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There is Qlte thing with regard to
the trade Polley which tlao-Girt 1i ntlere:
1briv i Ontlirled that is certjtizt, that is,.
fluff jt, ^ar'orticX rerrzcta'.ct arlrrirlaitt;ly
cultixrail?.raltp ttiolr:; 'They:izure clecbw-
e t two things Which prove this; fir'st,.
tbat utero shall he no dat eci:bn. any of
thttr evessctirie4 of life, and second, that
every vrestigt 'ef Protection shrill her e-
lnot' ci out of,the tariff, It is, there.
fOre very, cler ix that under the system
'they prOpese.0anada, shall adopt, there
shall be zto. War whatever upon grain,
mo;ttili fzritit,,.Otc,, in fact aauythin; that
raised by ,the Canadian farmer.
•Now this is 11 serious [eater for the
fskrxtzer's all over Canada, They should
ask thep selves the question before
they vote for the Grit candidates, are
they prepared to go to that extent in
the destruction of the tariff wall. We
caul, quits ztnaerstauni,that if other
coon tries were to take their tariff down
upon aa:grie ult:ural produce tha.ts giviug
QUI' ferulers a chance in their markets,
that the proposal
rnaee
1the
.. Grit
by
party wt)uld not be so objectionable;
in
other words, we should get some-
thing in return for, what we yield up,
But the idea of reciprocity bus been
adopted by the Grit party; they do not
pretend any longer that they can get
any such concessions from the people
of the United States or elsewhere.
Tbey are going to the country simply
upon the cry that wo above mention,
namely, the ,destruction of every pro-
tective feature of the tariff. '
Now let us see how the farmers them-
selves feel upon the question of pro-
tecting their home market for their
produce. We .have yet to hear of
any Patron of 'Indu,Stry lodge, of
any Farmers' Institute, of any
Agricultural Society, that has agreed
to any such proposal. While these in-
stitutions are willing, some 'of them,
that the tariff. upon all other articles
gave farm produce! shall be removed,
they are, ominously silent as to agri-
cultural produce, unless their members
are spoken to about it, and then they
do not hesitate to say. that they want
our own•niarkets kept.
-When the Grit party were in power,
between 1873 and 1878, our farmers
never shoald forget that while the
United States had a high duty on farm
articles going inre their country. We
had no duty upon these same artieles
when they carne over here. In other
words, the Canadian farmer not only
did not have the market of the United
States but the Government made hire
share his own market with the farmer
of the United States. How did the
farmers feel about this? They felt so
keenly that a very large petition was
presented to the House of corronous in
1876, and in that petition it was declar-
ed, "As practical farmers, we cannot
--but view 'with regret, our markets fill-
ed with American produce free of duty
while Canadian produce isheavily
taxed when sent to the United States
markets. Your petitioners therefore
respectfully pray for such protection as
will secure the home markets for the
home producers that the sante duty be
levied on all agricultural produce con-
ing into Canada from foreign coun-
tries, that is imposed by said countries
on -our produce.' The Grit party re-
fused to listen. to this petition, and
the farmers of Canada voted against
them by scores, and .hundreds and
thousands for that refusal, when they
went to the •electorate in: 1878 The
Conservative party as soon as they
came into power said to the people of
the United States:
"If you will give us your market we
will give you ours, but if you close
your market to our farmers we must
close our market to your farmers."
Is there a farmer in Canada who
47 will say that the Conservative
f rrrner twrong
Is
say th
at rthee t Grit
Grit
Government looked after their interests
better than the Conservative Govern-
ment did? It should he remembered
too, that the Conservative Government
at Ottawa has consistently pursued a
similar course. of action all along.
They are willing for extended trade,
but they must get some advantage for
our people in any trade treaty that is
made. they are not willing that all
the advantage shall be to others, and
against the Canadian farmer. We
venture to say that if the question of
agricultural protection or no agricul-
tural protection were to -day put to the
vote among the farmers ot Canada,
not 10 per cent. could be in any way
4tifluenced to say that they are willing
to throw their market open to the
world, without any return for the ad-
vantages given to foreign competitors.
i$u oh being the case we submit that the
safest thing that the farrnera of Cana-
da can do is to stick to the men who
stand by the agricultural interests,
Who in the recent revision of the tariff,
while they cut down the protection
to manufacturers at almost every
point, still refused to lower the duties
upon agr<ictaltural produce because such
lowering Would steal the home market
from the Canadian farmer.
Our readers all know of the Hon. Mr.
Joly, a prominent Liberal in the Pro-
vince of Quebec and its ex -Premier,
who visited the Province of Ontario
'last year for the purpose of trying to
injure the Conservative Government at
• Ottawa. His opinion, therefore, upon
the question of agricultural protection
18 One that cannot he said to be tainted
by any party partiality. On March
24th, 1876, a circular was sent to Mr.
3oly by the Agricultural.Committee at
Ottawa. The fir'8t question of thp,t cir.
ctilnr watt.; "Mt. Jolt', is it in the in-
terest of? the Dominion that we should
Conal nftt to admit American produce
free while Canadian produce ex-
ported:tient, the border is so heavily
taxed. ? The answer to this question
'WAS this : "No it is against the inter-
*, eats of the Canadian farrners. I hurnb-
1 t should not admit any -
t Dsubmit ve ilig free of ditty except the raw ma-
toilifitforour" anufaetures." Mr. Joly
WAS 'right , then; and, the farmers of
'Canada are firmlyof the opinion that
the bonservative.Governtnent are right
still.
OIVOC;e ZAWSON.
'L'it'hium tboo . Uiii e d StaUls Congress-
placed.tG .duty upon tin,plane, there was
a groat outery ' tt wasp said, that his
duty }would alwaye ;be adde(t, to the
pzrloe' a * ?late, and #fruit in tear[,
siegt)erea••• the . pl'ice of tin ii?late ancl,,
evet'y'arbiole illayntifarettlrect therefrom
Would 'he iticroased, . The • Werku en.
were appealed to, the housewives were
appealed dta�tba
t theSad
nerptl1S arid
thsitkitchen would be made to
ago, .yet that three year's has, been -a.,
sufficiently long • tilde tc show their
fallacy. The. Angla•Stviss •Condensed
Dlillc Company of 1►liddletawn, 1V. Y„
use. large quantities of tin plats.. it
recently sutnnitted a statement show-
ing the amount paid for plate in
different pentode. •
In the first period, namely, forty-
three 'months without any ditty,- the
highest price paid per box was $0.21„
and the lowest price $4.07, the average
being $5,0$, which added to the freight
of seven and one-half cents per 100 lbs.
made the average cost $5.74 per box of
112 pounds at the 'factory. Ip the
second period the duty being on, but'
the industry not very well established,
forimpelted tin plate the ave rage fr•eight
being included, was $5.77. In the third
Perod the company p
an
y
used largely
domestic tin.
Altogether etl
er the
y bought
1131 boxes, and the cost of that tin
delivered at Middletown, freight paid,
averaged only $4.80 per lox, or 88 cents
per lox less than the average before
the duty went into force. Thus, one
by one the prophecies of anti -protec-
tionists turas out in a manner to bring
confusion upon their authors.
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
The \S oodstock Sentinol-Review is a
strong Grit paper llut its editor is an
intense Canadian. He has had some
things to say recently that Cartwright-
Charltt p et al will not like: The editor
of the Review is one of the clearest -
\headed editors on the Provincial press,
and his views as to trade relations with
the people of the United States, partic-
ularly as he is a Grit, are worth quot-
ing. Here is what he says :—
"One other point is clear, the satisfac-
tion which the Canadian people feel in
the meeting of•this conference is due
very largely to the attitude of the peo-
ple of the United States towards
Canada. It has been, especially.of late,
commercially and politically hostile.
And while this is true, the financial
crisis in the United States ha's opened
the eyes 01' Canadians to the results of
their political and fiscal systems, it has
killed, and we hope for all time to
come, annexation sentiment in this
country. While we believe, as - we
always have, that the United States is
Canada's hest market, and that we
should never cease in friendly but self-
respecting efforts to secure it on fair
terms, still we are not prepared to
secure it at a sacrifice either et national
self-respect or national existence. Nor
are we prepared to sit with our hands
folded while the Americans refu4F to
deal with us as friends and neighbors.
Canadian interest in the colonial con-
ference springs from national self-
respect and a spirit of national self
help. If our neighbors spurn us and
pursue a policy avowedly hostile, we
must look elsewhere for opportunities
to promote our commercial and
material prosperity ; and with the in-
stinct of self-preservation we must
strengthen our position as one of the
most important colonies in the great
imperial family, while we ate moving
forward to a great nationality of our
own."
Exactly so, Brother Patullo! That
is just the doctrine that your Conserva-
tive contemporaries have been teach-
ing throughout all the Commercial
Union, Unrestricted Reciprocity. and
Continental Free Trade agitations in
which your party has been engaged.
•
THE' DAIRY INDUSTRY.
Some thoughtless individual felt in-
clined, when tfie Doininion Govern-
ment began actively to encourage the
dairy industry, and by the appoint-
ment_ of a dairy commissioner and
some assistants, sought to give the
farmers of the country pointers as to
the manner in which the industry
should be conducted in order to
made itlprofitahle, to lead people to be-
lieve that there was a good deal of
buncombe in the scheme. It takes a
little time to show the advantage of
any such line of action. Probably,
however, never has anyattempt on the
part of the Government to advance the
interests of the people borne its fruits
so quickly. We have only to turn to
the reports of various hanks whose
annual meetings have been just held
as evidence of this statement. If our
readers have noticed the reports of
these banking institutions they will
find that the addresses of all the goner -
al managers have pointed to the fact
that the dairying i nd ustry has done move
than anything else to save Can-
adians from participating in the
financial and commercial crisis that
have fallen upon other countries.
Even the manage of the great hank of
Montreal, the third or fourth financial
institution of.the world, devotes con-
siderable time to the effect which the
dairy industry has had upon the pros-
perity of Canada during the past year.
rhe Government of Canada, are still
pursuingthe course which they mark-
ed out In connection with this indus-
try, and have increased their staff as
well as established travelling dairies
for the purpose of giving instruction
to the people. There is an unlimited
demand for _good dairy produce in the
markets of Great Britain, and there is
no reason why Canada should not
make untold wealth out of supplying
these producers. We congratulatethe
Government upon the success which
has • thus far attended its efforts. Let
them keep on in spite of the opposition
of their opponents, and they will learn
as they will receive the ;gratitude of
the Canadian people.
Ir.� r'oP PRQ ' WWS
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The, Populist cry 1n the • Unitad
,;States, 10:0 tilt; platform of the raitr000
of Industry fa Canada, w,al,4' that they
watttbl a tartfffor iovonuO aiary,, How
little they .utk4Qt'steed tbiti tirift for r8-
`ventre only ulay tae inferred bola the
fat that flat Se
nator
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who is orle, of ehan:11)ioua of t1 a
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fesstana werentde orlyt ree years
list party 1ULVed Jit theilfpited State
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>'�n n
Senate x ae tl a
Y that the pt zrteet<ian h
of scot removed from wool, which is: one
theprooduetior sof'tliesec:tionofcountry
freni which he comes. Senator Petters
delnazntl was for 'protection to tlie.
• farmers. of his district. If to•mnozxow
Pattrorb r'eprosentattiyes were placed in
the I-Iotuse,uf'Oamrllons, We .are con,
winced that none of them would, Clare.
to vote for free agricultural produce,
and yet their )platform distinctly states
that they are in favor of tariff for re-
venue only.
c atza27ss ,t'VP%D.41?rO 'r
,1Nre fret sura our, Donsetvative, I)'ati.
[Dula of Tnduetry friends will lei d the
failawirzg; wail interest, from t'h
columns of the Ottawa[; l'l'ae Pr'a'ys that
sticongest fOlt.sheet in, the Domini4r11.
"The oleotion of n Patton .candida -
is
he of
to H..
1; is t
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azs empl tic a, .g°AItienluetinn to f t
Thompson, avpl�linrc3txt rrzd its rile..
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THE T►VO BUILDINGS.
The Liberal newapapers have been
fend ' during the past campaign a-
nointing to the care with which the
public money was expended by Mr.
Mciwat's administration, and to the
good value which he always received
for the Province for the same. A
favorite expression has been, "Look at
the cost .of the Ot to
t ti ao Parliamen't
buildings and the cost of the Dominion
Parliament buildings, which wet'e built
chiefly by Conservatives." We are
glad this [natter nas been mentioned.
We wish every one of our readers
could see the two lots of build-
ings. The Parliament buildings of
Ontario in Toronto, though it was
promised by the Governrnent that they
would cost only half a rnillion dollars,
have cost all told about a million
and a half. They aro coniposed of one
comparatively small and insignificant
structure. The Dominion buildings at
Ottawa are among the. finest pieces
of ar•chitecttu•e on the continent.
There is the House of Commons with
its ample accomrnoclation for the Com-
mons and the Senate, there is the
library, probably the most splendid
piece of architecture of its kind in the
world, there is the great eastern Klock
and the great western block, and
that inagnificant now structure,
the Lan vin block. All these build-
ings haw cost $4,500,000. They are,
all told, six or eight tunes the size
of the O tario buildings, not to speak
of their s endid appearance compared
with the s ibby appearance of the
Toronto buil s, and yet, as will be
seen by the figur they have only cost
three times as much as the Toronto
buildings. By all means, gentlemen of
! the Liberal party, get out a picture of
these two lots of buildings and let thr
public make their own comparison and
draw their own conclusions.
BELGIUM A 1 D FJjEE TRADE.
•
Some of our Liberal contemporaries
have been pointing to Belguim as an
example of a free trade country. An
examination of the tariff of Belgium
will convince anyone that Belguim is
largely the same kind of a free trade
country as Canada. Belguim admits
of free raw materials and the necessar-
ies of life which she cannot
raise, and ' places a tariff upon
articles which she can manufacture
at home. Until 1814, Belgium was a
free trade country. When she got her
independence in 1830, the markets
which she had been sharing in conse-
quence of her political connection
were closed against her. Two parties
sprang up in the country; one party said
"let tis make.Belguim;au agricultural
country with, the commission on com-
merce in transit as a port of entry for
English goods on their way to the
continent." rhe other party led by
Abbe Defour contended for protection
to home industry. Thej* pointed out
that the rnanufactgrers were being
prostrated; enterprises were failing;
English goods were being slaughtered
in their markets, and French agents
were active in the same direction. At
last a Government enquiry was made
into the state of Belgium trade, cqm-
merce and industries, and in 1842 it
made its report. In 1814 the first
Belgian protective tariff was adopted,
and in the following year Holland fol-
lowed the example of Belgium, while
in 1816 commercial reciprocity was
established between the two countries,
and the new tariffs, therefore, did not
interfere as between these two. The
result was astounding, vast manufac-•
turing enterprises being established.
Not only was the home market taken
but two Englishmen selected by the
ron manufacturers of England to
ascertain the reasons of their lessening
ales in Bely,uim reported "with the
dvantage of possessing the hest and
nost skilful workmen in Europe,
Belgian manufacturers have been
hutting us out of the foreign markets
0 an extent that can hardly be credit -
d, and in fact the [manufacturers of
'ngland and Scotland are thrust aside
)y Belgium, and even at home these
elgians are challenging our supremacy
with great success. In lar iron and.
ngines for agricultural purposes, and
ven for railway purposes, they have
atto'rly been obtaining orders in
ur own markets." Even a Belgian
ree trade writer discussing the success
f Belgian manufacturers under a pro-
ective tariff declare as follows: "If
nyone had left the country in 1835,
fter, having visited our princi-
al manufacturing centres, and
ere to tome back now (1861) he would
o struck with the transformation
hich has taken place. Asa conse-
uence, production, except in articles
f food, has outrun the needs of the
opulation although it has increased in
umbers and in wealth, and we are
rliged to seek °for 'foreign outlets,
rotketion saved the Workmen csf
elgiunr froth beggery." In-selectin
elgiutn as an et ample of a prospero e
tnrnunity our Liberalcontemporat'ie5
e paying a compliment to the pro •
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And Se the Free Press thinks that
Conservative Patrons are, going to.help
the Cartwright -Laurier -Mercier corn,
binatiora into office 1 Not ' much
Conservatives throughthe country
know these fellows too well,
A SAaIfPL47.
The Liberals are always endeavoring
to advise the great mass of consumers
that protection always increases the
Rice. The answer of protectionists lilt
that the pr'ice'may he increased for a
very short time but that home compe-
tition induced by the establishment of
new industries will eventually reduce:
the price to the very lowest possille
limit.
No
better
Igoof ,of that state-
ment could be found than the history
of the steel rail industry in the United
States. The protection on that intim-
try in the United States may be stud to
have begun in 1867. At that tame the
duty placed upon steel and iron rails
ways 45 per cent. acl valorem, and the
price ot rails was $166.00 per ton.
That protection or higher, sometimes
being $28.00 per ton, has been in force
front 1867 to the present time. Now
let us see whether the price has been
kept up. The price to -day in the Unit-
ed Statesisonly $28.00 per ton, and the
manufacture has grown enormously.
It may he mentioned that this price of
$28.00 per ton is so low that steel tails
are actually being supplied by the
United States to the great free trade
country, Great Britain.
IIOLD YOUR WEAPON.
Speaking at a recent meeting in
Hastings, Lord Salisbury, the late Pre-
mier of England, talked a whole col-
umn of sound sence in a very few
words, Here is what he said: --
"We live in an age of a war of
tariffs. Every nation is trying how it
can, by agreement with its neighbor,
get the greatest possible protection'for
its industries, and 'at the same time the
greatest possible access to the markets
of its neighbors. I want to point out
to you that what I observe is that
while A is very anxious to get a favor
of B, and 13 is anxious to get a favor of
C, nobody cares two straws about get-
ting the commercial favor of Great
Britain. What is the reason of that ?
It is that in this great battle Great
Britain has deliberately stripped her-
self of her armour and the weapons by
which the battle is to• be fought. You
cannot do business in this world of
evil and suffering on those terms. If
you" fight you must fight with the
weapons with which those whom you
are contending against are fighting."
And yet Grit politicians want the
Canadian people • to throw away the
weapon of defence which they have.
CURRENT TOPIC'S.
The Ottawa Free Press which is a
very strong Grit newspaper has been
disscussing the question of the Patrons
who have been elected to the Local
Legislature, and in answer to the
statement that they would be inclined
to vote against the Mowat Government
it says as follows.—"The defeat of the
regular Reform candidate by the Re-
form Patron, is of no more conse-
quence than the defeat ofthe chief whip
of the Meredith party by a. Tory Pa-
tron in Carleton County." It is under-
stood that the Tory. Patron here re-
ferred to, has pronounced himself very
strongly in favor of Mr. Meredith and
his policy. in other words that he is a
Conservative first. The Free Press
therefore indicates in this articles that
the Reform party, consider the Re-
form Patrons who have been elected,
as Grits first and Patrons afterwards.
This to a large extent- will no doubt
turn out to be correct, namely. that
many of thein of the men who
have been elected under the guise
of Patrons, are really "very strong
Grits, and will support the Mo-
wat Government or any other Grit
Government which they have a chance
to support. It will be just as well for
Conservative Patrons to remember
this jubilation of the Free Press over
the result in very ninny contests.
7HE LORDS.
It is being pointed out in some Lib-
eral journals that the public sentiment
of England is now in favor of the aboli-
tion of the Lords, who are the second
chamber of the British Parliament, and
this they declare is evidence that the
second chamber is not an essential
part of the British idea of government,
and that therefore Canadians to follow
British ideas will have to abolish the
Senate of Canada. Tho second cham-
ber in England has existed through a
great many centuries. It has always
been regarded as a very necessaryart
and parcel of the British constitution,
and even now the position of the agita-
tion against the Lords is altogether mis-
represented by the Canadian papers
that we have refe1red to. On June
20th, in Leeds, there was held an anti -
Lords' conference. It is timely to say
that that conference, composed as it was
of two thousand delegates, containing
the chief agitators against the Lords
in the whole kingdom, did not ask in
any sense for ,, the . abolition of the
House of Lords. Labouehere, one of
the Radicals, indeed' did move that the
Lords ought to be abolished, but that
resolution Wag defeated by a large maj-
ority and the conference asked instead
that the powers of the Lords be to a
certain elttont curtailed in its dealings
With legislation already passed b !-the
Lower House. Sir Henry encs at-
. son Whit, spoke p p , d
► p at tiler e0nferenleeaa did
riot hesitate to come to at
warning to the delegates agaaihst'azn•
gerotts schemes.
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A NICE LITTLE GAME.
The Globe has given away the hand
of the Grit party pretty well in the
Editorial which wo here quote. Our
Conservative Patron friends will., do
well to take a note of the little scheme
which the Globe foreshadows—and
which it will find won't work with Con-
servative Patrons. Here is what it
says:—
"in Dominion polities the platforms
of the Patrons of Industry and the
Liberal party are practically identical.
The most important political change
for the farmers of the Dominion is re-
lief from the protective tariff. This
the Liberals have fought for since the
adoption of the national policy, and it
-is a leading plank in the Patrons'
platform, The nomination of rival
candidates by the Liberals and Patrons
may enable protectionists to retain
their system, though in a minority.
Such 'a waste of,strength would be un-
fortunaee for the farmers of Canada.
STAND TOGETHER.
The Conservative party is the party
of Canada. It has performed a great
work for the • country, and it is the
only party that has within itself the
determination to perform a great work
in the future. Conservatives all
through Canada are proud of what the
•party has done for the country in the
past. Let us see that it is given the
opportunity of continuing its good
work 1 From now until the' general
elections every attempt will be made
by our opponents to divide its ranks :
every means will be used to break it, if
possible, into hostile camps. Every
Conservative who leaves the straight
line of the party upon this or that pre-
judice, with this or that fad, in conse-
quence of this or that dissatisfaction,
will contribute towards the success of
its enemies. The work the party has
performed for Canada has been made
possible by its meinbers standing shoul-
der to shoulder in the support of its
leaders, and fidelity to its principles.
Let there be no division for the future.
If such are made, the men who make
them will live to regret their action,
and in common. with the people gener-
ally, to suffer the consequence. The
leaders of the party ask for no sym-
pathy • they will submit their record
and their policy and ask for a calm,
unbiased consideration of the one and
of the other, and for a judgment at the
polls in accordance with that consider-
ation. We believe that our party
friends, and the electors as a whole,
everywhere will refuse to deny them
this common justice.
LET IT NOT BE FORGOT7'ON.
Our Liberal contemporaries are busy
now trying to catch the votes of those
who are ardent Canadians by declaring
that Mr. Laurier and Sir Richard Cart-
wright are filled with Canadian senti-
ment and are only prepared to support
a thoroughly Cabadian policy. They
have carefully kept out of sight how-
ever some of the things' that Sir Rich-
ard Cartwright said previous to the
elections of 1801. Let us give an ex-
tract from one of Sir Richard' speeches
at that time. Our readers will remem-
ber that .the Grits' sub -leader went
to Boston, and according to the Grit
newspapers of Canada, he made a
speech there to Americans, and this is
what he said :--
"In one word, give free trade with
Canada and yda (Lawton) at one stride
take the position in some res peers of a
frontier elty, with 'a, great extent tir
trade territory secured to you as that
of a central'entrepots, and a praactical
monopoly ofa great region behind out,
whotte coninierco no man win take from
du." 'tan anythink be tplainet than
that Sir Iilchaar'd lar wrig t's: idea was
that his policy would build up Poston?
The building up of Boston by giving it
Canadian trade would be to tear down
Canadian cities. The Canadian people
are not in favor of any policy that gives
a monopoly of their trade to the people
across She line, and before Sir Richard
can be accepted by Canadians he will
have to come before the public and say
that he made a mistake in making such .
speeches as the one we quoted from.
Canada has name for so called Cana-
dian;. who go off to a people whom Sir
Oliver Mowat calls a hostile nation,
and tell them their policy is to buildup.
the cities of a country that is the all
powerful rival of Canada.
CURRENT ,TOPICS,
•
One of our Liberal conternpora,ries•
has been declaring that the Liberal
Party will he true to its trade policy.
Before we make any comment we
would like to know which one. Is it
Commercial Union, Unrestricted Re-
ciprocity, Free trade or Freer Trade
that these gentlemen are going to be
true to ? . V6'e do not want to be prying
too closely into Liberal family secrets,
but it makes quite a difference to the
electors of the country.
The County of Frontenac is a
strong Conservative constituency.
The constituency of West Huron is a
Reform constituency with a small maj-
ority. In Frontenac the Patrons plac-
ed a Grit Patron candidate in the field
as an opponent of a straight Conserva-
tive candidate. In West Huron the
Patrons placed in the field a Patron
Conservative as an opponent of a
straight Grit candidate. Now look at •
the result. In Frontenac the Patron •
Conservatives stood by the Grit Patron
candidate and he was elected by a good
majority. In West Huron some Grit
Patrons deserted the Conservative
Patron candidate and elected the Grit
.by a fair majority.
The figures which we.give below will
show why the American farmers have
stayed by protection to their home
markets during so many years. The
total valve of produce raised on the
farms of the United States is $3,700,000-
000 ; of this the people of the United
States themselves consume $3,330,000,-
000 worth, and ship abroad $370,000,000
worth, or just 10 per cent. of what
they raised, the balance of 90 per cent.
being consumed at home. The Cana-
dian farmers are situated in just about
the same way. The total production
of the Canadian farmers being about
$500,000,000, of which $50,000,000 is
sent to the markets of the world, and
$450,000,000 consumed at home. We
should learn the same lesson here as
they learned in the United States,
namely, that among the vet y first,
thing to consider is the value of the
home market and how to protect it
best.
Last fall the Seaforth Expositor
charged the Orange Association with
being a Tory machine. That paper
said its editor hacl no favors to ask
from the Orange or any other Associa-
tion. An election came on and the
editor of the Expo ii tor was n pari lam ent-
ary candidate. In his canvas he solicited
the votes of Orangemen. He was con-
fronted with his former statements and f
denied that he ever said anything of
the kind. He denies it now and calls
TSE NEws-REooun bold, bad nnmes.
He oven says this honest pa-
per is a 'liar." The proof is the
other way. The Expositor has
resorted to the, reprehensible con-
duct of a dishonest journal in this
case and all the proof the general
public requires is that that paper will
'republish its articles referring to the
question. Then Tan NEWB-RECOItD will
give further proof and show more
clearly that there is at least one
dishonest politician in Seaforth. ,Now,
dear .Expositor, just republish these
Slanders and ,your boasted veracity as
an one ohticiaii will once and for-
rWer b. settled.