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timues to be the Led (of the department
that he ouutut pretend to say freer, Otta-
wa what is best to be done in that coun-
try for the settlers of the North-West,
that neither he nor any other man who
W never visited the country nor has
personal knowledge of it, can pretend to
edminieter thew important *Aura in the
. iuterete of the people who are to settle
it. Tigre are departarents and depart-
ments, Mr. Speaker, and I say that this
is one of the departments which cannot
be worked by shelving every treuble-
swme question in picin-hole. marked
"masterly inactivity; nor by telling
good stories to people who oume to in-
terview the Minister on important mat-
ters of business. The proper adminis-
tration requires more than that; and it
is a misfortune of no ordinary character
that its adminutntion passed from the
able and competent hands of the hon.
Member for Bothwell (Mr. Mills), into
the hands of the right hon. Minister of
the Interior. We see the result of the
change in an expenditure double or
nearly treble what it was; in turning the
North-West into .b
gam ling table; in
the tens of thousands of honest settlers
who have beeu driven away from the
North-West to seek for homes ton the
American aide of the border. If ever an
impudent assertion was niadeon the floor
of this House, if ever there was a case
of effrontery in the world it was when
that hon. gentleman rose in his place
and dared to say that the Opposition
were responsible for the fact that so
many Canadians had gone to Minnesota
and Dakota in place of going to Canadian
North-West. This was due above alt
and before all to his own gross blunder-
ing. If the hon. member for Halton
(Mr. McDougall wbo, I ain sorry to
see, is not in his place, was able to say
ten or eleven years ago, when he was
afflicted with one of those periodical tits
of truth -telling which sometimes attack
hire, when, like, Balaaw, he speaks sore-
ly against his will—though I am bound
to say that, like Balaani, he always takes
an opportunity of tenoning what he
says on these rare oc(alsions—I say, if
that hon. gentlenian spoke truly when
he said that
infurwt,tivn which he thoeghl ut va'ute i 001/10tra mop wuoeurie better off they will undoubtedly Mut law hear thew, Let nut without estrous without payingtull �l u • .i ti r
and perhaps to check wine practices and a variety of other articles, were sell- more sugar, and 0..110U:110 Mune Has uo(vw
nvbUtl,u In Ioukunit .over the of another. ll
of 'kart
which Wight have led to mischief. But ing as cheaply nue ea in 1878. Let me when they are not so. well tott N.. whole paotlei. 1 stn fucetubly reminded whiek they have reduced us As to our
the hon. gentlemau resorted to • most tell the hum gentlemen that if that were thanle to the hon. gentlemuaa et his of ibe tomer thew bow. gentlemen pro- pruritic' 1 liberties they weal .oily 1. be
extraordinary mode of obtamuug 11. !true tt would prove noshing. The gins- policy fur that. Had toy .'aiit sea im fess to a Insue, the geed nuns whica occupied m devising , saw t. eat • 1
One would have thuus.ht dust he would • clan u not, are these goods sold cheaper
have couununiu.ited in the heat 'meaner' 1 to -day that. they a ere in 1878, but ars
to one or inure banking authorities be- thew geode sold cheaper, or sa cheaply
fore he issued a amulet which threw the I now as they can be obtained in other
banks of the country into a state of am- quarters. That is the true queetiva, tint
fwion, well ulgh of pemc, as that circu- ai he put it. 1 have reason to belie**,
lar did. The hon. gentleman wake* It the hen. gentleman is green usly main -
his boast that when he interferes with formed u to the prices of goods in 1878.
manufacturers, he a very particular to I tuna here, taken from Invuiew of a
consult the manufacturers themselves. large dealer, the following statement*.
1 du nut suppose the hon. gentleman had and 1 will give thein to detail not as lis
any lutenist in promoting the operstieou does as mere vague general assertion,
of a ew bean on the Montreal Stuck hut I will give the actual (Acta and prices.
Exchange; but the result of this set of peaking of grey and unbleached cottons
his was to auto the stocks to fall to of a class lar)ely used by the working
value in one day fn.w three to' twenty �e'asaes, that geutleman tells rue that in
per cent. It was a mere accident that 1878 the prime cost was 64c., while the
the hon. gentleman's action did not pro- selling price was 7lc-, that in 1881 the
dutw a serious panic, because if there prime cost was Tic. •and the selling price
had been at the same time any great din- Rake. ,or 1n other won*., whereas under
turba►nos in the markets of the world-- the old Tariff there was 10. difference
and a serious disturbance did ,,ccur between the cost and selling price, or 28
u,an, Tariff the
eels o under theresent
shortly afterw•nle--the hue. gentleman per cent., un e p
might have wen most unfortunate re- difference is 211c., or as nearly as poasihle
sults from that step of his I think hon. 39 per cent. ,making 11 per oent. differ -
members aught to consider well whether mace in the prices tot this article, caused
they should entrust that hon. geotletman directly by the hon. gentleman's Tariff.
with powers which he has shown himself T,.ke the case of flannels, which the hen.
to be very little capable of using with gentleman knows are largely consumed
disaretiuu. Then, liar, the hon. gents- by the masses of the people. They coat
man has adopted, 1 am told, a rather about 19c in 1878, and were sold over
extraordinary course, with respect to the counter fpr 28c.; they net new 18c.
promotions in his department. Well, and sell for 30., beings difference of 10
we have all heard in the good old days. per cent. on that article, as against the
about a hundred years ago., that accord- present Tariff. As regards the heavy
ing to the renowned Sheridan-- cloth used for overct.ats by the working
"test mighty ane thing to be • tallier -In-law
classes. and for warm winter clothes for
To a mighty m•ei.iecent three tailed beehive.' women thew were bought for 2s. 6d.
But in Canada, at any rate, it u a much sterling in 1878, while the selling price
finer thing to be a nrother-in-law to • was tO2c-, it now arta the same 2s. fid
Minister of Finance. I would like t, but the selling price is $1.07, being an
know how away pensioners this hon.
increase of 15c. per yard, caused directly
gentleman is going to put on the country. by the hon. gentleman's Tariff. And,
My hon. friend from Middlesex (Mr. Sir, I also have letters from men who
Ross) made • remarkable statement the are largely engaged in trade in this wen -
and day as to the number ail pension- try, uta this is what one of them writes
en one .,f the ministers had put too the under date no longer age, than 20th .tan -
country, and I forget whether he fol- nary, 1882. He its talking about the rel-
lowed it up with a statement as to alive prices of American and Canedutn
those belonging to the Minister of Fi- cottons:—
nance. Then, the hon. gentleman, not "ane of the bet known and most
content with meddling with the banks, saleable American cottons is branded
must address a rather remarkable letter, Atlantic A. Its width is 38 inches It
and here, tin, he has not favored us with sold in New York formerly foe 8c.. now
a full correspondence between himself for 8}c. Canadian cotton of similar
and the . importers of tea and coffee. width and weight, but not quite w good,
My object is not to discuss the principle a sold at wholesale for 10�c."
of the remission of those duties. but to Are we to understand from. the hon.
call attention to the very reirarkable gentleman that that extra two cents will
statement he made in explanation of his form no tax upon the purchaser or pro
-
statement
remission. 1 find, Sir, in a ducer of that cotton. The writer gore
letter signed S. L Tilley, and addressed ontosay:—
to one Janie' H. Read, of Montreal, in Lower bed cottons aresdd in New
which the hon. gentleman states that if York for !+ per yard, a similar quality
it is the wish of the trade, the change of goods in Canada exist tic.; stripe i
will be delayed for a couple of months shtrtinge, largely used by wurkingnten,
to enable parties to dispose of stock out the price in New York is 81c., but this
of lend. It seems to me that it is a re- class of goods being very heavily .taxed
markable view of public duty for a Min- I under the hon. gentleman's Tariff it is
ister of Finance to propound. I had Min -
sold over the counter here for Loc. per
always supposed that ,when a tax was Yard, and even at that., pace is largely
remitted, that it Wes done in the used and preferred by our own people."
It stands to reason, and I cannot see
INTEREST OF THE Pl•BL(C AND THE cow- how the hon. gentleman -can deem it
St MED, worth his while to raise the question,
but, apparently, in the -eyes of the Min- where you have -the same specific duties
later of Finance, the interest of the con- to pay on articles in cittons nngingfrom
sumer has very little to do with it—it is 4 cents or 5 cents a yard to 18 cents or
oisTy the convenience of the importer 19 oenta The cheap goods must pay an
that is to be consulted. I remember enormously heavy tax compared wi'h
only one.similar instance of a Minister the more expensive ones, and in the (arse
of Finance acting en the .some plan, and of wo..lens where you have the same
that was when the honorable gentleman specific duty on those coating 40 cents,as
in 'the plenitude of his good nature en- on those costing *2, the proportionate
abled the importers of Canada to obtain tax upon the poorer class of articles must
money from the banks in order to •en- of necessity be enormously heavy. Now,
able them to import goods in advance of Sir, 'the hon. gentleman has -certainly in
his own -Tariff. I -recommend him to thec,urse of his four or five hour speech
travelled over a great deal of ground,
and I do net know that I would be Jus-
tified in following him all through, but I
would like. Sir, to say a few words on a
question on which he laid a great deal
of stress, th}t is, the question of the
actual cost to the censun,er under this
Tariffuf
banks, of which 5 millions or so bear in- ten years. age. Then, as I 'warned him, I THE SCaAa NOW (ON$ MEU IN CANADA.
terest at rates varyinz (rein 3 to 4 per I he chose to mistake a temporary .hen,
Now, the hoe. gentleman entered into
cent. Consequently the advantage we ! tion for a permanent advance in pros- a long and minute calculation to show
get from these lege departs is this: ' polity; and although 1 , agree with 'him that we were obtaining sugar under this
That while we are ',ming something i that there is at prt•srnt no such inflation' Tariff u cheap, (sr cheaper. I think he
like $Ii00,(100 on these loans from the a+ existed at that time; although I he- Kid 7 cents a hundred curs u than we
people, we receive in interest from the , lievo there are better ehances of train- ! could.obtsin it under the p,recedinq ta-
banks ab.tut $170,000 or 1ti0:00U and to raining our present revenue, Mill I see I riff. Well, Sir, i say this: the measure
loose something like $400,OO. Now 1 him not availing himself of his surVlus of the tax on the people of Canada is the
fail to see that this can he called a proof to make any material reduction iti the difference between the price at which
of very go ed innteteement or veru g«ai burdens of the people, bat making it the they can obtain the sugar in Glasgow or
hankine. I approve mpelf, et giving' excuse•for',lungin into additional ex -
New York and the price they have to pay
a tenditures. Let him remember that a to Mr. Redpath hr anybody else in the
all f.tikeible facilities' to .le ositurA ..f I
small arnottntr; 1 week' gladly see the double accident has happened to him. Do►niuionf Canada. Now, Sir, I offer
holt: „t Not only pave' we had good harvests here the statement given me by one of
Mr. Fawcett, in Englonll, and allow, as ; here1 but there, lla1e beets bad harvests the largest and best known wholesale
they do in Engluel and - in France, ' on the other side of the Atlantic; and if 'find
in the article in Caneula, and I
small amounts et Government- securities I these circa nstances should be reversed, find fmm it that in the last six months
to be taken by •icieinde!mositnr.e. but I ; if we should have bad harvests here, between the end ..f .Luk andtheend of
do not think it is wise or pruolent, or and -there should be plentiful, harvests December the average price of rend of
it can lie called to,caa management, ' o9 the other sidle of the Atlantic, then ed sugar in !Montreal. less the 2# per
to pay :to .a 40 per cent. more than thio l can tell the hon. gentleman that the ant. discount usually elbowed to the
Money is worth n1 The open market. In I Pleasant delusions he has been indulg• trade, wait $9.50 per hundred. in -New
ordinary tanks at this moment, you 1 ing in this afternoon would be dissipated Yorks with the usual discount, the cost,
will handy get 3 pec cent. on the de- . m r ttblessly as were those he indulged exclusive of duty, was about $ti.35.
posits you make. and It is well known in in 1873. Sir, he has one point in hie Therefore, it follows that we have paid
that the cost of managing these deposit. favor, I admit. The North ll'eatis like-
that
small indeed, while here we are pay is to become a ecru important factor, in
ing 5 per cent. and receiving about 1/ measuring the future commercial pros-
per cent. The hon. gentleman is ex- parts of this country; and, although it
posed to two dancers. In the first
place while money is plenty. he receives
a great deal he is not able too use p r efit-
ably, and in the next place if there is a
contraction he w4l run a great risk that
a larim amount of this money will be
eallel in when it will be incontenient
to repay it. It is • source of no profit
now, sad •.f great risk hereatter, and
there in considerable loss to. the puhlic
in the taeentime. And remembering,
as i de, what censures the hon. gentle-
man's friends teased o•n the late Gov-
ernnnent because they kept c'..ndderwble
sums ion deposit while they had large
p elolie works going on, i think his
friends, if they' have any reutard for
their own reputation or conautence',
amelia censure him ea they tiara to sem
TREASON AND IVREuILuTv REIGNID IN
EVERY DEPARTMENT,
he might to -day, with infinitely greater
reason, make the same declaration, so
far as the Department of the Interior is
concerned. The plain fact of the mat-
ter is this, that the hon. gentleman has
shown himself utterly unable to grasp the
magnitude of the great interests involv-
ed in the present administration of this
department. There is no_ one thing up-
on which the future .of the Dominion
more depends than upon the right con-
duct of that department, and the right
administration of the great territory we
have ac(juirsd;.but the course of affairs
since the right hon. gentleman under-
took the charge of thatdepartrnent,shows
that he is treating it as -nothing hut a
vast engine of political influence, and, I
fear, a vast engine of political corrup-
tion. Now, Sir, although this is a sub-
ject on which, if time permitted, I
e )u1d find a gra it deal more to salt, 1
mast pass on to the details of the Ad-
miuistration of the h in. Minister of Fi-
n'encel and I ant hound to say his admin-
istntion will compare well with that of
the colleague beside hint, though even so
for I find it far from satiscactoty. He laid
great stress on the fact that large sums
of money were coming into our hands on
savings bank acc 'iu,ts, but he forget totell
the country what the savings bank depo-
sits cost, and how he turnedthem to ac-
cuunt.: I find fruit returns brought
down the other' day. that while we are
borrowing" from the public with one
hand something like $13,000,000 fcr i peruse the remarks made by various
which we pay interests at about four newspapers of note at the time, on that
per cent, and for which we pay in ex- remarkable feat of his. Now, - Sir, it
p nse4 of management nearly one per. appears to me that the hon. gentleman
cent more—making in all about five per I Is very likely to repeat its 1883 the very
cant—we are with the other expending i self -same errors, to indulge in the very -
it in this way: We have about 12 milt- I self -same delusions, and to bring ab.,ut
ions or thereabouts lying in the various the very self eaiue results which he did
sxisteuce we would have had Hires ai►d
• quarter null in the Trewwty iwstesd
of two mid a -half millions, as taw h. n.
geutleutait . r any of his teerke could
easily have IMeertninad hy a very simple
c.wputtt ran. The au.outit e.f sugar aa,•
'muted in Canada when peened isegniva-
lent k. about 126,000,WU tie., u,d on
that I say that Ute old Tariff would have
produced three and a quarter millions
The people of Canada, 1 repeat, have
paid three and three-quarter millions.
Now, in the matter of ship-huildiig, the
hots. gentleman might have told us that
the
QUANTITY OF aMlP-ICILUINU
th•st is going on has have very consider-
ably reduced under his tarif. He might
have told us that thew direct imports of
tea, these ships frtoi China and Japan
which were to come into the Dominion
have been conspicuous by their absence
o gentle -
neer.
u hon. •
m the whole time t the
during ge
man'. eduuinistratien. Now, Sir, as t•
diminishing our exports from Montreal,
I think the Montm•nul Corn Exchange ere
likely to be quite •a well informed as
the hum. gentlemen as to its causes, and
I ubeerve in a recent report of theirs,
they advocate strongly the abolition of
duty on breadatuffs, and they do not
hesitate to hint that there has been •
great dual of fraud in connection with
the alleged exportation of American
flour ground in bond, to replace the
Anienan wheat brought into the coun-
try by certain milkers. When we get
down aertein returns that have been
moved for, we will be in a position to
ascertain for ourselves more accurately
how far the suspicions of that body are
justified. Until then I do not propose
to enlarge on that particnlar question.
Now, 111e hon. gentleman, in the course
of his argument, advanced three slums
in favor of the National Policy, which
appear to me to be specially deserving
of attention. He has, filet of a11,
claimed credit fur the foreign demand
which existed for our foreign exports as
a result of that policy. Well, Sir, I fail
to see how by any prsibility the hon.
gentleman can maintain that this policy
d ever contri-
butein the slightest degree
to the increase of exports of the
articles I have referred to. Then, I al-
leged he is wrong when he claims that his
policy has created au improved home
market, that the nun who produced
these articles have obtained more money
for all these manufactures through the
operation of his policy and not through
their own exertions or the prosperity of
the farmers, the fisherman and the lum-
bermen of the country. Those have not
been benefitted; in many cases they
have been seriously injured. Through
looking at the general increase of our
exports, there is no wonder that that
great improvement in the home market, 1876 --in which the imports of Great
of which. he speaks has taken place. j Britain had sunk to about $40,000,000.
But, Sir, last of all, in talking of the I I object altogether t, the fallacious ar-
cheapness of articles, the hon. gentle- guntent the hon. gentleman uses. His
Man -has chosen to compare—whether -policy has been t.t compare years of ex -
correctly or not, lent not in a position to Irvine depression with years of ether
say in all canes—the prices in 1878 remarkable prosperity. Now, I am
and 1882. _How, Sir, that is whol- willing to compare years of .prosperity,
ly and entirely a false contention. with years of prosperity, and •yetrs of
The tendency of all textile manufac- depression with years of depression, and
tures, and of manufactures of all kinls, have nothing to fear in the comparison.
is to grow cheaper year - by year. 'New Why could not the hon. gentleman have
inventions are being brought forward given us the
with the object of cheapening manufee- It1PORTe 110t1 ua1AT BRITAIN.
ture, and they would cheapen it if the in'1873-4-5 when our exports, though
hon. gentleman did not interpose with not as large as at present, were very cote
his coal taxes and other things calculate sidenble. He says he has n.1 inlerfur=
ed to destroy and interfere with the ed in the slightest degree with our trade
natural tendeucy of trade. All tht time in Great Britain. Well, when nue Tariff
raw' material ought to be getting cheaper had some pretence to he a revenue Tariff
because the production is usually widen-
ing and cheapening and new raw mater-
ials are constantly being brought into
use. But all these facto the hon. gentle-
man entirely discards. He will not face
the real question, which is not whether
in this or that particular veer things
were cheaper but whether things can be
praducled as cheaply here as they can be
pralmc•d elsewhere; he entirely omits to
take into account the pressure which his
policy luta produced on many of the most
deserving classes of the community. Ile
propres. it is true, to relieve the fisher-
men of his native Pi-ovince and of the
Maritime Provinces, hut what is he g( -
ing to do for all those nunteroue class (a.
people'. such as clergynen,scho olmastele,
clerks and others. whose incomes are in
a great measure fixed When he talks
of the general prosperity I think that
the hon. gentleman would do well occas-
ionally to go through the streets of this
very city. Then he would see that this
GENERAL PROSPERITY HAS NOT EITENDEI)
ALL OVER OTTAWA
as far as he could desire, or we could de -
desire. I think lie will see many shops
empty, many advertisements of proper-
ties for sale, and 1 can tell him that very
recently, to my knowledge, eerie thinly
pro.ta•rties were put up in this city for
which a bid could not be obtained. Sir,
on an avenge *3, and a trifle upwarin, we find,too,from the census returns that
per hundred nn all the sugar that was the picture is not in all respects as the
consumed in Canada in a refined state. hon. gentleman would wish un to be -
will continue to involve us in very Now, Sir, what was the amount of sugar lieve, although the information has in
well ontinuelays, and, although hon. gen. imported into Canada . The enema some cases been ether limited. I find
heavy have •lone their very hest de-namount was 13c:,406,0001h.. (Nthat all that in the case of North Leeds the
tlemen,rine Canada of the benefits which but about 16,000,000 lbs., or about 120,- population has absolutely retrograded.
1 h d • 1 (00,� lbs., were imported exclusively i find the sauce in the ase of Frontense
existed 101 years ego- -there good tunes, thew al every pant they c.o.. Now,so..1
Mr. Speak co, wlmte► new nettle(ttente i do put weAutothreatwi,bot w •at assured-
were looked upon as the natural fields' lis 1 d . any - u.o;, p.,t i to, 1.. t.isuo, nt,
of plunder for a few favorites, whoa perhaps, to Pie IMJ 1 w... eleti,e:s 1 t!lelu
Prtuoe IWwarl Weed was divided —but to the me.,ple of Ca 14,114 woo ,cut
aatengat fourteen or fifteen iatnilies on thew here, arta t • we 1 they tory
eertam. u,.udttiouv..1 .e-itleuseut,Lich shortly pollutes very Manu - - hale
a•uduloma of wttlu,ueut 1 Wile%wwere to appeal, 1 d • rayto them, ilia. if
never fairly fulfilled, and when tt�VVret they persevere its this course, if they
lint:on, atter a long struggle het half revere 111 tr.unpltng at our pr_ ',ra-
ttles coutNwut, au 1 was mustily degraded Lal rights, they tot ,y fwd fust C.ufrler-
to the position of a third -,ate power. ion will fall to I.tecra tluo•.t as s,ta1 as
N••w. Bir, when 1 look et these hon. tt eats creatwi; null If they persevere w
g$eeutloolen and remember their antece particular in trrwl.l,ue ou the plainest
dams, when 1 re011ect their past record
and the consequences of their present
seta, inste+d ..t feeling the glow of vir-
tuous 'oy wtuel, that bun. gentleman
rights of the I.eple of the North -\Vest,
then 1 warn these Hutt so soon as that
country Lewin' to 1.e bllwl up, M. auto as
settleweut i+ ery.talis(d there, as, s.un
the Idiuister of Finance exp a *,enc d. I as the people, founts to, feel the pros.
feel much more diap,.ed ti I sure of the Duds they ere uup.4i11t up -
•LUSH 110E TB DPORA•ATION OF t•AXADA
Now
and to tremble for the c usequenoes
hereafter. I do not want to blains the
hon. Minister too much, for after all he
and his collwyturs may have u.dy duce
what it is there nature to du, and we
should out he toe severe on their little
weaknesses My hon. friend was goons
enough to tell us our credit was high its
England, that tour securities reeked next
to Consols. Have I quoted hint aright 1
Sir Lennard Tilley. Higher than any
other colonial seeunties.
Sir Richard J. Cartwright.—He did
not toy that. He said next to Consols,
I remember he used a similar statement
before, which I took occasion to corned.
No doubt Canadian securities rude high.
That is a very satisfactory fact; looking
at the enormous sinking fund we employ
purchasing our town securities, I am not
so sure the prices are due to_ the causes
the hon gentleman assigns. I may re-
mind him he would have done much bet-
ter had he got rid of the sinking fund on
the occssioon of his last loan instead of
adding to the very large amount we have
occasion to employ in that way. More-
over, we have not been on the market
of late, and when we come to employ
$1,250,000 in purchaaing our own se-
curities year after year, it is not a mat-
ter off ,:teat astonishment our bonds
should run Up 0110 or two per cent.
higher than those of other colonies which
are every year putting securities on the
market.
Sir Leonard Tilley.—They have sink-
ing funds too.
Sir Richard J. Cartwright.- Yee: but
they are always raising hews and their
sinking funds are not as large as Burs.
The hon. gentleman took occasion to say
that he was going to disprove most com-
pletely the charge that his Tariff had in
any way interfer..1 with the- importation
of dry goals into this country, and se-
lected with amine skill a year—I think
on then), Cama.lw will rue very great
risk of losing the Nomth-Wet just as
Great Britalost the Canoed beaten
•
century ago, and no oleo will be more
directly reieineible for it than the tee
hon. ventleooeo 1 sea .urnrcllwteiy before
ins. Sir, these lime .nay boast of their
great majority herr to day, they inay
bast of their full treasury, they may
boast of their devoted seep -eters; bat I
Can re:ollect 1.011e ten year* apo, when
these gaatleuu. ut were jut it. insolent,
just as arno•.amlt as they are to -day, when
they lied just as str.na a majority be-
bintl them, just as full a treasury, when
they were prel,ared to be just as unacru
pukes in maintaining their places as
they were to -day; yet its twelve mouths
after that time I saw them seettered and
driven into deserved ignominy. The
fate that Lafell theme in 1873, and I ser
signs and tokens. not it few, that if they
du not take carr, and it they do nut mend
their ways, that fate will surely befall
them again, and I sty that it will be a
very fortunate day for this country when
we will be able to put a stop t . all the
vexatious legtslatiee with which they
have burdened awl harraseed the coun-
try. -
and our exports were several millions.
less than they are today, I tinct that in
1873, we imported *88.000,000 worth of
goods from Great.Britain; in 1871, f1163,-
000 , 000, in 1874, $ 60, 000', 000,
against an import o.f about $ 43 , -
000, 000 the present year. •He is
very fond of having avenges; let him
carry his average a little farther back;
he will find the result will confirm what
we have said. He will find that be has
reduced the natural importation from
Great Britain to the amount of something
like $25,000,000, if we take the extr(nme
points. The hon. gentleman stated that
the old customs Tariff would have fai'eI
to produce sufficient revenue but failed
to produce the smallest ground of argu-
ment fur that assertion other than this,
that our Tariff imposed burdens ton the
people without providing focal and en-
couragement for them. I would like to
know how he found food and encourage-
ment for the bulk of the people when lie
taxed feed, fuel, light and every ether
ne(•esaity. And when lie talks of the
people paying voluntarily into his trea-
sury I would like to know what option he
gives or ever gave anyone of us in the
matter of contributing to the revenue.
As to the number of factories which the
hon. gentleman alleges came into opera-
tion, all that he has the slightest ground
to claim credit fur are the 95 which he
states, although he gave no details, had
come into existence since March, 1879,
while as to the iucrease in the hands em-
ployed elsewhere the majority o1 these
are due wholly to the increased prusperi•
ty of the country arising from cause, I
have enuntentel, over which the Na-
rnlght he reciter ed in,m t e eve o�ment for the use of the refiner. That would I Lennox East Hastings West .iorthum tional Policy had no control whatever.
I think there are sufficient chances of
p gar, am, And there Is,the explanation of the who*.
said pr..er•eas in the North-West to
greatly neutralise the mischievous effect*
of their policy. But, Mir, I come to
("insider the hen. gentleman's proposed-
reductinns of taxation. I am very glad
f that country, still, granting al that, ,rdace at least 110 O00 (100 Iha sugar, berland Fast Durham West Durham,'
after making liberal allowance for the also of the good town of Niagara, which increase that has taken place. I might,
waste accruing in manufacture. What is becoming emelt by degrees, Slid beau- 1 were It worth my while to go into a
(lo WP receive on that ' From the hon. Wilily less under the (catering care of discussion of that kind, point out to the
g•entl'man•a own statement we receive its honorahle representative. i also hon• gentleman that although it may bre
$2,459,000 duty; yet of that 110,000,000 find South Wentworth mod Halton in true that in two or three isolated cases
there has been an increase in value of
city property, yet that over a large por-
lbs. we had to pay to Redpth t ('u $3 the same condition, and an equal num-
to see usnv proposed reductions of taxa- and a fraction per hundred more than her of counties which are marked as
tion. 1 do not propose to quarrel with the price in New York and 4llasgow,and almost absolutely stationary. 1 cannot
hem for taking off taxes on tea and cd-
had that mine, gene Into the Treasury speak of the 'tate of things in St. John,
fee aria other articles. But 1 will point we nonld hate receive* *3,723,000 ie*- but the member for the city and omnty
•,ut that the taxes which he is taking off stead ,.f $2,4.9,0100; and the result r4 of St..lohn, and other gentlemen who
are precisely those which are most even- this tariff has been just what i told the are well aequaioted with that loality,
Iv distnbuted which take least out of hon. g.ntleman, that the pwrgele,t( (.letter tell me the state of things there is pret-
ty much the same. in the west, in
such town. so Belleville, Gu,derieht
1Nltchell. etr tf.end and Welland, i find
„g per► hare huamel themseltes with all the In -
sur, us far the exhibft which Ads owl ' the p•a'keta of the peu.ple to pHro eise m do have pemd 83,77.0,(10) man• than t4•y
egures "hew, and the em••unt whine ho to the sunt they pat mato the Heise I woeild have done if there had beets On
is now unnecessarily holding a de*wiL N.. taxes a,dld bre taken off which would duty; and that $2,fi00,0(el have gene im-
But. Mir. hesid►a 'stunts beaks, the do leans to relieve the iw,ople than those i to the Treasury and $1.250,000 have
hon. ventleman must needs parttcu'ar taxes which he has selected been mid to keep the th ur•od men (1e
( he really wants to relieve the people, spoke of employed
Tay HI4 HAND ON TRY MANIA GgIILALLT, I let him remove the taxes on breadstuff*
and on ectal, and theses specific duties on Kir. Lemuel Tilley. Neer, hear
and alttiough he has not condescended f1eC Sir Richard Cartwright. --That a the
to brie: leen the several circulars which various teen a fabnes Thea' taxa are
exact fact of the ease, whatever the hc,w.
h. has „wood. 1 have hese able to obt.ur n en sheminahle injustice, dlecnmenating entleutwn Dulysay 1•. the e..,,, are. and w, ndetrd at when we remember the
from the pehlte pacorrectnts a tolrtsblcorrect in favor of the ewlthser rnm
euer, end 11 root„ a most paltry .tuihhle sort oho hon. , •mount of indirect taxes which is taken
gentlemen a part to speak of reeve ing a I out of re as in the rase of sugar, cotton
rerentmr .o1 f2Y 459.000 with en import of woollens, levied in en. way otr another,
136.0110,00) the , as if that was squire I low the benefit of the favored few 1 have
lent to a duty of $2,6410.000 on a total allnd«l to. 1 cannot sate. with the
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ANOTHER GREAT EdOM IN
WINNIPEG.
Ry Canal obvert alien, ae and ■11 lame
speculators have ac Isar heed a,' watch the
ups and downs t.f pr.aart), ...t. making
largefortwara. But tl,.• whole •rift IF. they
keep thesyttem in a 1 .a:thy ('Doti,:iyn by the
u., of
TRC PRJOEOF TOIL `%LLE' .NE9lf1NE.
V t' can safely .nye thnt hnndre,b. ,•rime to 0.
for the 'crest lung and Menai purifier before
going west. Reed 11.. following Matto -lent.
We could give thom.anda of the same kind if
It were nec-erica.
' 1 certify' the: 1 was troubled with Catarrh
In the heat, gathering of phlegm in the throat.
choking and coughing at night fur years. ao i
could not sleep. Mien troubled with dull, Mc-
lean feelings, pains in the chem and book.
Atter giving hundreds of dollar. to drrtors.
and irtrine Op all hone.. 1 turd tar Parra or
THa `'ALI-KT. andam now ai4c to do my work
after metro year's si('kness,-
MRS. JAMES )1rN
192 Simcoe Street, London. Ont.
"The above matemenr,of my wife's is cor-
rect.
Jaera M. Nate..
For aa!e hy All druggist^, manufactured by
Prof. .1. M. MAI -fetes. London, (tat. Sampl,•
`rackaagg,r• [.'lets' ate for 91.50. ('an be had in
(:odrrleh of r{ir („Ilow:n dnurgistm: Jess
Ito.A. Jiss. %hese., F. Jona.. mad 4o•e.
Ralmaa. 1515.
tion o1 tVeatern Canada, at any rate.
there has 1 -t b I
been
{trial lye t eereaac In f a
value of fanning Lamle, and a very ma-
tenel decrees*, ut the ntnnber of fernier.
inhabiting those counties. Sir, unhap-
pily the mischief which the bon. gentle-
man and his colleagues have done is
likely to remain. Those hon, gentle
mon, in anidstion to inflecting other gre-
Ne jr etilatmon is 'fati..nary or
burdens on the people seeinc.l to ,
I cannot say t erefu,re that
h
decrees-
direly agree with the hon. ventleman dnstnes that they p ssess to attempt t.
that the result of his policy has been an concentrate all the power ..t the �.tsn-
I try in their owe* hands They are from
universal and uniform impnov.ment all
ever the country, and it in not. to 11e day to day, attempting to
TRA*PLI ON
statement of the circular which he or- att"'nst the 1,0,.rer
',malty sdss
dreed to the several banks Mr. Kellam,—And to mato Itene•
of
. Canada Now. tor, i 1 not do ibt At.
that the hon. gentleman s Intentions Sir Richarl J ('artwrtght. Now, NW
were excellent. i do not donutth
that e the hon. gentlemen was gaol enough to importation oat 1 sho108,000,000 dies cot heart gentleman gentleman in thinking thehardens
hon gentleman wanted to obtain some tell us that 11U 000.000 tt. When the people ars - light 1 think the eeple of ('ands
Fl R Pa(tI I. 1AL PlcHT..
They are, from day to day. Interfering
with every liberty which we still con-
tinuo to possess. They talk 04 Canada
hoeing a free reentry. Why, Kir, 1 tell
them to day that Canada s it country in
which no man is free to buy or to ae11, to
eat •.r to dnnk, to travel or t., stand stilt,
LUMBER.
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