The Brussels Post, 1891-1-16, Page 12„
. • e veto twee,
1 et te eelief thee
, ,
9kit else Mee. .. et. wettle 'nee tirate vore
alerahted reeiprooity, and that the ItieKM%
loy tariff wait on oveetelielmlag disiteter
4`f-Ofblufflits terltibble "1 to the ferinere of
Ills Plevinee. '
/lave we Pot, had Sir John Thompaon
aeeuring the people of Nova Soobia that the
,prosent Uoverninent wore deehous of doing
140Y frOuld to obtain reolproolty ; and
Ida; tooth:sane, Mr, Tuppm, flout the self.
Proelnee, ' shrieking to the eleetors of
Smith Viotoria that it wos base and trduauo,
able uad wicked and velum:104Mo to :beam
of moult% to tonne with the people of 1,14e
States "Sir, there obsoletely no
1110 1113,811 01 1011 10,3 OM 11103038WW110 OD
WW0,14 tile8,3 people ore plot wing.
'zr-loY will have . that reelproeity 18 au
lemeilt to you fedniees. They tri 1 haVe
that A11.10e101311 00111 111010. paye the duty,
Mare ese throe very ;airtime 113111.VeV411011,0 011
these soltjoess
1 Mut that the rartheiis Weat elt1113da and
Ext4{..xinada could tea. temteretend there wee
anytkom 10 their baeley, for in Letitia twine
conga. to pay a duty of fifteen oil' mom: off”
weber tem tee 1.101t0,1 t -0, whiten. tile ore.
teem of the Aim:rhea farmer tea, aletv.si
he tirouteit tete this es/teary free. It 0, a a
tee eottellaterki 1,111 110 Ou awl that bmi
farmer doe' not emitter enstbing, 'elute Le ;leo
'ate cutout, but, whet' e put u simple evemeekaat
I hare demi trovetel . I mu' get 00 Off*V"ri
tratieone a mon h email on las tette:teen
sii1e ilve lino aim ..,:oes tot eau Atomism
' 14" c4 a.0 64epose he rue. lege etuhins
ryr bar,ey eeetti,e1 Lae fame deo 1113
DWI Ahottie 1,11 b thole to tios ri bit 1110,1,
het VOW g,t mkt dotter a base.. et. 110
Clikua _eel) bee/hole or tetnedlete
to um Auterecaumereet e.11.1 0010 but tee. per
lemeel, esteem:0 he Luxe to mar ettoun per eau).
for Eakins It 'tome, teat isnaeutete tine,
eau IL, di 11031 ease, be seed teat the et/1111111110V
1118.70 OW 1.1 1.Y ' cent* out et tee eetexen; of
the teeetadwat tarmerse "
.tene great. omen ehe prooperey of the far.
Mere be Upper Cattalle Le the esolterosite
[Meaty, aud the ememeuent imerehautro Of
egrthultueol comunklittee awl raw materials.
Be hoe tonne a market where elute) wes neue
at 11.0 Were.
.11 them 111 03841 rammer° ot late date which
benefice tee eountry were than another It the
F..d..,,inboAby treaty,. negotia iudeed ey the
eitstek'e GeT0811,00113, ta,retoted under sir
ate% Ten 11.1/0,1Y that whereas weeet used
to 11111 twenty (teem a bushel to enter the troll. -
..Mrs of the le tilted &Items, It now goue tte free,
toldeevere farmer lioro is twenty eau . a huattel
ghetto. foo melee. leaved or beim;
oat. ot the elnited et,itee, en 1 being (Melted to
oertritrg.tisteirteurtte tet1)1:trii7
t get'00114011°.ne'orf twt0'
to hes bow ;me coneotor oe custom, suede be!
twoen lOm and the New Ko.ciane neteetate
latme or betweeti hint and the BrIttau con.
Denser.
Very. explibit theseeetatements, are they
n0O1 tato, you will agree with me that
the man who matle time° stateutents had no
doubt that Canadian farmers lost the duty,
%nil that reeiprocity was some value to you.
Well, sir, 'thous three shttements were
made on thiiee diaerent occasimis by Sir
John Alexander Macdonald, aud I will say
tkis for him that when he made them he
• was in his selue settees and clothed mei In
• his right natal.. (Laughter and applause),
- Sir, I have nut time to talk to you of pos.
Bible foreign maekets. Let us got theut
we can. 1 am qttlte, willing to kelp in a roe
fennel way. But let ua alwaya bear in
niitad that the geographies! position of tho
bulk of •Datniala is suoh that at the vory
best all and every other foraigu market is:
but II:makeshift and Can in uo way ever
reallY replace fee , you the merket of the
United States. •
Freedom tho Remedy.
And now, sir, what remedies do the pax,
eral parties] prepose You know what I
have always RAM, what the Liltertil parte lima
always saleirthat.y SU farmers now espectealy
aro the victims of a most unjust and op-
pressive mode of•taxation deliberately con-
. trived eu curial' the few et the expense of
the at.tuy, and we propose therefore as far
as we Can to retlace your taxes au:1 dimiti-
. tell your expenditure. •
But what of mven more immediate eon.
sequence we propose to okatein for you tee
power to trade freely with the rest of We
continent ; to have' leave to make the best.
use you can*of your .great natural nevem.
tiages whibh can .ouly,be done by full, free
eat.1 Unreeteictedrbeiproeity with our kinsmen
in the Ceited Stabee.
You know what your trade with the
Uoited Statia toolay. You- know that
beepito of a double wall of tariffs our trade
with them is fully equal, inclettel if the truth
were 8.3103VII, is preitebly a good deal 1110V0
then our trade with all tam rest of the
world put together. •
.You knew that for a very great deal of
whae you have io eell, for your horsee, for
much of your cattle, for your employ, for
11111011 of your grain, for your hey and for a
vast number of other articles you have prat:.
Mealy uo other inar,ket--certaittly no other
half goorl.
You know that. if you .deduct the one
solitary article of :thecae, you sell to the
United States fully -threedifthe of every
other urbiele of farm ,produee you tedee,
whether it be gralus or vegetables ot.
male or animal proattets.
Why for the last reetn.ded year, allowing
for the selmitted ahort returne, the aeures
l.bilucting cheese) are ris :-Tutal
011110 ea 011101. farm meditate $81,500,•
300 ezales to the United States:81'9,300,000.
You see whot r, Mistouier they are even ae it
is, 819,200,0C/0 to them, 42,200,000 to all
the vest of • the world. .
And now think if }ter trade has reached
this figure in the teeth of every sort of
laindrauee, think what. it, might
etel would become if these misoldevotte
barriers were 11311100ed. Think of what It
was and of how rapidly it [amassed antler
, our old 110.14,11d, rectiproolty Pettily
e of 1854 which, nevertheless, Sir Jolla Mao.
-deltoid datdared " omit the -one measure of
late date whieb move than any other had
benefited Canada."
Sir, 1 arty you cannot overestimete the
advantages: of reitiprouity for the farmers.
Not only is it a, good .thing per se but, lb
bringe all outman :11 mien:doges in its train.
Reeipeocity, sir, is the uatural short cut
and easy way hem a protective tariff to
free trade. (.Appla we. )
Cjirouinstatv eti as Canada is, IL is tile
death warrant of all trusts, trade mono.
poliee and 1301111311108, end every other eon.
spiremy pillage mud _enslave and demor-
alise our people. , (Renewed applauee,)
Last, but by no mettne least, reciproalty
• is the cue measure which of all others will
tend most to secure an honest mol coonoriii•
cal Goverameut Lind make it posaible for
) you to
Maintain Confederation,
•
whlobt,,ns matters stand, Is lo verY
1 oeut danger of going to pieces from sheer
downright rottenness in our methods of
administration. .
This is whet the Liberal party offer.you
and we nail get, It too. 1 note that driven
to theie last ditch some of ottr opponents,
the very Men W110 have thriee and fottr
thew over abut the door on all proposula to
negotiate with the United States, tun note
deelaring that perhaps reciprocity may be a
goad thing, but 'the United Stittes will
never give itto us, ("lioar, hear" audlaugh-
ter,
Sir, I do 1101I'' know what the United
Statee may set Lit to do if the people of
Caorale. ;sauna, the Prerfaer of 'Canada
to use earth atrocions language to the citi-
1441110 of a friendly State as Sir John Mao.
" deltoid dicithe other day Ilidifitx, when
h opu blicly declared that Canadian • is Mad
St quietly and laugh -to f11311 that floret) tie.
moot -soy torn by revolution -it fierce de.
inocritoy, iblr, Chairmen hi Whioh by the
way welimigb every family in the Dommion
has to -day a.son co, a breither, e datighter
or a sister, or at least a near mad dear kins-
man. (Cheers y. Sir, purpose at tho
very earliest Wit% tnotrient to eel! Sir
jolin Maedonald 40 *enema On the
fitme of Perlitenmut foe hie Vile misrepreson.
tationft of the feelinge the people of Club.
nde, towards .tbe 'United States p--(applattee)
but, peoding 'that °Vent, Say to
/nu, on my veep:4161141V ile Otte of your
reptictiontatires :and ea one of,. the
leaders of the Liberal party, that intro
frosivea th* mot, satiMeetory MentrandoS
-
111011 • ...
ihot‘t4 St414410 Vett 01100 V101
:70011,10 0.1 .1110 o,'13 .pered dm WI tle,
4130, ef tito United Statv. 1' fnir
anti. 111)3081 Inahlier they on their utile ,,r0
rotily to ate all th ir indeence 11 1111 1100
coeutry mon Ito promote ailUltelitt, roop01011.4,
RIO OM. 11111,1' 1 13000111 uo doubt it eau 11,1
alan.113. (C1104,11,,)
Ai for the twaddle aboitt realproolty be.
ing disloyal, I have dealt ith it so of teu
elsewhere I will 'tot Mop So do more than
glance et it now. Mow dere ‘11000 wen who
copied the American tariff in 11378 ; who
have liumeeiVileties of 30, 40, 50, aye, itt
091110 010400 01 100 pot. 1,011, 011 51%411 1;0041
wile have &him about 1,000,003 of larilleh
subjeets into exile wit mu watunwoeil 4
few year) ago was if tho P, was
bad for 'British oonitexion tio much
the worse foe lir tish couitoeion--
how dare 0108011,1 purtuu hey:miles prate of
1011,1 17 to us eeete) (Load. eheerse
111, 11/313, 11011 .11 Al of
heetea Loyalty.
It is time to donne who are the real loyalists
of 18e0 --the true spiritual desoundents, if
you wine to that, of the men who sated
Comaile, for the British Crowil a hundred
years age. "
51 a Chairmsh, the true loyalist Is the
man who demi 41 that hes M. hie power to
remove all muse of CL11101.01100 01111 1/0 Oonlent
by tho 111004 friendly tide the two great
iliV1210111 Of the English race; be is the
Wad Will 11114110 It !needled for letnadiatts
live and preepor In Canada -who win en.
a'elu Cann,linn fa011101.13 tO keep Rude faems
without tanking into teuants 01' soda; ho
is the roan who will legialate against
ittottopolies - who will vindieate you).
frileilone to buy and ' to gall la
well to:whet:1 as suit you hint ;
he and none other is the true and geoulue
loyalist, loyal . to the true interests of tile
Beit.011 Empire -loyal, which is yet more
important, to the be.t and truest interests
of the la:Kohn of Canada ; and therefore such
a loyeast, a he uttileestautis the poailien,
will be tho most ardent advocate of full,
free 'and umeetrieted reelproeity with our
no ghbors klusimiu, the greetest geg-
lislespeaking notion 011 the face of the
earth. (Loud applause.)
.And now, iblr, Chairman, what do the
Govern mint an:1 their frienals have to say ?
Woll, in the first !knee, they are good
enough to assure tts that we wore never uo
wet) off -4f ooly linew It. (Laughter.)
TheLand their press are well eraivineed
that It taxes make low primed' (anti
tO farm produow the fact, is 10).
They are great ou developing foreign
markeW. • 11 the Untted States witl
uot, trade with you there Is JoinniCR,
and' uetwalia, and China, and Peru,
and the Argentiite Republic; (a most profit-
able field fur surplus isipitalof you had any),
(Laughter.) 'And there la the Congo Free
State, mid Mr, Stanley's recent diseoveries
and the'llountains of the Meon, ell at our
dispoial. (Laughter.) V011 Will Ilea tb0111
113001 velnable, ohne at hand, too, 01/.1 eany
of neteeee ; 1111.1 7100 have the word of the
gentlemen who twelve years ago predicted
to you thet e policy of high taxation would
add innuentel, to the prides. of vour farm,
products md Ale value of yeue fai ms, ate)
would onlibto you to keep your people at
hume-you ham, I my, the most peal:lye
declaratious of these very reliable person..
ogee -that these are your real nutrkets, and
notthe Milted States to whom you Intee
been ettipiely selling the best. hall of your
produces. (Great applause.)
Mr. Chairmen, it swans to tne I have
heara of ties sort of thing before, I ton
rememlter vary well when it was the pulley
of these tnen foree reciprooity of trade
by. 111011118 01 reelprocity of tariffs: I can re-
member when our present High Commis.
gimlet, solemnly ausureel his uompetriots
of the Mantiuto Pt.ovinees that if they
woehl only let him elep high. taxes on
American goods be would pledge thein•the
,verel of a Tupper that teem would htive
prouity with the United- States in mu
years. (tamers. I. was present. when the santo
aeourate and mout m040101'0 person declared
that before 1888 we would be exporting
640,001,000 besheis of wheat front Metal •
tam, and W118 even good enough . cipher
out how notoy cues it • wonld re.
quire to convey is. (Laughter.) I
was preseut when his equally truth-
ful (colleague, the •Right lion. Sir John
Macdonald., not, once, but many times over,
pledged laiineelf that the onelian Peeifie
Railway should not cost tee farmers of
Uniettle one dollar, and gave us a mnst care.
fel estimate pro% ing heyouti 81111.3101V 111.•
d011t,t that by the let day of Jattuary, 1891,
we woubi 11:100 juat dt3,000,030 in hand, in
08111 inniegeges (as good or rather bevel
them cosh) - (laughter) - ont, of the
salsa of • our land to pey for the said
rah way. Anil therefore it is that I
venture metsaly to suggest to yeti mei
to them • that while foreign markets Ind}
zb verYgoml biting, and while 1 11.111 tv Mug
we should du 41 hat cen fairly be done to
sitoure them, it itt ribt as yet quite clear ee
my 11111111 that we wilt do uttogether well to
exchange them Fur the
Murket of the United Stators,
if the pereistent folly of our 011,11
130VOIII11111n1b Into tett dela, md us of it, awe
goiter. (Cries of "hone hear.")
Du not steppes; hews:wee, that Sir John
awl his press have wholly and altogathe,
lost eight of the fartnere. That would he
to do them great injuitice. 'rimy think
oeyon all the time and they are anxioue
fee your good, It Is 'tot for nothing Ulm
that good ILA great man Sir Joint elitedun
ald has made It a po 11 for theme ten yeen,
and more to devote from $000,000 to $300,•
030 m year of your them to the purpode
of aubsitheing semi al bemired educe Lionel
agenoies from The lam:owl Clam te dew,:
to The Chatham Planet, (Applause and
laughter.)
.213ey ere there to give yeu good advice,
aunt he ie them (the good Sir John) to
seo that t1111 lion% lose by it, and
whether they cost $500 or $5,000 or
15.000 a year, BO Mug as they pro.
vide the goial adviue, he Is really
to previde the subsidy out of your pooltets
and at, your expense, and why you
not pay for yeur education l should lam te
1100/ 1
Here, gentlemen, is the eilvlee these ex.
eelleut men have to give you, end I do hope
you wiil lay it to heert
Otto fawn" the great Intik or than, eat,
Mittel to 11111.0.11. W8801, Ill thole More thrift len
wee, thee '1.1101 0 are 110 thrifty Itteuture
being °heed out or who thet 13 glebe( 'prattle:et
on their Melds, thew better /Jeep e-two.rowed
barley, matt lions that wen Illy b114 oggO, breed
$..be intraes ltisteae or :teed ones, go Ih few ohm
and bedeck.: tor the lenteleo Rowlett, ouleivate
the home arket for ad It is worth, ' Ineiet
the Mamie, Uovernment adopting a :Melee
po Ley tor Ontario ao the one thing teat will do
more to make ue groat, wealth; and eultrellent
than any other thing.
And now lf you wish to know who tire
the men who give you 11110 nth/lee, sir, I elm
tell you they Kronen who ought te know how
urgent the wed is for you to eeonoinise, for
they are the Vdl'y ideutical men who in the
last twelve years have added $50,003,001)
a year ,to your real taxation, 81111
thirteen millions a year to your nominal
taxes ; who in the 88,010 apace of thee !tette
pretty well doubied your debt if you take
all their undwoharged liabilities into au -
ocelot ; who hove jest lost the best market
you bad in the world ; who lieve brought
the rand populaelon of Ontario to an „oleo.
late shout -ea with 160,000,000 of aeree
etill tultouched and unoommled, end whir
now for their lest word must heed bid
the &tenets of ' Ontario " learn to be
thrifty," ta work harder and Le spend loss.
(Loud end prolonged applause.)
This is their last word. Have you thought
Whitt your last word ahall be? (Cheers.)
The Partnere to Ano-wer.
Da you Mean to hog your chains, and
deelare that right or wrong.you will stead
hy the " old unto " tili that good day
deines When, as stated by Mr, Colby
in Parliament, farms le Ontario' with
goad bnildings . will be for von
Mt he say,0 they are to.day 111 Vermont for
• $10 and %rut 13$ per ttorearul no buyers
oecoe. Witting AS the „Lalsorsonianinieeltitiett of
Com ....mit report is bite ease 111 St11t101
t110 average profits of, nit ordinary OuteriO
farmer etiall ecload jest oee half 1,110 wages
of his elva hired Hain Y
011et be your wish the path is eliey
elem. befere you. Vote for Ube national
polioy and down with roolproolty and you
%mettle, thet right, speedily) aeeoluplishyotir
destiny. 1Clieers,) But if any of the Instincts
of free men aro stlii lefu you, then ;fly
bleeds you will take a leeitpu from the ro-
ot:at itetrati of our nolghliore anti, Nat, 011
fertners el the feuiteel States it Idw WOOka
111f0 taught their oppressors lb letiefte' which
will live long in the Illstor of 'this eolith
tient, do yell, too, when Ito ItttgolaY,004)°o,
nerve yourselves to strilte o blow Juniper
freedom, and. the right to live emeraniutelled
atoi tioploodered awl untaxed, excelit eo :far
as taxes aro really net:tied for law, orflet. PAO
good Governmout. 1Louti uoti proleagild
applainte,)
• ,
r.11141 11X.I.VO LAU) I./STRAWS.
.
The Eugineermg and Mining Denial' of
New York coutains (Jen. 3), a 1-001,3 1v of
t110 1111110M1 ro00111.000 of Canada. , allele,
this country will yet Inmate lb large mineral
exporter, thong!' at preemie, toemeding.
the oefedal 11711 MS, WO deg Mlle of theegeoused
every year tiny onetherstute of thendu rat
proauet uf the United Statist Vile nickel
deposits in the Sudbury region harem -tweet -
ea cotaaerahle Dilemma. Oue oonteumpr-
ury soya. that " everything points to 11in
ilevelopment of a large and important indus-
try " thee region. . 1 is disappointed
with the progreas of the iron aud cool
trade in Nova Scotto. The cemb' of
:mai nutting tame is . fat lugher thee
in the (Jutted Steam. S01110 of the
emulous for this, it says, are the restriotione
imposed by the Meters' .Unien anti the
tirtiabaeke of the herd wintees which olpee
most •of the cheap. Quante for the (mai
its opitilon, "Ndva Smiths us well as the
Umted States would gain greatly by full
und free reciproted trade." Ussfuieunettely
most of ehe Neva Sootia 094 owuers have
revelled the conelusiou that the rest of :ua
owe them a living and that wou
grosely treaeonable, as The Halifax litatitiel
would say, to expose them to thee.erdeele of
cuumetitiou. The tax on bitunanoue coal
is a 1100)0110 burden upoo manefacturea- ln
1839 there were mitered for home cousutiop
Mon 5,255,000 tons of bitummous on tvitiob
dety of 7749,000 Vide collected, the State',
supplying 3,091,000 tons, About 700,000
toue of Nova Scotia coal were sold at Mont.
real, and as the ownere thet under
free trade with the States they would he
hopelessly undersold at that' point it les.
fair infereuee that these 700,000 toes cost.
tho consumer awnething like the Anierician
price plus the Canadiau duty of 60 dent..
Assuming, however, that the extra cost wits
mily 40 cents a ton, that would mpresent
overeltarge of 7280,000, whioh, added to.
the dutieu collected on foreign latemlnous,
brings the alien which the Western 001101111101,
has to pay for the support, of the Novi'
Scotia mines up to a million ' dallarb
per annum. Sir Charles .Tupper ash!
in 1878 that all that the, • Nova
&Mises wanted was reciprocity, hue
twelve' years of coddling hes sapped
their energy and they are now adhereute ol
the policy whiuh levies a poortate for the
maintenance of indigent -and infirm hue.
riemes. By the way it would not be a betel
idol for Parliainent compel the industries,
which, like those of coal 'tailing, iron Mak-
ing, coeton manufacturing and auger retim
ing, subsist upun the tax that the N.P.,
imposes In their behalf, to give •an immune.
of 'themselves every year. The people at'
large twe eneitled to know what become of
their annual ountribution. How mucit goes
iu wages to workmen? how mach In profits
to the bosses and sheseholdere? how moth
campeign funde . to the Government
*Phew mid aim tiettreldng questioes
be enetioreti to the satisfaceion of -the House
every session before Mum all' -devouring
Minute/ire allowed to batten upon thopublic
for -another year. .
" Llanada,"• says The Hieing Journa 1
" Imo all the 'nattital mineral resource,'
which should make le v. greet, and prosper.'
ous ocnutLey, but the develop:bent of these
resoureue must be dene lergele by.Canaillene
thenieel Yes, and should eall out, a spirit' of
enterprise hitherto. extremely rum in the,
Dominiete" If our oontemporary monis to
imply that Canadians me. !nuking in the'
spirit, " go," it is mistaken. The best
evidence of their ability to keen step with
Aluarieant 111 Chet reepect is to ,be found in
tee feet theb 111 the United Statee theyraero
him hold their owe with the' natitte
Yankee. In inining they 'otemay a 'high
plow, the iron deposits of Michigan, Wie
:amain awl Minnesota owing' their dev,elop-
meet in greaepart Canedian
1 thee One of the 'most prominent • meta in
the huatling iron tovro of Eacitualub
as a tettaim of • Hamilton. A history of
the phut° lane just been issued by Another
Canadian. Of the eight thousand inhabit -
some neatgy otte-thied are Canteliause. The
unmet of 1000 will probably show that there
'we 350,000 Canadians in the three States
juat trained, and 11 the deseendants •of eCart-
Reline fathers and mothers WON) lucluded
would be fennel that the Canadianahrodel
has rendered immense service to those coot.
tu nweealts, pertioularly in oonneetion with
their leinbering and milling interestie• The
Canadian at home is a horn of another
color." The double env; of" custom houses
venders it impousible 'for him 40 tore
his mineral resouromi tom:mount There is
no look of enterprise among.the people, but
simply a witleepread iguorauce of the truth
that the prime essentlel for the milker,. as
• for every other producer, Is a Market.
•Sotne of them areaoclenseas Whittier° that it
walla be disloyal to oil their cheap Iron td
Yankees, aral they hope by means of ex-
. .
mibitant duties and bonuses to prounatethe
eetablishmiatt of a host of furnaoes, 111.
though Andrew Carnegie's works alone pm.
deiced twitie ad 11111U11' iron and nteel last,
yeth. as was coned 'tea hi the whole Domin.
ion. When the Canadian people mace pot.
active that the true way end the only way
to epee their mien is to obtain maims to
their natiteal market, tho stagnation which
now reigns will disappear and Canada will
Boon take high rank aniongst mineral -pro -
tracing ormutties,
SUGAR43:SB7,4120ortzar Lff 'CLAW
es -
:Mete The iettettioe nol, ite ter the ithility
'of ldie Cauedlau hAroier to raleo beeta pos.
414°117i01°11011t91;°P400"4tAr! 17117tirltleull:11.114)1081b1:070,'
of growing the beets and eativerting them
Mee Tager (Muhl Ito (Arrive!, ott with admit.
bilge ,e11 tioneemeti, inoletliog =minium
sell taxpayers. The Danish retiouelee or Mu.
twit*, Int they are termed lti his repo, well
ter 13 time, bet when their out put hegati to
exceed tho Med demand they fouud 11181e•
selves coufeauttel by the m111411100 eXpOrt
W4,111100 paid by the larger 11.tiropeau wen.
trios. Coding to 08101138iVe supply, hoed'
alteratioas, the letrodeotion of new pro -
mutes of timentlauturo aud 01,11er 01111808 the
prIce of boot linger is constalitly pnimitig up
and down. Thews vitriatiorm render the
bustueas milititig, espeuielly email 00111-
tuunitlea uotnevimat, haziteitoue, Oen, ex.
aniplo, in 10/15./JEI 1.110 11V0i11431 piece of el Cr -
teem Wet ruotesuger delivered lose ou lewd
at Hamburg WOO 19 011111)1178 per 01'1+,0 1.0t
in. 1886. wait only 11s. Sd. awl)
tviped, oue uot only the profiles but the• re-
serve funds of tho refineries, nod em-
barrassed the Danish Memel. as welt. ekher
lustattees might, be tektite:eel to show the
dengue te %I/Melt growees end reeners in
limited tnerkete 01110313d 1•1•0111 1110 nerve
eommaition and the wostioa, 4641.1011g to
over.produethat and "alaughicring" in the
emote beet.produeing ottuneriue like Pre two
and Germany. Coateda centerlines, all told,
etetut 100,003 tone of 01,11038.anuttilly, Leven
if the 11.11018 of the traele euttel be trans-
ferred 1,0 lieet.root facteries witheut lom
n•ujustiet to the coustener tbe retinues wined
3000 b3) obliged. Le seek foreien eutletse mid
then the trouble weulel
lu Gertnauy, which whoa the lead ln this
ktilustry, sager beets am gruwit on land
fteleeging to the favtories or else on
feriae W110/30 OW1101.4 01. tenants o
aigued 00n1ROut LO eultive.to beee
aueoreionee with veguletions prueuribeil by
tile factories. ete a vele the Meanies now.
ecleys do not pay fot. the lered.culture
beets, as they aro =lied, by weight.
conteaots Ex et prim for a certain pereentage
of smear in the bee., for 1111.01111g eXeses
tif ,which 11.11 exma mini is pied. For 100
kilos or 220 puentls of .beets die usual price
peid to the farmer le • Live marks tn. some.
atilt less than 50 gents. The • faeterIes
theinselees railed 42,000,000 hatelred kilue
Ded13,89 •and purchased 37,001,0)0 bun.
:trod more, enitieng the gloss preduceion
79,000,000 hundred .kiloe, iteui, e.700,00J
short tone. Fuer hundred factories were hi
operation. Formerly 1,230 kilos of 'mete
were eequired for the produutien of 100
ellos , of sugar, but science hue
eel to a great eootiony, anti uotv
836 kilos of beets yield 100 kilos
of raw sugar. The well product of
lertnany hi 1888.89 was 9,1300,0d0 hun-
dred kilos or ithout uulliou toes of rew
sugar and °ea -fourth that quantity of Ince
Lessee. Moot of the bout.root eountries
levy what we should call an inland revenue
Mx on ehe raw sugar or 011 00 beets or ou
aoth, and p.by back the tex when the refined
meat. is exported. If the tax were eolleeted
from the fiuished nniele this reheat would
arnottob to nothing as a proteeelve
duvet°. Bite, ad has boon 0161, 11.10 Mined.
vevenne tax is levied oil the beeterooe or
on tee heat -root juice, or on the rilW
caloolation is 1111010ot the geteatity of the
tinielted tittle:1e . thee eau or ought to be
mete out of a given quantity of raw in lee.
vial and when thet quentity of the ti ished
Article is experted the mon eepahl to
the exporter is the tax pilot hy him 011 that
remutity of the raw in:merit/I whioh, neourel.
lug to the .Goveruittent doelatiene he is
atippeeed te Lem used in inanufactuting the
exported auger. It Weapons, however, tete
as .ohe process of manufauturing is improved
'tad V.:1We etees maim mere oat ef tho
raw material than the Unveruntent has
reckoned on his gettiug ; Ileum sae releite
mbvirawratok whieli lie oblates exiseede the,
ameuuthe hes paid ae a ix. Thie ittergiu
is equiveeent to ten export. Imenty awl
eacthies him to, sell bie intgav to foretepere
mere ()heavy them. to, his hwo cuitutryin n
who bevel° foot the hill .00,1 to lee eoutetit
with .taxed Augur besides. Germ my, lerauce,
Hulloed, Husain, Austria 01111 .Bolgitun Item
been compelled. from time tO tone to re-
nrrauge them sugar tarie's with view of
dituittlehneg the drain upon their texpsytere.
In a alugle year Femme peel ever 743,0.1,3,000
menea, .0137,• 714,00 elate, tu the beet.
root, twin.. The British people admit
free: all .the boutity.f.ol tteeterom mote Len
Deane to them, end tie de remit Bleed is
dello; a renameretive export traile wall the
beet-ront trouutriee. lu confoutionery,
bieculte alai other arteeles late the metal -
Mature of wit tat segite •entere. Titey sup-
ple liar et a heavy ex penes th eneelvee
with the cheep rew materiel she
works up item finished wuntioilities, If
Itereane augar refineries ale Injured oho Ili
MON th..n..reuonpull for the 1138/3 by 010
growth of the hulustries teemed and ley elle
(emu of cheep Auger for her eztleitne. '1110
jam. bushmas of itself haa led to. a ex...elev.
Male development In fruit•grewitte terotien•
otte !enema. It is safe to say thee we te
attache, whit cen valve fruit with the beet
of them, _would be Letter eerved by Ititt.ng
(heap foreign sugar in free of tlaty Owe ley
mipteteng, as at present, an exorbitent, ho•
poet tax ou 01110 sueer for the latitude of
two or three Leine retheeries, or
eutering upon a enterer" of pro,
tootle's to sugar produced from hem,
1 ow. Some 4, me (10 N ZeiLlainl
grouted a bounty, of a kutlf.ponity per pound
ou honie.initae beet sugae. bub the expcne.
meat tioes uot. teppear to nave been a prothe
*tele one for the taxproyees. Timm Is little
doubt thee the utemetuotereeteln Ohl Jimmie
who are eneouraging the Quebec farmers to
cultivette the sugar beet have an eye on the
than ineial and Detninion treaoliries. It
Will be easy, 01100 they have inilueod the
habitant to emIxtrk 11(1041 110000111 1.111.o,
persuade hitu to deemed an export bounty
on the sugar. Ho or some of. the reel, of us
Will have to pay thee sultehly for tho lettlefit
of the,fonegia uonstoner awl of the local ve.
finer. And itt the end we shall Mee with
the people of Uerinatty, end Fet3/3110,
that the ludo miry so proeecuted 11, an ex
ponelve Due, and that. as a 1Pre11011 eoonoinle
review says, " the alternating booms mot col.
lapels in the pelue, now that produotion
been everiloue, are most serious feature
even for the farmor who 1,3 ell ppnind In be
the principal beneficiery lit the Meatless.'
Mr. Foster was iri -0;ror When he told the
peeple of Trinidad that tho sugar boot
does not grow well in Canada.
Mercier's Government is paying a ['Minty of
SO 00040 pet UM for boots, end the Quebec
fanners will 111000 he difiletelty hi raising
crop. Weetern Ontario beet•greitving is
" eta WO 068 1.611ifig olf a log,'" So it lb hi,
Manitoba, Islo country in Ithrope
bettor sugar beets than Donne/Alt, Sod out
soil arid elimate ate prObably jOst Ws Well
adaptatt fOr the *nese/044 etslfitta this
,.3.3seessoot
Tao Volum Btu. has Wen shelved in the
United States Senate for the preemie '1 he
free coinage Republicans from the silver -
producing Status voted with tho Demoureis
for giving the silver bill priority over the
Force Bill, The division width stood 34 to
29 does not necessarily mean that the silver
bill is to pas% Tee Democrets who voted
did so solely in order to get the Puree Itill
out of the way, The Republluan pepers
now speak of the silver Sweaters on that
side " sage -brush and " mintage:amp "
statestneu. 'rho Republican nueuriey ad.
witted 11108t Of the ten ituriee front which
they hail as Slates in order to swamp
the Democrats in spite of tho proto.its
of the -letter that it NVII0 grossly. toefeir to.
tranitforen suet, eptieselymottuleted agates
into fail -nudged members of the Union.
The Repttidietin soreness is therefore natural
enough, they have literally been hole. by
that', eien pettird. One of the " erititors,"
Ma Washburn of Minnesota, le in tio settee
oldie& a sago -brush or a save,. etatelermu.
ire voted against the Foree Bill Motley be-
eatiee Ite did not like it, It Is felt that the
diseppeerance of that measure will eliminate
the bleody shirt" from poi,eitte, oe at, 14 ty
Van from the Hetet Presidential eautp.tign.
By tho way, lt would be good to We a little
mow independeltee In the Melte of the hue
etity in the Dominion Senate, but there ,ie
. chesetbof It so long as the woodmen of
that body are appointed fbr life, not by' the
pen le but by ett leader,
niE TRADE. QUESTION.
views of Another Ohl N. 1
Supporter.
.
WI FAVORS NO I le ricecuTv.
rho B..)04y of Cahadlan Infer-
iority posit With.
Mr. Nones of inoersoit Believes in Unrestrlote
Te8,113 e-je die eionu Mekers
ef paeaeil,
GUELPH, Jan, 5.-Alr. 7, • II. Armstrong
of eitielph, who him a emainental reputation
ad a menufact orer of carriage material and
spring.tempered meal goods, is a believer ih
the eitileteey ef free tratle ,with the United
Slated 1143 a remedy for the dem, seed uoudi-
Won of thealethere. In 1878 he hollowed the
gestaavtieotiettl 11,1ui,liesy011;111,1041,".111,setligi,,ureaatuilmwsiulitlso abuh401
giveit lit hie alleelance to the movemeut for
freer trade telatieine 11.11.1f the United Stabee.
eye leo done not like to hear Canadiatas
.
11100V1 iu the Statesealk 111 disparagement
of (eenteitt, eee jut" knee's they left their
eountly heeanse it could not support them.
Ile would like toseethigeinigratien stopped,
ana reoiprouity, he expecte% will do it. Der.
Artustroug a year tete belt alargo factory
at Ode), t,o. in the his gooile for the
United States outeket,• He belonge to the
ranks of the maicufiteturers who are not
afraid of Atnericau .compatition, but have
gotte.into the thielreet of It and held their
03301, 1110 iteluetry at Melt woraa have
been now at OuulPh ''''''' ler' the taellf
Pare of tele trede tiles tho duties are now
driving to it wciulti he done from the Guelph
establishment if recipeocity were:adopted.
" There is no queation about it," Mr.
Armstrong said, " we want unrestrioted re-
procity;. •commerwal- union, free truile or
some arrangement that will oemove all re -
en -lettered on the , intercourse of the two
1)807100.0f title °en:Anent,. wen see how
Caintela would be benefited, but why the
Unieed Stetes should favor it is not so clear
to um. It.would mean a uood deal more to
Denada then to the United Stetea. Amen-
oau cep toe week) come in anti 11017 develop
our reseurces, our .popuiation would m.
creese, we should not lose so many of our
youne. ineneand we should be in more ht-
tintete reletioe wee: the great trade of. that
urettavy -;11 Weide whose vethene few Clad"
8.11111.1113 01111 00110311VO of. Why should we be
afeniti th miter a of etimputition with
them under sheiler conditions We have
the mon rind the ',mine, iincl If greeter unpi•
tal be, ht .0eitte ceses, neeessery it will
be found. 1 see no 60111111 rename why this
=tam ought not to beeoine manufactur.
ing centre ode supply ehe United States
with 400115, Ai re teonable that expecta-
tion me that. wu sheuld be etimpteleti alweys
b sopplied with our manufactures frem
the Uniteil States, •
" n my opinion the • gational Policy has
not been without gond effects. I think
it, Ilea encouraged manufactures and given
them an:rade:1 gala. At the 041110 tette 1
oppoeed to the policy of Lexie; inane-
fittenrei te ram meteriala. For inetatete, we
nee n. levee gnautity of an extra geed Mee!
which tee unnit buy M the United States
beetueo it Is tea, made in fiattailie thia
tee. deity tee not ao high ma on the poorer
qualitiee whieharc.Meele only at the Nova
Steal° works, but Um tariff is a burelen on
our nienufaut tire, Tbe, puorer 0(001, of
100 00 tem uotieeltireble quent11105, is
protected up to the hilt, and of eourse we
must pay elle pr oe they ask. So far as my
liteeineee Is mulct:rued fron 100110 weak! not,
give nut toy 1101e terirkee for my
goods. .1 am alreedy. in. the tnarket over
there with a factury Reit to inanufae-
ture uty buggy emengs. It cost a gond
many theusands to put up the bnililiiig
funilalt t ,o (haat, but I meanie tut the
keld oi er there was a good One, tual two
etudes, wore i,o on the business -a
duty to the Doinitikee tlevernineut, on the
material Lowed atal auty to the United
Slaws Govern:Med on the wet of the
diatom:1 ertiele with 10 per cont. added.
apptieel to our Government for a drawback
detles I wee paybeg ‘1411 meterial gone;
into geods for my •fee.eign trade. This
eould not: be arrangiel, end 80 1 built itly
la:story at Flubs I 811014111 !ewe preferred
11:40d .111 Illy 111 11111.1111.ALVill4
11411W, Wilerkt 1 had a p whioh owed
have been eniaegtel as need requ'reel
and where I live. Then, tee, there
al If "30104100 Whiitil are sentimental aud
whielt ought. not to elite!' into oite'a basi-
licas, yet whiell do have au influence.. 1
repeat. I shonla have preferred to lot ve sup.
my foroign feem uelph • If the
iluties could here been arrengeel. would
now rather attend to that, part of my foreign
tooki oatolde .01 the Crated States lame
leuelpialleoettse there is 'neve detail about.
it., ?Lod ilee famery .19 0001111101 WW1
hm'I'lrftStii,;:do'r'i'''retehriectorly,' r. Armstrong
°anti meet, " howenese 1 OM u0oVilleoil 11141
the (mere of 11110 country requirei the
closest. iriterchange of commerce with
the country WWI whielt it by
nature' no firmly , lottked, and becauge
I believe oily stolen of iron ores would
then be dug op aull marketed. • Fine trade
would give the market and the, niarket
well), Memo, the capl al. 1.111,1,1. free trade
relations we could enlarge our plata, here,
and our intolithietory would be extended to
supply the teade A?ietralitt, Japan
;Ohl 011181. Winn tejet3,,W1dell Will IlaVe / be
31,0,0 1141131 .111ine eetaleislinteut tutlese
tee raw etwaterial 0101 be brought, in hero
vv, them payieg a Mica tem Reciprocity, 1
Malik, would Musa( the weans of our young
10 0110 of the meet ..10p101.141,10
things,. The bust bruins awl blood of the
Doininiote tillable to' find , employment in
their oWn uountry, aregolitg over to the
United Sista°. Coder reelpeoelty Canada
would keep thane yetmg men to develop her
resoureee. This eountry would bentelus the
same wide conntiereiel attuttaphere 118 the
1.3111 etatee; end her trete) would grow
wores,Poudingly toil 11 theirs."
• The Plano Industry.
Ibuteasoll, Jon, 6.-1.`he opinion of a
Wooddimuk organ tnitutthieturer with refer-
enee to unrestricted' reelpkieity with tho
United States hes boon published by Tun
litannil, mid einS is p eseuted the meat of
all totionfinduree of piahoe.
1.1 .fleattits of Wootlettiok milkweed lain.
self anxious: for 11111 reeiprotial trade witn
the eountry to the aouth. He mad he wee
not afraid ot Coiled Shoos eampeti Mon and
be coVeted the market over thee°, lid 0.0.
Itnewledged, tie will be 'remettiliered, that
the Mtge number -of elleap ineleuments
turned out 111 the United Otates faotories
would, for a time, 111400 aft nude-
sirahle &fret ou this market. But
he had faith in Ws' owri (troths and
fhttb t ,Uwetediem orgaus eenerelly that
they would bola tieek.groged 1n their 031/31
1101111M, 10311'11111.0 b. blibre en the markets of
the border States, .
Mr. 'W. Lk •kiellee of • the Byline Brea.
7111110 Mituitfauttoing CO, Ingereoll, eon',
elides with theite *Melte His anticipates
that, With cootinental free Media there
would be eertain toneunt, of 'competition
from the cheapest sorts of. inede
the theled Stelae ,r0 nonotbehitiance thia,
howevor, helleves the °steel, of the say.
Mg to Canadian Viand nettatfitettworit
sultant froin the throwing otf of the antic%
oh their yaw tnateMele vitiati permit o
successful eompetitioe in the liffilted
States in the hatter allfeges' inetrUa
meats, Sir, 41 Ilea also penile mit that
Canada lig not ' ' f the 4444 010010
Plehe Plaglioi and that it le spremling,with
'rapidity that is not elieekddhy the present
11setti pelley of the tio that 4110
0141001i wi,thoet roulprocuty le hardly mere
hopeful io 80 rat' ad the. oltettp elites poems
are concertied, while with freer trade there
IS the prtispeot of a wiesideruble ,saving la
tiostilif manufacture of the good plaues•
andel; are the kite) the maeufaeturers, ;la-
terally prefer to make. t,
hlr. Naos first referred to the dotiek •
Canadian piano 11111 Oilidt1111813 111110 pay 011
111131V 11111 1,0110111, We mustimport tuitions,
001144110g hoards, felts, vougern, strings,
tuning pins," lie sold, "and nearly all the
hardware that goes into a piano,,suoli as
Matte and nlakel eerteve and hinges 'and
it hundred other things. There Is a
faotory lit Termite 11.1104.0 tirsti-olass &alone
are made, bat We fildier to bey aotiontrfrom
the other side and pity the 28 per emit.
adbilotYu;0tbre°d111.00rxethre49 1b0e ttil)00orit0etultU'O''ataicdhitlimo
price and the Amerleau with doty added,
as tho &much Bina' Atneritato action
gives a photo a higher standing and makes
it more' saleable. Those Aupplies that I
have mentioned are not made by any.piono
meratufitetuvere, eta la famorleCepocially
engaged tn manumaatrieg them, ett thet the
duties we pay ere paid by other Canadian
mano ntauufacturers, Teen there is tbe
amp of varnish. We hue our varnish from
the United Settee lergelY became we get a
linett artiole frotn over there, Wherever
we can vie 1180 the Canal -lien article, but, ore
it lame quantity we pay the full amount of
the dety of 20 uents per gallon and 25 per
cent, And on the Canadian , varniele
buy we are asked to pay a price within a
fttottion of the American price for
ale same grede with duty edd-
ed, Than on the coal tutelar our
boilers we, pay 60 coots a ton duty. In
faot there is nothing that goes into the
manufacture on which we do uot pay duties,
except, if, be tionte of the MAXI in 1110 014805.
" 1 111100 never been able to uuderstand,"
hu proatiedecl to nay, " Why we could not
compete with tho American piano manu-
facturers the Weston' Stutee and in the
markets atong the border If we were allowed
to scale the Mehl walls. A comparison of,
preeeut prices in the 'United States end
Canada shows theft there is no danger of
this being made elitughter markeefor it is
already a worse market than •their own.
And, in my opin1811, if the United States.
markets are open to us we can elford to
tight et home. If with the Leda -increased
uost of production in this country our
prices are as low as, Heel's,' evhat have
we to fear when the ' ditties 'are tbreee.
caf and the cost , of ' ntanufecibuieng
is leauened by thet muele ? -We
should not feel the effect here of the better
elites of pianos mole in the Muted States, ,
bat he cheap stuff which would Coate in
would tor a time lucre:me the intefferenois
with the bettor class of goods which some
Canadian tnanufacitte letve begun. The
nuthber of Steinways and Chickerangs and
snch inetrumente which are sold here would
not ineremte greetely. The wealthy people ,
elm are peep 'red to pay a couple of hun-
dred do' lars for the Mane en an ingtrameni
now bring these in notwithstanding' the
date. The only %My in which I can 100
01101 the piano took+ of Canada miget be
iujimed by recipeociiy would be by the very
cheap albite of 'instruments which are made
in large numbers in the 'United States and
whitth might be foisted opon peetide
vrho buy a. piano foray that Demme
their arteules of furnitere there may be
a, piano. This branch of the trede
unfortunetely is not absent from tee now.
rb is growing and I am afraid is likely to
grow until the people refuge to buy the -lin-
ks; instruments. It is an evil ehat Is not
stopped by the taeiff. lt is Wawa 'made
more grievous by reason of the limitation of
our market, In my natal there is ne doubt
that the piano mauttfaeturers Canada
would he able to hold their own. Inseead
of se Mug so far away es the Marithne Pro-
vhwee we would have' to go into .nearer
enerketsacross the line, Mit I am not ahead
of that. In the end we should he the githa
ors by remain of the cheaper produetlouered
lavger market."
etesseeneecn of recent change of
government, in Victoria, attention is being.
rivetted on the thrtnciel exploits of the Isle
Administration of which Mr. Gillies wits
the feeding epirit. During Ida four, years'
teuure of otnee that politioian borrowedmo
less than $:35,003,300. and retired leewing
hfre eueueseer to face an enormous deficit.
The Mallvlurne corresp umlaut of 'rho. Lon -
doe Titnea describes hie modae operandi
t111380 WOMIS " •
" Semen] after session has the litte.Tr000.
three Mee uherged wall sticking to' ofiloo
like a limpet, upon the truly eitsy prooe
1,118t it last., of bribing the coustituen. 109
1111 around with cookupar railways here and
ceekspur railways there, with lionitses to
farinees, and money grants to municipitlitiee
and mining companies, un.ler the lees
name of ' prospeoling for gull.' " •
There is a familiar ring about the hltstory
of wino of the subsidised branch roads :---
" For instance, In one thort lino the re-
ceipts are 2,000 a year short , of the ex-
penses, besides which the iuterest on the
urigittal oast, of the line amounts to 74,000
a year. Agate a shore Mau frent Cesterton
to Brauxhonne la a positive toes, to. the
count ry of £10,000 a year, anti these, are
ottly two out of UOW011.418 Of a ecere of cook -
spurs which thew similar reeplie.
thiw, them must cost, loathing, t,o close
them would bring down it univalent chores
of protests from the dillerent locsaitiee."
•
lieverth: less Mr. Gillios eppeale to have
been merely an amateur at the business; Ha
utterly filled to euviou any of his Paella-
menteey supporters. The Barons atttl
and .2emples were hOt allowed to
handle oent of the tioverument lionitses,
and, as a demerit*: nee, they are 11014 ae
uneelt diegusted with his polioy 135 tho
indigniett texpeyers, is hinted be au -
other carreepondent thee there wee " a
slight sespieion of private jobbery in eon.
nention with eertain pehlte worke other
than railremeis," but a slight, auspicion ie. not
worth tilkingabout Our Australian cougins
need not oxpeet to bo Massed as a gOothead
po iplo until they are able to exhibit M. Pee
with reit+ enterpriee of " Uncle Themes "
maCheevy, Mitasters of the Croice OM
thrifty its Sir Hector, and oface-holding
families posseseud of the fortymotepue•
pewee of Olau Tupper.
A Prrosstrao correspondent of The. Mew
York Evening Post, ill .an ' :meant, of
Andrew Carneg,ie's enterpOimeg, says .the
Carnegie works at ,litoneeteml eecentlio
made ,1014 of niekel steel. Ativeiton hea
was rolled:into plates threeetuarterememi,
Molt thick. It was melle by the Beiteenter
prouess, and the olustio limit and the. tat. ,
mato tensile etreugth were raised hy Nits
alloy to.airnost double the limits reitobed'in
the best grades of boileteplete etiel, Thb
Cartiagion have all armor Mill mt 'thelp
works at BreibloAt mni 'have r000lved
olkier there for 6,00) cowl of nickel ailoot*
plate for the United Stated nary: !pima.
livery will begin in Julle 111 the rotoef 500
theft it Menial, TIO5Y 007 that t140 Whole
tegidvethents of the sia,vy foe all the Map.
now in college of constritetfoit or content.
plated would not' 1110111 Allan equal half the
(14,404 of the Carnegie mills," During
the year 1890 Mr, 'Carnogia's various °stab.
lithetente tented but 41,00) brats tneolt
irien end 050,000 toia finlidied lion caul
steel, or nearly twice alt as is used in
f,he wit010 bontiolora te twelvemionth.,
They have just intuia thei first shipment of
steel Mlle Mettle° Oak:sent Audi tho
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