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THE DAILY EXAMINER. | d Ni NOVEMBER 15, 1887 | ° | @ur Fisheries ' }

\ SHORT tit woa big p lititical meet- ng was held in Boston The speakers on the occasion were all prominent men in the | Republican ranks The most of them were | ‘Generals,” a military title that is not) rare in the United States. In fact, if one | night judge of the Americans by them titles, he would naturally conclude that hey are adecidedly military people ; for| “General and ‘**Colonels” and ‘““M ijors are Very common among them, and may be | met with on all sides during election fights, | which are neither few nor far between in

that long and broad Republic of theirs. It

was quite n tural, therefore, that one ot the principal speakers at the meeting m

tion should be a General, and, as it

aque } e , - ll MSO A} irs. a member of Congress as well. General William Cogswell took up the tishe stion, and according to a report f his sp h which is found in a late issue

of the Boston Journal, an extract from

which will be found below, made some

remarks indeed on that vexed that

be endorsed by the great American

very wild

question —remarks will not, im our

opinion,

asa whole. The ‘* General,” how-

people

ever, is a representative man, and his views

may be talbaes isa sample of what 1s fisherme il f the New Ky i. red Wrongs to whic h

The alleg

preached to the land States.

}

the Americans have been subjected im con-

nection with the fisheries are dwelt upon at

us length by a certain class of Republi-

word from them,

hich 4

cans [There is nota

however, about the wrongs ¥ fanadian

fishermen have suffered through the vicious g carried on by Americans

system of seinip

forthe last number. ol

Wood he Phat

while the

aloug our coast the story is

little

Banks,

part of thin

years. O, no! story

who

left untold;

sbout a Yankee captain on the

being }

Board of Trade.

COMMERCIAL UNION-—FURTHER DISC SSION,

Amona those present at the ice ting of the Board ot Trade held last evening were, L. Carvel], G. R. Beer, L. H. Davies, M. P.A. B. Warburton, B. Balderston, G. McLeod, D. Farquharson, T. L. Chappelle,

| Perey Pope, iF Boyle, Hon a Ferguson, Walter Mathewson, L. L. Beer, Geo. E. Full, Chas. Lyons, Geo. Coombs, George

jas he

; Commercial

‘anadian official to |

by se

tter to his friends

was not allowed

mail a le n Gloucester, is

ae | told with as much seriousness as if the affair very little

had really happened. It makes

fishermen what General Cogs-

about Mr. the Treaty of 1818 is not pleasing t

on lds to our

well thinks Chamberlain. If}

» Amer!- hand-

cans, they should be willing to pay

somely to have it altered. But we fear they

are not willing—nor, indeed, are our people

11

willing to give them free trade iu the fish-

; ‘ eries for money, when it is well known that

get free fling with their seines, it take a

industry upon which so many depend for a

if they

will only few years to destroy this

livelihood

But here is what General Cogswell says

ibout it

‘ In 1830 we opened our ports to the ves- sels of the Canadian Provinces. That same year she opened her ports to our vessels, and

to you, Canadian vessels have enjoyed every privilege flowing from that proclamation, while for two years the great American people h ive been denied the ir reciprocal commercial privileges in the ports of Canadian waters. And within four weeks a skipper of a Glouces- ter fishing-smack, down on the Banks, away from home and children, goes into a Canadian port with a letter in his hand that he may send it home to his family in Gloucester. A Canadian official boards him, and, under threat of seizure and confiscation, compels him, with his letter back in his pocket

heist his anchor and sail into the and this near the close of the nineteenth cen- tury! What does this great Administration at Washington say’ Refer it to a Commis-

ope n sea

sion Refer what? Mr. President, if I take your -watch and _ withhold it, are you going to refer it to Governor Ames {laughter] or are you, like the man you sre, going to assert your rights _ get it back, as this great nation ought to do. [Ap-

plause. ] In defiance of Congress, which has the sole power to establish the policy of this nation, in defiance of Congress, which says it repeatedly, in defiance of the almost un- animous expression of the American Senate, which says almost toa man, no negotiations until every single right is restored, in detiance of the wishes of those most inte rested, which I have the great hon . in part to represent in

the Congress of the United States—-against all this, Mr. Bayard and his Government. re- ferred a question to a commission which it has

not even the authority of Jaw to create or to appoint, or money topay. Why, sir, Andrew

jackson the modern Democracy’s great pro-

totype—God save the mark—({laughter] with «a country almost {bankrupt and hardly able to raise a little army of ten thousand men, on this question of the fisher-

ies stood off Great Britain and France to- gether, and won. But this great modern Democratic Admmistration, with sixty-two

millions of the bravest people behind it, rein- forced by an act of Congress, has neither the brains nor the pluck, nor the sand, nor the

stufing to shut out « Canadian fishing smack from the placid waters of the little harbor of Squam. (Laughter.] How long do you think James G. Blaine {prolonged applause}—how long do you think James G. Blaine or any other Republican President would parley with Commissioners? He would not have to do it. rhey would not try it on. They know whom they have got at Washington to deal with,and don't you make any mistake about it. [Ap- plause. }

———— om oe

The Montreal W itne $3 the farmers of Waterloo, taught the

remarks that in Ontario, have Canada a lesson. They have shown how much more effec- tively law and order can be preserved

where the citizens donot depend wholly upon the police. Unfortunately for their own interests, after successfully arresting a batch of thieves whom the constable had wen unable to catch, the farmers handed them overto the police to be taken to prison, and twoof them got away. The W itness says that to depend too much upon the police is not only dangerous in the in- terests of justice, but in the ~thatis of the law

people of

alia interests of ‘reedom abiding class.

No Bitt.—In the libel suif

. against Hugh Graham, of the Montreal Star, the grand jury have returned no bill.” Tt he suit grew out

ot charges of =

boodling, preferred by the

Biake, John Newson, Horace

P eake, ¥

Haszard, M rileolm McLeud, Arch MeNeill, John Crockett, F. H. Arnaud; F Stanley. Owen Conn lly, W. L. Cotton.

The discussion of Mr. Farquharson’s re solution was resumed.

McLeop, who journment of the debate on the that he had be on account of press of business, to pi and higures suco

moved the ad- previ us ‘n unable,

(FEORGE

evening, explained epare in address containing facts would like to submit to the I and, therefore, he would ask »b excused from saying anything unti foe nextimeeting.

W. L. Corrow said that he was alsv quite unprepared to open the disc but in order that it might. proceed, he would make a few remarks—on the distinct understanding that they should not be con sidered as embodying his matured views

roard,

USSSION,

The whole « if Canada, and Price hilw vd Island in particular, would wnduubtediy be benetitted by Reciprocity of Practe with the United States. But, in his opidion, svat:

ties drawn from results obtainéd Qreer Lie old Reciprocity’ Treaty, could. ivi

be relied upon as indicative of th. results likely: to follow. the operation of the proposed Commercial Union. As had been:..pointed cut.~by Mr. Blake, there were during the operation of the old

treaty, gréat wars, which éreated a strong emand for agricultural produce, and forced

prices up to abnormally high figures. We cannot counton having wars under

Union. Further, trade has ‘ompletely revolutionized by the are now being

sinee been «

vency of steam, )otatoes brought out from Germany at very low rates ,of freight, and the Germans are sharply competing with us m the supply of American. market, while Western States of the Union, now opened up, well settled, and intersected by railways, are also pouring im supplies fo wr the American centres of trade. The condition“ on which we would enter upon @ new era of free trade with the States were, therefore completely changed, and we eould not now expect such fav: orable re-

potal oes Tor the

the Middle and

sults from reciprocal free trade as were, ob,

ined in the past. Further, ima receut journey througk Canada he had noticed that ' in all: its parts the eountry is new prospering, and he had heard expressions of hope and -confti- dence on all sides. While on the I. C. R.

and Wuebec, he had noticed a

long trains of coal, lumber, whieh shows that a considerable increasing Intercolonial — trade is on; and he theught it would

consider well lest anything should be deoae which would in any way hinder. the prosperity. now prevailing, or interfere with the trade now going on be- tween the different sections of our own country, Still, we want free trade with the States, and he would like tosee the question of Commercial Union further dis- cussed before he offered the amendjjent to

bet ween here vreat many

sugar, etc and being carriec be prudent to

,

the resolution, of which he had given notice at the last meeting. How. D. Fereuson. said that he would

like to have the expression, ‘* Commercial Union,” defined and explained by its advo- cates before the discussion proteeded. In- formation was also wanted in respect to certain important details of the proposed Union.

L. I. Beer expressed a similar desire.

L. H. Dayres, M. P., said that, judging by what he had read in the new spapers—he had had no communication with the projec- tors of Commercial Union-—he assumed that under Commercial Union trade would flow freely betweer. this country and the United States, as it now flows between the several

States ; while, as against the rest of the world, there would be a uniform

tariff to be mutually agreed upon by the two countries comprised in the union. **Unrestricted Reciprocity” weuld differ from Commercial Union in this respect : that while yuder it there would be perfect- ly tree trade between the two countries, each country would retain the right toframe its own tariff'as against the reset of the world. Canada, ‘for instance, might have a 25 per cent. tariff, while that of the United States might be one of 35 per cent. The immediate consequence would be that im- ports to the United States, instead of being carried to the great ports of the United States, would be taken to the States by way of Montreal. To this the States, whose people are not arrant fools, would never consent; and Unrestricted Reciprocity — although it would suit us as well as Com- mercial Union—was, therefore, impracti- eable. In discussing Commercial Union we should, he thought, regard it from both the Canadian and the Provincial points of view,

and ina broad and generous spirit, Its importance was the more pressing from the fact that if the relations of the two coun- tries are not improved—if some settlement is not arrived at—the Americans may, be- fore twelve months haye elapsed, put into operation the Retaliation Bill, under which our trade with the United States will be in- terdicted, and we might suffer a stagnation of trade. We are not in gfavor of selling our fisheries, as before, for alump sum _ of money ; neither are the Americans in favor

of buying the use of them for money. The one sensible thing to do is to settle

the difficulty, and to make the fisheries the basis of our negotiations for improved commercial relations. Naturally we ought to trade with the United States. Talk as we like about improved trade, the fact is that Canada is made of four distinct peoples who are neither in a*position nor have the inclination to be our customers. British Columbia on the west desires most of all to trade with California and all the Provinces would be benefitted if the tariff wall were broken down and our commercial relations made close and intimate. As showing how such relations would affect Prince Edward Island he referred to the following statistics of trade with the United States:

Winey at lar against certain Mectcw aldermen,

ry. E. ISLAND TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES . Imp rts. Exports, Totals. L850 41,003 55,386 96,989 1851 81,906 104,883 189,789 1502 171,355 141,855 313,210 1853 187,916 120,500 SUR 416 1354 198,883 81,782 280,620 504,406 1,187,024 Average. it 100,881 237,805 1856 216,293 166,993 383,201

DAILY EXAMINER, -.- -

1856 209,493 108,083 317,570 1857 251,480 240.225 491,705 1858 210,020 318,940 528,960 1859 310,279 $38,172 748,451 L860 YR2Z,146 390,959 675,180 1861 215.045 233,876 148,021 1862 234,050 215,942 450,592 1863 SI8,276 528.653 876,927 ls64 JIS Boz 337.212 805,514 1865 $50,000 U4 OZ 1,058,642 L866 370,932 108. 166 179,098 3,520,831 3,741,363 J 262,694 Average. 246,604 nn 229 523 833 1867 242,599 83,451 426,000 1868 350,035 230 302 589,428 I8sg 279,431 236.R15 574,046 1870 227 942 103,548 631,490 1871 230,000 110 000 610,009 1Is7Z 250,000 450,000 7d, Ol 0 1873 275,000 470,000 715.000 1374 304,803 193,571 586,374 S75 345,503 362,900 708,504 S76 337 ,967 217.719 555,077 1877 152,107 595,514 1,047,631 1x78 112.671 $16,065 828 374 IS7u 311,185 781,125 1,092,310 Is <0 201,346 370,594 571, 935 Is8 + 24,457 956, 901 1-82 185,531 627,914 1833 176,508 5AS 645 INs4 250,844 107 B54 INR5 230.319 179,340 [SSG 179,778 679, 8936 859,661 5, 56 316 8,691,263 14,257, 579

Mr. A. MeNeill had, at the last meeting of the wd, speken of sentiment in con- nection with Commercial Union, He respec-

but contended that sentiment uothing to do with this matter, which is

ted the idea; hact

purely ong.of pounds, shillings and pence, wil is propeFly so wegarded by Canada. Canada has discrimimated against Great: britain, and yet Great Britain has not. cast ber oil, the Trade and Navigation. Re, rurns show’ thet Canade imported from Cireat B 0 during the years 1885-6, lutiubie woods to the value of $30,385,797, and free $10,215,402, oan a total of

$40,501,100. Upon these goods she col- lected duties to the amount of $7,817 ,357.- 45, or about 194 con's onthe dollar. In the same fiscal year, Canada imported trom the States dutiable goods tothe value.of $29,659,886; fres goods, $15,198, 16% ; $44,858,039, upon which she collect: ed duties to the sum of $6,769,584.60—or only about 15 cents on the dollar. Talk about ' Canada

total,

discrimination ! has not

hesitated to discriminate against the Mother

Country when it suited her interests so to do, Hon. Mr. Owen, at the last meeting of the Board, expressed some doubt lest the Favored Nations Clause would apply in the case of Germany, should the U nited States enter into a Commercial Union with Canadas He had enquired into the matter, and found that the favored nations clause could not in any case apply to Commercial Union 5 nor was it likely, in view of the

pursued by Great Britain

policy _ steadily ever since 1852, that the Mother Country

would interfere with the free action of Canda_ in respect to this. question. He respecte] thé” feeling of — loyalty to our throne agd. institutions, ~ but

thought we were in no danger from Com- mercial Union. Suppose that under the Commertial Uffion the tariff of the United States is redtced by five per cent and that of Canada raised five per cent., would not the position of the British manutacturer be improved by free ingress to the mar- kets of 50,000, 000; of people, even though the taxes on goods sent to our 4,000,000, were raised “by tive «per cent / Once the British manufacturer had this matter submitted. to him in this light he would raise no-ebjection to Cormmercial Union on the ‘ground of, discrifninating duties.

In the olden time the Governors. of the Governors of the Coloniés received in- structions tu asgent to no» tariff billewhich

discriminatéd against the MotWer Country, but. no instructions have been is- sued for many years. Great Britain leaves her colonies ‘perfectly free to make what tariffs they please; and he felt convinced that Great Britian would not throw Canada off should she enter into Com- mercial Union with the United States.

W.L. Corron said that asa question had been raised about the definition of Commercial Union, and as no one seemed prepared to answer it authoritatively, per- haps it woyld be as well to avoid the difti- culty altogether by eliminating the words ‘* Commercial Union ” from the resolytion. The Board of Trade is representative, to some extent, of the views of the people of the Province ; and the people of the Pro- vince are, without doubt, in favor of the widest measure of Reciprocity that can be obtained. He thought the Soard should not hesitate to formulate this opinion. But members cannot decide upon the merits of *‘ Commercial Union,” be- cause . they have no definite idea of what Commercial Union .will involve. In order that they thay be enabled to vote upon the Resolution and that the yote may be as nearly as possible unanimous he would move that the words ‘‘Com- mereail Union” be struck out of the re- solution so that it would read:

such

Resolved, That in the interests of the peo- ple of Canada, and more particularly of this Island, this Board regards the proposal of an U nrestrigted Recipr ocity hetween Canada and the United States as of the highest import- ance, and demands our hearty sympathy and ce-operation.

The chief objection to the words ‘‘un- restricted reciprocity” was that pointed out by Mr. Davies, viz: that with a 35 per cent tariff in the United States and a 25 per cent tariff here, teade would flow to Montreal and the’ Americans could not be expected to agree to such an arrange- ment. But that objection could easily

be remoyed by the Americans bringing their tariff down to our, standard. At, any rate, it is not an objection which

should weigh, with us.

Hou. D. Fere@vson continued the debate in reply to Mr. Davies. The report of his lengthy and able address is unavoid- ably laid over until to-morrow. Mr. Farquharson, Mr. A. McNeill fand others continued the discussion. The adjournment of the debate was moved by Mr. A. B. Warburton

Leeal Notices.

G. H. Haszaxp is now opening his Christ- mas and New Year Cards for season of 1887- 1838. (pose are finer than ever.

nov 3.

CHEAP die g Macdonald's.

octl3 ti

oods at J. B.

Laptes’ and gents’

style at (orr

walking

3ROS8 oe

boots, latest t. 6 tf

New Boors selling cheap at (ioff Bros,

Tus latest styles in boots and slippers at Goff Bres.

Boors | Boors! Boots !—The largest stock im the city. One hundred and four cases boots and seventy cases rubbers now open and more to follow, | You can get the best quality, the largest variely and the lowest prices in town atthe Dominion Boot and Shye Store.—J. B. Macdonald, Proprietor, ‘ ortl3 dy. wy ‘tf

- TUESDAY,

Our Civie Rulers. Tue regular monthly meeting of the City c ‘ouncil was held last evening. Councillors

A. MeLean and F. P. McCarron pores the only absentecs.

After the minutes of the ing had been read and approved, number of bills disposed of,

Councilor Byrne, in > viven at a former

previous meet-

accordanve jatice meeting,

that

ol tive years.

Councillor Morris seconded the motion, |

which was lost on division, only the mover and seconder appearing in favor thereof.

| After considerable talk and recrimination ©

as to the working of the Street Committee, and the high price paid for stone for the streets, a committee consisting of Council-

lors Crabbe, Byrne and A. A. McLean,was

appointed to inquire into the matter.

Councillor Crabbe reported. that he had learned through the City Clerk that Pow- nal Wharf could be insured at the rate of 1 per cent.

Councillor Morris moved that the wharf |

be insured for $2,000, but could not find a seconder. The matter was then allowed to | drop.

The petition of William Peardon asked for exemption from taxes, for this year at least, owing to the heavy loss he sustained by the recent fire on Great ¢ reorge Street. Ordered to lay on the t

Councillor Horne wanted to know if the electric light committee had any reporg to make. eas

pigeon Morris said he had none.

Councillor Horne rensarked , that if ‘the committee did not intend dolug that for which they were appointed they had better resign. , ats

A genéral discussion ensded’as to the Bad’! quality of the light furaished by some of | the street lamps.

table.

The memorial of F.. L. Haszard, Blake, Thomas Handrahan and James Me Leod asked that the $100 grant promised

by the city tothe Qu fund be handed over teferred to Finance Committee.

Councillor A. A. McLean (in compliance with a so sent in to the Council by | Mr. Geo. E. Full) moved that the city do. not hold the railway authorities responsible for any obstructions to the winter dandings caused bythe running of trams ‘Over the’ embankment across Prince Street, but in- stead would hold Mr. Full (for the Milling! — Co, ) responsible.

Councillor Crabbe seconded the resolu- tion, which was carried, Councillor Morxig only opposing it.

The Mayor reada letter from the Secre= tary of the General Jubilee Committee, stat. | ing that the $200 surplus was at the dispos- ! al of the Council for the purpose of build- ing a roadway to the Park, provided said roadway was commenced before the first of | May next:

The letter of Mrs. James Costello .com- plained that'a bridge ‘which shad’ béen’ in} front of het premises for the past 27 years | had been removed, and asked that it be re- placed wt onee. Referral to Street ‘Com- | mittee.

The letter of Mr. E. H. Norton © stated that if the city would lay a crossing frome Coombs’ corner to the Widow Tierney’s 8 on Great George Street, he would bear half: the costs; and also directed attention to the bad sidewalk on Bayfield Street. Referred te Street Committee.

Councillor A. A. McLean, seconded by Councillor Crabbe, moved that Government Pond be at once flooded so as to form ice

ven Square Garden as possible.

4S 5000

first frost. Carried. Councillor Horne. moved that the Chairman off the 4 Street Committee

be instructed t6@lay a sidewalk” on Prince Street, from James McLeod's corner to Dr. Hobkirk’s. Carried.

The petition of Dr. Warburton asked that the remainder of the amount due him for services rendered during the smallpox epidemic be paid at Referred to Finance Committee.

Councillor Byrne moved for several new electric lamps, but the resolutions were all lost.

Council adjourned.

LYCEUM,

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This (Tuesday) Evening; Nov. 16,

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Admission 25, 35, and 50 cents. oi

Seats for sale at usual places.

Joors open at 7}; Overture at 8 o'clogic.

For farther particulars see bills of the day. Noy. 15, 1887.

Dividend Notice,

THE MERCHANTS Bank or P. ELL, CHARLOTTETOWN, Nov. 1tth, i887.

NOTICE is hereby given #that a half- yearly

Dividend at the rate of Hight per cent per annum onthe Capital Stock of this Bank has been thisday declared, payable at its Banking office, on and after THURSDAY, December Ist prox. j

By order of Board, F. MITCHELL, Cashier. Nov, 15—tu th sat tl dec 1

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Pf. (SUBAD RNILWAY,

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J. UNSWORTH, Acting Superintendent,

NOVEMBE R

and a!

with moved ‘Mr. Jobn Davies’ new hotel on Water Street be exempt from taxation for a perivd

cd

15, 1887.

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ENGRAVING.

Brooches, Earrings, Scarf Pins, &c., manufactured and engraved to order with any name or initials.

All Silverware and Jewelry sold from this date

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