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|perhaps holding its own under careful

describe. Land went down simply because , there was no one to buy it; people were not 1D a position to purchase. That commercial | depression, the failure of thet bank, and as | the hon. gentleman knows, a misfortune | that overtuok another bank, which is now

‘oantry. Now, Sir, as I said, the best test is the price of manufactured articles in the country ; and there is no doubt that prices ae lower to-day than they were before Confederation. It is trie if a man is not satisfied to wear the textures made in this country, if a man is too proud, too fastidi- ous, too much of a Beau Brummell! to wear the tweeds made in Canada, and must have West of England broadcloth, he must pay a duty of 30 per cent. upon it, if he is not a

| management, and of which the hon. gentle- man is one of the directors, were chiefly tle causes, and they had nothing to do with the National Policy. They were not chiefly

that I have nt made the researches into | due to depression in trade; I know it, and smuggler; but a man holding that view the statistics of the ec untry which he has| 1 speak with regret, because | am a severe and indulging in such tastes, has no claims

given to the House to-night. But as he has alluded to Prince Edward Island, I feel i that it is my duty to give my version of the position of that Province under the opera- tion of the National Policy. I make this Statement at the outset: that it is not that the National Policy works injuriously to! Prince Edward Island, but 1 admit that Prince Edward Island is not exactly in the same position as the other Provinces, to reap the same advantages from that policy. We are an agricultural country, and we are surrounded by very valuable fisheries We have not a surplus population, nor have we that great accumulation of capital that would qualify the pt Ople to go int» meunfactures to any extent. When I say that we have no great accumulation of capital, I am not pre- pared to join in the wail which fell from the lips of my hon. colleague in describing the deplorable state,of affairs which exists in the Island. I believe the people of the Island, from one end to the other, are as comfortable and as independent as any peo- ple in any part of the Dominion. There are, perhaps, no cases of the accumulation of very great wealth. We knew that while agriculture is looked upon as the first source of wealth in a country, it is not an oceupa- tion by which men can accumulate fortunes with the rapidity that speculators, contrac- }tors, or merchants can accumulate them, (though the farmers’ prospects are more steady and certain. I repeat again, that the people of the Island are in independent circumstances, and are as comfortably off as ;the farmers in any part of the Dominion, ‘considering the extent of their holdings. » There is not one word which fell from the hon. gentleman’s lips, that I have not heard him repeat time and again from the hust- ings on the Island. This House may not be jinformed of the fact that the hon. gentle- }man is the leading Liberal in the Province jwe come from, and that his utterances, ;ameng his own political party, have a good ‘deal of weight. I have heard the same ar- guments advanced by the hon. gentleman on the hustings. I have heard him time ‘and again point tothe empty wharves of |Prince Edward Island. It ts true that our | wharves are not as crowded with shipping -as they were some years ago. It is true ‘that you do not find the same number of square-rigged vessels in our harbors as we had in the years before Confederation ; but I can give the explanation, and it is not in any way connected with the National Policy. I do not give it as my own information, be- cause my vocation in life is similar to that of my hon. friend, but I have heard state- ments advanced time and again, by experi- enced merchants, in opposition to the state- ment of the hon. gentleman. They say, and all Islanders know, that some years ago, when our Island was well wooded, ship |building was one of our large industries, and our chief export to the Mother Coun- try; and the hon. gentleman will agree ‘with me in saying that our ships were built for the English market, and were, as ‘I have stated, the chief industry we had in the Island. That shipping bad de- clined long before the hon Finance Minist:r introduced the National Policy, and it de- clined for these reasons. In the first place, the Island became dennded of ship timber. Ship-building has decreased with us because we have not the material. It has decreased with us as in other parts of the Dominion where the material still exists, because iron vessels have taken the place of wooden ves- ‘sels ; and as Stated this Session on the floor ‘of the House, there are few branches of trade indeed in which wooden vessels are |perferred to those of iron. The improve | ments are such that in a few years wooden vessels will no longer be heard of. So much by way of the true explanation of the decline of ship owning in this Island. 1] will now give the true reason why we have not the same amount of shipping floating in our harbors. The reason is that the chief importations which we had for our vessels was rigging and ship materials—anchors and chains. In our httle Island a steamer which we had—the ‘Prince Edward” —a vessel of 1,200 or 1,400 tons— which is now, I am sorry to say, disposed ‘of—was almost capable of bringing eufti- ecient goods from the English market to supply the Province ; and it is idle to say that the general trade of the colony requir- jed the employment of all those ships. They | came there, as I have said, for the purpose ‘of bringing our rigging, canvas, anchors, ‘chains and the usual outfit for ships. That ‘decline would have taken place if the hon. ‘Finance Minister had never introduced a | protective policy into this country. The ‘hon. gentleman also raised a great cry ‘about the depreciation of land. I regret to say that there is some truth in that, but let the truth be known. That depreciaticn has occurred chiefly in our rising towns and ‘villages, and one reason for it is this Like the hon. gentleman I have had a goad deal of experience dealing with lands and |investing money, and I do not hesitate to ‘say that for many years land in the cities and towns was at a fictitious value. Sir Lronarp Tittey. Yes, during the building of the railway. | Mr. BreckeN—Particularly so then, but even previous to that time. We met with ‘atgreat calamity in our Island. In the eyes of hon. gentlemen who live in large cities, and talk of millions and have large banking ‘institutions, it would not appear to be much lof a calamity, but the failure of the Bank ‘of Prince Edward Island was as great a ‘catastrophe to that little community, as the fa\lure of that great commercial institution, the Bank of Montreal, would be to the ‘centre of commerce of tue Dominion of Canada. The consequence was a contrac-

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loser in one of those banks. I do not hesi- | tate to say that the failure of these banks the Finance Minister. My hon. friend was due tothe amount of reckless credit from Queen’s is not so candid as the hon. given to mushroom traders and merchants. |member for South Brant, who played the This conrse had the effect of limiting ac- role of critic of the speech of the hon. commodation to old and weil-established Finance Minister, because that hon. gentle- mercantile houses which were doing legiti-' man did occasionally, whether uninten- mate trade; but the capital that ought to/ tionally in his warmth or not I cannot say, have been used in developing the legitimate admit that Canada was in a prosperous con- trade of the country was given to specu- dition—and I do notice that some hon. lators and schemers, so that in a short time gentlemen on the opposite side, forgetting the money was dissipated, and the men their duty to their party, and only thinking who carried on business on a solid basis of the truth, have occasionally let drop were deprived of it, and thus prevented remarks showing that the National Policy

upon the consideration of my hon. friend

from diminishing the depression and dis-

tress which fell upon us. These are the | facts of that meatier. Now, as I said before, we were pot in a_ posi-|

tion to avail ourselves of the National | Policy as the inhabitants of the great and wealthy Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This is simply owing to our position. My hon. friend say we pay duties to the amount of $600,000. He says that a great many dutiable goods that we consume are entered at Montreal, at Halifax, and perhaps some at Quebec, and that the duties are paid there, and we do not get any credit for them. I- suppose to a certain extent that may be true. i have heard my hon. friend make the same statement on the hustings throughout the lengih end breadth of the Province, and I have met him in this way. I do not accuse the hon. gentleman of say- ing intentionally what is not correct, but I say that is not a fair way of putting the matter, for this reason—that a large quan- tity of the goods we consume are manufac- tured in the Dominion of Canada, and pay no duty at all. In 1880 the imports of Prince Edward Island amounted to $799,- 281. In 1881, to 983,593; in 1882, to $785,616, The exports from the Island in 1880, were $1,736,533 ; in 1881, were $1,774,840 ; in 1882, they increased to $1,- 887,146 ; in these figures 1 cannot see any evidence of commercial decay, but rather of increased trade.

Mr. Davigs.—That is directly entered for Customs duty.

Mr. Brecken—Yes; I am going to come to that. Thisis the amount of goods en- ‘tered in the Cus'oms Department in the Province, and there is alsu, no doubt, a certain quantity brought from Montreal and Halifax and other places where this duty is paid—none of us know to what extent, because there is no way to ascertain it—but I think the hon. gentleman exagge- rates it, because I think some of these goods come to the Island in bond, and we pay the duty upon them. If all the manufactured goods we consume paid duties, and we did not import anything from the other parts of Canada, the manufactures of that country, my hon. friend would be correct; but a large proportion of our goods come from Canada. I had the honor of being a mem- ber of a delegation that went to Detroit at the time of the abrogation of the Recipro- city Treaty in 1865, and I remember tiat at that time our trade with Canada amounted to about £2,000 a year, and I be- lieve that trade would not have existed but that a gentleman, from a_ brewery in Quebec, visited our Island a few years be- fre, and arrarged to send us some beer. Now, our trade with Carada amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a great deal of this is duty free. Now, I throw down the challenge to my hon. friend : will he point his finger to one single article mannfactured, consumed by the people of Prince Edward Island, that costs one cent more to-day than it did be- fore the introduction of the National Policy. I throw down this challenge to him in all seriousness. I know that his experience and mine would, perhaps, be limited to purchases for ourselves and our families. I am not speaking of my own limited experience, but I am speaking upon the authority of merchants who buy in foreign markets. If there has been a change, it has been in the right direction— in the direction of cheapness in necessary articles of common wear. Now, Sir, I re member once standing up ia this House and advocating something on behalf of little Prince Edward Island; and I believe the members from Prince Edward Island have the reputation of not being able to define the meaning of the word ‘‘ enough,” but they take it to always mean a little more. I remember an able and talented member of this House, the hon. Mr. Huntington, rebuking me in strong but courteous lan- guage, and saying that I should drop a eectional policy, and should remember that, when a man comes to this House, he is not only a member of the constituency which sends him here, and of the Province in which the coustituency is situated, but he holds the higher office of a representa- tive of the Dominion at large. That was the doctrine announced tu me by that hon- orable and experienced statesman. I knew it before I heard it from him, and J must tell my hon. friend that, when he comes here as the representative of a large and in- telligent and independent constituency, he stands here also as a representative of the Dominion as a whole; and I ask him, as a Canadian, if he is prepared to denounce a policy that has conferred such advan- tages on millions of the people and which the people at the last Dominion Election have proclaimed has been conferred? And would he find fault with it because unfer- tunately the Province we come from, con- taining 170,000 people, does not reap the same advantages! I thought, Mr. Speaker, that the greatest good to the greatest num- ber, was the policy that ought to actuate

is a blessing to the country. I have heard my hon. friend from East ¥ ork, whose utter- ances | always listen to with especial atten- tion. He has the courage of a politician, he has been an old leader, he has great moral courage. I listened to his speech to-night as I would listen to the speech of an eloquent statesman, from whose language I knew I would learn something. I heard him lay down some axioms, some abstract propositions that no man dareto deny. [ heard him lay down the proposition that it wesacrue! thing, as between men and man, to so shape the Tariff for the purpose, not of raising the revenue, but of putting money in the hands of monopolists, in the hands of speculators, and compel the poor man who is obliged to buy the common necessaries of life, to go into the dearest in- stead of the cheapest market. Tha’ propo- sition nobedy can gainsay. I have heard him say that it was a cruel thing for a few men so to shape the fiscal policy of the country, as to drain the pockets of the poor roan by excessive taxation, for the purpose of enabling monopolists to wallow in wealth and in luxury. No man can deny the truth of that proposition; but while you are listening to the reasoning, ingenious and able, of the hon. member, it is your duty to make use of the judgment God has given you, and to reflect how far those abstract principles truly apply to this eountry. I know it is difficult to answer the arguments of Free Trade; but the only way to answer

them is to look at the _ practi- cal working of Free Trade. {t is not a cast iron rule; I know it. is

the emanation of very able men, and great political economists, but it is not like Holloway’s pills and ointments—a panacea for all troubles—guaranteed to cure every- thing from a heartache to a broken leg. I believe some of the most able and talented advocates of Free Trade have admitted that a country may be in a position when the application of the abstract principles of Free Trade would not be profitable; and I believe that is when a country is in its youth, struggling to establish manufactures so as to give employment to its people and build up the country. I would not set myself against the hon. member for East York (Mr. Mackenzie), but I know that the only country in the commercial world that advccates Free Trade—and that in a quali- fied sense—is Great Britain. I know that they have had great statesmen and great men, who thought over and conceived that idea and inauguratod it; I know that, in the days cf Sir Robert Peel, Cobden, Villiers, John Bright and Gladstone, Eng-

land was in a very different posi- tion from ours. Before the repeal of the Corn Laws and_ the _ intro- duction of Free Trade, England had a

monopely of manufacturing skill and capi- tal ; she hed a surplus population, and, in her midst, the material of coal and iron, which gives a country a vast advantage. Great Britain, before the repeal of the Corn Laws, was manufacturing everything ; she had a great accumulation of wealth ; she had a vast correspondence, and was head and shoulders over every other country.

(To be continued.)

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The London Daily News says that in con- sequence of the heavy mortality among sheep and lambs in the present season and the low state towhich the flocks in Eng- land have been reduced, the Queen has given orders that no lamb is to be served for food in the Royal household this year. The example thus set by the Quzen is one which, says an exchange, it is greatly to be hoped others will be disposed to follow. Both in England and in some of the Conti- nental countries there hes been a serious decrease in the past few years in the num- ber of sheep, and the process of replenish- ment is not one that can be hastened. Ewes of the alder breeds generally have one lamb a year, and those of the modern and more highly fed varieties rarely have more than two, though triplets are sometimes seen. The chance of increase in the number of sheep in the country is therefore dependant in some degree on the preservation of the lambs of the present seeson. The dimuni- tion which, if the example of the Queen be widely followed, would take place in the ¢e- mand would enable the farmers to keep the ewe lambs for the further replenishment of their flocks.

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During the time the cable lines between Cape Town and England have been inter- rupted there has been a general rising in Basutoland. Advices from there to the 10th reported fighting on all sides. Reports of the 12th, however, stated quiet had been fairly restored,

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