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The Exeter Times, 1891-2-19, Page 4OPAL CANADIANS TAKE Established 1877. >!; ETEI►, - ONT. ,rag stet czetreralbankins business Dee_ -sea the accounts of ulerebanta and Ihers on favorable terns. Oa, r, every aecornmoaatiencm; sisteutwith i 1p aifo,rndcausorvativabankint,pr hats les. Five; er Vont interest allowed ou denusite UransissuedPaQableat any office of the mere:la bl%auk. NOTE PISCOVNTED, ct MONETc TO LOAN ON :TOTES AND MORTGAGES a• T31i'k;:*ia 1, ,F1:11RrAla,'y 12th 18891 THE POLICIES' COMPARED. present co^ test between the Ceneervativeand Liberal parties is of great inapertance to the Canadian fanner, and it is tilerefere his duty to consider with the utmost care the arguments put Barth by both sides. The Conservative policy is a fair reciprocity of trade between Canada and the United States, including natural products and a few manu- factures ; the liberal policy is called unrestricted reciprocity. Thesetwo policies we shall briefly examine. We may start off with the as- sumption that unrestricted reci- procity means nothing more or Less thaws commercial union with the United States, We shall endeavor to make it clear to the farmer that it can mean nothing else and will ° then show what commercial union will do for Can tda. Sir Richard Cartwright and his followers have made the delusive statement that unrestricted reciprocity means ab. solute, unfettered freedom ot trade between the two countries, Canada retaining power to regulate as she pleases her tariff against all ether consumption of their productions. ? The manufacturer woultluor permit it, the farmer would not permit it, and their government would not be so short sighted, sa blind to the tercets of their own country its to Weir for a moment of entering into such an agreement with Canada ? incl let it be remembered that they are never ietinnated they will give lS anything but Commercial union. sVe think atter careful cot siders tion of the foregoing reasons that it is quite clear the United States ill not give Canada the unree'riet- ed reciprocity described by Sir Richard. It they will not give us that, what will they give? They will give us another kind of uure stricted reciprocity, which is really eo umercial union. Oft the '3 h July, I:S68, Goldwin Smith, who is not a hypocrite, deelercd that "c,otannereial unioot and unrestricted 'reciprocity mean the saltie --the (removal of the customs line be- "tween Canada and the United. "States." Mr. Hitt, the Illinois Conressmau, carried the following resolution on larch xst, 'SSS, by a unanimous vote: countries. Careful consideration will show this cannot be done. and will convince the farmer that un restricted reciprocity being impos- sible, is a delusion and is intended to deceive. Let it be granted for argument's sake that the people have declared in favor, of the new fad and that anything and every- thing we produce may pass freely from Canada to the United States. The Canadian manufacturer then prevails upon the Canadian Gov- ernment to reduce the tariff to the lowest possible point upon all raw materials imported from countries other than the United States, and entering into Canadian manufac- tures, or the duty now upon them be removed altogether. This would enable. Canadian manufacturers to produce everything so much lower than they could be produced in the States with their McKinley tariff on imported raw materials that our manufacturers would drive them out of their own markets. Forseeing this result would the United States allow us to regulate our tariff against other countries to the complete destruction of their own industries ? Is it reasonable to expect they would make the sacrifice? Is it reasonable to be- lieve they would enter into an agreement which would be so dis estrous to themselves? Again, under unrestricted reci- procity as described by Sir Richard, Canadians in addition to importing freely raw materials to be used in manufactories could remove the duties if they thought it desirable, from all manufactured articles int ported from Great Britain, France and other countries. These,coming into Canada,could be shipped to the United States to the ruin ot their industries. Would the Amer- ican manufacturer permit his Gov. ernment to place them at such a disadvantage ? Would the Ameri- can farmers permit their Govern - meet to extinguish their own man- utacturing concerns; which:furnieh. so large, a home market for the .t The President shall appoint three commissioners to meet those who may be likewise designated to represent the Government of Canada to prepare a plan for the assimilation of the import duties and internal revenue taxes of the two countries, and an equitable division of receipts in a Commercial Union." The Buffalo News lately said: "It is only possible with a distinct ndorstan(ling that the tariff duties of the two countries shall be 'identical. It would be an absurdity to admit Canadian products into this country when English goods of a like character can enter its ports at 20 per cent lower tariff than they can come into New York," If we have made it clear that unrestricted reciprocity and cam mercial union mean the same thing and that Sir Richard's scheme is a I, "fake" let us next consider what commercial union will do for the Canadiati,.farmers. It is to be taken tor granted that the farmer who wishes unrestricted trade is anxious for free trade. The Canadian tariff is about z7} per cent. ; the average American tariff is 37i: per cent. Tha above extracts show that we must under unrestricted trade, otherwise commercial union, adopt a uniform tariff with that of the States. that we must adopt the 37} instead of our '7} tariff. Is the Canadian farmer ready to exchange a low for a high tariff, which will increase the cost of living thirty per cent? This is what the farmer has to expect under commercial union. Does the tarmer here approve of the glittering but delusive policy ? In opposition to commercial un- ion with its high taxation on all but American goods the Conservative party propose a limited reciprocity with the United States. `rrhey are willing to make a treaty which will secure the United States market for the horses, the barley, the butter and eggs and other produce now excluded by the McKinley Bill, while reserving the right to regulate :he tariff on manufactured articles to suit the necessities of our ower people. It would leave to a Canad- ian anadian Parliament the complete con- trol ot the tariff on all articles ot foreign productions and all Ameri- can but those which might be en- umerated in the treaty the Conser- vative Government have in con- templation. The price of living would not be increased as under commercial union. On the con. trary, the tariff could be reduced or readjusted so that many articles of common use now yielding a con- siderable revenue and pressing to some extent on the taxpayers might be relieved altogether from an .im- post. This would be very much to the advantage of the farmer ; and between this reciprocity, which gives him an extended market while at the same time relieving him from present ; taxation, and a commercial union whish means the surrender of our control of the tariff and adds heavily to hie cost of living, the farmer ought to find little difficulty in choosing. The question is important. No more important ever demanded the attention of the Canadian people. It means a great deal to the far- mer. He must not be carried away by glittering, promises which will not bear critical examination. Re must examine the question from the stand -point of self interest and unbiased by party predilections. An intelligent consideration of the issue should convince him that the limited reciprocity of Sir John Macdonald is the only practicable policy and the only policy suited to his interests CAN CANADIANS ACCEPT THIS : Some. days ago Congressman Butler, representing the Rochester district of the State of New York, addressed a letter to lt1r. 3. G. Blaine, U. S. Secretary of State, asking hint it it were true, as rum- ored, that negotiations were under the way looking to reciprocity be- tween the United. States aria Canada in natural products, The plunged knight from Maine replied a$ follows "I authorise you to contradict the rumors you refer to, There are no negoti- ations whatever on foot for reciprocity treaty with Canada, and you may he as - mired no such scheme for reciprocity with the Dominion confined to natural produe'a will be entertained by flue Government. 5' 1 'e kuow nothingof Sir Charles T a 's u a upp r coming to Washington." To the above the Globe aids this cemineut : "The only proposal, good or indifferent, made by the UnitedStates was .1r Blaine's suggestion that he was willing to discuss unrestricted trade," it is seldom that we have as clear and distinct a statement can a question of diplomacy as is contain- ed in Gen, Blaine's letter to Con. g essman Butler. It remains for the people of Canada to say whether they are prepared to accept the kind of reciprocity which the Globe says U, S. are willing to discuss. There can be no misunderstanding as to the meaning ot Mr. Blaine's letter, He says; "No scheme for (-reciprocity with the Dominion "confined to natural products will "be entertainedby this Govern- ment,"and the Globe whose editor by the way has lately interviewed Mr. Blaine, adds that the States will discuss with us uureetricted trade ouly. Will this yearning for It covers the ground —the 13. & C. corset. It is perfect in shape and fit, is boned with Kabo, which will not break nor roll up, and if you are not satisfied, after wearing it two or three weeks, return it and get your money. For Sale by 3. A STEW ART, Exeter NOTES AND COMMENTS - Tile Dominion Alliance of Toronto, the great Central Temperance organiaa- tion, ask the electors of South Perth to vote against Mr Trow because he voted against Prohibition, -it- ar * 1 ON Saturday there wets shipped from Exeter a car load of horses to Ephrata, Penn., by 3 Harlan Laudas. The load comprised the ordinary class of horses raised in this section and the Average price parts was $120. This would not intimate a great depression in the horse 1 ntarket, Fee -trees remember that in 1877 the Yankees sent farm produce into Canada to the amount of $17,009,',107. This drove that amount 01 Canadian farm produce out of the country, You liad to pay duty if it went to the States and freight if it went to England or any other country. Do you want a repeti- tion of those days of disaster 7 If not, vote for the Government by voting for Sharp and Hutchins. Tim population of Canada, says a New York paper, is estimated at $5,000,000, an Increase of nearly 700,000 in ton years. A hundred years ago the popula tion of the United States was 3,920,000; of Canada, 156,000. In 1861 British Columbia had 6,000. In 1881 the popu- Kt E P Orr Tile, We LVE.5, free trade whic'i we are told exists among the Canadian farmers be satisfied by the imposition of a higher tariff than we now have ? That would be the result of the "unrestricted trade" policy of the Reform party which is said to find favor with Mr Blaine. The farmers -of the United Statesare themselves dissatisfied with their ower tariff, and what reliet would Canadian farmers find in going from the mod- erate Canadian tariff to the enor- mous exactions imposed by the McKinley bill, which has almost doubled the cost of living in the United States? But are the Cana- dian farmers prepared to pay the cost in other respects ot obtaining the boon of a free trade which would prove to be the most burdensome taxation known in the history ot the modern world? To obtain these apples ot Sodom of which they are alleged to be in search, are they prepared to sacrifice their right to self-government and their self- respect ? Are .they prepared to abandon their conneotion with the mother country, the birth plaoe of the great apostles of free trade,and which for years has practised abso lute free trade not only with Canada butt'worldt newhole no withstand• ingthe hostile tariff levelled against her industties ? Are they readyto sever the silken cord that binds us to her gentle rule and pass under the real it not the nominal sway of Blaine andothers whose tarifa ex- actions are driving the farmers of of his own country to desperation and ruin. To the Editor of the Exeter Tinges. The traitor's dirk points at thy heart, Oh Canada ! Dear Canada I I pray it hence may soon depart, My Canada ! Sweet Canada! That ere the fifth of March be past, In the grasper's heart it may stick fast ; Of hits and his fads we've seen the last, My own Fair Canada !_ .—•.— T There is danger in impure blood. There is safety in taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, the areal blood' purifier. 108 doses one dollar JOEL. lation numbered 40,459. The figures show that Canada has grown proportion- ately at a faster rate than the United States. She has increased (32) thirty - two fold while the United States has increased sixteen. 4 I !- Here Here is another fact that should be conclusive to the Liberals seeing that it emanates from the beloved Ontario Gov- ernment : According to the figures supplied by the Ontario Bureau of In- dustries, the value of farm lands, imple- ments, buildings and live stock in that province has increased from $882,624,610 in 1882 to $982,210,664 in 1889, an increase of $100,000,000. According to the same authority, the area under staple field crops was larger in 1889 than ever before. ttt MR. T. FrrroN informs Tarr TIMES that prior to the N. P. there was not a silver plate" manufactory in Canada. Now there are five and silverware is vastly cheaper than when it was import' ed. Also that before the adoption of the N. P. there was not a watch case factory in Canada ; now there are four or five and watch cases are much cheap- er. In these institutions there are thousands of hands employed, which means millions of dollars to this coun- try. Reader are you going to vote to close these institutions ? A vote for un- restricted reciprocity will do it. 1' t Tho Canadian farmer is benefited by the tariff on pork imposed by the nation- al policy, at all events. Recently a Windsor butcher was caught smuggling hogs from Detroit, and commentfrg on the customs seizure, a Reform paper of Windsor says :-"He found he could "buy pork for $4 per hundred pounds "in Detroit while here he was compelled "to disgorge $7 per hundred for it. "He got it into his head that it would be a good thing to buy it over the "river, and bring it here," and save the three dollars per hundred. Were it not for the duty, that three dollars difference between Canadian and Detroit prices would disappear, and our farmer be so much the worse off by any kind of reciprocity on pork, while on all woollen goods he consumes he would pay almost double what he is now paying. It yon are tiredtakgthe largo old fash- ioned griping pills. try Cssrter,e Little Liver Pills and take some comfort. A man can's stand everything, One pill a dose:; Try -them. NEW FARMER BROS., Marhant__i1er ! MR. J. izt. GRIEVE.,. (bate Cutter for R. Pickard) has opened. out a;stook of CANADIA Is.T AND Imported Tweeds, SUtT1NGS, Freno1:-: Worsted COA TINES, and an the new- est things in PANTINGS, tirade up in the Latest Sty13 A good. at Guaranteed erne sale. Special attention given to Ladles' JACKET and MANTLE dlaking STAND : One door North of E. Fish's Barber Shop, 'ROE SALE OR RENT -.--].60 Imes of land in Manitoba, 6 miles from Virden , and three miles from llareravostation. Clear deed. Apply to W, Ml, afoNera, Hair, l;xeter, Ont. 0OS LOST, -ASTRAY GI) FROM the premises of T. M. Ray. i'sttoroe, en, Sunday, lash ism , two dogs -a dark collie with four whits feet, white breast arta short 'shite legsso . infer ,it+ un ansiwill lead tl,oir recovery will be rewarded by lvu. $.av, Farquhar FARM TO RENT ----100 ACRE in the township of McGillivray, Let Con.3,abont 2; miles from Centralia, flood house and barns on the premises. well fenced. splendid location. Will be rented for a term. of years, For further particulars apply entire promises to ,J.uies Nara. Fob3rd,'31.-3t Centralia,P,O. TriO LUT. ---FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS STORE, formerly owned by dames solid brick. The leadingbusin es of thecouutY has for years beau done in this stand and no mere desirable premises can be found for an active, enable than desirous of sommonaing business or of extending ono already estab- lished, Fossession lot L'eh'y '91, Apply to DONALD 1f A er:AY, UerdonMackay ,t Co.. Toronto' dolltf TfiE WATERLOO 11UT'UAL FIRE INSURANc1 CO, I.stablielie(1 in 1803. HEAD OFFICE - WATERLOO, ONT. This oomrany has boon over eighteen yearn in successful operation in western llonssror llumagebytPPiro dingrMe htorahann- disc, Manufaotories, and all other dosorip. tions of insurable property, intending insurers have the option of insuring on the Premium Note or Bash Spite= . During t'ao vastten years this Com- pany bus issued 57,090 Policies, covering property to trio amount oI340,872,033; and paid n losses alone 3709,752,00. Assets, '176,100.00, consisting of Cash rBaulr Government beresitandtire un- .saosstd Premium Notes on t.ani and in ores . . W WALDEN E1. D .Pres,de r t 0 . M. at. Secretary, 3.8.Hvonns, In- spector. CHAS. SNELL. deont.for Praetor and +toinity. INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY OF CANADA; The d irect route between the West and all points oneiheL w rStof Lawrence and Bale desNewBrunswiok,Nova Acotia PriQueirence Edwaalso rd CapeBretonlslands, andNewfoundian eland St. Pierre, Express trains leave Montreal and Halifax daily (Sundays excepted) and run through withoutchange between these pointe in 28 hours and 55 minutes. The through express train cars of the In- tercolonial Railway are brilliantly lighted by electricity andheated by steam from the locomotive, thus greatly increasing the com- fort and satety or travellers. Now and elegant bufretaleoping and day oars are run on through exprosstraine. Canadian -European -Mail and Passenger Route. passengers for Great Britain n r the conti- nent by leaving Montreal on Y'rideymorning will join outward mail steamer at Halifax on Saturday. The attention of shippers is directed tothe sup erior facilities offered by this route for the transport of flour and gonerol merchan- dise intended for the Eastern Provinces and Newfoundland ; also for shipments of grain and produce intended for the Europeanmar. ket. Tickets may be obtained and information about the route ; also freight and passenger rates on application to . N.WE.ATHERSTJN, WesternFreight &Passengerdgent 9S1inssinHouseBlock,york zit ,Toronto D POTTINGER, • Chief Superintendent. Railway theca, Moncton, N.8, Jan let 91 Auction Sale —OF— BOOTS & SHOES, HARNESS, TRUNKS, VALISES, WHIPS,&C —0N— Thursday evening, February 26th, and following Friday abd Saturday at 2 and 7 o'clock each day. Teams : All sums of $5- and under, cash ; over that amount 9'months' credit wilI be given. Goods Sold at Yo Own Prices. T Wholesale and Retail GROCERS WINE and SPIRIT MENCEANTS. T * STAR GROCERY .IIAIx-ST. - ExaTBIL REM EMBER OUR GREAT SALE —Which commences — JAN `Y 30th, '91 And continues ----- For 30 Days, DOUPE Si' CO EXETER Pork Paoking House Having commenced business for the Fall &Winter Trade We ere prepared to purchase any quantity of Pork, subject to the following regulations : Wo will take off two pounds per hundred if dry, and three pounds if soft. Shoulder stuck, twenty -cents. It any of, the long gut is left, 25 cents extra will be deducted, No Pork will be bought at any price if warm. We want all Hogs Cuttings right throngs lin breast to head, and Hams opened out to tail. SNELL BROS78c CO. New Fall Goods New Velveteens. tt ..t tt tt tt tt tt .t tt IC tt Dress Goods. Mantle Cloths: Flannels. Table Linens. Shirtings. Cottons. Cashmere Hose. Cashmere Gloves Kid Gloves. Corsets. Underwear. J. MATHESON, HAY P.O. - EXETER NORTH. 1890. 1890:'; A FINE ASSORTMENT —OF -- Fancy Goods Odor Cases, 4decay, Dressing Case C 7. 3� e.c.u :e• e. t e.,4 a ol:clarniae>ur=eCsuffetCcd ,Sha�xll�r^ eftes}melees B Y--- BROWIIlNG.