The Exeter Times, 1878-4-25, Page 4of Salter i
THURSDAY, APRIL Zit, 1878.
PROTECTION TO OTJB INDUS-
TRIES,
Aa the question of protection versus
free trade will to a large extent decide
the reault of the forthcoming elections
over the Dominion, aud as it is neces-
sary that all -farmers, meroliants, me-
ehanios, and every other class of the
oontmunity-should have a thorough
knowledge of the great dividing ques-
tion, so that they !xray go to the palls
enabled to vote intelligently, tate con -
adoration of the principles of each the-
ory from every standpoint sbould no
Longer be delayed. Within the limits
of a uewspatpar artiole, it is of course
impossible to do justioe to the quostiou
anti eater se deeply iuto its merits as
its ivat ortauce bo the people dogtooth.
But a few instances may be cited to
prove that iu some particnlar branch
of industry we need proteotiou, and thio
proof nay form the groundwork tepee
whit;lt shy reaRouer cart buitd argu-
manta whi.L all the specious eopbietry
of free traders is powerless to over-
throw
.Prtlt.atiou has macre such rapid ad-
veut e: ill the affectiena of the people,
:and the arfuweute iu favor of its more
exteutled operetiuue iu ()mole have
been a., titruu&lv put by its ativucstes,
that flea trade theurieta Irevo been iu Canada,
couteeiled to ackuowledgo that our iu- 214.1.-1 he article instanced is not
flu<trit B are not to las flourislriul; a ceu• produced iu both Canada root this Val'.
Stated.
Jitiou as they would be under tl'e pro• A great rneuy such inlagieary cases
tee:i.+u of a tardy more nearly approach- aro memo to du duty iu the lutereets of
Lea that impure.l by the Atuerieane. -trot free trade, but Aauericau protec
Bat they seek auetiter refuge, and tee- ttatt. ey !teed Duly toa ba eousiJeied
dare that although au particular in- to be lett
ed of Hecto 014bi.;•.
S y l But let ua tante unntlter case, A
dustry which !night be fultber Protect- horse buyer in: Car.atia Well h to pure
ed would be beuefitted, !still the people chaos 100 barr.es. He buys 50 le eau -
who have to purchase the productions oda at .$10O each, tad is t•1Tvreti the
of diet iuduatry would be injured ; that, same cease of withdrawn, they 4."i111111l by tau Atha `lams
foreign Dour etitiou at the same price, ill he pay 1tt
p for atoll animal met the 10 per cont..
would have to pay a :higher price ; and ! duty beeides ? Nut very lel+ely, Will
Una, in abort, the working 41f au in-
creased protective policy would not en-
sure t" the greatest possible good to the
greatest possible uutuber," but would,
on the coutrary,, enrich the few at the
expense of the many -a condition of
affairs which statesmen should stave
to prevent. Now this reasoning, al-
though very superficial, appears plaus-
ible at first sight, but a careful exami-
nation shows it to be fallacious and ut-
terly groundless. Let us briefly con-
sider that portion of the free trader's
defeuce. Every business man knows
that the larger his sales, the emnller be
can make his profit:, wblle the smaller
his sales, the larger meet be his profit
so that he may live. These premises
to onr argument none will venture to
dispute. The competition of the. Ameri-
cans has reduced our industries very
low. They are struggling for a mere
existence in the hope of better times
under a more favorable, a more _patri-
otic Goverumeut. They are confined
to their own market, and even that is
divided between them and their neigh-
bors, the major portion being thrown
across the line. Their sales are few in
consequence, and the profit ou each
article must be inordinately large. But
prevent the Atnericaus from competing
on such uneven terms as now exist,
preveut our neighbors from malting a
sacrifice market of Canada, the fetters
that biud Canadian trade are loosed,
and our producers are in a much better
position. They have the horse market
to themselves. and the increase in their
sales, with the competition that would
spring up at home would ensure to the
purchaser the same article at the same
price he had alwaye paid. This, we
think, is clear enough. Home compe-
tition would keep down the prices, and
the iudttstries of the cbuntry would be
in a healthier state. Our idle work-
eitops would be idle no longer, our
young men, instead of spending their
energies and their earnings in a foreign
land, would remain ,in the home ,of l
their fathers and assist in laying broad
and deep the foundations of a great na-
tion; our farmers and merchants would
prosper, and. peace' aud pleuty would
senile on every baud.
Rw
arvist
$
A » OS, 187$
Hoare extended operation, wo ohne un-
dertake to prove also that the producer
pays the duty.
When a free trader is forced to aban-
don as untenable' a position assuming
that, the purchaser would have to pay
a higltex price to the Canadian produ•
oar, they ity to a third: that the con-
sumer pays the duty ; and they instance
a number of oasos where,this may hold
goad, But these instances are of no
value whatever as decitliug this ques
tion. They do not furnish a fair test.
Let us take s. g„ one which a free
trade frieud advauoed the other day,
and which he thought clearly demon,
aerated that the ootasunlerpays the duty.
"Now," said lie "I want a certain
artiole which. for the best of reasons 1
cannot obtain in Canada, because it is
not made here. I send to the United.
States for it. It is seut 0, O. D, to
Bort Huron, thence to be forwarded
to Canada. A. cettain price -the same
price at which the artiole is sold itt the
Uuite'l States -is put on the pnukage,
and on tiute price is levied a ditty of, say
17O per ueut. Do I not pay that, and ie
it not better for me, :tun therefore bet-
ter for lay class at large, to Jfave the
duty placed as low eepo-a+hle ? ' New,
this is not a fair i!leettatiun of the
working of protection as prop.•aed to
be applied by the Cu,,serv.ttiv! party.
let. -The Couservetivee do out iu.
tend to increase the duty o t thnst
nrticlua wlictl are not tn:tuu':te'tt'et-.1
Tau editor of the Goderich Signal is
wonderfutty silent regarding the village
shoe shop to whish it so aneeringly al.
luded a few weeks ago as the pikes
where Mr. Porter used to talk politics..
The institution turns out to have been
his father's. As the great Daniel
O'connel once said, "It's a foul bird
that begrimes its own nest," Expe*i-
ecce may teach the youth wisdom.
Tale Reformers of South Perth are
tribulation. They are as a Louse
divided against itself. They are mal-
iug an effort to throw over the Jonah
of the party, but he won't be thrown
over. if the star of Reform were in
the ascendant be might fall, for the ex.
pendent* of the past four years teaches
us that misfortuue always brings re-
ward from the Goverumeot. But the
Reform star ie. about sinking to rose
below the horizon!, and the person who
amiss South Ptoth i:t his breeches
poel,ets prefers haui;iug to hie preseut
position rather than trueting a Con-
servative Guverutuent tooivell.tn su.ue
tat appoiutuie'tt, Dut Je 1eb ie e. poor
member ; he is nleddle'+ome enrol,b,but
he i, alwaye iuterferiug with gne.tious
he ,dcnuu't uuderbtaud. Au) one of tett*
local aapirsute would render the ticliig
better t,etviue, and retloct il.fiuitely
more credit uu tiro iutell geuco of the
eoustitueucy. No woutler they rebel,
and refuse to bow down and worship
the ;;uldea can.
S:,olrree beforo the tariff changes'
made two yenee ago, the firm of John
JMotOoh ie 3 Co„ of Sarni i, imported a
tluatatl'y of tul"ug, at:a .slue saved a
ceiteiderable am of motley, 'l for Sat-
euu.Itueutt4ig. ou thirl,,•ttrtt•ti
that scene math*, of zee J''.ivyCottiic.l
teas :cake, but at the,.tme time !:":cul.
p:rical atm Pti•oe Miltheetr, Jut,u Mee.,
krone',. brother. Let the Premier was
not 1.ati,.ti,'d. 11. 1.' ii let to re.ti:o the
letter apologize. !.cilli,;; v1,i011, Ile hall
tocemee to the libel l;aw of the eunut''y
.t very goud iii.ttumeilt tit Jtttni,utuc•ttt
'lieu properly handled. A criminal
sotieri was entered, 11r. Mackenzie,
s.'.'' Owe to grow rash neon t 10 eitatt:O.
of t,,e ut'euthut; editor, bu. debt: il+g tit
ire not rather deduct the duty front the -nwt tliw langni..h in 't 10+4lteso110 elan -
$100 and pay the American the bal. gem!. elite .,Ela•~ were all iu .1I r, ;fixe•
al/C0 a If the Amertcen does not ac- I.eu•t+e's favor. Ho no. no rims, The
cepa that thea he will not puroltus i t: 'uutry tooted the bill. 11.. t the editor
from him. This is a fair example, in of the t'u.taiie's't was dill'ureut y and
mote unfnrtnuutely circumstanced. Ile
had to p.E' his own expenses. with tete
cliaucet ofbieathittg the fiat 4,ir of a
felon's cell to boot. Ile Nova, t}te trial
carne off last weal,, The jury heard the
verdict. and fttiliug to agree, were dis-
t-uar;;etl. Its political complexion was,
iit,lor•nert, 10, Consetvntive s, :?, tvltilo
7 were for conviction, and 5 for :myth -
tat. Mr. Alaciteuzie has not been as
suceessfnl as he expected, iu his efforts
to fette•• the press. He mus feel proud
anteing the only pr-otnier who ever ven-
tured to maiuttiu hie reputation by the
aid of the law instead of before the
proper tribunal,the people,and he tnustt
feel chagrined at the result of his von
ture.
usiniieh as horded are raised in both
countries ; and it is only upon produc-
tiuoe c moon to the United States and
Canada that the C.,ueervtttive party
proposes to increase the duty. Now,
observe how injuriously the high Amer-
ican tariff affects the Gttnadiau fernier.
Suppotte the purchaser to he a resident
of the United States ; he buys half his
ltumber of horses at home and imports
the other half from Canada. Be de-
ducts the duty, 20 per cent., from the
$1.00, no that be may pay no more fur
hie Canadian than his Atnerioau home,
gaud leaves the Canadian with $80 or
410 Iess than that given under the
same conditions by the Cana diun put-
chaser to the American breeder. These
cages may be multiplied without end,
and it will invariably be found that the
consumer pays the duty. This being
clearty understood, it is the duty of
every one who studies his own interests
aud considers them iuterwoven with
the interests of the country, to support
the candidates of that party which pro-
poses to increase the duty upon articles
produced iu Canada, and thus apply a
remedy to the evils frum which we
suffer.
Tans prospects of defeating the Gov-
ernment and eutrustiog the affairs of
Dominion in the hands of teen who
understand its wants, and will not be
debarred by sentiment from doing the
behettsof the people are grower bright-
er every day. The Globe admits the
possibility of defeat.
, Having demonstrated that protection
would be=nefit the producer aud build
tip the country, and having shown that
the ; t" 14:e would lie teething by its
"A number of foreign life assurance com-
panies have withdrawn from Canada of late,
professedly on account of the stringency of our
laws. We are not at all sorry. The laws can-
not be too stringent in the interest of the pol-
icy -holder; and wo have plenty of Canadian
companies quite willing to conform to our
laws and give good security to insurers. There
has been a large amount of money carried out
of the country -during the last few years by
foreign insurance companies, and it is just as
well for slime of that money to go into Canadi-
ian p okete:"i``
The above is from a free trade jour-
nal, but it is inconsistent with the pro-
fessions of free traders. The same
journal supports a Government whose
policy is driving large amounts of mon-
ey into the United States and expatri-
ating the best blood of tete country.
We have plenty of Canadians` wilting
to give us a good article at a reason-
able price, ii properly protected. Why
the Paws• should be made to operate in
favor of insurance companies and
against all other Canadian interests we
oaunoteanderstaud. " Canada for the
C li i s" shoal I be our motto
Noi content with doing all they could
by Lair means to injure Sir John Mac-
donald and the Opposition, a number
Reform papers have adopted a con-
temptible system of warfare, aid pub-
lished lies without end about Sir John.
The only religious daily, the London
Advertiser, started a story that Sir John
and several other prominent members
of the O, position were intoxicated dur-
ing the all-night sitting in the debate
on the Quebec ontrago. The slander
was alluded to in the House, and flatly
contradicted. Mr. Hector Camerou,
member for North Victoria, a mes,trepu-
table mal, stated unequivocally that Sir
John was not drunk, and other gentle-
men of well known iutegrity,corrobor-
ated the statement. Which 'will the
People believe. the statement of a hire-
ling correspoudent, whose assertions
are unsupported by any higher author-
ity than another correspondent, or the
solemn asseverations of respectable
gentlemen like Mt. Cameron 2 Which
of the authorities does common sense
tell them to accept ? The chief aim of
the paper mentioned above seems to to
to have itself talked about, and when
it cannot achieve fame it strives.to at-
tain notoriety. Were we to employ the
lex talionis we could " unfold a tale"
'concerning the temperance principles
'of one of the Premiers which' would
beriously affect his reputation. We
eonld tell in what county, in what
township, ou what concession, and in
'what house he- has mixed his toddy
'with his host and serenely emptied his
glass trod then gone 'forth .to dilate on
'the iniquity of the Tory Government
'tn not favoring', the teinper.ince cause,
and, giving as the reason for 'their not
jdoing so that, Sir John j itself liked
his drop. ,But we forbear .to retaliate
in kind.
STANLEY.
Lnn---Durfing the heavy thunder
storm of Friday night, the barn anal
stables' of Mr. Samuel McLean, con-
oeasion 12, law 32, Stanley, were struck
by lighliing a -ed totally destroyed. He
last four valuable horses, along with all
lite aouteuts of the barn --amounting
in all to about fifteen hundred dollars
worth. He is insured in the economi-
cal of Berlin.
ANDERSON
Brlr.pllua.--Sonne of the farmers on the
third liue of l3ianshard are making
Ira a t'
l p IYa Iona. for building this setl.snn.
Mr. Jas. Atkinson intonds putting up
a large barn with a stone stable under,
Mr. Weeldel intends putting up a simi-
lar buildit:g,
Fuawlsi.r. SsSMON.-On Sunday, the
14th iust, Rev. lair. Graney, who for/
the last thirteen yearn has preached to
the oougregatiuus of the Thames Road
tend the atone elated' preached a Fare
ell sertuon in tire latter mentioned
church. rho church was crowded to
its utmost capacity, some being com-
pelled to stand. Mr. Gracey preached
an excellent sermon awl Lis hearers
were deeply t1111n't•Setetl with the et,leutn-
Ity of parting with kiln, wito by hie
kind and agreeable m tuter during h
t
s
u;iuietry has tetiuod a place in their
affections. During the long period of
his itlinistry 11 r. Ciracey has heti un
34'lious ilifhculty or iuistrntleratantliug
tvitlt any tuetuher of Itis Congregations.
Mr. GraceX leaves for his neer 14441 of
labor with the best wiahea of the urea!
VOR SAGE; . b strong
o d air. lumbs r a1n
JOttN `OA 1 clot 2. coat. s. !fay, -e .
Y UP. All parties irxdelated to
t 6tYte tuulersiglOd. b or book account aro
a ad eCt FO Pay uon W.I..o'rC °t'"i?J before
4L, enttrr'ailiia April.
VIRE TN. SFRANCE. --A FIRST-
olees Agent wanted foriT.xeter and vicinity
to represent a good eamptusy. To a good man a
vary liberxtt offer will t s llo. 4. n1 yby Letter to
tienaral Agent, aoderich.
STRAY COW. -CAME ON THE
1 premises of the subscriber, lot 4, oral. 3, Ste
dhoti, abouttbolstofApril. a red and white cow.
The owuer will plea -e prove property. pay axpaa-
sut, ancttakeher away. T110S FutJSToN.
TOTE LOS"1'.---A uci a drawn in.
favor of litoith tet Thome. ott,red made by
Elieubanni& hall, far the euna of *JIG yt :,more
orle. a, Parra: are hereby cautioned ly@.iustppaa•
ehaciu, the cote. s vitytav it of me sews
has
been stoed. 533Lr. ck raour.iON, Dash-
wood. tf arcb.+*i.
CRRAll FOR MANITOBA. --•.&s
1, ••ulwe t.,er w1"be+ to leave for the
.o in, \4'eat, hd a.0 . ' for i!ala that "l.',,r3bte vtl-
1...'•.v,•.•,t.,s.t.t.:t. the. Iwuk utlhrtiverti
e .•4 .u. it. I , a 3t, 141 rod xi ou IGluabetu
>. e. ' all etelif us .,u Itefe. Two l.,L; IVO w Al
n., a
It. of toil i ,..4. it4 f va trees lea t;u0,l
.: . ,.,44.4-r a ...I..i4' tal..t apl''..a. purzs,
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dour, a at.u, ,,. u u a .,*IL .4 and Pu"'„ ru
Wet" 44.E t 45 1, ,• 1-. , ,It .0 the pre2a.at... 02
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Royal mail Steamships.
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here of Elie towel a *ntintl't and al: who t
have tied the pleasure of his ae'luairtt- i' "•'% •` t ',
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auee.
tl o 'Tea Demme:. Two young
men of the third litre of Illaushattl it e
few evenings two went to the house of
a neighbor and lamented u'ttil n late
hour, nail the person wltoni they were
'vi*cliche, being of agenerouettisjio it Leto
asketl the good l.uly of the lii'n,e to
prepare supper f•'r the' gentlemen,
which she !lid. tVlteu everything was
meth ready tlloy sat art+uutl the table
and each of the yonng mon drank
twelve cope of tea. Their pnreute
wondered when they stLw thein the
next ensuring what made thein look so
!)lick, but the myetery was solved by
the shameful look which stole over the
flea's of the boys when the above luen-
tio'tetl nt iglibor came to borrow some
tent trout tbetr mother.
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D. D., 0$ 1,ttN1XAit, P. Q.
* * " 1 am an iuvelerate
Dyspeptic of here than twenty-five
veers' standing.'
* * t" I have been so won-
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weet,e during which I have used Peruv-
ian Syrup, that 1 can scarcely persuade
myself of therealitv.-People who have
known me are astonished at the ohauge,'
"" I ate widely known, nail can but
recommend to others that wltislt has
done so much for me." Sold by all d1itg-
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