Sir'Joltn richly deeerves to
be called a great men, Na states-
man ever. Abad: a task more difficult
than to maintain harmony in the
divergent elements that comprise
the-Canadlen people., " " ` Even
those who differed from bitrr'in policy
reoall..his genial courtesy, hie unfail'.
in humor., and the tireless industry
and unfailing' energy that enabled
him to raise Canada, notwithstand
her, dependent, condition, to a posi-
tion of comparative independence,
self-reliance and self-government,
which on this' -continent is of the
greatest importance not only in the
future of kite two countries that hold
it in common, but upon the future of
Great Britain itself, and the per..
petuation of her monarchical insti
tions at home and abroad.
So mote it be, and the impress of
Sir John, which was but a reflex of
the impressions of the people of
Canada, has shaped out the destinies
of this.g_reatest and best half of the
North American continent to be an
auxiliary nation of the British
empire, whether under a hereditary
or directly elective imperial head.
courage the diversified producte of
hundreds of ,nillions of people of
even clitne under the sun, with the
idea of continental free trade with
a paltry half a hundred million of
people to the south of us, whoae
products and 'climate are almost
identical with our own I One stands
aghast at the monumental stupidity
that would make a verily "pent up
Utica" of Canada,instead;of making
the greater part of the "whole wide
universe ours."
Tho veleta !1r. Wimangoes on
to say that
The people of Canada are still
loyal to British connection in spite
of the policy of the deceased Conser-
vative Chieftain."
Never was more erroneous state-
ment made in to few words, as will
be seen from what we have outlined.
Then Mr. Wiman is kind enough'
to say :—
"The Queen represents in the Old
World and Sir John A. Macdonald in
the New World, the perpetuation of
the polio`• which the other half
ot this continent repudiated a hun-
dred .years ago.'' -
No man who understands the con-
stitution of Great Britain could
truthfully make such a state -
.porta from Canada „prent. What the American colonies
� ..,•� , - , a ron ! /irillrotle-,arid-� et=trnte7w+as-
rroft�d' scrim ot��tr rep��iate'd was ropudriatoc� 13tile-t t`� �" lid oke 'out a few
John's policy shows that he was majority of tire people of Great when he was glad P y J y P P dents es a news boy. 1V1illions of
loyal to Catiada first, but that did Britain at that time as it had been settlers are not dumped into a
in Canada. •
The same relative rate of customs
for almotst every article, whether
natural or manufactured, prevails on
each side of the purely imaginary
line nearly four thousand miles in
length."
To show that this is absolutely
false we give sample rates of tariff
on each aide of this imaginary line
and to show which country will only
tolerate trade that filters through a
high tariff wall.
American Canadian
Tariff Tariff
Wheat per buah 250 150
Oats rr " 150 10c
Barley " " 20o 150
Corn " " 150 77jo
Butter " lb ---- 60 4e
Cheese" lb 6c 3c
Eggs per doz 5o . 'Free
Bacon and Hams
per lb 2s 3o
Clothing per lb 490 25p.c
ad valorem 50 p.o
Coal, bit, per ton 75o 60o
EDITORIAL NOTES.
ettalrticg fisa U. I;,
Aloud that it.e ...
Canadian preduta as is ori it. n'-tfae facto are *unmixed, and tri
abadnt. - r,
Hort often. Is it .paraded, in doubt
leaded types that barley is bringing
75ots. in Bboalo and only 5Q Os. in
Toronto? For this .difference, the
N. P. is, blitmed,tthougb well knew/rag
that onttariff in, no way a 'ectar the
Yaukoar prieef;. Hero, slbo, truth°is
violated,
1f a farmer has ,cattle to Bell no one
in the. Dominion binders liim gbip
toBuffalo with them, the S. tariff'
E ; Q t - , .lig ar
walla him out.
11
he takes a few lanabe or .shoats ,
sjover'...@e, e ti bg: e. stub
ected ihtora dethileting:liquartioasntinearthat
tla,11004}1tis prodts.:1he.Globe charges
:the existence of el the .McKinley
Bill on the. Government of Canada,
though the, (Author of tjt•Bill has aa- ,
s rted repeatedly' that• he bad no
t o ht £ Canada whaen concootin
. h ug o _:. 11 g,
it. Truth gone again.
in the face of encouraging pros -e,
pects for open trade With the West
India. lelande, the. Globe says. that
was a foreordaineadlfai:lure. •'Because
thelslanclers would •rathc'rtrade with:
'the States. The Globe has not at-'
tempted to hide its wish that no
trade should be had with the tropics;
and tospread an idea of failure, in
that behail it has, -too -plainly dealt in
the opposite of truth, and against
the interests of Canada. •
Again, the Globe berates the Gov-
ernment for taxing "coal, coal oil,
and iron, all of which have to be im-
ported." So, according to that truth-
ful el) sheet, Canada produces none
of these! The "Blue Book" shows -
that we not only produce goal, coal
oil, and iron,but we also export them.
,Here the: Globe wilfully LIES.
Pursuing Sir Richard Cartwright's
style, the Globe of 10th inst., .dilat-
Ing on ideal results of unrestricted
reciprocity upon English capitalists,
says : "Would not her investors, who
hove sunk 6800,000,000 in Canada be
well rewarded ?" The idea herein
conveyed is not only false but the
most disingenuous that words can
frame. Intentionally misrepresenta-
tive, and wicked.
The Rev. Mr. Pearson in the Sy
nod at Toronto last week laid bare
the miserable bones of the "popular
ity" fakes now being worked by the
Tort,nto Mail to keep that paper be
fore the public. Whoever wil
spend moat money in purchasing
copied of that journal can becoin
the "most popular" preacher. Peo
ple do like to be humbugged.
e
Metiers Ratz and Cook have the utt •
enviable notoriety of introducing a
motion in the Hut•ou countye'ouucil
against granting 25 ceuts a
day to the volunteers while
out at drill.' It is such parsimoni-
ous. men who oppose .s House of
Refuge. They aro afraid tho volun-
teers would have a "good tune" drill-
ing in the hot sUu and sleeping in
damp tents etc. They have not even
the liberality of the man who was
willing to sacrifice all his wife's rela-
tivesonthealtarofhiscountry. They
act the veriest dog-iu the -manger
policy, neither willing to encourage
others to prepare to b3 in a condition
to go "to the front" in case of diffi-
culty, nor prepare to go themselves.
"No noble blood is in them, nor is
their patriot spirit high; They will
never get . for us our rights, nor
will they fight for them or die", bet
"etay at home in times of trouble,
and pull their beards and look fierce-
ly at women in times of peace."
They can take their throe dollars a
day for having a -"good time" at
Goderich for four or flee days twice
or three times a year, but refuse a
paltry 25 cents a day to the volun-
teers during their ten days or lees
drill once a year or once every two
years. What crimes are committed
in the name of economy 1
"It is true,'' gooth Wiman, that
under Sir John's policy the extensive
region in the Northwest - has been
opened up, and that the future granary
of the world has been made aceessible.
But it is 'equally true that up to this
time the population of that region is
less than a single ward in the City of
New York."
We admit this, that the future
granary of the world would not
have been opened up at all were it not
for Sir John A. Macdonald, Con-
federation, the National Policy and
the Canadian Pacific Railway. And
Mr. Wiman should know that all
things have had a beginning, and
small at that. Time was when the
whole United States did not con-
tain a population equal to thatnof a
ward in New York city teeday.
Biblical and scientific history show
that this earth itself had a beginning,
and that it took ages to perfect it.
Ona should not despise the day of
small beginnings: jiir, Wiriian is
reputed to be worth fifteen or
INCENDIARY JOURNALISM.
No safer or more satisfactory in-
vestment of money was ever made.
Not only is the interest kept paid up,
which is all the investor wants, bat
the principal is constantly lessening.
over a100,000. was paid outhe princi-
ple last month. Sunk I Forsooth 1
Could anything be more incendiary ?
Yet if we call such bare -faced lies
treason, the Globe sets up a howl,
and avers that we charge all Reform-
ers with disloyalty) Not so. Not so.
It is only the Grits, the men who are
constantly running down Canada,and
unduly exalting the States that are
the foes of our country. Reformers
are all loyal. They have much re-
spect for the Globe, on account of
its founder, George Brown. Long
have they tried to believe -its princi-
ples unchanged, but they are Last
learning better. With an avowed
rebel traitor as chief writer, all its
outstanding oomspondents Of the
same stripe, and a "defeated game-
ster", who counselled forming Cana-
da into a cordon of "Northern States"
as principal director,. Reformers see
little else than annexation in the
columns of the Globe.
Editor News -Record.
About once a month, the Globe
prints a column of Sir Richard Cart-
wright's campaign speeches : wit:, ar-
ray of numerals and the same summa-
tion and conclusion adverse to Cana-
da. Conspicuous in this, as in all that
paper says, is the egotistical claim of
virture and truth,
Unrestricted reciprocity with the
States is the claimed policy of the
Grits. They do not exactly like it,
but are content since Mr. Blaine says
he will give nothing else, At another
time he said that the effect of such a
treaty would cause the stars and
stripes of the United States to rule
from Hudson Bay to Gulf of Mexico.
Another Senator said the treaty
would form such a union with Canada
that who tried tosever,couldn't. Many
of the leading papers in the States
hold like views on the proposed
treaty. 112r. Ferrer, through the
Globe,voices the same idea, and when
charged with treason, lwhicb the
Globe' knows is just, he labors to pull
the whole Reform party with him.
We are told that none of the young
men and young women who went to
the states from PrinceEdward Island
had any difficulty in getting work.
They were lucky. -Late reports say
that in the States are more than
3,000,000 men out of work. We all
know that whenever a strike occurs
of from 200 to 20,000 men, there are
always enough ready to take their
places. In Detroit, 300 School't'each-
ers, being dissatisfied with their pay,
concluded to strike, and made their
purpose known to the Superintend-
ent. He said if they struck 500 oth-
ere would apply for their places in 24
hours.
In the republic is recently sprung
up into existence a new party called
The Farmers Alliance. They claim
that the trend pf thel'present regime,
in the States, ie to make the rich
men richer and the poor man poorer.
The Republican party say that cheap
means nasty : hence they favor a
high tariff and costly goods.
On this point Conservatives and
Reformers are agreed. Both with
the truth to be known. Both agree
that the most malicious wrong -doing
in journalism is that misleading style
which keeps back or covers up the
truth. Sir Richard Cartwright's prac-
tice is to compare the shade in Cana-
da, with the sunshine in the United
States. There is neither truth nor
justice in such a course.
Referring to what he calls "the de-.
population of Prince Edward Island,"
lack of Reciprocity with the States is
given as the cause of the so-called
"exodus" and he' lays all the blame
on the. Governmentof the Dominion:
yet the tariff -of Chnada places no
barrier against the Islanders taking
their produce to the Yankee markets.
In the aggregate, goods of domestic
unto are cheaper here than in the
States. Hence, in this palpable one-
sidednes5, that article lacks the ele-
ment of truth.
Agaiit,it is represented, that under
theatrrltngemta "nfathe ell ird•:
Bill, 40 per cent et the 'f T. S. imports
are on the free list, whereas in Can-
ada, Only 33 per cent are free, By
,
Whatever our cousins say,and we all
know the farmers are worse condition-
ed there than in Canada, they never
indulge in the contemptible habit of
running down their country. The
Globe has decried Canada for the
last twelve years, and by all means
in its power obstructed the progress
"of -the country. Its influence 18 seen
in the exodus of our people. Nat an
issue but bears the mark of the reb-
el's pen.
It is admitted that prices of what
the farmer has to 8011, are as high, or
even higher in Canada, than in years
past, but the Globe Bays that is not
the point, the abject is to convince
the people, that had we free trade,
vie should get better prices. This
means, substantially, that for a few
more cents a dozen for eggs, we are
to consent to have Canada blotted
from the snap of the world t And
see our noble Dominion formed into
a tier of Northern States!
The farmers are referred to aa im-.
pdyeriehed by taxation. The N. P.
is spoken of as .a concrete evil,which
tr.elirta;trgdr op eaa&ea 7-oo,
the Government is blamed for this.
We have never been without an N.
P. Entering office • int 1878 Mr.