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CHARLOPTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, APRIL

‘Mr. Hackett’s Speech

ON ME. LAURERR’S MOTION.

Mr. Hacxuerr—In my’ opinion the hon. {gentleman who has introduced this motion has done so for the purpose of making

SOME CAPITAL in the Maritime Provinces. As we have to depend to a large extent on the people of Ontario for our breadstuffs, the hon. gentle- man imagines that he will makea strong point with the people of the Maritime Provinces. If I am credibly informed, I believe that hon. gentleman made a tour of the Maritime | Provinces last year. 1 am told that he went {down to Nova Scotia and ssid there that he | intended to convince the people of that section of the country that they were very unjustly taxed. lam also informed that on one occasion the hon. gentleman was address- ing an audience at New Glasgow, in the county of Pictou, and his platform being a very un- substantial and rickety one, he was precipi- tated below and came down at the. feet of the people of Nova Scotia J think that the hon, gentleman will find that his present motion is | just as unsubstantial and as poorly constructed jas that platform was, and when he and his party go to the people of this country in 1883, or sooner, they will mect witha similar mis- fortune, and will find themselves, as they did then, scrambling in the dirt. The hon. gentle- man has endeavored to meke it appear that the people of this country are paying a certain tax on breadstuffs. The fact is that we in this country

PRODUCE MORE FLOUR

than we can consume, and have to go abroad to find a market for our surplus flour, and while thisis the case no one can make it appear that we are paying an exorbitant price for our flour. The price of breadstutfs is regulated by tie markets of the world, and when we have to go to Europe to seli our producta, itis quite evident that we are not paying more for our breadstuffs than we would pay were there no duty upon them. But te prove my position I have only to quote the hon. member for North Norfolk (Mr. Charl- ton). He stated in his speech on the Budget that spring wheat was soid in Buffalo at $1.45 per bushel, and in Toronto at $1.264 per bushel, or 184 cents lower in Canada than in the United States. Now, Sir, we know very well that if wheat can be bought in Canada 184 cents cheaper than in the United States, flour must necessarily be bought cheaper also. We have the same facilities for manufacturing flour in Canada that they have in the United States. We have as good water power or steam power, as good skilled workmen, and as good mills, ang what is the reason that, if we can produce + wheat in Canada 18% ceuts cheaper than the United States, we cannot also have flour at a cheaper rate? Now, following out the line! of argument laid down by that hon. gentle- man, what wou'd be the result, taking as a basis four and a-half bushels of wheat for a barrel of flour? We find that flour manufac- tured fram Canadian wheat could be sold in the markets of the world for 85 cents Jess than the flour of the United States of a corresponding grade. It is ridiculous for the hon gentleman to endeavor to make it appear that, with a duty of 50 ceats per barre! on United States flour, it is going to raise the rice of Canadian flour. I came from a Puipiace that possesses few manufacturing industries. Whether that be owing toa want of enterprise, or to an isolated position, I cannot say. But it is impossible to prove that, because we are shut out for a great portion of the year from the rest of the Dominion, and have to buy a large pcrtion of the commodities we consume, that we are un- duly taxed. Now, with regard to the article of breadstuffs, I will jast state what has been done in that line last year. I find, in looking at the Trade and Navigation Returns, that Prince Edward Island, last year, imported 2,200 .barre!s of flowr, upon. which daty amounting to $1,100 kas been paid. Is that any reason why we should take alarm at this flour duty. Theamount collected from the importation of foreign flour amounts only to 1] cent per head of the population of the Island. | Is that au exorbitant tax? Hon. gentlemen will agree with ne tha’ a tax of that amount, even if the people had to pay the duty, which I deny, would not be alarming. Those 2,200 barrels of flour wereimported from the United States. Why were they imported? From the simpls fact that we have some citizens of the United States doing business on the Island. They can buy ia the markets of the United States acertain brand of flour very much cheaper-than they can do in Canada We have no brand of flour is Canada se low as the brand wiich they can buy fin the United States. Plour that has been cast aside as not capable of bearing inspection is brought to the Island and seid to fishermen.s Those 2,290 barrels are altogether of this description; they were of a low grade, so low and. poor that they could not be s ld tothe people of the United States, and they had to be mixed with good Canadian flour before they were saleable I am of the opinion that a duty of $1 or $1.50 on American flour would be better than the present duty of 50 cents per barrel, so as te shut out the American flour altogether. We have in this country A LARGE EXTENT OF FERTILE LAND,

as intelligent farmers as in the United States, and, with a good climate, we should be able to raise sufficient breadstuffs for eurselves and not be dependent o1 the United States. For myself, speaking from the standpoint of a Prince Edward Islander, I know the lew grades of flour that are imported, and J shall be very glad to see such grades altogether excluded from our market. But apart al- tozether from the question of fiour and wheat, there are other products ef Canada that re- quire protection. We raise large quantities of coarse grains, such as barley and oats, and our iarmers require to be protected in that particular industry. They require protection agziust American oats and barley brought into our markets. Our opponents say a duty of ten cents per bushel on coarse grains is no protection whatever. But what was the con- dition of things in 1878? We had a very large quantity of those grains imported. We do not say hon. gentlemen opposite did so for political purposes, but an hon. gentleman who ie looking at mé at this moment intro duced a resolution setting forth that it was

e Public, may speak free.”—Evnirwkss.

12, 1882,

sary that Canadian farmers should be pro- tected in some measure against such an influx. | Fon. gentlemen will agree with me in saying that it was. What has been the result cf the present tariff on barley? While we imported nearly 500,000 busbejls in 1878, last year, 1881, we imported only eleven bushels; and that is a conclusive proof that the protective duty had the effect of shutting out those 500,000 bushels. Coming to oats, in which I am more immediately interested, I would remark that, in 1878, 1,633,778 bushels were brought into the Dominion from the United States. Hon. gentiemen may say that the price. is low in the United States, and for that reason oats were brought into Canada. That ia the very reason why the farmers should have Protection. As opposed to almost 2,000, - 000 bushels imported in 1878, there were only 2.573 bushels imported last year. Here we clearly see the result of the National Policy, under which our own farmers have the market to the extent of the former importation. What was the result of the policy in force in 1878, on the people of Prince Edward Island. Owing to the fact that oats were imported from the United States, and sold in Ontario and Quebec, the oats of those Provinces were

FORCED INTO THE MARKETS,

of the Lower Provinces, Before that time we had the markets of the Gower Provinces almost to ourselves. The farmers of Prince Edward Island could send oats to different points in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and sell them at remunerative prices, but. in 1878, owing to the large quantity of oats enterin the Upper Provinces these oats were force down to the Maritime Provinces and reduced the prices to unremunerative rates. On account of the import duty of 10 cents a bushel on oats American oats are not sent into the Upper Provinces, the oats of their farmers are therefore sold in the home market and we command the Lower Provinces. Island farm- ers can now send their oats to Halifax and St. Jchn and all along the north shore of New Brunswick, and sell them at remunerative prices, and I therefore contend that I have thoronghly and clearly established that the National Policy has greatly benefitted not only Ontario and Quebec but also the Lewer Provinces. Hon. gentlemen opposite will argue that while the Islanders are dealing with Ontario and Quebec they should deal with the people of the United States, and that the United States is their natural market. I cannot see that that has been clearly estab- lished. As regards certain commodities such 85

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our principal market is the United States, but they meet us with a duty which almost shuts us out. if that is our natural market it would appear as if we were not the natural suppliers of that market, because the ameri- cans im a heavy duty before they admit our products. Is it consistent with political aconomy that the Americans should shut out our products and we allow them to bring in their products free? It is an injustice, and hon, gentlemen who support such a policy are not a party who will receive the support of tha eople. The Provinee of Prince Edward Island in 1870 supported just such a policy-as is at present at force in the Dominion. Lock- ing at the Tariff of the Island for that year, which was three years before Confederation, and when the Island did not thin it necessary to enter Cenfederation, and when every per- son was opposed to the proposal, the Govern- ment of the day imposed a duty on prodicts comi: g from the United States. I have in my bands the journals of the Legislative Assem- bly for 1870, and I find that even at that day a taxof 11 per cent. was imposed on bread coming into the Island—a higher tax than is now imposed by the Government of the Do

minion. I find also that every article pro- duced by the farmers of the Island was pro- tected. I find that such articles as butter, cheese and many other articles produced by the farmer were largely protected.

Sir Avsert J. SmrrH—But you imported these articles

Mr. Hacketr—Well, the duty was put on in the interests of the Island, as it has been put om the Dominion of Canada, by a Govern ment desirous of protecting the interests of farmers as well as other classes. I find that & duty of ene shilling per barrel was imposed on corn-mea!, so that it will be seen that the Island was in favor of protection long ago, notwithstanding the statements ef those who try to make it appear that they speak for the people of that Province, that they are heaven- bern statesmen who can speak for the whole Dominion, I represent as intelligent a con- stituency as any gentleman in this \House. I care not from what part of the Dominion he comes, and when | speak for them 1 speak their sentiments and views, and in their in- terests. When I say that we are not opposed to

FAIR TAXATION,

that we are willing to bear our share in com- ron with the rest of the Dominion, I speak the sentiments of my constituents, who believe that this system is in theinterests ot the Domia- ion atiarge. Hon gentlemen opposite try to make it appear that the people of the Mari time Provinces are galling under the yoke of the present Tariff. These hon. gentlemen are trying to stir up sectional feelings to turn one Province against another. That is their desire, but the people are too intelligent and well schooled in the politics of the country for hon. gentlemen of small ideas, of contracted views, to lead them astray on this subject. Now, with regard to the duty on flour, I find that, even at that time, though the Island had not joined the Dominion, the people of that Prevince felt that they should trade with their brethren in Canada; they recognized that as an act of patriotism, andi in consequence they taxed American flour 1s. 6d. per bushel, and allowed the colonial product to come in free. They said we are going to protect the interests of people living under

THE BRITISH FLAG

in all parts of this country; we will let their products in free and impese a tax on the people living south of the boundary line to the same amenut as they impos upon us. And who are the hon. gentlemen who were at the head of the Government who imposed this tax. They are gentlemen who still live in Prince Edward Island; they still say that they belong to the great Liberal party of this country, and although they are represented In this House by a not very numerous party, in fact a most insignificant party, still one occa- sionally meets them down in Prince Edward Island where they claim to belong to the great

necessary, ia the interest of our farmers, that

end flour. gone back on his position? the most iuconsistent of individuals. In 1878, 346,491 bushels of American barley were

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imported ed to this eountry ay Was it not neces-

a duty should be imposed on American oats; Free Trade Liberal party of this country. Has the honorable gentlemao| The le-der of that Government has now a very If so, he is‘snug jlace in the Senate of this Dominion.

He is at present the only gentleman in the Senate island whe supports hon, gentlemen opposite,

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and yet he was the man who said that the pro- ducts of Prince Edward island should be pro- tected against the products of other countries. I refer to the Hon. Mr. Haythorne. Anather was the Hon. Alexander Laird, brother of the ex-covernor of the North-West Territories, who was formerly a member of this House, and a great’Free Trader. Hon. Peter Sinclair was another who was also a member of the last Parliament. ‘Then there was the Hon. Benjamin Davies, who has been ensconcedin a fine office in Prince Edward Island, as a reward for his services; and | think it comes with very bad grace from hon. gentlemen here, who pretend to be on the same side of politics with them, to oppose Protection for the industries of Canada. 1 believe that Pro- tection is THE SETTLED POLICY

of the peorle of this Dominion, and that nothing hon. gentlem-n can say or do will change in the slightest degree the minds of the people, for the feeling is too widely epread, teo deeply seated. Hon. gentlemen may move want of confidence motions, as many as they please, but the people wili regard it as on par with the clap-trap which these hon. gentlemen indulged in in 1878. Another redeeming feature of the present poliey is this : that we are relieved from the pressure of alarming deticits of hon. gentlemen opposite. We are placed beyond the ibility of their repetition. Last year we had the arge eurplus of $4.500,009. and the present year 1 hepe it will be $3,009,000 at least-—a fact that shows that we are now starting on an era of prosperity. The people of this country realize that we are starting on an era of pros- perity, and why should they abandon it for a more gloomy state of things. Hon. gentle- men need not imagine that they are going to carry away the people or change their policy by moviny these resolutions, as the vosiias are bound that they shall not depart from the prosperity, the peace and plenty which they are now enjoying underthe present Tariff by adopting the one advocated by hon. gentlemen oppesite,

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