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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-5-14, Page 4eiiM':yeT4*'M1^WN'nnF,lySNeieee `p -ti Ax '' '^iry THE Exeter 2, ;`.:.ea. I3. Sandrs, Editor and Prop 12UESDAY NAY 14th, 1896 ftfATE EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE special arrangement the opera- .1zints of the Wilson Tariff Bill for reve ' only as far as woollen gods are a•erned, did not take effect till De - tweeter 31st, 1894.. The following table aaifows the disastrous results of its first ;ms's operation npoa the woollen mills ie New England States: aloue.;j :1 mills affected... , . 52. .'dirk shut down .. 14 3Sale on quarter time , .. , .. 10 'ION on eighth time 5 ;ids ou half time.... 1 11112e practically closed..... 2 2ftaeratives practieallylfdle.. 7,500 a emulated annual wages of -eine oparativas one year ago $3,000,000 ;Estimated annual wages of these operatives to day... • 875,000 w'.,:s to country in wages... 2,625,000 "setas iu rawmaterial..... , . 6,0:0,000 'EE TRADE AND AGRICUL- TURE. The Queen's speech at the opening eff the Imperial Parliament, a few days VO,, contained the following significant e rids: "I regret to say that the con - 'tion of agriculture is disastrous be - ;9t1 recent experience," Great Britain Ins had nearly fifty years of Free Trade 3mk the present condition of her agri- ei alture is "disastrous beyond experi- ee," yet, in Canada, we have would - statesmen urging our farmers to pt the vers- policy which has brought Atli disaster to the agriculturists of lee mother land.. The reason of this sad. condition of of :'a:rs in Great Britain is not far to seek. 32 -educts of the soil are imported into .Wig country from foreign lands that e'en raise, ship and deliver them into ;Be English market more cheaply than ;ehn Buil can at home. Therefore, he :cannot sell what he raises, or, if he s?ses, it must be at less than a living 7t trfi t. it is just as easy for the condition of agriculture in this country to become. ' isastrous beyond. experience." Indeed c Is easier. We can invite the products st the United States to compete in our awn market by giving it unobstructed ee iry thereto, We can diminish the 366schasing power of our own people by avitins; foreign competition in other. Melts. When we close up our mills,. teat down our factories, force our busi- 1xss houses to a profitless trade and di• =Lnish the earning capacity of our in- .a'rtries by transferring business and fits from this side of the Atlantic to '.fie other, we narrow the home market, 'Men our people earn less money they =rat spend less, and when the farmer ,eners his precincts to a country that aranot buy what he has to sell, it gives :t. -m no consolation to be told that be to any a suit of clothes for one dollar ewes iu some foreign country ' than he -tee in Canada, because he could not .l:tain the money to buy it, no matter what is the price. This country's safeguard is a pro- etted home market. ..ms's OTHER OBJECT LESSON" ON THE 'VALUE OF THE X. P. TUE POLITICAL CONTEST ON. PREMIER TUPPER SAYS CANADA MUST EXPECT NO FAVORS FROM THE UNITED �.. STATES. Liberals Will Say a Restricted Reciprocity luny be Neg otiate4—Jas. T. Blaine Re- caUed--Grits "Want . a Chance to Turn the Government Out." In the political contest that is .just be ginning, the trade question as usual will be an issue - of importance The new Prime Minister, Sir Chaailes Tupper, in his patriotic and comprehensive scheme for the advancement of the interests of Imperial trade, has shown that this coun- try has . no favors to expect from the United States. The leaders of the Liberal party know well that since the repeal of the Reciprocity treaty of 1851 the United States congress has repeatedly declined to enter into any other arrangements with Canada than those which would produce Free Trade in every commodity. Fortunately the Dominion Government has been guidedb for the last eighteen years by tried and patriotic men who have declined to allow Canada to become a slaughter market, not only for the manufactured goods of New England, but for the beef from the Chicago stock- yards. From a hundred Liberal platforms in Canada we shall be told this year that there is still a prospect of negotiating a re- striated treaty of reciprocity. The state- rneut will bo untrue, The Republican party is certain of victory at the next election for president. It already controls the Houses of congress. And what does the Republican party say? Listen to the words of Jaanes G. Blaine, oue of the party's foremost lead- ers:— "I am opposed, teetotally opposed, to giving' the Canadians the sentimental satisfaction of waving the British flag, paying British taxes, and the actual Dash remuneration of American markets. They cannot have troth at the same tune. IF THEY COME WITH TTS they can have what we have, but it is au absolutewrong against the rights of American citizens that millions of men who owe the United States no allegiance, who take no part nor lot with us, who are not of us, but choose to be foreign to us. It isnot fair play. It is not taking caro of our own. Itis not looking out for the rights of those who are obedient, honest, and loyal citi- zens, and a Government would be in de- fault as to the duty it owes the humblest citizen if it chose to say that we . have no market here that shall be sacred to our people any more than it shall be sa- cred to those who are alien to us and owe allegiance to Queen Victoria. "So far as I can help it," said Mr. Blaine, in the next paragraph, "I do not mean that the people of Canada shall be Canadians and Americans at one and the same time." These are the words of one of Sir Rich- ard Cartwright's American. friends. Mr. Blaine said, in effect, that the people of this country must join the United States before they oould gain access to the "market that is sacred to our people." The alternative may be suitable to Mr. John Charlton, the Liberal M. P. who wrote to Americau congressman telling them how they might make Canadian lumbermen close up their mill. 'It may be satisfactory to Sir Richard Cartwright, who has said that worse . things might happen Canada than to join the United States, The statement of James G. Blaine may suit the Liberal leaders, but it will not suit the loyal people of Canada, in whose ranks aro many men who once were Liberals. The trouble with the Liberals is that they have no trade policy. At the elec- tions of 1887, the Liberal party had a cross-eyed tariff policy. Sir Richard was for a revenue tariff with Free Trade as the goal; Mr. Blake, at Malvern, found that, in consequence of the large revenue ret quirements, high duties were indispensa- ble, and Free Trade therefore impractica- ble. In 1891 the Liberals were as fax as ever from having anything like a policy. Their cry was "anything to defeat the Government." The subsidiary cries changed in the various localities. 'While Sir Richard would be warring for straight Free Trade in one section of the country, Mr. Laurier would be assuring the peo- ple of another section that the Grits were not going to kill the Protec- tive Tariff. The people believed neither of them, and in 1891 the Government of Sir John Macdonald was triumphantly re- turned. At the present time Laurier, Cart- wright, Chariton and the other Liberal campaignees are crying to the people of Canada, "Give us a chance. Turn the Government out, . We don't quite know what we're going to give you, for we haven't decided amongst ourselves. But it'll be something that you'll remember." That's just it. Tho people of Canada remember,only too well the state of the country under the last Liberal Govern- ment. They know that the Liberals and their friends the Americans, the gentle- men who furnish thousands of dollars to the Liberal caanpaign fund, will play hob with this country if they get a chance. Clearly, Canada liar to fear the 'United States and its friends the Liberals. No sane man. thinks Wilfrid Laurier to be anything more than a figure head. His wicked partners, the Quebec Liberals, the men who learned politics in Pacaud's school under Mercier., would make such. a raid on the Treasury, if they got `the chance, as would ;take the people of this conntry to look in aghast. Mercier was 11.ar. Laurier's greatest. friend. Pacaud, who blackmailed a railway contractor, is another. It was of men like these that Hon. Alexander Mackenzie when premier said:— , "Friends expect to' be benefited by offices they are unfit for,':l.y contracts they aro not entitled to, by advances' not earned. "Enemies ally themselves with friends and push the friends to the front. "Some attempt to storm the office. "I have offended at least twenty par- liamentary friends by my defence of the citadel.": There was an honest Liberal, the leader of the party, who tpld.. the truth. What was his reward? His followers treacherously turned him out of the `posi- tion of leader. They installed lion. Ed- ward Blake who was turned out in the same way.,' And those are the men who want to attain power. Fortunately for Canada, there are too many patriotic Canadians to allow. them to . gain their wish. At the polls on June 23 their defeat will be condign And thorough.. 1.27ar esteemed contemporary, the aai.bvail Standard,says:-"A local deal- -'rlas captured by the Customs officers u Wednesday, with eleven tubs of _.,t, er, which he was trying to smuggle , rom the other side of the river. He to pay the full value of the butter, ...elziy $30 to the Customs authorities -?ere it was released. This sort of ::.re has been of frequent occurrence -eh:. every class of farm produce sell - so much lower oq the American z,e that massy buy there and. attempt .:. leiracle the Customs. No better or :era practical illustration of the value .ar Ync Naticnal Polley to the farmers r..: be given than this, With the free .:-ekele policy that would be put in force t,. Laurier and his friends should eet tato power, there would be nothing •rst:atover topreventthe dealers and areumers ou this side of the line from e ssing over with their cash and bring - ±',e4 back the farm ,products of' our Ieekee neighbors to compete with the 3sseei prcduoers, Prices would neees• ;welly drop at once, and the difference 'iaeuld come directly out of the pockets "ei'var farmers, There can be uo doubt ti est this. People would not take the ,:shk of smuggling unless there was big o:ney in it. Take of the duty and the tcreners on this side would be compelled eeeecept $2.00 per hundred less for iir port , 15 to 20 cents per bushel eats for their potatoes, 5 cents per ib s, for their Nutter, 1* to 2z cents per ,, less for their beef, and so. through :3e whole list of products of the farm. L rite; is the waythe Grit leaders pro *ie. to improve the condition of the =t',tuiea•s if they are entrusted -with the ;stfinisttation of the affairs of the. ecrintry. It would be a sorry day in ;:peed for Canada if they should succeed :15 getting into power. THE CROPS OF O,NTARiO. 'Following is a condensation of the spring crop bulletin to be issued by the Ontario Department of Agriculture. The reports are for May 1st, 1896:— Fall Wheat—In the crap bulletin of November, 1895, the new fell wheat orop was reported as follows;' "Increased acreage; fair condition." There has not been for many years so unfavorablea re- port as we have just received, The large majority of our correspondents report extensive destruction by freezing from ice forming OD, the bare fields.. 'I hs loss is much heavier on clay than on light soils. A large amount will be . plowed up or resown to spring grain. The reports from. 'the townships along Lakes Erie and Ontario, from Windsor to Iingston, are with very fow exceptions of a most un- favorable nature: In Iluron, Grey and part of Simeoe the general report is "thin and patchy." The most favor,•able' reports come from a. range of townships beginning in Lambton and running east through parts of Middlesex, Perth, Oxford, Wellington, Dufrerin and South Simooe. Putting the very te;t construe tion upon the reports the general condi- tion at present can bo suinmed up as, poor condition with reduced acreage. Clover—The red clover made a poor catch in the spring of 1895. The drought of last summer in the west was another set bade. Consequently it went into the winter in rather poor condition,' There was considerable freezing , out during the winter and spring, and the prgsout re- ports, are quite unfavorable, , Sem° say that it is becoming more aiad inore diffi- cult to grow red clover, and others go even as far as to say that the day of red clover is past in Ontario. .''he worst reports are from the weeta The reports from the St. Lawrence and Ottawa and from the East Midland counties, are on the whole, quite favorable. Vegetation—The remarkable earliness of the growing season is alluded to by nearly every correspondent, some of whom say that they do not remember vegetation being so far forward on the last of April in thirty or forty years. The stage of growth is placed at from one to three weeks in advance of the average season. In finest localities cattle had been turned out to grass, forest trees were getting well into leaf and wild plums wore in' blossom, . while in orchards in different sections peaches, apricots and even apples, were in bloom. In Pelee Island peaches and plans were in flower on the 24th of April. Live Stock -Considering the prospects when correspondents wrote in November the condition of live stock in the spring is acause for congratulation. The animals were put into winter quarters with very limited stores, as the hay crop had been a comparative failure, 'yet with wise and careful feeding the bulk of live stock have got on the early gras in fair condition of Health, although as a rule thinner than usual. In some localities hay was imported from Quebec and from the more favored portion of our own. prevince, but the remarks of correspond- ents lead to the conclusion that the larger use of straw, corn, grain and roots as a supplement to, and in some in- stances, as a substitute for hay, has taught farmers a valuable lesson in the economy of the manger. Horses have come through the winter perhaps better than any other class of live stock, al- though in certain localities some suff'red from starvation, or as some, correspond- ents term it, "fodder hunger." In many sections straw and oats was their general faro, hay being at a premium and bed- ding very scarce. Horned cattle .are not in as poor condition as might be ex- pected, and with the , exception of a few minor cases of sickness, and some cases of "lumpy jaw" in the townships of Memel, Sullivan, Sydenham and Amaranth, they are remarkably free from disease. In some quarters, but more. especially in the counties of Bruce and Grey, many cattle had barely enough to support life, and there was hardly enough bedding to keep them eomfort- ablo and clean, but taking the province as a whole the general condition of both dairy and beefing stock ismost encnurag- ing. Sheep are in a good state of health generally, only a few cases of Jiver disease and grub in the head being reported, and the ewes are said to be dropping line Lambs. Swine are freer 'from disease than usual, although a few casesof para- lysis wore spoken of. The low ,price of pork, however, is most discouraging to hog raisers. Regarding the supply of hey for live stock during the winter, and the tendency of farriers to hold for a rise in price; sono correspondents state that a few of their neighbors who re- fused to sell hay at $12 and $14 a ton in the winter are now willing to dispose of it at $8 or $9.a ton. Farm Supplies—Except where farmers held on to their hay for famine prices there is a scarcity of that article, the effect of which, .• however, has been dis- counted by the generous pasturage already afforded by the advanced stage of the growing season. There is still an abundance of oats on nand, even though Ails grain was freely fed during. the winter owing to the low price offered for it. Wheat is said to be rather scarce, although scene correspondents aver that $1 a bushel would biing;'out a surprising- ly large quantity. Fat cattle aro to be foaled in much larger numbers than might bo expected from the scarcity of fodder, and store cattle aro sufficient to meet the dcnnaxxd. The earliness- of the gra es has niatrrially lessened the drain nn the fodder supply, and owners of beeves have theareby been relieved of much anxiety. Farm Labor—Tho general report is that there are more farm hands offering for work than are required, end that wages aro low. Many reasons aro given, such as the increased use of machinery, the decreaased demand for labor in other callings, the necessity of economy owing to oontinued low .prices, and the fact, frequently stated, that cheap labor, though inferior, bus- displaced .sone of the regular labor. Many farmers report that they intend trying this year to do all their work within their own ,families. There is, however, : a Pair demand for first-class female domestics. Agent Dunn, of tho Canadian Pacific railway, to -day received definite informa ion that the employes or the road had voted to hold the annual picnic in this city on June 25th. Thorold is asking for tenders for the position of chief ofpolice, with a multi- farious array of " duties stipulated, The officer is to ring the town, bell, repair the sidewalks, crossings and streets, operate bo road machine; oversee the street work, look after the corporation tools, the health inspector and keep the crossings and walks clean from mild and snow. Ile is to consider himself on duty at any hour of the day or night, and will be allowed the munificent, stipend of $30 a montha Your:.ChygieIaI Condition Needs attention at this time. If yen are tired, weak and nervous, itis clear that,your blood is impure, and without doubt there has been ''too much over- work or strain on brain and body. The course of treatinent for such a condi- tion is plain and, simple. The blood must first be purified so that 'the ner- vous system, and iii fact all the organs will 'ie fed upon pure blood. 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There are vile and worthless imita- tions of Diamond Dyes: therefore see that your dealer supplies you with the "Diamond," Common dyes are sold for the sake of large profits. Political Noter.. Mr. Kilty, teacher, of Summerhill, was chosen the independent candidate in West Huron. A well attended meeting of .theLibe• rais of South Huron was held in the Temperance Hall, Brucefield, Tuesday last, President Mustard in the chair, who stated that the obJect of the meet- ing was the annual election of officers, unforseen circumstances preventing the meeting being held at the usual time. On motion Mr. Mustard, Stanley, was reelected. President; Mr. 3. Kalb fleiseh, Hay, was elected vice-president; Mr. T. Fraser, Stanley, who for a num- ber of years has efficiently performed the duties of Secretary, was re-elected and Mr. Geo. Walker was re elected Treasurer. The body of Ralph Osborne Bilton was found under Austin's bridge on the northwestern portion of Toronto Tues- day morning. 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We resolved to try this medicine. Jimmie was decidedly improved after taking the first bottle. He was even after the second. We have since used over a dozen bottles of the medicine, and the change has exceeded our expectations. James is now able to walk without the aid of crutches and goes to school every day.. He has been wonderfully cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla." J. O. RV.NDBLL, Oakley, Michigan. Druggist C. C. Tubbs says he knows the Rundell boy has been wonderfully • \\ ' /1 C for Infants and Children. RAINI MOT H E.RS, Do ioU KNOW that paregoric, Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial,,maayso•called Soothing Syrups, and most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine ? no Von Know' that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons? t Do Von now that in most countries druggists are not permitted' to sell narcotics without labelling them poisons? ,J4. 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