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The Huron News-Record, 1895-02-20, Page 6t MANY WITNESSES A Host of Liberals Favor Protection. THE POLICY FOR CANADA Tills 1s What Leading Llboral■ Have Themselves Acknowledged—Hou. Ed- ward Blake Save Horne Industry Should be Encouraged—Mr, Laurier. Dlr. John Charlton Rind Others Quoted. The declarations of the Liberal Party are; — lst—That protection is a fraud and robbery. 2nd—That they will absolutely des- troy the protective system and remove every ventage of it from the soil of Canada, should they gat into power. Shall we call some witnesses to con- tradict these statement? Perhaps we had better. Anil for tear that the ver- acity or unpartiality of the witnesses might be questioned by the leaders of the Liberal party we think it better to give some of the Liberals themselves as evidence on the question of protec- tion. Let us begin with Mr. Laurier him- self. On the 9th of November 1871, Mr. Laurier, speaking en the trade ques- tion, declares "It is humiliating to have to admit that after the existence of three hundred years, this conntry is not able to supply its own wants. Although Nature bas been marvellously prodigal in her gifts and has done so much to make this a manufacturing country, we are yet dependent on foreign coun- tries. It is our duty to foster our na- tional industries." Of course Mr, Laurier says now that he said this in the innocence of youth when he did not consider the question, But he had thoroughly considered the q u.stiorl, and was a leading member of his party in 1876 aad at that time Mr. Laurier spoke as follows: -•"It Is asserted by many, and assumed by others,that free trade is a Liberal principle, and pro- tection a Conservative principle. If I were in Great Britain, I would be a free trader, but I am a Canadian born and a resident here, and I think that we re- quire protection. We have within our- selves the ability to create an industry. It is to be shown that we cannot main- tain it, unless by legislation either in the way of premium or prohibitory tariff, then I should be ready to take that into consideration." This is witness No. 1, and he does not say anything about protection being a " fraud " or a "robbery." Indeed, he goes for more than protection ; he wants prohibition. Under prohibition, combines wilt be formed. The Conservative party do not believe in prohibition; they believe in a fair measure of protection, such as will steady the home market for the home producer, but such too as will allow for- eign competition to come in to prevent prices being raised. WITNESS No. 2. Now let us take witness No. 2. This time it is the Hon, Edward Blake, who on Nov. 14th, 1875, in 'Toronto, Ont., de- clared as follows: "We should, as fur as we legitimately can, distribute the taxes so as to give a benefit to our home industry. If not absolutely essen- tial to the greatness of a people, variety of industry is certainly a great help to its growth." This is, of course, the Con- servative doctrine pretty fully. As we understand it, however, the Conserva- tive party believe that variety of indus- try is absolutely essential to the great- ness of a country. With the other re- marks of Mr. Blake, the Conservative party have all along agrered. They be- lieve that if a tariff is to bo placed to raise a revenue, that we ought to place that tariff so as to assist our home indus- tries, and this is ,lust what they have been doing. WITNESS No. 3. Witness No. 3 shall be another gen- tleman prominent in Liberal ranks, who now goes about the country tearing his hair and weeping for the destruction of protection. That gentleman is Mr. John Charlton—the same gentleman that the f}'les at Washington describe as "John Charlton, of Michigan." Mr. Charlton, in 1876 (see Hansard's Budget debate), declared as follows: "I believe the agricultural interests would be benefited by protection. I would make a market by bringing the manufacturer to the door of the farmer. The home market was of greatest value." Here is a statement of fact and of principles both. What now light has Mr. Charlton got? Why should he now weep for the destruction of a policy that he once thought was the best possible policy for Canada to pursue? The rea- son is not far to seek—Mr. Charlton and his party have been kept out of power by the Conservative policy of protection. WITNESS No. 4. Witness No. 4 is a gentleman who is looked upon by Liberals as a thorough- ly honest and upright man, and there- fore his evidence is of very great value. In 1877 a committee of the House of Commons collected evidence upon the trade question so far as it affected farmers and their interests. Ono of the parties who gave information was Mr. Joh-, then leader of the Liberal party In the Province of Quebec. Mr. Joiy's evidence was given in these words : "The admission of grain free of duty is against the interests of the farmers of Canada. I am decidedly in tavor of protection of the home markets of thia suntry." '1'Iris is the policy upon which the Conservative party went into power on in 1878. It has been their policy ever since. The policy ot the Grit party was the very opposite ; they allowed the products of other countries to come in free and compete with the Canadian farmer without getting any privilege in foreign markets in return. They wish to do the same thing again. WITNESS No. 5. Witness No. 5 is Mr. Blain, M.P, for West York in 1876 (Seo Hansard), and this is what he said : "I feel that I should like the Finance Minister (Sir Richard Cartwright) to come down with a tariff policy that would enable us to protect our home industries and that would enable us to bring our producers and consumers to- gether." Exactly so ! This is what the Conser- vative party did, and what it proposes to continue to do. WITNESS NO. 6. Witness No. 6 is Mr. Workman. 1',!. P. for Montreal, and his evidence, like that of Mr. Blain, is contained in a speech given in Parliament in 1876. (See Hansard, page 74.) "We feel the unjustness of admitting provisions into our country from the United States free, while a duty of 20 per cent. is placed on flour and grain sent to the United States. 1 am sure that the Government of the day will not ignore, and I do not think they can ig- nore, the cry for protection that has gone forth through this country, corn - 'noticing at Quebec and coming to Montreal, Toronto, Londcn, Ilatnilton and all through Canada. Every candi- data who will dare to announce himself as opposed to protection will be elected to stay at home." And Mr. Workman was not veru far from right. Sir Richard Cartwright and Mr. David Mills and such gentle- men were opposed to protection and so announced themselves. The result was that they were swept out of power and only a ragged remnant of their sup- porters came back. WITNESS No. 7. Witness No. 7 is the Hon. James Young, a man of suflicient ability to have been selected by Sir Oliver Mowat as his Provincial Treasurer. Here is what Mr. Young stated iu Parliament. (Hansard, 1876;) "It we are to have the tariff altered, and if my honorable friend can frame the measure that some relief can be given to the manufacturers from the unfair competition of the United States, the Finance Minister would earn the approval of the House and of the coun- try." But Sir Richard failed to do it and lost the confidence of the House and of the country. The Conservative party did it and have ever since retained the confidence of the House and of the country. WITNESS No. 8. Witness No. 8 is Mr. William Patter- son, M.P., biscuit manufacturer, mem- ber of the biscuit combine, M.P. for South Brant and general anti -protection orator of the Grit party. Mr. Patter- son has testified many times, and he has been known . to adroit in recent years, that the worst thing he has to fight against in denouncing a defensive tariff, is the strong argument he ad- vanced in favor of a defensive tariff a few years ago. Anyone who cares to look up Mr. Patterson's evidence will find as follows: (See Hansard, page 646. March 14, 1876.•) "He held' that the Administration should protect our agricultural inter- ests. Such a duty would not bear in any way upon the consumers and would be of great advantage to the interests concerned. The small duty upon grain would benefit the farmers of this coun- try. It is well known that we pay a bonus to the inhabitants of other coun- tries to come into Canada and settle in our midst. I believe by a defensive tariff that you would not have to pay to bring those men here. Adopt it and you will find that the steam whistles of our factories will be the call for than to come. The other year, the Finance Minister, in revising our tariff gave some encouragement to one industry which it never had before. The result was that one thousand men, who were engaged in that industry in Germany were literally transported, by the change in the tariff, to Canada and set to work here. The cost of the article was not increased one iota and Canada got all the benefit." Here Mr. Patterson has let the cat out of the bag. He declares himself in favor of agricultural protection ; de- clares that protection does not increase the rates to the consumer, and proves by a case in point that a defensive tariff brings people into the country and keeps them here instead of driving thein out. Mr. Patterson, no wonder you find is difficult to answer your arguments of a few years ago. WITNESS No. 9. Witness No. 9 is the Hon. Mr. Jones, familiarly known as "haul down the flag Jones," a gentleman who was Minister of Militia in Mr. Mackenzie's Govern- ment. Now, Mr. Jones is a practical man. Ho was interested in sugar re- fining and he therefore felt pretty keen- ly the nonsensical nature of the policy of the Mackenzie Government upon that question. Hero is Mr. Jones' evidence. (Hansard 1876.) "There must bo a readjustment of the duties on sugar so as to encourage our refineries. At present they are closed and some thousands of people are thrown out of employment. The duties on raw material are too high and on the refined article too low." Mr. Jones stated the facts truth- ; fully. The duty on raw sugar was 60 per cent. and the duty on refined sugar e, was only 40 per ,cent, ' The resul• t was that our refiuor(es were elgsed, thou - fiends of men thrown out of employ- ment, and nlmost every pound ot sugar we consumed was brought from abroad at a high price. The Conservative party have reserved that. They have free raw sugar and they have placed a small duty against the importation ot refined sugar. The result has bean that our refineries aro in full blast. thou- sands of people are profitably employed, sugar is cheaper than ever it was before here and cheaper than it is in the Unit- ed States too. Mr. Jones should now be supporting the Conservative party. WITNESS NO. 10. • Witness No. 10 is a gentleman named Mr. Devlin, who represented Montreal in parliament during Mr. Mackenzie's term of office. Mr. Devlin is on record in Hansard as follows:— (See Debates 1876). "I feel It my duty to say that I am in complete harmony with a policy of pro- tection for (fur manufacturing indus- tries. 1 am perfectly willing to assist in the passage of any law that will re- verse the policy of the present Govern- ment though it gives ale great regret. When the United States people close their market we shou•Id retaliate by closing our markets against them." It is not necessary to say that Mr. Devlin was, like all the rest w, have quoted, a very strong Liberal. Just here our readers will notice, that very strong pressure was brought, from his own supporters, upon Sir Richard Cartwright in 1876—and the quotations we have given are only a few of the !natty that might be given—to reverse his policy and adopt protection. He refused, and the men who had been pushing for protectiou,instead of d:.sert- ingeheir party, whipped into the support of their party and deserted their prin. ciples. And so we find Mr. Patterson, Mr. Young, Mr. Jones, Mr. Laurier, Mr. Charlton and Mr. Joly, who shouted so loudly for protection, now shouting still more loudly for the destruction of a pro- tective policy. Like Hosea Bigelow they may well declare "As tor princi- pals, I ain't got- nuthin of til 1 sort. I ain't a Whig, I ain't a Tory, I am just a candidate in short," SCRAPED WITH A RASP. Sins,—I had such a severe cough that my throat felt as if scraped with a rasp. On tacking Norway Pine Syrup I found the first dose gave relief, and the second bottle completely cured me. Miss A. A. DOWNEY, Manotic, Ont. Ebenezer. Owing to the recent storms there has been no meeting in the church here for Soule time. People in this neighborhood report; this as the worst storm for some years. Mr. A. E. 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Where once tvere the finest cornfields in the union the very buffalo -grass is dying. Not only wells and springs and brooks, hut. Large rivers are entirely dried up. What, once were busy towns are now half deserted. The whole country is being depopulated. by migration and by death, faster than it was settled. Even the prairie dogs and other wild creatures are fleeing from the inhospit- able waste. - No waste can express too strongly the urgent need of help. The disaster has not come suddenly, like storm or tir'e or flood, upon people who have a reserve of means to fall back upon. It is the culmination of five years of pro- gressive ruin, in which harvests have failed, savings have been used up, and debts and n:o tgages have been inter]. red. ncur- red. The people have no money, and little or nothing which they can still or pledge to raise it. They are literally pauperized. F'aaunitiesthat a few years ago were well fed. well clad, well housed, on profitable farms, are now homeless wanderers, struggling pain- fully eastward, toward some more fa- vored region. Others, who cannot even get away, are living on horse- flesh and weeds and fouler food. Some have actually starved to death, and some have sought in suicide es- cacpe from an end less sudden but more painful. ave., .••4W ,:.1 ',• wewnet, n .,,,J aws THE T\VO POLIOIES. Some Questions to be Carefully Considered, A SUCCESSFUL RECORD Contrasted With a Polley of Blundering Stupidity qua Incapaelty — Whitt the Return it the Liberal Party {Mould Mean to This Country—The Question of Revenue —Direct Taxation Inevitable Under the Proposed Liberal Tariff. There, are some of our readers whose partizanship lir so strong that they will vote for their party candidate however bad for the country the policy ho sup- ports ; it is fortunate, however,. that the majority of our people aro not built on such lines. After all, the fate of the country, though the loose and partizan vote combined has a largo influence, is deckled by the men who think and who Judge for themselves as to what is best and safe for Canada. It is to this class of men we wish to appeal. There are two groat parties asking for support,and these parties will have their candidates in every constituency. The candidates themselves may have their virtues or their failings ; these are cominon to us all. But what the electors should chiefly remember is to investigate thoroughly the difference in the policies which they support. For sixteen years Canada has been governed by the Conservative party. No doubt sometimes that party has made mistakes iu matters of both legislation and administration. It never claimed to be perfect, The fair-minded man, whether of one party or the other, will admit that it has done a great deal indeed for the development of the coun- try, towards maintaining its high credit abroad, and in the way of perfecting its laws. Its leaders, while in life, have been abused ; almost every crime in the callendar has been attributed to them. But within the space of three short years we have seen three great leaders, vilified and abused in life, pass away amidst universal sorrow and followed the eulogies of opponents as well as friends. After death their true character has been admitted by their opponents any fixed principle; their whole effort has been tor office and they have cared not a wit whether they secured it upon one plea or another. Unrestricted Re• ciprocity, Continental Free Trade, Tar- iff Reform, Free Trade and half a dozen other cries have been placed before the people with the hope that they would accept one or other of them and place the Liberal party again in office. Tho people have shown in all these succes- sive contests great good serfs©. They have refused by large majorities to be taken away from the sate mooriugs of a well settled National Policy. Once more this same Liberal party are ask- ing for power. Having thrown aside all their old policies they have a new one. They are at their old trick again, attempting to catch a verdict upon a cry, And what is their cry? Free Trade as in England or as near ort ap- proach to it as possible! Now, let us ask our leaders what this means? It means, let us say to our leaders, very serious changes in the commercial and industrial life of the country and before it is adopted there are some important questions which should be very careful- ly considered. To change a tariff pol- icy of a coun try is a ser oua matter at any time, and it is especially serious when that policy has existed for a num- ber of years and when great interests have grown up,under it. Now let us for a moment say something as to the questions which ought to be consider- ed. In the first place there is the question of revenue. We should all like to get along without paying any taxes but there must be a revenue collected for the support ot'government and the taxes of the people, whether collected in one way or the other, are the only means of raising that revenue. We aro raising it now by in- direct taxation—a taxation which and each one of them has been praised as a great friend of his country, and his abilities then accepted at their proper and great value. Tho same party with a new leader, surrounded by the col- leagues of the old leaders, will soon be appealing to the country for a renewal of confidence. It is following the same policy; a policy which says wo ought to consolidate our Dominion; that we ought to harmonize alt races and creeds ; that we ought to lose no opp lrtuuity of de- veloping our resources; that we ought to improve our means of communication with the great markets of the world as ully as possible; that wo ought to make a fair arrangement for trade with any people who are willing to deal with us upon fair terms, and that, failing to get fair trade arrangements with other countries, it is our bounden duty to see that our markets are protected tor our own people; and that under any and every circumstances the industries of Canada should be encouraged, employ- ment to our people, and the given p p , Can- adian farmer enabled to supply with the necessaries of life, in so far as he produces them, the people who manufac- ture for him what he must purchase. Now, opposed to this old party, with all its years of advantageous legislation for the country upon the lines that we have just indicated, is the Liberal party of Canada. Once that party was in power for five years. Everyone who is old enough to remember that five years knows that it was flue years of Canadian depression and hard times, that it was five years of a blundering stupidity and incapacity, so far as the leaders of that party were concerned. Since their do - feat of 1878 the Liberal party have been constantly asking tor a renewal of power ; and in order " to secure it they have adopted as their pulley almost every fad which has been put for- ward in the country for acceptance. Never have they been guided by we have shown time and time again bears most heavily upon the people who consume luxuries, whose incomes are large and who spend the greater same therefore in living. If we aro to adopt " A Free Trade, such as it is in Eng- land," system, we shall destroy our re- venue entirely except in so far as we collect it by duties upon wines and such things as that. That would mean a de- ficit in some other way ot 818,000,000. But if we were to not even attempt the system that is in vogue in England, but have resort to a system such as was in vogue in Mr. Mackenzie's tune, wo shall not raise within $10,000,000 of euffieie nt to meet the wants of the coun try. Therefore now in either case a deficit of largo size will have to be raised by some means or other. There is only on e way of raising it. That means is direct tax a - tion of some kind or other. This is the first question than for tha people to con- si ler, viz., whether they are prepared, in order to please Mr. Laurier and some of Itis associates, to abandon the means of raising. the revenue which we have at present and to adopt sotn 1 system of di- rect taxation? Of course Mr. Laurier and his friends say quickly, " reduce the expenditure"; but this might as well be dismissed at once because Mr. Laurier has never pointed out where tie can make the reductions; and beside, while he has hint rd at making reduction s amounting to two or throe hundred thousand dollars a year, he has admitted at the same time, that he is bound to carry out the Quebec resolutions which I will load down the Treasury, by increas- ing Provincial subsidies to the extent of a million and a half dollars a year. Every man of common sense; beside knows that the expenditure of Canada is more likely to increase than decrease, whethor a Conservative or a Liberal Government be in power. Question for the people to consider is—whether they are prepared for a complete reversal of our tra le policy. As has been pointed out time and again the only country adopting Free Tracts is England, Eyery other couutry de- clines to have anything to do with it, and persists in looking after the protec- tion of its own interests. The situation in Canada is of course entirely different to that in England. English industries have reached the zenith of power, while Canadian industries have only during the past few years began togrow great. There is hardly a country that has not tried Free Trade, and in every case with the single exception of England, ttiu people who have adopted it for a time have returned to a defensive tariff sadder and wiser than when they de- parted from it. We should never have heard of this cry of Free Trade in Can- ada were it not for the desire of a few played -out politicians to get into power. We think we are justified in asking the people, as a speaker recently did upon the platform, to accept the warnings of history rather than the vague specula- tions and promises of political hacks and adventurers. This is question No. 2. Question No. 3 is : Whether we arc wiliing to give up our market without getting any Market in return, tor that Is what the Liberal party are proposing. to do it they get into power. They say they will remove every vestige of pro- tection ; and notwithstanding that the markets of other peoples' are shut against us they will open up their mar- kets to them. We believe in being generous, but generosity has, like many other things, must have a limit, and bsside it is a good as well as an old maxim that charity begins at home. We have tr,ed this too, partially, once before. Between 1871 and 1878 our farmers were driven out of their markets by agricultural pro• duce imported from the United States absolutely free of duty. while we were not allowed to send auything to the United States without its bearing a tax. During the same period manufacturers were driven from their legitimate mar- kets here by Canada being made a slaughter market for the cheap bank- rupt stocks of the manufacturers of the !suited, States, England and Germany. The result was that in Canada our peo- ple were out of employment, their erm- ines were in want, they were unable, according to Mr. Blake, to purchase goods, and in cons 'quence our legiti- mate revenue fell off; and worse than all, finding themselves unable to secure employment in Canadian industries, thew were driven to the United States and els,'whero to find employment iu the industries of other countries, and to purchase their bread from foreign in- stead of Canadian farmers. The Con- servative party reversed that; they put on a defensive tariff which established our industries, employed our people and helped to consume our own produce. They said let us make up our own law material ; let us employ Canadian hands and let those Canadian halide be given strength by the product of Canadian farms. Shall we continue. this? Tho good sense of the country says yes! Nobody is more interested in the tnain- tenance of this policy than the farmers of the country. Where is there a far- mer with any sense who will say that the bars should be taken down again and that American pork, American beef and such like products should be allow- ed to be brought in here to bo supplied to the people of our country ? We have found in private conversation, that far- mers are the strongest protectionists in the country, as indeed they always have been in every other countsy, and we are satisfied that they will fully and very carefully consider the ques- tion, whether they are prepared to see the (iberal party sacrifice our farmers markets and get nothing in return. These are some questions which our electors should carefully consider. The Trade Question will be the main ques- tion before the people when tho contest comes on. Cries of extravagance, cries of corruption, cries of mismanage- ment will of course be hurled at the men whn are at present controlling af- fairs. 'These are only catch cries. The Liberal party have said what they would do if they got into power upon the Tariff issue. They have time and time again repeated that they would destroy every ventage of protection and this is the issue on which the country will have to decide. Let our readers for a morhent gltttic0�, at the history ot the United States. TWO' or three years ago the Democratlie Party were elected upon a ery of Free, Trade. They passed the Wilson Bill, which even in its original state was, thousand miles from Free Trade an.;d the state in which it passed the Q was a much higher protective re. than we have in Canada at the fG' time. But it was a reduction > f the Tariff and it interfered to some exten$ with the prosperity of Americans by its operations and it destroyed, by the fear and uncertainty which it caused, a year of tho commercial life of the United States and has plunged them into a de- pression from which they wilt.be a long while recovering, At the very first op- portunity the people rose up by thou- sands and swept the Democrats from power. East and west joined with north and south to tell them in the most emphatic terms that they wanted no more of that sort of legislation. 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