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Ture Day EXAMINER,

JUNE 22, 1878.

« A ‘Joly’ Protectionist. ” upholds Mr. Joly in his though

Tuk ‘ Patriot” position as Premier of Quebec ; | his Government was conceived by means of illegitimate collusion between the Governoi of Quebee and members of the Government

of the Dominion; though it was brought

forth in direct opposition to the principles of Free Government, and though it is maim- tained in power by the bribery and conse- quent treason of a Tur(n)cotte !

Upholding and endorsing all this, the ‘« Patriot” will, of course, have little dif fieulty in upholding and endorsing Mr. Jolv’s views on the Tariff Question.

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It will be remembered that in 1876 tne farmers of Ontario petitioned the Dominion Parliament as follows :

‘¢é Whereas, agriculture is a prominent in- terest of this Dominion, and the prosperity of all classes largely depends upon the suc- cess of the farmer, it 1s desirable to enact such laws as shall ensure that success.

‘As practical farmers we cannot but view with regret our markets filled with American produce free of duty, while Can- adian produce is heavily taxed when sent to the United States markets.

‘‘ Your petitioners respectfully pray for such protection as will secure the home market for the home producer; or, that the same rate of duty be levied on all agri- cultural products coming into the Domin- ion from foreign countries that is imposed by said foreign countries upon our pro duce.” |

In response to that petition, a special Committee of Parliament was formed, anc

; ‘me sa yy Tole the following letter was sent by M. Joly, * ; Sie the ‘‘ Liberal ” Premier of Quebec, to that Committee : ou QuEsBec, March 24th, 1876. G. 7. Orton, M. Fad Chairman Agr'l Com.

My Dear Docror,—lI only received to-day a printed form of questions from your Com- mittee, in the labors of which I take a deep interest, and hasten to send you my answers. 1 am afraid they are rather lengty, but | must acknowledge that I feel some satisfaction in being allowed to give my views on the subject, however little weight they may carry.

It is a sort of a protest against the accusa tion of inconsistency which has been brought against me during this session in the House ot Commons and in the Press, for having given up the main plank of the platform of our Parti National. We claimed, above all things. a Na tional Commercial Policy. My friends have been twitted with having given it up, and | was brought in as the leader of the Parti Na tional, but / have not given it up.

If | remember correctly, you helped me in 1873 to obtain the exemption of duty for the beet root sugar manufacture, and | hope you will approve my views on the subject.

I remain, my Dear doctor, Yours, sincerely, H. G. Joty.

M. Joly’s replies to the Committe’s ques- tions as follows :—

Q. Is it in the interest of the Dominion that we should continue to admit American produce free, while Canadian produce ex- ported over the border has so heavy a tax levied on it?

A. No, it is against the interest of Ca- nada. I humbly think that we should not admit anything free of duty except the raw material required for owr manufac- tures.

Q. What duties, if any would you im- posed on flour and various grains and other foreign farm products; or what guiding rule as to such impositions of duties would you advise !

A. I would respectfully recommend to lay aside all abstract theories, and to adopt no other rule but that of our own interest.

Q. What effect has free admission of In- dian corn on price of coarse grains in your section of country!

A. We are not much affected in our part of the country, because unfortunately we do not produce much more than is required to supply our own wants; but it appears to me that wherever the farmer produces more than he requires for his own use, and has a surplus for sale, he must suffer by the conipetition. It is true the purchasers, among whom the manufacturers and the workmen ought to count for a_ very large proportion, may buy a little cheaper than the farmer, but as a natural conse- quence, they will have to sell their goods cheaper to the farmer, whose purchasing powers are diminished. It is not by cheap- ening everything we can hope to attain na tional wealth. The dearer we pay, the better for us, provided our paying power keeps pace with the increase of price. Ask a workman which of the two he prefers— flour at $4.50 a barrel and no work, or flour at $6 and plenty of work. Farming and industry are a good strong team when they are driven together. Divide them and you have a one-horse concern, or rather two that will not do anything like the work of a good strong double team.

Q. Do you advise legislation with a view to establishing and promoting in Canada, the cultivation of sugar beet, and the manu- facture of sugar therefrom; also cultivation of tobacco and flax? And what legislation would best conduce to the end in view !

A. The House of Commons in 1875 ex- pressed itself in favor of exemption from duties for a certain number of years of the beet-root sugar manufactured in Canada. 1! think nothing could be more efficacious for promoting that industry. True that, so far, it has not taken root in the country, but strenuous efforts are made tu introduce it. The difficulties are great, greater even than in France, Belgium and Germany, but I trust they will be overcome, and rely especially on that exemption from duties as

‘the greatest encouragement that can be

g:ven. As regards tobacco, the tax on the

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small revenue while it hinders the cultiva- tion. on imported tobacco increased. produce very good tobacco m Canada.

We can I see no reason why ours should be inferior to the Connecticut or Kentucky. All we want is experience, which can only be /ac- quired by practice, and no one will grow tobacco on alarge scale with the present tax. ;

As for flax, its cultivation will never be profitable without linen factories, and those who have a practical knowledge of the sub- ject know how diflicult 1t 18 to work protit- ably a linen factory in Canada under present circumstance.

Q. Do many of the sons and daughters of farmers in your locality, whose taste or physicial capacity lead them to desire other employment than farming, seck employ- ment in the United States? If so, what remedy would you advise !

A. A great number of people leave our part of the country every year for the fac- tories in the States, and will continue to do so as long as we cannot give them work. Of course our market is too limited to em- ploy them all; but, limited as it is, we could employ a good many more than we do if we kept our market to ourselves, which we ought to do, since the United States refuse to open their market to us. _

. Does the free importation of Ameri- can flour, without reciprocity, put you at a dicadvantage as compared with American competitors. And if so, state reasons.

A. I think those who have grain for sale must feel it seriously.

(). Have you found grinding in bond convenient and practicable and fair to all parties concerned, and would you recom- mend it in case of the imposition of a duty on foreign wheat !

A. No.

Q. Asan ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. imposed in the United States on flour against the fixed specific duty of 20 per cent per bushel on wheat, generally operates as discriminatory tariff against the Canadian miller, would the establishment of discrim- inatory duties by the Parliament of Canada, in your opinion, be advisable?

Avs Yes.

(. Do you think the admission of Ameri- can horned cattle, horses and sheep into Canadian markets at a 10 per cent duty, while the United States impose a 20 per cent duty on similar animals sent from Ca- nada, acts injuriously on Canadian farmers? And would recommend a similar duty to that imposed by the United States.

A. Yes.

(). Can the Canadian farmer raise profit- ably all the grain required to fatten his stock, or will it pay him better to buy In- dian corn ?

A. With a good system of farming we ought to produce enough to fatten our cattle.

Q. What articles produced on the farm require a home market for their sale !

A. All bulky articles.

(). What changes, if any, are required in legislation to make agriculture a more desirable and profitable occupation for the people !

A. Give up all abstract notions and study the real interest of the farmer and manu- facturer ; they ought to go together.

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Men Wanted.

THe Kingston ‘* News” contains the fol- lowing advertisement in its biggest type. We insert it for the benefit of those amongst **-Steel Rails !

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us whe are out of work :— Wanted Men out of Employment to Act as Drivers in the Vicinity of the Penitentiary Wharf ! Where Several Hundred Tons of the Cele- brated Mackenzie Steel Rails Lie at the Bottom of the Lake ! chased several years ayo at a dead loss of

Steel Rails!

These rails were pur-

millions of dollars to the country, and were about to start on a summer excursion up the lakes, when they insisted upon ,taking a dip to work off the thick coating of rus which had accumulated on them during their prolonged visit to the Penitentiary. Conditions of employment : Every man en- gaged must be a voter, and he must promise to assist in securing the election of the Government candidate at the coming elec- tion. This is a rare chance to obtain steady employment under water all summer. Then ‘come along John,’ make a ‘ Big Push,’ and assist in elevating the rails. Applica- tion to be made to the Public Works De- partment at Ottawa, or at the Penitentiary Wharf. Hurrah for McKenzie '”

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©ur Fisheries.

Tue Marine and Fisheries Department at Ottawa, have received most encouraging re-

ports from the salmon and lobster packing districts. Thirty-two thousand pounds of N. 8., by the end of May, whereas no more than two thousand pounds had been packed

single salmon canning and freezing estab- lishment in Dalhousie, N. B., no less than seven hundred salmon were received in one

day, the owner being compelled to refuse a great many more for want ef room.

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Ir is stated in Quebec that the local govy- ernment has already taken away from Messrs. Cimon & Piton the contract for the construction of the Parliamentary Build- ings, and that new tenders are to be ad- vertised for for the completion of the work. The news is received with gratification by the working classes, who, beiore the strike, were paid but fifty cents a day by Mr. Cimon.

{t ought to be abolished and the tax |

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salmon were canned this season at Moria, ,

admitted into the Dominion free. clusion I would. advise ‘‘A Farmer,” if he do not want to bring the reproach of |ignorance as well as folly on the farmers of! Paper published in the Province,

Correspondence.

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i Pig —. ‘ypos yonrdients, the statements or opinions ef Our COrPE}

The Dust Giant.

T'o the Lditor of the Heramiuer:? n,—The patent dust-suppressor has meee forth with a splatter, but the dust has the hest of it at present. Has the idea ever en- tered into the heads of the Civie authorities, first to have the dust swept off the streets at early morn, then gently, as at present, to try and conquer the animal? Surely there are enough street-loafers ; could they not be con- verted into dusters? Yours, &c., A CHILD. Ch’town, June 22, 1875. he SD To the Editor of the Beaminer : ; Sir,—-A_ short communication ‘appeared in your paper last night signed “Q. R. 5., seem- i ed for an answer to mine on

ing to be intend ; : : , : ‘ire ’ ‘ B. the question of raising the market house

When ‘‘Q. R. S.” writes over his, her, or its own signature (as it would be almost impossi- ble, from the style of the article, to tell whether it was a man, woman or child that wrote it) and gives reasons that are intelligible for what he writes, then | will endeavor to answer with more reasons why my plan is feasible and practicable; but until he, who- ever he may be, comes out over his own signa- ture, | will take no further notice of -his ans- wers or anything he may write. "Tam, Sir, yours, &c., RicHary WEEKS.

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Ch’town, June 22, 1875.

“The Mowing Machine Argument Again.”

T'o the Editor of the Kraminer .

Srr,—‘* A Farmer” has written another letter to the Patriot, in which he states that he is well pleased that I noticeri his first communication. With your permission, [ will briefly notice his second, in the hope that he will read it with both pleasure and profit. a

He commences his letter by giving a broad hint that he is a betting character. lam very much surprised at his offer to make a bet, if he really is what he pretends to be—‘‘a Covehead farmer.” Any one acquainted with tke religious, honest and and industrious farmers of Covehead would suppose it the least likely locality on the Island to find a gambler. Along with his gambling propensity, he is evidently a great grumbler. That American mowing ma- chines are kept out of the market by Pre- mier McKenzie’s 174 per cent. tariff, was the trouble in his first letter. In his last he gives vent to a new grievance. Now it is sweeties that is the disturbing element. The Israelites in the wilderness, longing for the flesh pots of Egypt, do not appear to have made more fuss than ‘* A Farmer” (/) does because he cannot get the old tooth- some Scotch candy. I could not help laughing when I thought of one of the hard-working farmers of Covehead troubling himself about where the candy he brought home to his children was made or came from !

Leaving his betting and candy frivolities for the present, let us see what he has brought forward in the way of argument to support the position he has taken. He takes the position that a protec- tive duty on manufactured goods necessarily increases the cost to the buyer; and he in- stanced mowing machines as a case in point. [ shewed in my last letter that although the 174 per cent. tariff of the present Gov- ernment has practically excluded American machines from this market, instead of ma- chines going up in price, as they should ac- cording to his theory, they have actually come down in price. The Protection given induced men to go into the business of ma- nufacturing machines in our own country; and now the competition among our own manufacturers is so keen that prices have come down at least twenty five per cent. While we were depending on foreigners for our machines, two or three of their manu- facturers had a monopoly of our market, and they fixed the price at which the far- mer had to buy. ‘‘A Farmer” wants to know the names of individuals who sells Buckeyes now for $140. 1 do not care about giving names without being author- ized; but any farmer can verify the truth of my statement by calling on any of the tirms that sell Buckeye’s in Charlottetown. He says that some of his neighbors remem- ber buying a Buckeye for £40, or $120. They may have brought one of a certain fashion. But a machine of that kind would not bring $100 now. Besides, by our sys- tem of arithmetie (in Cavendish) we make £40 equal to $130, or very near it. But I fear if ‘‘A Farmer” (/) is a fair sample of the Covehead folk, they have sadly deteriorated both mentally and morally. ‘‘A Farmer” (?) evidently does not believe in his own theory that Protec- tion increases the cost of the article and that the consumer pays the duty. He says that Protection pulled down the price of oats in the United States to twenty-five

ents a bushel. The United States im- pose a duty of ten cents a bushel on vats ; and, according to his own theory they ought to go up ten cenis instead of coming down. Or will he pretend to say that if there was | no duty on oats there that the selling price of oats would be only fifteen cents a bushel. Ido not believe that ‘‘A Farmer,” with all

during the same period last year. At a_his folly, will place himself in such a ridicu-

‘lous position, as taking either horn of the idilemma, would place him in. He says that ‘only a pack of fools would believe that we could get a reciprocity treaty with the Americans that would allow their manu- |factured goods into this country free of duty. ‘I presume ‘‘A Farmer” does not look upon ‘the Hon. George Brown, the great leader of the so-called Free Trade party as a fool. Yet he tried to negotiate a treaty at Wash- ington so late as 1875. And one of the provisions of that treaty was that all agri- cultural implements and hundreds of other articles of American manufacture should be In con-

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'Ch’town, June 17

: Covehead, to post himself better on the undertakes to write about;

Yours, &c., Anoruser J anMen.

Cavendish, June 21, 1878.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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60 ROLLS,

CONTAINING

00 SIDES,

No. 1 & No. 2.

BEST AND SHEAPEST i) THE MARKET.

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CARVELL BROS.

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Prince of Wales College, a EK Midsummer Examination of the Classes in the Prince of Wales College will take place at the College Building, in Charlottetown, on TUESDAY, the 25th June, instant, commencing at 10 o'clock, a. m. , The parents of the pupils, and others inter- ested in the Institution. are respectfully im-

vited to attend.

J. LONGWORTH, Hon. See’y, &e.

Ch’town, June 21, 1875

r : ; er 52% See, | WELLING HOUSE AND SHOP, on Richmond Street. Apply to WM. KOUGHAN, Ch’town, Jane 2], 1878-—3i

Baby Carriages. | UST ARRIVED, seciilie Lot of those @3 very cheap CHELDRENS CARRIAGES, at H, COOMBS. June 21, 18S78—3i

TAR LAW SOCIETY.”

r_XNiuk Annual Meeting of ‘‘'The Law Society

of Prince Edward Island” will be held at the Law Library in the new Law Courts Building, in Charlottetown, on TUESDAY, the 25th day of June, instant, at the hour of eleven o’clock, a. m.

F. L. HASZARD, Sec’y. Charlottetown, June 20, 1878—

THE FANCY SALE

—OF—

St. Peter's Church Sewing Society

will be held in the

Y. Vi. C. A. HALL,

—ON—

WEDNESDAY, the 10th JULY,

STRAWBERRIES, Ices, &C. Music and Read- ings in the evening.— Doors open at 2 p, m, Admission 25 cents ; children 10 cents.

Ch’town, June 17—sw pat.

MASONIC.

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ye <r RY Las CONS Under the Auspices of St. John’s Vieteria, and King Seolemon

ON MONDAY, JUNE 24. Hunter River.

NPECIAL TRAIN will leave Charlottetown

at 10 a. m.; returning, leave Hunter

River at 7 p. m., arriving at Charlottetown at 8 p. m.

Tickers for Return Trip, 60 cents—to be had at Railway Ticket Office.

AMUSEMENTS of various kinds will be pro- vided.

Favorable arrangements have been made with Mr, John Bagnall to provide Refresh- inents at reasonable rates.

The Brethren and friends from the western parts of the Island will join us at Hunter River.

No pains will be spared to make the day enjoyable to all,

SIMON W. CRABBE, Chairman. J. McKECHNIE, Secretary. Cl’town, June 18, 1878—

For Sale or to Let

A NEW COTTAGE, situated on Pleasant Street, containing eight rooms, with Stable and Coach-house attached. For parti- culars, apply to

P. C. KELLY, _ 427 Upper Queen St. 3i 90d

UBSCRIBE for the DAILY EX- s AMINER, the Cheapest and most newsy

STS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

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(CHOICE PATTERNS)

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KING SQUARE HOUSE Tailoring Department BEER & SONS.

Ch’town, June 18, 1878,

A GRAND | Temperance Demonstration

—AND—

PUBLIC TRA

WILL BE HELD On the Beautiful Grounds o? VICTORIA PARE

—ON—

MONDAY, JULY Ist

LL the Temperance Socicties throughout ii the Island are invited to attend,

Tea on the tables at 2.30 p. m.

Tickets, 25 cents; children under 12 years, 15 cents.

ENTERTAINMENT in the Market Hall at 8 o'clock, p. m.—Admission, 15 cents ; reserved seats, 25 cents.

Railway Fares for the day will be 1 cent a mile.

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W. W. BEER, Ch. of Com. J. W. HODGSON, See’y. Ch’town, June 18, 1878—

Bremner Bros.

HAVE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING

New Stock!

—NAMELY—

CriROMOS & ENGRAVINGSS# from 5 cents $1.50.

FANS! FANS!

entirely new styles.

WALLETS & POCKET-BOOKS

a choice variety. BASE BALLS & BATS,

RUBBER BALLS. PHOTO FRAMES

very handsome.

and a choice stock of other goods in the

Stationery & Fancy Goods’ Lines, BREMNER BROS. June 18—pat lw 3aw ne li

Tinsmithing, Gasfitting, &¢. HE Subscriber, thankful for past patron- age, would inform his friewda, and the public generally, that he is still pre to do all work in his line. TTinsmithing, Gasfitting, and General Jobbing punctually attended to. On hand, alot of Tinware, which will be

sold very cheap, wholesale and retail. Also wanted, a good steady man to peddle

Tinware. GEO. E. MILLNER,

Cor. Great George & Fitzroy Sts. Ch’town, May 16—

TEIN DERS.

ENDERS will be received by the Subscri- ber, until the First Day of July next,

for the erection of a STORE and WARE- HOUSE at Cardigan Bridge, and also a WAREHOUSE at Montague Bridge, accord- ing to the plans and specifications, to be seen on application at the Stores of Owen Connoll & Co., at the above places, or at the Subseri- ber’s office in Charlottetown—the Subscriber to find all materials for said buildings.

The names of two suflicient sureties for the performance of the contract are uired to accompany each Tender, The Subscriber does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any

Tender. OWEN CONNOLLY. Ch’town, June 17, 1878—dy pat 2 aw t date

NEW CCODS. NEW COODS.

ROBERT ORR & CO.

Have now open, and ready for inspection, a very large stock of

STAPLE AND FANCY

DRY GOODS!

Which they are selling, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

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LOWER PRICHS

—THAN—

Ever Before Offered.

They respectfully solicit the patronage of their customers, and the public generally.

Ch’town, May 8, 1878,