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“The Examiner.”

ur readers will bear witness that we

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rarely praise THe EXAMINER.

not becoming ; and we are fully aware ol

the fact that Tue Examiner might be in-

proved. Still as The Patriot sy stematically

defames it. and refuses, either in its cor-

respondence er advertizing columns, make reparation, we may be permitted a few words in its defence.

In the face of many difficulties and much

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opposition we commenced publishin

Daily Newspaper in May last. During the summer our readers had, we think, no cause for complaint. We furnished the news with a promptitude before unattempted in Prince Edward But the expert- ence we gained taught us that, during

Island.

could, under present circumstances, the promptly, as well as more cheaply, by pub- lishing in the evening instead of in the

winter, at least, we

furnish news more

morning. We accordingly began an even- ing issue ; and we have gradually improved our system and arrangements, until now they are as nearly perfect as it is possible to make them.

For instance, the House of Assembly sits until after twelve o'clock of the night of Monday—and on Tuesday evening, on the arrival of the trains, our readers in Souris, Summerside, Georgetown and intermediate towns find on opening their papers that they are presented with an extended sum- mary report of the proceedings to the very close "

Again, the House of Commons in Ottawa, on Monday night, engage in a discussion relative to Cascumpeec Harbor and Fre® KE. Island Railway—and on Thesday evening the readers of the Dairy Examiner, all the way from Souris

Passes on the P.

to Summerside, are aware of the fact ! ,

Another illustration: Any event of im portance which occurs in Charlottetown up to ten or eleven o'clock of the day, is known to readers of the Ex «MINER

ccommodation

wherever there is railway 2 on the same evening !

Still another illustration: Charlottetown wants to inform his custom- ers in the outlying towns that his ship has arrived on a certain morning with a full cargo ‘of merchandise which will be sold very cheap, delivered on the whart. If his advertisement is in the Examiner Office by ten or eleven o’clock, the business men of Souris, Summerside, Georgetown, etc., will on the same evening be aware of the fact!!

While we are quietly perfecting our ar- angements the Patriot is furiously attack- ing us, and meanly hiding our defence from its readers. It now says :-

‘Tf the EXaMINeR intends to issue a morn- ing paper as well as an evening one, well and good.”

Sut we do not intend to issue ‘‘a morn- ing paper as well as an evening one.” Yet we furnish the news as promptly as it can be furnished in any part of British America where the telegraph offices are not open day and night.

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Voters’ Lists.

‘Tue Government has not, so far, given any indication that they intend to enfran- chise the electors whom they last winter disenfranchised. Indeed, the indications are that they have no intention to do right in this matter.

Mr. Davies has asserted that every elector in the Province has a right to vote, ‘* sup- posing there was an election to-morrow.” There ‘nevertheless exists a well-grounded doubt where there should be no doubt whatever. The Judges are unanimous in their dissent from the opinion of Mr. Davies ; arid the law explicitly states that unless a man’s name is on the voters’ list he cannot: vote. Clearly, there is a doubt. Highly as we value the opinion of the At- torney General, we feel that there is still a doubt whether hundreds of electors whose aré' not on the lists have a right to

names vote. This feeling is greatly strengthened by the réport that the Hon. John F. Rob-

ertson, while in Ottawa, made some propo- sals with a view to the postponement of the Dominidn elections till next fall! Un-

doubtedly there is a doubt ; and most cer-|

iainly there should be no doubt.

lf the Government do not intend to have the doubt removed, we shall look to the Leader of the Opposition for a move in that

direction. We shall see whether the ‘‘

jority” will oppose an Act which the Leader) tion to manufacture north of the line as our | shingles, line,

of the Opposition may bring in for the pur- pose of removing this grave doubt ; and as- suring the young men of the Province that they may cast their ballots for the candidate they prefer.

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* As long as duties are levied upon imported articlee, they shoul) be levied upon articles pro- duced by our own peaple.” Hamilton

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, : The Trade Issue - (No. 9.)

' Sm A. T. Garr proceeds to explain the | policy he would under the unna

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| tural. unreciprocal trade relations which at |

i ° y . ‘ i | present exists between the | nited States {

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land the Dominion.

| ** Without presuming to anticipat: the i | rection of specific action, I think that it is the duty of our Parliament broadly to lay down the rule that in the imposition of duties to be | paid by oir own people, the interest of Canada should be the ruling consideration. We can- not and ought not to ignore the interests which our fellow subjects elsewhere have in our revenue policy.

‘‘But as regards the United States, | frankly declare that they ought to be dealt with in the same purely selfish spirit with which they treac us. For my part, I am heartily tired of efforts at conciliating the United States com- mercially. They meet with no response, and existing treaties and laws are administered by them in a spirit of petty, but vexatious exac- tion. I trust that henceforward the sole con- sideration will be how our trade legislation is to effect ourselves.

‘‘ Possibly this course may produce a wiser policy on their part, more worthy of a great commercial nation. Though a Free Trader myself, | have always recognized the neces- sity and advantage of adapting the application of principles in themselves sound to the cir- cumstances of our country.” by

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Sir A. T. Galt’s opinion is borne out that of an eminent Trader——of the United States, as reported by Dr. Tupper in his last speech on the Budget. Dr. Tupper said :

‘‘T had the pleasure of meeting one of the most eminent men on the Fishery Commission from the United States, at Sir A. T. Galt’s dinner table, and he asked me what the party lines were in Canada. I said the policy of the party with which I am connected 1s to endeav- or to foster Canadian industries by such a re- adjustment of the tariff as would give them in creased protection. ‘Ah!’ he said, ‘you and" would not agree then, for Lam an out-and-out free trader.’ I said, ‘1 am not certain that we would not agree,’ and I asked him, ‘What would you do if you were living in Canada, and

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if you knew that nature had provided in the

coal fields of Nova Scotia the means of provid- ing Boston and New York with coal, and that nature had provided the United States wth the means of supplying the great Province of Ontario with coal? Would you allow the min- ing industry of your own country to be de- stroyed by a 75 per cent. duty on coal going out of Canada into the United States, and would you be willing that Canada should re- ceive 600,000 tons of American coal without

charging a cent for duty? ‘No,’ he said, ‘1 would see them further.’ He said, ‘Free

Trader as fam, I would meet the duty of the United States with precisely the same duty as they imposed upon me. ‘There is no one in the United States more anxious to see you do it than | am as a bystander, and I will tell you why. All you nave to do is to pursue the common-sense plan of meeting the American as he does you, and put the duty on his coal, and I will get the coal cheaper, and the same thing will take place in Ontario.’”’

In 1877 .an influential and experienced citizen of Montreal,,.Mr. George . Stephen, wrote :—-

“It seems to me that what the country needs most to-day, if you will allow me to say so, is a Government at once able and willing to apply themselves to the patriotic but difficult task of harmonizing these various interests— fof the Dominion]—a Government who will try to estimate aright the capacities of the country and decide what Canada can do suc- cessfully for herself, and what she cannot do and ought not to attempt, and who would then so frame the Customs tariff that those industries for which we have a natural and special aptitude might have the advantage of an assured market within the Dominion. I do not ask that the volume of taxation be in creased one single cent beyond the sum ab- solutely required to carry on the Government of the country. ‘The lighter the burden of taxation the better for all; but 1 doask that the burden be so adjusted to the back of the bearer that the inference with his onward progress shall be reduced to the minimum.”

We might quote the opinions of many other non-partizan authorities on tarifis and trade. But we hasten to lay before our readers the opinions of the most prominent members of the Liberal-Conservative Party. And, first, as to those of Mr. Datton McCartuy. Next to Sir John McDon- ald, McCarthy the representa- tive ot the Liberal-Conservative Party in Ontario. He is described by the Patriot as a “ vigorous Protectionist ;” and it is insinuated by the Patriot that he was ‘‘primed” by the leading members of his Party, and that he represented them much as a lawyer does his client. If this be the case, his remarks are of the greater

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value, as indicating the views and policy of the Liberal-Conservative Party.

During the late debate on ‘‘ The Budget” —vide Hansard, 1878, pp. 549—Mr. Me Carthy said :—

He had never pretended that, looked at in a purely abstract light, a system of Pro- tection was to be preferred to one of Free Trade, and that it was wise, or would be good statesmanship for the country, to build up against the laws of nature manufactures which could not exist in the Dominion without such aid. But what was the differ- ence between the northern part of the United States, and. Canada? In regard to manufacture, our climate and natural pro- ‘ducts were, to a great extent, similar to

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ma-! theirs, and were we not in so good a posi-| dollars were paid for tin, flooring, windows,

| American cousins on the south of the line? We could not, however, hope to compete against such an unfair system as we were now competing against. ‘pretend that our manufactures could exist when the American markets were shut against us, While ours were open to them. What we wanted was not to inaugurate a

system® of Protection, but to initiate such a! The Premiey at| system as would remedy the mistakes ‘made | Aaggins the- doctrines of Free Trade, by|

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r ir friends south of — the line. if ‘they were doing violence * to what | lhon. gentlemen claimed to be a proper

lag avould naget that diffeulty, and protect our own manufacturing Industries, and the other bramches of industry in this country, avainst that system. « It was scarceby open to largument, whether reciprocity would not be better than protection. He had never heard any hon, gentleman say that it would, not

had made a mistake, it behoved us to send an agent, possessing. the. wisdom -of the Finance Minisier,,or the Minister of the Interior,.on a special mission to, instruct them as to their duties in this respect.

Mr. Mills : done at home en that.

Mr. McCarthy said he hoped the hon. gentleman would attend to the matter. He had no doubt he would find a great deal of employment. We had to deal with the question as we found it. He would read an extract from a work which he was sure hon. gentlemen opposite would accept as an authority on this subject. He re- ferred to Prot. Cairnes’ Work on Political Economy. Prof. Cairnes was an ultra Free Trader, but he did not pretend that there might not be circumstances which woyld render Protection necessary for a country. Arguing against the system of Protection in the United States, he said :—

‘‘For example, the position is sometimes taken that, admitting all that can be urged economically in favor of Free Trade, a nation has got other interests to take account of than the production and distribution of wealth. Jt has to consider its moral, social and politica! advancement—ends to which the working of Free Trade, it is alleged, is not always favor- able. For the tendency of Free Trade, even on the showing of its supporters, it is argued, is to turn the industry of a nation mainly into a few channels—those channels name in which it happens. to enjoy, in relation to competing nations, exceptional advantages ; so that, in the practical result, the nation adopting it is compelled to contine its industry within com- paratively narrow bounds. Free Trade thus tends to cireumscribe industrial experience, and by ‘doing so to interefere with that prac

prosecution of industry. Far better, it is urged, deliberately to sacrifice some of the re- sults of material prosperity, if by this means we can secure scope for a wider and more divers- tied cultivation, such as is furnished by an in- dustry branching in numerous directions and offering to enterprise a varied field, I cannot deny that there 1s a certain basis of truth in the considerations just stated, and that circum- stances may even be imagined in which they would possess real cogency.”

The argument on the other side ef the House was that every man in this country who was not a farmer had mistaken his vo- cation; that all we could do here was to raise grain ind breed cattle; that all we

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could do in this. Dominion was to raise a herd of cattle and cultivate the soil, and that encouraging any other pursuits was dangerous in the extreme, impolitic and un- wise. But he put it to the hon. gentleman whether a variety of tndustries was not neces- sary to the prosperity of any State. No State had ever attained greatness without it, and, therefore, apart from the material wealth, we had other things to attend to, to build up this nationality under the British flag in North America.

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The Kaministiquia Job.

1. A owns five lots in a desert spot on the Kaministiquia. B, who owns nearly the rest of the block, comes to him and buys them, adding at the close of the bar- gain that C intends to put a railway ter- minus there. Says A: ‘‘C being a Minis- ter of the Crown, I cannot believe that he

gave yout that information.” ‘‘But,” re- plies B, ‘‘he did. Isaw him in Toronto, and he told me he would put the terminus there, and that is the reason Iam buying out your lots. Moreover, here’s a map i got from Ottawa, in which you will see that the Town Plot is marked as the land which C wantsas the Government reserve.” Atsame time D, C’s Engineer, has just reported in favor of another site, the McKellar farm, which he thinks isa better one than the Town Plot because of its superior position, its closeness to the river’s mouth, and its cheapness. Two months elapse and 0, ignoring D’s report, does select the Town Plot as B predicted.

2. C appoints two valuators and an arbi- trator and solicitor to value the plot. Of the two valuators, one is a stattoner, who knows nothing of the value of Jands. The third man E, who virtually controls the val- uation, is none other than B’s partner in the Plot.

3. The valuation proceeds. The law or- dering Government valuators not to allow

system of trade, we had to enact such laws |

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