The Huron News-Record, 1891-06-24, Page 4Me News,flecora
3..64 # Year -can st+ tet Advance
WOnestlay. Suue 2,4.tlt, 1891.
41TIL R,iW41V TARII' ' PIC-
TURES,
The tariff. In protecting mauufac-
turee a.timulatee the producing of
them. To produce them -requires
labor which consurueefarm products
but does not produce them, What
protection has done and is doing
for the American farmer it has done
and ie doing for the Canadian
fernier.
The average price of barley in
eight farming States is. 34 cents a
bushel ; in eight manufacturing
States 60 cents per bushel.
The average price of wheat in
eight farming States is 66 cents per
bushel ; in• eight manufacturing
States 91 cents per bushel.
• The Grit policy is to level down
Canada to that of the farming States
of the Uuion in which the price of
farming products is from 30 to 50
per cent lower than in Canada.
Protection also increased the
manufacture of American steel rails
from 1,691,264 tons in 1889 to
2,091,797 toes in' 1890, which
meant a large increase in the em-
ployment of labor not engaged iu
the pruducing of breadatuffs. And
reduced the price of rails from
$48.50 per ton to $31.75 per ton.
It might be asked what good the
lesser oust of steel raile did the
-farmer 1 It lessened the average
coat of freighting farm products
from li-ceets per ton per mile to less
than 1 cent per ton per mile, the
difference iu freight going into the
pockets of the fanner in the shape
of higher prices for Itis products,
But then eggs were on the fres
list iu the United Status in April
1890 'dud they imported 450,623
dozen. The McKinley bill imposed
5 cen's s dozen duty and in April
1891 tiauy- imported only 24,892
duzeu. fu April 1$90 the average
price of eggs in the U. S. was'n
fractiun over 10 cents a dozen ; in
April 1891 about 8i cents a dozen.
It is quite true that protection, or a
tariff on eggs has not increased the
price of them 'to the American farm-
er, though it has %o enormously de-
creased the quantity imported. But
this anomaly is merely proof that the
exception to any given rule is mere•
ly proof of the correctness of the
rule as a whole. But what matters it
even if it is admitted that the im-
position of the American duty de-
creased the value of American eggs,
though there must some other cause
thou that of the duty to account for
the fall in price—over produotion,or
less consumption from some unex-
plained cause. However, the lossofa
few thousand dollars on eggs, even if
the tariff be the came' of it, is com-
pensated many thousand fold by the
millions of dollars put into the
pockets of American fanners by the
increased home consumption of and
enhanced prices for the hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of other
farm products which they raise and
sell at home.
THAT CHEAP S CIGA R.
• There is a great cry going up
from the Canadian Oppoeition over
the "cheap" sugar which the poor
American can buy across the lines.
But there is not much wool with
all the shouting, except it is the
wool that the American protection-
ists are pulling over the eyes of
their opponents. American protec-
tionists say: if our tariff does aver-
age 60 per cent., we at least give
you cheap sugar, which is an article
rich and poor use. Whereas our
high tariff is placed on what the
rich only use or on articles which.
we elan produce cheaply. But the
cheap sugar is a sham. Sugar is
made low in price on the other aide
by giving a bounty of two cents a
pound on all sager produced in the
States. This is but robbing Peter
to pay Paul. It is taking two cents
out of the national treasury, which
everybody contributes to, and gives
iy to the sugar producer so that he
can selrhis product two cents a lb.
lees than he otherwise could. But
the public do not get cheap eugar
all the same, 'The public pays the
two cents a lb. in the shape of
bounty to the sugar producer instead
of paying that two cents a lb. to the
'"tttereehtetel e Sffprefr"c ifger
tails in the Sates for five cents s
ib.) the conaunl,er really pays seven
cents a ib., because the Vgdeoer of
the sugar has rieeived two Dente .a
Ill'. out of the national;treasury`io
the formof a ,bounty. I.,aet°year
400,000,000 lbs, of (tape eugar were
produee3 in the States, which at
inclusive :ixhbwi»g the following
losses by,fartners.receivingleis than
tivhst It cost to talee their crape
For, the year 1882—,,,,..•••,011273,269
FG,C OM year 1483,,, . 8,021,940
For the year. 1884 ,r.. . ;11,46p.5fi9.
Per the year MO.:... .... 11.$81,709.
Per the year 1885. , <, , .. • t9,8f9 2li8,
the bounty of two cents a 1h. makes Total, lose in Ova years... $2,647,517
$8,000,000. But this is not all, These figures are oltcial, as well
there was considerable boot root and as those quoted relating to Michigan
maple eugar produced which gets Thef are worthy far more considera-
the bounty of Oct saute a lb. It tion than they receive.
is calculated that this year there
will be produced in the United
States sugar of the various kinds
for which the people will be taxed
in the shape of bounty fully $20,•
000;000. It sounds well to have
the consumer, when he he buying his
sugar pay only five dente a lb., but
he has to pay an additional two
°ante which goes for bounty to the
producers.
A WOMAN'S LOYALTY
AND LOVE.
Nobler f,r where wo•.,aa's loyalty nd
l•,ve is found
telt:, arumbliog sLatuee w'ttth winding
ivy crur.ued.
On the broad pages of history
there is nothing more sublime than
the following letter whi'b was re-
ceived by the chairman of the cow •
mittoe of wombats of Parliament
and Senators appointed by tho
llliuisterialists to prepare and for•
ward to Lady Macdonald a letter
of •coudolence from the suppu. tees
of the late Premier :—
EARNSCLIF'E, Ottawa, June 17, 1891.
I have reouived and read with a
profound satisfaction Lite address.
you forwarded to me from the Con-
servative members of both Houses of
Parliament conveying in words that
are each one a comfort and consola-
tion to we their sense of my loss
and their own. Will you do me the
favor to say to these gentlemen, my
husband s true and devoted friends,
with,what a swelling heart I dwell on
their loving testimony to the great,
nese of him whose useful, kindly,
Christian life, it will ever be our
high privilege to remember.
I thank these dear friends with
tears—not of sorrow, for such a Life
and such a death are beypnd the
reach of common sorrow—but with
tears.of gratitude and affection in
acknowledgment of their love for
him and faithfulness to him through
many years and many battles. Will
you tell them from me at some time
where all can hear that I, his widow,
and broken-hearted in my loneliness
and desolation, venture to ask from
them a last and lasting tribute to my
husband's dear memory.
I ask that that tribute shall be a
firm and united support of the policy
and principles our great leader lived
and died to maintain and carry out.
I appeal to them with all the power
my words can convey to do now and
in the future what they and I know
would be my busband's wish and
desire could those lips silent on
earth forever once more speak on
this or any other crisis of our
country's history. To stand side by
side, shoulder to shoulder, regard-.
Less r,f irritation, self-interest or
seeming reverse, with no gaol but
Canada's success ; to follow, in short,
the splendid example left to us and
to carry out with no sign of division
or faltering the plans and purposea
that lay so near Sir John's heart.
I shell watch so long as my life
lasts with earnest anxiety the prog-
ress of public affairs as for the last
twenty years I have been proud to
do, and pray, as 1 have always pray.
ed, that the Almighty Ruler of all
men would of his mercy grant wis-
dom, foresight and firmness to the
policy and counsels ot'the great Con-
servative party,
Believe me your sincere friend,
AGNEA MACDONALD.
WORTH STUDYING.
The forming of "Farmer's Alli-
ances" in many of the States in
order if possible to find some means
of enabling American farmers to
escape from the deproseiou that has
been hearing thorn down for years
and to devise meaus to gat bettor
markets fol their produce, is not a
very strong argument in favor of
Canadian farmers tnakiug sacrifices
in order to share the lot of their
neighIto re.
We have before us the official
statement of the secretary of state
for Michigan in which that official
shows that the farm atatastlos prove
that for the year 1889.90 the farm-
ers of Michigan received for their
wheat $1,471,526 less than it coat
to raise it, $5,014,787 less than
their corn cost : $2,710,198 less
than their oats cost. They received
$31,373,505 for wheat, corn and oats
which oust them$40,500,015 to raise.
That is they were out of pocket
last year $9,226,510. Those figures
are not party statietics but published
by the secretary of state officially.
The Ohio Farmer supplements
the preceding by publishing the
official report of Charles F. Mills,
secretary and statistician of the
Mete —bi'bizd
for the years from 1882 to 1886,
THE "TOTTERING" GOVERN-
MENT.
A new Ministry has been form-
ed with the old members iu their
former places, Mr. Abbott, Premier
and Hon. McKenzie Bowell, M inis-
ter of Customs iu charge of the de-
partment of Rtilways for the tibae
being.
And the new Minietry goes on a
totteriug with a 32 majority in the
House, the sante as their predeces-
801 e.
By the way,the Opposition allege
tion of tottering as applied to the
present Ministry may in i sense be
properly applied. Webster allows
that tottering may be allied to tit•
tering. And tittering is restrained
laughter, the being, so to speak, al-
most consumed with laughter, the
putting the tongue against the up-
per part of the upper teeth to pro -
vent one from laughing outright at,
the antics of soine one.
In the sense that tottering is all-
ied to tittering the new Ministry is
a-•totteriug. For they are laughing
in their sleeves, while at • the same
time out of courtesy for oven the
buffuunery of their opponents, they
are preserving the normal configu-
ration of their faces so as not blurt
out in unrestrained merrirneutat the
jolly asinine exhibit the Opposition
is making of themselves both iu
the House and out of it.
It was enough to make anyone
titter totter to notice the gravity
with which Mr. Laurier asked the
Government to make a statement of
their policy and the reply of Sir
Rector Langevin that the speech
from the throne had already indicat•
ed that. And if this were net
enough he would refer i1Ir•. Laurier
to their late Chieftain's tersely enun-
ciated policy "the old flag", "the old
policy". It was enough to make
even the Globe's metaphorical horse
laugh for Mr. Laurier to ask such a
question.
Though the lamented Chieftain
ie not at the helm, the party is still
to the fore and the Government
will carry out the old policy the
main feature of which is the pro-
gress of Canada,
But Mr. Laurier and his fertile
brained newspapers had created fic-
titious dissensions among the leaders
of the party which nothing but a
changed policy could heal up.
And Mrs Laurier was not going to
be tittered tottered at. He could
show next day that the Government
had changed their policy, that he
could. The next day arrived and
Mr. Laurier sat like a statue while
the orders of the day were being call-
ed, and'made no sign. But when the
House was about to adjourn he made
a feint to introduce his resolution
well knowing that he was out of or-
der, And so his bravado all oozed
out in boasting. And then again
we can imagine the Ministry titter -
tottering at their opponents collapse
as they proceeded to regular busi-
ness in that confident manner which
shows they can rely upon the sup-
port of the House and the country
in their tottering.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Prontier Abbott is said by the
Ottawa correspondent of the Globe
to be a protestant and Orangeman,
which is sufficient to damn him in
the eyes of the dethroned rider of
the "protestant horse".
v
The selection of Hon. J. J. C.
Abbott to form a Ministry and his
successful completion of his first
piece of cabinet work does not please
the Grits. He did not use any of
the cross-grained timber of the Op-
position,'which will help to account
for their displeasure and his suc-
cess.
American papers are grumbling
at the idea of the Canadian Perlis -
'tient legislating against foreigners
being officers on Canadian vessels.
A similar law has been in force
across the, lines for several -years.
What is sauce for the goose is
der.
The lflru tltrou S,pactotor is run -
Ain; ata: !apparently powerfully
written, story which tho', humorous
eQtloposi:tor has entitled: r,F,pbti,
low Cog. "• Taking for granted
that "The )(allow 1)0g" ae. what
meant it. will d9ubtleaa be quite
entertaining to the ineuibor for
North Brant
The Grit Iamentatio.la is that the
party and the policy which Sir
John A, Macdonald built up will
go to pieces now that the architect
is gone. This is meaningless non.
sense in the fact of the generally
accredited foresight and ability of
the architect. The wish is father to
the prophecy.
Sir Richard Cartwright would
not an did not attend the funeral
of Sir John A. Macdonald. It is
said Sir Richard could not "act the
hypocrite." ''Tis well. It, is many
years since Sir Richard appreciated
anything noble and grand and it is
quite probable that he would have
acted the ,hypocrite had he attended
the funeral and put on the appear-
ance of regret for departed worth.
Be the responsibility where it
may for Lord Stanley calling upon
Mr. Abbott—to form a Minietry, it
does not appear that His Excellency
acted upon the advice of the Grit
members of the fourth estate though
they had the kiuduess to suggest for
His Excellency's cousidoration
Blake, Mr. Laurier and Sir Richard
Cartwright, Mr. M. C. Cameron,
Mr. Mowat, Mr. Mercier, Mr, Farrar
and 11Ir. Wimau.
It is remarkable how British tra-
ditions aro yet preserved in the
United Status. Tho judges of the
Supreme Court at Washington
wear gowns and the nae of gowns
has also been re -introduced among
members of the bar iu the higher
courts in many states. And in
establishing some new courts of
appeal in Chicago a few days ago
it was settled that the judges will
use the judicial gown worn by the
Supreme Court Judges.
The agreement made between
her Majesty's government and the
President of the United States for
the maintenance of a closed season
in Behring Sea may be considered
as a prelude to arbitration of the
whole question of the rights of the
United States. Pending such
arbitration all vessels owned by
subjects of her Majesty are pro-
hibited from killing or capturing
seals in the waters- under dispute
until May, 1892. And citizens of
the Uuited States are also prohibit-
ed from like acts, excepting the
North American Company, which
is empowered to catch seals, not in
excess of 7,500, during the closed
season.
A looked for sequence ! A Grit
exchange with that marvelous
power of logic peculiar to its class
rises to remark :—"It would seem
that a fatality rests 6n the man who
defends the conduct of Sir Charles
Tupper. It was immediately after
delivering a defence of Sir Charles
that D'Arcy McGee met his death
at the hands of an assassin, and the
fell destroyer came to Sir John
Macdonald after his vindication of
the High Commissidner". After
Davin's and Prof. Grant's defence
of Sir Charles one would bytlquali-
ty of reason expect to hear of these
gentlemen being "taken off" by
some of the many character assassins
that are attacking them or by the
"fell destroyer."
There are at least two directions
in which parliament can make a
utitilarian move. One is com-
pulsory voting with• properly guard-
ed exceptions. Another is the
passing of a measure providing for
a plebiscite on prohibition. The
prohibition agitation is forever
interfering with more practicable
legi.lation and creating a class of
hypocrites who, though not in
favor of ;it, hedge round so that
they make political capital by pre-
tending to favor it. A plebiscite
vote would help parliament
to gauge the wishes of the people
on this disturbing question, more
than anything else. And one way
or other it would put an end to the
occupation of a lot of unprincipled
pouters who have the cause of
temperance no more at heart than
they --have- -the, e eteotianes,n.€e::their.
/political opponents at heart.
,The upshot of the Grit policy i
s
the .arranging of ;some. scheme Jude.
OnitelAy called cetnwercit l u3tioo •or
-urtreetr °ted reciprocity, .that would
discriminate' ttgaittt4 the trade of
Greek firitaio, a co4esieting portion.
.of the Name :ewpire is Canada.
The "old policy" -the Conservative
poliosis-.-deterrttivately. and Bete* both parents, evert though note blood
inedly oppoaett to any such dieeritn- relatives, bad the blood blemish one
would expect to find their progeny
to have it in an aggravated degree.
Whether such defeats aa' blindnei:a
or muteness" which is not hereditary •
iu either parties to a marriage;would
necessarily be tranewissable to their
offepriug, it is for science and sta-
tistics to determine. One thing•.
mews reasonably certain that the
danger would be much lessened if
those so afflicted were to mate with
thoae not so afflicted.
Thou if a person; of eaarbttthe :tep4:..
epoy marries one sbaaltttely frea
fXQnl 2uQh taint, the result 044411,014
union would he expected to .he' a
fafnily of ,children either totally
loved of blood taint ar:havi4g ittee
e tnuoh less extpntf than • if .,both
Parents wero•tamied, Whereas had
tvation. It rather leans to discrim.
•ivation in favor of Great Britain
and other portions of the empire.
In anewrr to the English Fair Tracie
Leaguethe other dny Lord Balis.
bury mid that so•aoun as practicable
existing treaties with foreiga coon--
tries
oun-tries would be so arragg,•d 88 to
leave the various portions of tite
.British empire at liberty, if they
saw proper to do so, to frame a fie -
cal policy with differential duties in
favor of the various portions of the
empire and against foreign countries,
Strong protectionist organa in the
United States while admitting that
protection on the whole is of im-
mouse benefit to the American farm•
er by socuriug fur him better prices
fur his produce than he would other-
wise g,et, are free to admit that
the average price of eggs—that is
the price which the farmer receives
—is only something over _8 canto
this year as against something, over
10 cents last year. Whether the 5
cents duty so encouraged the bon
fruit industry that more people have
gone into it and thus by competi-
tion and extra production lessened
the price we cannot say. But the fact
is there all the same, and it is more
than probable that the supply has so
increased under the tariff as to re
duce the price. It has done this in
manufacturing lines, in many of
which home good+ can in many in-
stances be bought at wholesale for
about the amount of duty on im-
ported articles of similar quality.
Monday Mr. Laurier arraigned
the new administration on a vote of
want of confidence. His chief
points being against the delay in
forming the new Ministry— which'
delay it way he said was owing to
the Governor General's creditable
delicacy in not calling upou any ratio
until after the burial of the late
Premier. Mr. Laurier also objected
to Mr. Abbott being Premier while
occupying a seat in the Senate.
Also that Mr. Abbott's recent con.
nection with the C. P. R. as its
solicitor and as a shareholder, hold-
ing this would prejudice the Premier
against the interests of the country
in favor of the C. P. R. A diviehei
showed the new Ministry sustained
by a majority of 25. Messrs Tarte,
Savard and Vaillancourt, hitherto
considered supporters of the govern-
ment, voters with the Opposition,
and Mr. Joneas, another supposed
supporter, paired with Mr. Chap.
leau. The very worst is now
known, and under' no probable
oircuL,stances, with a full .House,
will the Government have less than
25 of an absolute majority, and
fluctuating between that and 35.
The Ottawa correspondent of the
Globe is evidently impressed with
the idea that Hon. McKenzie Bowel!
was shunted out of the cabinet,for he
referred to him as ex•Minister• of
Customs. A. few days after he also
stated that Mr. Bowell will have
charge of the Department of. Rail-
way,' for the balance of the session,
in addition to his own. It is a cur-
ious way of making an Eh -Minister
of Mr. Bowell to make him virtual-
ly fill the place of two Ministers.
Mr. Rowell is one of the best heads
of Department that we have ever
had. Hie Department is one of
the most difficult to manage,ae in its
conduct he comes directly into con-
tact with individual interests oppos-
ed to those of the revenue and the
country. And yet he has, by his
knowledge of the details of it and
his firin adherence to the settling of
all alleged grievances of importers
without fear, favor or affection,
gained their confidence and re-
spect.
The report of the recent marriage
of a blind couple in this county has
caused some to ask if such marriages
are not only not desirable but actu-
ally vieioue. It would seem that
they are not desirable. It is a well
knoyvn physiological fact that simi-
lar natural defects in parents are
apt to become intensified in their
offspring. It was only last ssesion
that Sir John Thompson amended
and made more clear the law for.
bidding the marriage of persons
within certain degrees of consan
guinity. The reason behind such
prohibition is that marriage of
blood relatives is apt to so empha-
size individual minor tnental or
physical ailments in •their progeny
ar••tl rnn=•ehe ebanoe=of:their -being.
burdens to themselves and society.
tlotue weeks ago, at the inetanoe
of one of the oldest shippers of
cattle in the province, we called at.
tention to the necessity for better
regulation in the transportiou of
cattle from inland points to the
seaboard, and pointed out that not
only was there more cruelty to
animals while in transit ou cars,
than during the ocean voyage, but
also greater loss to owners eutailed.
Our article was largely copied: As
if to endorse the views embodied in
our mention we find the following
in a last week's city exchange :—
"A heavy loss has just been sustain-
ed in the last consignment of heavy
distillery cattle sent from Toronto to
Montreal for shipment Ito the old
country. No fewer than fourteen of
these valuable beasts perished on
the cars owing to the fearful heat
which beat down upon them in tran-
sit. Three others were nearly
trampled to death. They were all
valued at $80 a head and were unin-
sured. This is the second loss of the
kind sustained by Goldsmiths, of
New York, this season, and repres-
ents a sacrifice of $5,600. Distillery
cattle require extreme care in handl-
ing, as they are soft and tender and
easily become excited. Cattlemen
at the market affirm that the beasts
often suffer more agony on the
journey between Toronto and Mon.
treat than during the whole Atlantic
voyage."
The New York Press,a atrcng ad-
vocate of protection,makes the state-
ment from official returns that in
April, without any duty on eggs,
there were imported info the States
450,630 dozen of eggs valued at
$47,786 or at the rate of 10.6 cents
per dozen. While in April 1891
under a duty of 5 cents there im-
ported only 24,892 dozen valued at
$2,070 oa at the rate of 8.316 cents
per dozen. Showing that eggs un-
der the duty were worth one and
three quarter% cents less than when
admitted free, This also is official
proof that the McKinley bill did
not hurt the Canadian producers of
them as the average price of them in
1891 was fully 12 cents a•dozen in
Canada as against about 8* cents in
the States. The only reason we can
figure out for eggs being worth more
this year to the Canadian farmer
than to the American farmer is that
both the Government and our busi-
ness men took time by the forelock
and opened up the British markets,
which were found to be better than
they ever dreamed of. The McKin-
ley bill has been a blessing to the
Canadian farmers in more ways than
this. So long as we were content
to trade only with our next door
neighbor we never looked out for
other customers. The McKinley
scare urged our people to look fur-
ther abroad with the result that it
was found our farmers were losing
thousands of dollars every year by
confining our trade in eggs and oth-
er products to the United States.
It is sometimes pointed out that the
prices, in some of the large manu-
facturing centres of the States, for
certain classes of farm products are
higher than in Canadian cities.
This is easily accounted for. Cana-
dian traders work on a smaller mar-
gin. Their expenses such as rent,
taxes, help etc ere very much less
han that of their American breth-
en. This will account to some ex-
ent for the Canadian farmer getting
higher prices than the American
armor. It makes up difference to
he farmer how high the price is in
ities. It is the price he receives
hat interests him. And it is an
aeily demonstrated fact that the
Canadian farmer gets all around
atter prices for his products than
oes the American farmer. •
What a mess poor mortals make
make of it when they try to im-
rove upon nature's plans. Ex-
enatar. arwale-, of .eC.hricagoee is
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