THE DAILY EXAMINER. |

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The Meaning of “ Unrestricted Reciprocity.

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Wa have been asked to define the mean-

ing of Unrestricted Reciprocity.” To tind

the true detinition, we have referred to the

statements of the author, and prime mover, and leader of the movement—Mr. Erastus

Wiman. A Washington despatch to the New York World, December 14, 1890, reports :

“Erastus Wiman, the Canadian-New Yorker, is in Washington to promote legisla tion looking to the c:oser relations of ¢ anada j and the United Ssates.

-**T am in Washington,’ said he to-day, the purpose of informally conferring with the | friends of Canadian reciprocity in Congress. | The resolution of the Foreign Affairs Commtt- | tee in the House was an invitation of sufhi ciently defnite > Canadian people at the parliamentary election which will take piace during the coming sum- mer, and if Congress would adopt the unani- recommendatioa of its Committee, a verdict would be rendered by which the Tory party | would be displaced and a Government created |

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by the Liberal party WHICH WOULD BE EN- YIRELY FAVOKABLE TO THE CLOSEST RELATIONS with THE Unirep States. The consequence | of this ten-line resolution, as proposed by Mr, Hitt, the chairman of the committee, is likely to be more momentous than any other legisla- tive act remaining for the fifty-first Congress | to perform. One of the direct results of its | passage would be the openiog of a market tor American manufactures to an area quite as large as the United Seates, RESULTING ALSO IX A DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BRITISH GOODS BY A TARIFF QUITE EQUAL TO THAT EXISTING | iw THe Unsrrep States, I have seen Senator Sherman and other Senators who are in hearty | sympathy with the movement and will advo- | cate in the Senate the resolution of the House | as soon as it reaches them.”

At Huntsville, Ontario, on the 30th October, 1884, Mr. Wiman said :—

** It is ineomprehensibe to the average Am- ' erican why there should be the slightest hesi- | tation on the part of Canada to come into a union of States so resplendent in their pro- | gress, so independent ia themselves, yet so contented in their alliance with each othe: ; and possessiog all possible elements of such attractiveness as {o winning; from the rest | of the world not only respect and admiration, | but capital, invention, skilled labor, enormous immigration and every other essential contri- | bution to still further achievments. That an | invitation to join the Union, coupled with conditions of the highest advantage, will, within a very short period, be afforded to Canada, there is no manner of doubt. It is doubtful, if in all the history of nations, an invitation more hearty, more attractive, more advantageous will have ever been recorded ia the anvals of time. Already the subject has

been comprehensively discussed in the Committee of Foreign Afluirs in the United States Senate, and but for the intimation that the invitation

would not be accepted, would have before this been made public. [But this action has merely been postponed, and beyond ali question it will be pressed, and with such pressure on the one hand and such attractions on the other that it will seem ditfiut to resist. Vor, if all sentiment were to be dis- missed, all antecedent training were to be divorced, and if only considerations of mater- ial and personal advantage to every precious son and daughter in Canada were to prevail, what better future could be afforded them but that, with the complete liquidation of the national debt, now and for ail time to be so bardensome, their native land should form a group of states, to join the constitution of commonwealths that illuminate this western hemisphere; to grow at length with a pace that these have grown; to have a free market such as the world nowhere else to them affords, and to witness within themselves of all the rich, natural rescurces, with which God in His Providence has endowed this land, but which to-day, and without some change will for ever be silent and dormant and dead; rich by nature but poor by policy. It is no wonder that with such a prospect of honorably joining the glorious procession of prosperity which the union of the neighboring States affords, and reducing forever the cost of government in Canada from $7.50 per head to $3.00 per head, that there should be a growth in the Dominion of the Anncxation sentiment—a growth so secret, yet so startling and wide- spread, as to be full of the deepes significance So significent is it that, though 1 be silent and timid of expression, it iseven now claimed by some professed observer that, if a secret ballot were taken to-day in Canada, a majority would be fonnd to favor it.

*T come,” said Mr. Wiman, addressing United States’ citizens in Cincinnati,” to un- do the mistake made one hundred years ago, when the Declaration of ludependece should have covered the whole North American con- tinent. The Boston Tea Party had a good effec! upon England. * Just so sure as the Americans invite the Canadians to a free interchange under Commercial Union, just as sure wiil Canada accept. It England refuses to allow the measure, then we will say to the British Crown, we have no further use for you in North America.”

In Mr. Wiman's speech in St, Paul he explained that ‘‘ many believe that Canada under Commercial Union could no longer resist the attractive forces which would prevail towards a political absorption.”

At Cleveland he said ;

‘The largest part of the British Empire shall be given to the United States without tux, if you so desire it. * ° If England should not agree to it, it would be the most momentous pause in the history of Canada, and then, as 1 said to Mr. Chambrlain, look out for another Boston Tea Party.”

Elsewhere Mr. Wiman pointed out to the citizens of the United States, whom he addressed, ‘‘the advantages which the United States would gain by this admission of Canada into the nation, and dividing her territory into HALF A DOZEN GREAT STATES,”

This, then, is what the Unrestricted Reciprocity movement really means.

It means, also, loss of revenue to the amount, in our opinion, of at least $14,- 000,000 a year, and consequent direct taxation upon the people of Canada to the extent, even with the most rigid economy, of $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 a year.

lc means, too, at the beginning, a slight increase of prices for some kinds of farm produce, but a positive lowering of prices

‘THE DAILY EXAM

‘ing the value of the Canadian trade per ‘during the five years of the Mackenzie- | Cartwright regime.

‘which must be even more nacomfortable for

sharacter to submit tothe the , give the figures for the tive years of Liberal

rule, and also that for the past five yeers:

BD Riviecscscet cot ssitesinesees $56 88 MOR i cess scant 57 70 | Ee whavves 44 10 Peat cees 43 65 POEs. bees soconsusenedaueehaeees 42 26 Our Halifax contemporary did not privt

this table in order to show how the Grit

government destroyed trade.

/account is taken of the interproviacial trade

which will be in competition with produce of the farms of the United States.

It will enable the comparatively old -_— wealthy manufactures of the United States | to obtain their raw materials from the | mining and lumber districts of Canada free of duty, and it will enable them to slaugh- | ter, unhindered, their surplus products in|

‘our markets, to the confusion and ruin of |

the manufactures of Canada apd the de- farmers’ home markets,

struction of our athe

‘ making the less wealthy parts of ( anad Ireland of North America. 24

The policy of * Unrestricted Reciprocity is full of meaning to patriotic and loyal Canadians.

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Notes and Comments.

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__The Halifax Chronicle gives a table show- } head |

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have another contrast to offer

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restiictionists to contemplate.

But it is werth while to notice how year after year the trade fell off until the business of £56.88 was re- duced to a business of £42.26. We quote further from the Chronicle :

Again, we take the ‘‘year book,” the govern- ment’s own publication, for our facts, all gave the last year, and for that we accept our contemporary’s statement ;

cee si ess . $39 57 oe ee bios dhs ai viawes 41 52 BOND i Hiesesiee. sesdekevsuscesves 40 45 Sk 66060 ko cab 0 wee +S eeiesas’s 40 27 REO 00 0 ocinn yp tedennass o60b4 4009 43 00 Here the tendency is upward. Yet no

which has doubled since 1878.

—A statement of the business of the Post-office Savings Bank, year by year from April 1, 1868, to 30th June, 1890, has just been published by the department. ‘The return shows a steady increase in the num- ber of banks as follows :

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JANUARY 8

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The Island Tunnel.

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seer of high reputation

| 3 etic : An ancient po g of the highest

ranks among those deservin adie rewards of virtue the man who *‘sweare

to hisown hurt and changeth not.” Ap- | gid test of honor in the case of a nation, or its representatives, a$ In that of an individual, those who read care- fully Senator How lan’s letters in the Week of December 5, and in this number, will be

forced to admit that, however it may suc-

ment has not yet in its dealing with Prince Edward Island proved its rght to a place among the worthies on the ‘Holy Hill.” The case is a very serious one for both par- ties. The Dominion Government, on be- half of the Provinces then composing the Confederation, made with the represent- ativesof Prince Edward Island in 18734

cflicient steam service for the conveyance of “between the Island aud the Dominion, winter and summer, thus placing the Island in continuous com- munication with the Intercolonial Railway and the railway system ef the Dominion.” No one, we suppose, will venture to claim that the compact §was fulfilled in the It is, we _ believe, an ad- mitted ethical principle that a promise is binding in the sense in which the party who made it understood it to be understood by the party to whom it was made. It may as well be adimitted at once that the steam service has not been ‘‘ efticient,” nor has the communication been ‘* continuous” in the sense in which both the contracting parties understood and accepted those terms. Probably we may, after the ex- perience of seventeen years and the ex- penditure of a very large amount of money, go a step further and admit that it is now proved to be impossible to maintain efficient steam service and continuous communica- tion between the Island and the mainland during the winter months by means of water. What, then, isto be done? Does this demonstrated impossibilicy free the Dominion from the moral obligation of the contract, so long as the Government does its utmost under the circumstances to carry out the contract by that means? All undertakings, we are not unreasonably taught, however absolute the terms in which they may be drawn, are subject to the tacit proviso, that no insuperable obstacle be interposed by the great forces

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High water mark in the total amount de- posited in any one year was evidently reached in 1887, although the total number of deposits was greatest in 1889:

Number of Amount deposite. deposited. Ss wcetueelaesuue 126,322 $7,645,227 PU osc Pevccek vices 143,076 8,272 O41 Ss ie bes ven eueess 155,978 7. 722,330 Sa dwi eck bisvee eee 7,926,634 Sid cdciec see eues 154,678 6,599,896

The effect of the reduction in the rate of interest from 4 to 34 per cent., and the in-

creased rate given by the chartered banks

on savings deposits is plainly shown by the following figures.

Withdrawals. Amount. RS ee ee 62,205 $6,183,470 BU ic wéewoncrse ces Cee 6.626 067 Dc icdedeucecs oan 78,229 7,514,071 MN bids i Colne ocx vee 7,532,145 ee ee, | ee 90,151 8,575,041

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During the past three years 4,255 ac- counts have been transferred from the Government savings banks to the post- office banks. The cost of management, salaries, etc., last year was $51,152, the average cost of each transaction, viz. de- posit or withdrawal, 20 4-5 cents; interest allowed todepositors, $786,875; total amount standing to the credit of depositors, $21,- 990,655 ; average amount standing to the credit of each open account, $195.

News Notes. — The Czw, of Russia is one of the greatest o'd book collectors in Europe.

The Sultan of Turkey has conferred upon Mrs. Whitelaw Reid the order of the Shef- kat, the highest Turkisk decoration that can be given to a woman,

A recent issue of the Brewer's Journal had the following testimony: ‘The five year old prohibition states, lowa, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, show a decreased production during 1887 and 1888, of 78,599 barrels of beer, while the high licénse states of Illinois, Missouri, aheaine and Michigan show an increased production of 253.114 barrels.”

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A Novert Orrer —We note that the publishers of The Dominion Illustrated have organized a plan by which over $3,000 worth of prizes are to be distributed among the subscribers to that paper, sub- ject to their correctly answering simple questions on the current contents of each number. We learn that the first prize will be $750 in gold, the second a Heintzman piano worth $600 and that the rest of the many prizes in the competition will ba of an unusually costly and valuable nature. They are also offering a second series of prizes for the best specimen of type-writing open to type writers all over the world. We have very much pleasure in noting such liberal offers from our leading Nustrated journal, and hope that all our readers will tuke advantage of them. We undeistard that on receipt of 12 cents in stamps the publishers of The Dominion Illustrated (Sabi:ton Litho, & Pub. Co., Montreal) will send a sample copy of that journal with | full particulars of the plan.

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SEASONABLE, .—The Journal says: The New

; reunion of the party. The opinion of the

of nature, or by some event over which the | contracting party has no control. It is be- ‘yond question, we presume, that ‘neither the Dominion Government nor the Island representatives had in mind, at the time of making the agree- ment, any other means of communication than that which has thus far been tried. Neither bridge, nor subway, nor balloon was thought of. Notwithstanding, most persons will agree, and we can hardly con- ceive of the Dominion Government as wish- ing to deny that if, in the interim, while the impossibility of carrying out the agree- ment by the method originally contemplat- ed is being proved, the progress of science shall have brought within reach some other means of accomplishing the end without ruinous expenditure, the contracting party will be under moral, if not legal, obligation to make use of such means. And this is, we suppose, exactly the point which Sen ator Howlan and the Island Government and Legislature wish to insist upon. The figures submitted by Senatur Howlan show that the matter is.a very serious one for the Islanders from the financial as well as from every other point of view, The Do- minion is vbviously also a loser by the fail- ure of regular and easy communication. What ought the government to do in view of all these circumstances ? If{Senator Howlan’s calculations can be showu, on scientific auth- ority, to be approximately correct, or any- thing like it; ip in other words, it can be made clear that the annual interest on the capital required for the construction of a sub- way would amownt to little more than the annual expense involved in the cost and maintenance of the present unsatisfactory steamboat service, there is no room for doubt or hesitation. The Dominion is bound to maintain and, if possible, improve thé present system, however unsatisfactory, in the absence of a better, at any cost. Clearly the matter should be investigated without delay. All provinces and all parties in the Dominion are interested in doing the best possible for Prince Edward Island. All are in honor bound to fulfil to the letter, if possible, the terms of Confederation with her. All should unite in urging the appointment of a competent com. mission to enquire into the feasibility and cost of the subway scheme.

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Irish Party Leadership.

Lonpon, Jan, 3. — Notwithstanding O’Brien’s efforts to throw it off the track, the journalistic profession was ‘‘in it” at Boulogne when O’Brien and Parnell met.

O'Brien proved himself a baby in Par- nell’s hands, and Parnell showed all his old astuteness and generalship The mere fact of negotiations between O’Brien and Par- nell is bewildering to the Irish voter, who has been told so repeated)Jy of late that Parnell is impossible under any conditions.

Then, Parnell’s offer to retire if O’Brien were appointed leader, was a clever move. O’Brien took it as a compliment io his own abilities, but Parnell knew that if O’Brien or his friends put this forward it would only still further divide the McCarthyites.

Panis, Jan. 3.—Mr. O’Brien will not re- sume his conference with Mr. Parnell un- less the proposed negotiations obtain such sanction from the leaders of the majority of the Irish party as will justify the hope of a

irish group in this city is unfavorable to a e:umption of the conference.

Mr. O'Brien's mother-in-law says that

Year’s Festival and Sale at Alberton was a grand success, the amount realized being over $lll. All present enjoyed themselves im- mens*ly. A pleasing feature of the evening's ! proceedings was the presentation ot a purse containing twenty dollars to Mrs. J. M. Forbes, wife of the Rector, from the lady | members of the congregation. Miss Lucilla! Horton was also the recipient of some useful and substantial articles from the children of the Sunday School.

The Pioneer says: A pie social was recent- ly held by the Baptists of Lot 10, which re- alized $18 50, part of which was presented to the pastor, Rev. E. B. Phalen.

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AccipENts.—We regret to learn from the Farmer that a number of accidents occu:red at Summers'de during the recent slippey weather. Mrs. William Wickham tell and broke her arm, and so did a French woman, while a girl by the name of Harkness had the

in respect to all articles—such as pork —

cont on her arm badly torn as the resuit of a all,

‘upon the foul calumnies uttered about Mr:

Mr. O’Brien will not return to Ireland to enter prison, leaving the party feud un- healed.

Dubin, Jan. 3.—Fr. O’Shea, writing

frou: the Franciscan convent at Drogheda, |

says : As Capt. O’Shea’s nominator for the Galway election of 1886, I can throw light

Parnell and Capt. O'Shea. 1 can be prov- ed that no shadow of suspicion rests upen the political purity of the motives actuating Mr. Parnell when he decided to run Capt.

O'Shea for Galway. In spite of the fact that few stones have been left unturned to ruin Capt O Shea’s reputation and lessen h's. pocket, I believe him worthy of his friends’ esteem for his kindheartedness and his right sense of great moral virtues. I could bear witness that the proceedings in the di- vorce court had no connection with the | Galway matter, so far as Capt. O’Shea was

concerned. .

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Written on the deathSof Henry Warren, dearly beloved son of John F. and Agnes E. Mellick, who died on Cbristmas Day, 1890, aged five months and two weeks :

Lay away the empty cradle, Pack the little clothes away,

He shall never more require them— He has passed from earth away.

lt is hard to part with loved ones, Hard to sever tender ties;

He has left a world of troubles, For a home beyond the skies.

Gone where sickness, pain nor sorrow, Sin nor death can never come; With his little angel brother, Safe with Jesus, safe at home.

Side by side our babes are sleeping Ia the cold and silent grave;

God has given, God has taken, Taken only what He gave.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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New Cure for Consumption.

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Yours faithfuliy, Gro. A. BayNeEs, M. D., Ete.

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DISSOLUTION UF PART NaRSHIP

HE partnership between the undersigned, as Barristers and Att:r-eys, under the style of PALMER & McLEOD, having ter- niinated by lepse of time, is dissolved fiom this date. Dated at Charl-ttetown, the 31st day of December, A. D., 1890.

MALCOLM McLEOD,

H. J PALMER,

D. C. McLEOD. jan7—2ll Island prs dy 3w wky 2m

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| | undersigned have entered into partner.

ship as Attorneys and Svlicitors, under | the name of

M. & D, C. MeLEOD,

and continue the practice of the profession at | the offices of the Jate firm, Bank of Nova Scotia Building, Charlottztown, P. E. L.

MALCOLM McLEOD, D.C. McLEOD.,

Charlottetown, Jan. 2, 1891. jan7—all Island prs dy 3w wky 2m

H. JAMES PALMER.

(of the late Firm of Palmer & McLe>d),

Barrister and Attorney-at-Law,

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WOOD FOR SALE,

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‘Fifty Acres of Hard and Soft Wood —

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