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APRIL 1, 1878.

Tho Trade Issue - (/ We that Ministerialists as Mr.

think the question of Protection “ ean ‘ever

have shown such prominent a >

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he made an absolute question of depiuliivg

yayties.’’— bide Hensai i, 1878. W ce have

shown that there are many leading support- the Government who do not even now

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seruple to avow their Protectionist princi- We have established pretty conclu-

ples. ’ in the

sively that thereis no “solidarity ’ Grit Parity on the question of Trade ; and that it is just as absurd to expect the party to unite to carry out a Free Trade policy as

re \ ras . wil » ih it is to attempt to make bricks ont of the

Fs sind of sea shore. ft is not, therefore, at all surprising that while the Patriot regards Sir John’s resolu- tion 4 Toronto Globe, the Hamilton Times, the Montreal Herald and other really able and

powerful organs of the opinions of the Grit

Party regard it as an unmeaning produc-

tion, which binds the Conservative Party to

as something horribly definite, the

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nothing more than the Grit Party proies

; to carry out. , We close our analysis of the opinions of 4 the Grit Party with reference to the trade * ; re question with the following quotation from se the speech of Hon. Alexander McKenzie» ' delivered at Watford, in 1876 or 1877. We Wa think it establishes ‘the soundness of the conclusion at which we have arrived respect ; ifig the intentions and the ability of the Party led by hii to earry out a Free Trade policy i “@ ae ‘The hen. gentleman says 1 made a Free | > 6 Trade speech in Dundee, and a Protection

speech in Sarnia, in Hamilton, and in Mon- treal, and that the speech I made in Montreal means of electing Mr. Workman. / same speech everywhere. I said that, were, it'was absolutely impossible

was the nade the “situated as w

3 . sue? E .,tocarry out a free trade policy. -- ‘ Before commencing an analysis of the i opinions of the Liberal Conservative party ‘ on this great question, ii may be well to » give the opinions of one or two of those who B belong to neither party, but whose personal experience and ability is such that they . must powerfully influence the public mind

in respect to it. Of these none stands

higher than os 7 * om.

For years he has been an authority on the

«question of tariffs and trade. Sir A. T. Galt says :

‘“‘Free Trade and (Protection, as abstract principles, are both alike inapplicable to Canada, from its situation and circumstances. Without entering upon any argument on their merits, it may be sufficient

; to point out that Thorough Précection would 3 certainly sever the connection with Great Bri- tain—destroy our principal source of revenue,

and thus induce direct taxation, whlle perfect

Free Trade would annihilate many valuable ? branches of industry, and necessarily cause the . immediate substitution of direct taxes in lieu of Customs duties, to an extent that, in my epinion, would be unbearable. Though a Free Teader, theoretically myself, I have always recognized the necessity and advantage of ad-

opting the application of principles in them-

selves, sound to the circumstances of our country ; the habits of our people, the condi- tions of our elimate, and our political relations to Great Britain and other countries. My views on this subject. have ripened, but in no respect have changed since in 1859. | then ar- ranged the tariff, and subsequently modified it in 1366. The policy adopted then, and which, ‘to a large extent, remains in force still, was properly known as incidental Protection, though it might more appropriately have been y termed Moditied Free Trade.

Under this system of revenue, it is well- knewn that our manufacturing interest has grown toits present considerable proportions ; and it is in the same _ direction L consider a Readjustment ~- of the tariff should now be made. Sixteen years, however, elapsed since that tariff was passed, and within that period much has occured to render a thorough revision necessary, Our Confederation now embraces a vastly greater and more varied area—our relations to Great Britain are happily unchanged commercially; but as regards the United States, their Civil War, with its results upon the taxation and eurrency of that country, have caused most material changes, which may require corres ponding legislation on the part of Canada.” Sir A. T'. Galt to Senator Ferries,

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The Budget. We have presented a pretty extended summary of the speeches of the Hon. Mr. Davies and the Hon. Mr. Sullivan on the motion to go into supply. We hope our readers will carefully study each of them; for it is important that the taxpayers should understand the financial position of the Provinee—should know what they are pay- ing their money for. Money must, of course, be obtained to maintain the public service efficiently ; and to raise a wild howl because taxes must be levied to meet neces- sary and legitimate expenditures is as sense- less as it is useless. While we have a Goy- ernment we must maintain it. With reference to the speeches, we have lit-

tle to remark. They were both, in their way, |

ableefforts. Strongly aswe are opposed to the political views and impolicy of Mr. Davies,

we cannot deny that he possesses talents | and address worthy of a better case than he In fact, |

+ had to present on Friday evening. he is an adept in the art of popular delu-

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politic in such a skilful way that it really appears as though the ‘* leprosy of deficits “| hes not been cleaned only to be succeeded | by the small-pox of unnecessary taxation. “Writing of deficits reminds us that Mr. N), vies was scarcely ingennous in his refer-} anee to the deficits of the late Government the Covernment of which Messrs. Yeo snd Lefurey—-Mr. Davies’ colleagues were | not undistinguished members, ‘Those defi- | he money | 5

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only apparent. H the

improvements of | ‘The Province

{cits were transterrea permnanent

i was irom lexpended in ' " ° “1°

| public utility and necessity.

ia no worse off because of them.

it ought to be better off. | economically and judiciously laid out.

Messrs. Yeo and Lefurgy, Mr. Davies will so far forget himself as even to insinuate |

laid out. | The aim of the Hon. Mr. Sullivan was to} show that the assessment to be again levied under the abnoxious Act passed last year is | }not required for the necessary and legiti- | mate expenditure of the present year. Our |readers will, we think, agree with us that) |he accomplished his purpose. At any rate, | ihe metaphorically made a “ bulls eye” | ‘when he pointed out that the Governnent | \is keeping money in the Bank at 2 per cent. | while raising it by a hated taxation at a cost} IS 25 per cent. He also made several points | i while showing that $25,000 a year is being| literally frittered away. In his conten- | tion that the Legislative Council should be abolished the whole Province will uniie with surtailments he iproposes are worthy of the serious | lattention of the people.- Mr. Sullivan S| ispeech was well sustained by sallies of sar- | t was an able effort ina

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* Ouotations.’ : Tue Patriot quotes the Premier’s speeches lat. somewhat greater length than we did, to | prove that the Examiner is deceiving the (public with ‘‘unreliable quotations.” As 'there was no mail this morning, and as we have some space to spare, we publish the Patrio!’s quotation, .as follows :

‘“There are two principles of action in rela- tion to trade which are to be considered and discussed. ‘The one is absolute free-trade, the other absolute protection. You are aware from former political speeches that I have al- ways assumed that in this country neither of these principles is possibly applicable to our cir- cumstances, and as 1 stated in my speech in 1874, the question is practically removed from the sphere of political discussion, because@ no party that I ain aware of, not even the most extreme Protectionist, has adopted the idea that we are to lose all revenue for the purpose of preventing any one coming in here to sell his wares, as that would result in a system of direct taxation. Every man, woman and child of you pay from four to five dollars a year by indirect taxation. If that system is abolished you must pay that sum into the Treasury to ensure the existence of a revenue for the pub lic service. I have assumed, as a matter of public policy—-and not one public man in Par- liament has attacked that policy--what Sir F. Hincks charactereized as ‘incidental protec- tion’—a stupid phaseat best--meaning a revenue raised from the the imposition of duties on @cles imported into the country, but also

nfactured in the country. We found that derived a revenue sufficient for the pur- poses of the country for some years from an import duty on certain goods of fifteen per cent. Every dollars’ worth of those goods coming into the country paid fifteen cents to the Government as revenue ; so every manufac- turer who made the goods in the country had the advantage of fiftesn per cent. in his favor, J stated in my speech in 1874 that when we found the revenue of the country would not be met by! the imposition of this duty, it would become neces- sary to impose more, and that it: was impossible, if my view of the public obligations which had to be met was correct, that the 15 per cent, duty shoulll continue to suffice. The result ofj our experience was that within a year we found it necessary to increase the duty on imports to | 17 1-2 per ent. and that is the duty at present in | existence. We have therefore given an incidental protection to the extent of 2 1-2 per cent. more than that imposed by the previous Administra- tion. This might be a sufficient answer to those who have been accusing me of having it in vhiee'l to inaugurate a free trade policy.

A policy which I say frankly I would inau- gurate at once if the circumstances of the coun- try would admit, and U the position of our manu- facturers would admit of it, because I be- lieve that a free interchange of thought, in | formation and commodities is the true means, of enriching a country or making a people great, while the system of protection as it exists in the United States, is altogether evil.”

Mr. McKenzie says he would inaugurate a ‘‘Free Trade Policy if the cirewmstances of the case would admit.” Ay! there’s the| rub. Mr. McKenzie does not think ‘“‘eir- /oumstances adniit.”

The Patriot had better take other means of proving that the Examiner 1s dishonest.

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| Tne following note should have appeared \in the l’atriot this morning. But it didn’t : to the Editor of the Patriot: Sir,—A statement to the contrary having |appeared in your issue of Saturday morning, iyou will, please, permit me to inform your! ;readers that the columns of the Dairy Ex- | AMINER are open until ten o’clock of each day | for the reception of news to be laid before its | lreaders in Summerside, Souris, Georgetown, | lete., that same evening. | Should any of your ‘readers in those towns |

‘doubt this explicit declaration, let them tele- | ‘ graph—at our expense—between the hours of | ‘eight and nine o'clock, a. m.—any item of news | worthy of note, and they will find it, or some reference to it, in the issue of the EXAMINER |which will reach them on the same evening.

| By inserting the above in your issue or Mon- 'dav, you will oblige,

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W. L. Corton, Manager EXAMINER ~ A 650 to Tur only case before the Stipendiary M

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DIRDCTORS KEPORT “FOR YEAR THE ENDING | MARCH 28a, 1878.

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R. Longworth, Esq., Presidens; Hon. Jas. |

{ Duncan, Hon. L. C. Owen, Hon, A. A. Mac-| Donald, Hon. J. C. Pope, Thos. Handrahan, Esq., G. R. Beer, Esq. ‘The Directors, in presenting this their Fifteenth Annual Report, are happy te be able | to state that the business of the past year has, notwithstanding some serious losses, left suth-| cient profit to pay off the deficiency caused by the heavy losses of 1876, and after allowing an unusually large sum for re-insurances and re turn premiums a small balance remains to the credit of the Compatty: The amount of pre miums taken in 1877

for new business was $20,761 79

Amount transferred for re-insurances of i risks taken in 1878. 7.969 50! Losses— 1877... 's.:. $ 9,043 87 i Expenses of manage-

597 19 J 1 423 GO

SOURS got bn ek Lk teturn premiums.... Balance of losses im

BGO. 6k. Oioiwstia as Re-insurance of unex-

pired risks. . .

Balance.

5,077 18

9,245 00 344 15

$28,731 29

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ancinimettiansinitioatag £28,731 29!

BALANCE,

Assets. Liabilities. | Bills receivable. $16,079 50 Ee eee ae" 27 42 Accounts unpaid... 45 68 i Claims unpaid........ $ 6,564 45

- Risks

unexpired . 9,245 00 Balance. 344 15 $16,153 60 $16,153 60

KF. W. Hass, Secretary.

Ch’town, 28th March, 1878.

———=P> ~~ Cee Moltke as a Literary Man.

Count Moltke is the greatest living Gen- eral. His fame as a soldier is world-wide. [t is not generally known that he has a fine literary faculty. Hehas written the history of every war in which he took part, as well; as that of the Russians in Turkey and the French in Italy. He has some humor and a fine power of description. During the ov- cupation of Versailles he sought relaxation in the public library, and solaced_ himself with the prose of George Sand. His ‘‘Let- ters from Russia” have been translated into English, and these show the stern warrior to us in a most interesting light—now di- verting his mind by reading a French novel during the distressing pangs of sea sickness. We think in reading this of Frederick the Great writing poetry while in full retreat.

In those letters from Rnssia he tells us much about his own habits; that, like all men who do much, he has a good stomach— or what Mr. Beecher calls his engine. He was an acute observer, and declares that it is all nonsense to talk about Russia entering on a path of constitutional reform; that she owes all she is to despotism; to the virtues of capacity to command and obey. The ‘two nations’ in Russia made a deep im- pression on him—the ignorant masses on whose darkness the sun of western civiliza- tion has not risen, and the highly educated band of officials, professors, and profession- al men, whose French culture is out of har- mony with the elementary state of things among the people at large. He saw and de- scribes the bedrcom of the Emperor Nicho- las, which was kept in precisely the same state as when that headstrong and extra- ordinary man occupied it :—

‘The iron camp-bed, with the same bed clothes, the coarse Persian shawl and the cloak with which he covered himself, the various little articles for the toilette, the books and maps of Sebastopol and Cronstadt—everything remains untouched ; even the thoroughly worn-out slippers which he, I believe, wore for twenty-eight years, and always would insist on having mended again. The wall calendar, which was set daily, stands at the day of his death. The bed stands across the middle of the room, and the last glance of the monarch through the large window fell, perhaps, on the broad, proud) Neva, which he had _ fettered with his bridge, on the golden cupola of his

saac’s church, and on the sun sinking in the sea behind the fortifications of Cronstadt. Grief at the issue of the war was the di.ease which killed the Emperor Nicholas. This antique character could not bend his will—he

The letters were written in 1856 to his wife, and gave a very vivid picture of Rus- social and political. The peaceable character of the Russian peasant is painted in the following sentence: ‘‘I have never seen the people fighting or wrestling. They have no bull-fights or cock-fights, but their feeling for their superiors makes them, much against cheir inclination, it is true, most submissive solders.” We should not object to a few Russian immigrants ; an ad- mixture of Russian mighta valuable addi- tion to Celt and Saxon blood, and keep down its fighting propensities.

JAMES HOBBS, |

CABINET MAKER,

Cor. Kent and Prince Strects, | Charlottetown |

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NHE SUBSCRIBER, in returning thanks tol his onstomers and the public generally

| for past favors, would take this method to so

I am better prepared than ever to execute! any orders that may be entrusted to me.

The latest styles of all kinds of Household, | Office, Church and School. Furniture, made! from well-sclected and seasoned stock, at short notice.

Special attention paid to and Laying Carpets.

az Repairing neatly done, at short notice |

I would also invite the attention of ruahien! of City and Country Schools to A DESK, one |

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licit a further continuance of their patronage. |

Cutting, Making

| Will be on the Berth at Glagow to re-

Carrying Freight at through rates from Lon

RESERVE your Spring Order, and get our Low ‘Quotations — LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE,

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REGULAR TRADER.

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FROM LONDON TO CHARLOTTETOWN,

PRINCE

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SPRING TRIP.

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I878. SPRING 1878. ETHEL BLANCHE,

(NOW ON THIIK BERTH) - 428 TONS REGISTER, COPPERED, AND CLASSED 9 YEARS, Al, AT LLOYDS, JOUN GRAHAM, Commander. WiLL SATII FROM LONDON

On or about the Ist APRIL, Careying Freight at through rates to PICT SUMMERSIDE and GF ROETOWH Pt

This Vessel was built expressly for the London trade, being thoroughly fitted out in ey: respect, with splendid accommodation for passengers, and offers every inducement to Shi as she has made some of the fastest passages on record, to and from London, always deliveri : her cargoes in splendid order, and making her three round trips regularly every season. “

Parties wishing to have their Goods delivered here early in the season will oblige by for. warding their orders in time, so as not te detain the Vessel. -

For freight or passage apply, in London, to Joun Prrcarrn & Sons, 69 Cornhill ; in Liver. pool, to Prroarrn Bros, Brockley Buildings, 51 South John Street ; or here, to the owners, —-

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Cloths and Clothing! FOR SALE,

Reaily-made or Made to Order, A Maker: Dent, London, Will be sold at a bargain, Apply to E. W. TAYLOR.

| March 28—3i GROCERY

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A Very Large Supply of Cor. Great George & Kent ‘Sts.

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HATS, CAPS, TIES, SCARFS, SHIRTS, &c.,

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Tweeds, Coating and Cloths,

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elsewhere, should inspect our

Stook and Prices, ‘Groceries isiong ROBERT ORR & CO. and {rovisions,

AT HIS OLD STAND,

-~ jand will be pleased to have them call imspect for themselves.

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Ocean Steamship Co'y

Charlottetown, March 18, 1878.

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10 CHESTS CONGOU TEA,

“a | (‘‘ New Season ”) 3 PP=\\ 1,000 Lbs. Canadian Cheese, sume | 10 Casks American Kerosene Oil,

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OF P. £. ISLAND, 20BARRELS SUGAR “— (all kinds),

SPRING TRIP. 100 Bhls, Sup, Extra Flour,

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The First-class Iron Screw Steamship

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20 doz, Pickles, 20 doz, Assorted Jams

1364 Tons Register, Cassed 100 Al, which 20 boxes Dessert Prunes,

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Liverpool for Charlottetown’ WEW RAISINS, ZANTE CURRANTS?! ’

On or about the 15th April, DRIED APPLES, STEWING "PRUNES, 300 QUARTS CRANBERRIES, | CREEN CRAPES

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QTLS. CODFISH,

BOXES DIGBY HERRING,

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Georgetown, Summerside, Souris. 00 Alberton and Shediac. |

For Freight or Passage, apply, in London,| *°

to Joun Pircamn & Sons, 69 Cornhill: in| 100 Glasgow, to James KE so, junr., 134 St. Vin- cent Street ; in Liverpool, to Prrcarry Brorn ;

sion; and he is specially good at figures. | gistrate this morning, was that of a tramp He can manipulate figures in such a manner} who the police arrested while quietly resting that the accounts of his lavish expenditures | in the barn of John Longworth, Esq., St. seem to show that he has been severely! Peter’s Road. They found on his person a economical ; and, with his surplus of some | leaden knuckle, which weighed upwards of

#3,000, he covers all the sores of the body'a pound, He was discharged.

of the Cheapest and Pest ever offered here for ERS, Brockley Buildings, 51 South : , a ee ae ace «te . : ae el School purposes, Please call and inspect it i,| Street; in Pictou, N. S., to Nooxan & Davies my Show Koo, | or here, to - : - Ww > n HOBBES,

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