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THe DAILY EXAMI

JULY 7,

NER.

The Tanpel

h} } “ make no apology for withholding

We SolieS Le P arks and

budget, with some editorial remarks a0

rislative reports on the Provincia

correspondence, in order that room may at ence be found in THe Examiner fora re- vised report of the excellent speech of Mr. John McLean, M P ant question of the tunnel, stated a strong case fairly and well.

.on the most import- Mr. McLean We congratulate him upon his success in ob- taining the ear of the House at the first effort. {The erroneous opposition of Mr. Cockburn was fortunate inasmuch as it in- cited Me. McLean to deliver which must have a powerful influence upon

ua speech

the representatives and people of Ontario

and (Juebec. has

heen taken in reapect to this question. I

Another distinct stepin advance

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THE TUNNEL QUESTION

Able and Convincing Speech by Mr, John MeLean, M.P.

View of a Business Man

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Unjust Statements Corrected.

What this Province Imports From Ontario.

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Amount of Our Potato Exports.

nas been fairly and squarely submitted to

longing to both parties :

(and this is a good

—_— united, and that we have the sympathy and |

support of the neighboring provinces ot Nova Seotia and New Prunswick.

Finance Minister

More

than that, the has ex

pressed himself in terms which convey an | this House iwhich [ come.

assurance that the ‘‘borings’” which are re-

quired will be made.

ey a4 the House of Commons by gentlemen be it has been show 1}

point ) that we are!

} subject

We have now bui to

Rye - Openers for Cockburn,

[FROM HANSAKD—RRBVISED |

Me. McLean.—lIn rising to address this House for the first time, I do so witha erent, deal of diffidence, especially as the s under discussion is one of very creat interest to the county [ represent in as well as tothe Island from When the hon. member tor Queen’s, P. E. 1. (Mr. Davies) made his speech the other day, in asking for the

continue, pradently but firmly, to press papers in connection with the tunnel be-

our claims to the proposed work upon the |

ices.

tunnel may well be deferred for the pre- |

sent. We feel certain that if Parliament will but grant the tuunel, the question of size will be aatisfactori!y disposed uf by the (iovernment,

«+e verre

Well Ta ken.

Tre Patriot remarks:

“The Island Government ought to patron- iz+ Islaod stationers, priaters, &c It is pvor encouragement for tradesmen to remain

att 7 Upper Prov- | esenala Se Pe gre “The "land | was very much pleased | speech he made on that occasion.

The question concerning the size of the!

in Charlottetown, when they see the govern? ment they support sending to Ontario or | Quebec for $80 worth of stationery.” . . : | This poiat is well tsken by our contem- porary. had had the wit tv put the matter of the |

(ntario printer's bill in this light, he would | in respect to it have won the sympathy of

If the leader of the Government

m~«ny of those who hstened to the budget ! spyech. It is too much the habit of some | persone in this community to send abroad for articles which can just as well be pro- | duced at home by our own tradesmen. ; The centralizing of business in Montreal

snd Toronte, aud Octawa, and the manu-

acturing towns, ought not, in the best in- j terests of the country at large, be en-

couraged—least of all by a Provincial Gev- erament. To be prosperous cur population } must be mixed here as we!) as in the larger

to

ithey will be to-night. surprised to find that the opposition to this

tween Prince Edward Island and the main- land, | listened to him very attentively, with the

1 think te laid the matter before this House ina very plsin, reasonable and modest way, from «a Prinee Edward Island standpoint, and if there was any fault at all to be found wit! his speech, it was that he did not put the cxse of Prince Edward Island as strong- ly us he might have done, or as strongly as | believe he would have been justified in doing. The figures he used on that occa- sion regarding the amounts contributed by Prince Edward Island to the general revenue of the Dominion, I think, were underneath rather than above the mark. I may say that that hou. gentleman, speak- ing at that time, simply took the amount contributed by Prince Edward Island to the revenue from Customs alone. | notice, in looking over the blue books, that the hon. member for Queen’s did not take into cmsideration the amount contributed to the Dominion treasury from Excise, which amount I find is $185,000. I think he gave the amount contributed fron: Customs cor- rectly as $4.60 per head of the population,

‘er fora population of 125,000, the sum of

$575,000. But he seems to have omitted the amount contributed from Excise, which is $1.48 per head, or $185,000 Adding these two amounts together, allow- ing that the people of Prince Edward Is- land contribute as much per head as do the

Fest of the Dominion, they contribute to

the general revenue, from Customs and Excise, the sum of $760,000. The remarks | would have made before this Honse at that time; had J. spoken on this subject, would have been quite different from what 1] was very much

tswus and provinces, Besides, the sending | measure, as soon as it was moved, came abroad for things that can be produced in | from the hou. member from Centre Toronto

Caurlottetown is ministering to the dudish | spirit of hypercriticism. The man official who is not content with printing | done in the otlices of John Cvombs, Has- zsrd and Moore, the Summerside Jvurcual | and THe ExaMINeR PUBLISHING Company, | is tuo utterly utter for a little place like’ this, and should himself be sent abroad.

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Notes and Comments.

—Montreal Gazette: **Prince Edward Island has a new Liberal Government, which met the Legislatura for the first time a few days ago. The most important measure On its programme is a bill to authorize it to negotiate a loan of $185,- WU, about $1.75 a head of the population. The first idea of a Canadian Liberal when he attains to power is to increase the pub- lic debt.”

—The English tin workers, according to « cable despatch, are sending delegates to the United States to see for themselves what are the pro*pects for work in the new tin plate factories now so much talked about over the border. This may be the beginning of a movement of serious import to the English tin districts ; and it may be part of the McKinley governorship cam- paign in Ohio.

—Mr. Warburton thinks that a doubt should be cast on Mr. Arnaud’s Liberalisin **hecause Mr. Arnaud did not vote for the grit ticket in the last Previncial election.” Mr. Warburton seems to forget that his s“pporters in this city on that occasion bore sbout the same relationship to Liberalisin as the three tailors of Tooley street bore to the British nation, An intelligent Liberal wust, of necessity, on principle, be oppos- ed to the pety peddling politicians in this country who have assumed the cloak of Liberalism.

—The Moncton Times puts the whole case in a nutshell as follows :

‘Under grit Government and grit tariff Canada’s im ports from Great Britain declined from 63 millions in 1874 to 31 miilious ic 1879 while our imports trom the United States de. clined only from 544 millions to 433 millions During the same period our sales to the United States declined from 36 mil'ions to 27 millions, while our sales to great Britain de- clined trem 45 milliopg to 36} millions. Un der Conservative Gove rnment and the Nation- «: Policy, our purchases from Creat Britain have increased by 13 millions and from the United States by 84 millions, while our sales tv Rriteia have increased by 12 mullions and to - United States by 13} millions. Thus under git Government our aggregste tre with Britain declined by 4] aren aa our aggregate trade with the United States deereased by 20 millions. Uader Conserva. tive Government our ageregaie trade wit] Heitain has increased by 244 millions and witi the United States by 22 miiiions.”

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ST. ANNE De BEAUPRE.—Six handred pi . from Edmundston have eased nen euebec en route for the shrine of St. Anne. Several theasand on ——

(Mr. Cockburn) |were never taken ¥ which did a province more

|did to the province of

and more ate} th

Sir, | believe that figures from the blue books

INJUSTICE

than the figures used by that hon. gentleman Prince Edward Is- land, 1 think it would be un- reasonable for me, if 1 were attempt- ing to-night to make a speech on the temperance question, to go to the blue books and say that the city of Toronto from which that Hon. gentleman comes, was the most drunken city in the Dominion of Can- ada. I have never been in the city of Tor- onto, but | could goto the blue bovks and ' could prove to this House just as conclu- sively as that hon. yentleman proved that Prince Edward Island had only contribut- ed the sum of $400,000—I could prove to the satisfaction of this House, taking the blue books as they now stand, that the city of Toronto consumes more liquor per head of the population than does any other part of the Dominion. | find on referring to the blue books that the city of Toronto pays a duty on spirits of $801,341; on walt li jaors, $8,056; on malt, $155,676, which sums to- gether amount to $965,083. Now, I do not quote these figures to show that the people of Toronto are addicted to the use of spirituous and malt liquors more than any other part of the Dominion, but I want to show that if I took the blue books and

Excise duty, and the amount contributed per head in each province ;

(Cust | xp |{ m’s Total Total |Kx'e Province | per| per | Customs) Kxeise | Du’y jne’d |he’d Duty juty | per Paid. P, id he'd LSOU | P EK Isinad...|/$4 69/87 10/$ 160,223/8 43.119/81 63 NS.....0..+-{1% GALS 94) 2 288,337) 318,712] 5 21 Ocak 1k7 BVIS 86) 1,505,337 #12,32 1 4 91 Quebec ......!26 76/29 09) 9,952 451! 2,795,543) 7 49 Ontario....../19 86)12 87) 8,356,683) 3,914,727) 5 58 Manitoba,..,.'20 44] 7 9 649,027; 253,320) 7 22 RC.,.........|54 841723 04; 1,078,507) 143,875) 15 28 te ee Oe 40 95 | 24,342 0 16 > «9 | $24,014,908) 37 ,779,6'6 Average value imports per head,....... $ 21 48 do exports ee estes 13.43 Average Customs duty do 4.60 do Excise duty OO a esis: 1.48 P, FE. Island imports, estimated at,......$2.685,090

da exports, do éescece Beau coe do Customs duties ,estimated at 475,000 do Excise do * do 185,000

Now, | want to show by these fivures how unfair it is togo to the blue books and take this mode of calculation. Every hon. ventieman in this House knows that the reason why British Columbia is credited with $15,28 per head, is because the goods that come to British Columbia are im- ported there directly, instead of being im- ported to other provinces and redistribrt- ed. ‘To show how ridiculous those figures are when taken from the blue books, and not explained to the House, f may say that in 188990, the years these figures are taken, Prince Edward [sland imported only $585,859; whereas in 1872 or nineteen years «go, before Prince Edward Island came into the Dominion, she imported $1,851,935, or over three times as much as she is credited with nnporting last year. [ quote these figures to show how ridicul- ous is the position that the hon. gentlemen from Centre Toronto wished to put Prince Edward Island in, by the figures he «noted the other night. I Jeave it to himself, and | give him these figures, and I think that I can safely say that he will not find a false figure in the lot, even although they are taken trom the blue bowks, and he must have seen them all. I thought when we came to submit the question of the tunnel to this House, whatever other province we might find opposed to the project, it would not be the province of Oatario. I have taken the trouble to prepare some figures to show the House how much Prince Ed- ward Island

IMPORTS FROM ONTARIO.

Of flour, we imported the value of $335, - 000: of farm implements, and I believe this is far helow the mark, $159,000; organs and sewing machines, $20,000; pianos, $10,000; of waggons, | hive the amount down as $50,000, but t> my astonishment when | made enquiries from some of the manufacturers, | found that a friend of mine in Summerside, Mr. McLeod, hin self imported last year from one Ontariv » anu- facturer, waggons to the amount of $26,- 000, and of other goods from that province to the extent cf $44,000. I find that I am actually far below the correct figures in those I have given. It is, however, difficult to arrive at reaily satisfactory fig- ures with respect to the trade between the Island and the mainland, but undoubt- edly the total imports from Ontario amount to $985,000. Iclaimthat if we were looking for favours for the island with respect to the tunnel scheme we could: appeal to Ontario, and I will attempt to | show the House the grounds on which we’ could doso. The province of Nova Scotia

the value of what she receives; New Bruns- wick dues the same. In the case of Quebec this is not done to the same extent, but she exchanges goods largely with the Island. But to Ontario we contribute yearly $100,- 000 more than we export from the Island tu all countries outside of the Dominion. According to the blue books, Prince Ea- ward Island in 1889 90 exported to coun- tries outside of the Dominion products to the value of $887,755, while we importe from Ontario goods to the value of $935,- 000. Ontario differs from any other prov- ince in regard to Prince Edward Island, in that Ontario scarcely buys one dollar's worth of Island produce, whereas Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec are customers for the products we raise. To Ontario alone have we to send hard cash, and that province is the one interested in seeing that the Island should obtain the best market possible for its products. For these reasons, I repeat, we should look for sympatby from Ontario if we were looking for favors. While we expect the suppers of every hon. member from Ontario and Quebec, I believe we will certainly obtain the support of every member from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, because they know onr position better than do the

re- presentatives of the other provinces. The hon. member for centre Torontc (Mr.

Cockburn) is speaking of the Island made a very ridiculous statement when he said that the

FEW EGGS AND POTATOES raised were not of sufficient importance for the Dominion to consider the desirability of building a tunnel from the mainland to

gave the city of Torunto credit for drinking the amount of produced in it, i should be pursuing an argument on the same lines as! the hon. member for Centre Toronto the other night, when he showed that the city of Toronto paid more duty into the Govern. ment than the whole of the Maritime Pro- vinces together. I want to show this House that duty was paid in Toronto on liquor that the people of Toronto never

drank. The liquor was scattered over the whole Dominion and the parties who consumed it paid not cnly the

duty on the liquor, but they paid the cost of mnafacturing it. they paid the profits of the wholesale dealer and of the retail dealer ; there- fore I claim that every provine» that im — any of that liquur from the city of

oronto, contributed to the revenue of this country jast in proportion to whit they dvank. It ] were to show from these figures— and the figures I have quoted will show it that for each man, voman and ch ]4 in Toronto, they consumed 10 galions of spirit. uous liquor and 24 gallons of malt liquors that would not be coi rectly stating the fact. I do not claim that it is so, and for that reason { want to show this House how ridiculous it is for any hon. gentleman to go to the blue hooks and try to prove that a provi: c2, be- cause it does not contribute directly t ‘he “evenue, is. therefore, a drag vponthers of he Dominion. Taking the blue hooks and rferiing to the Province of Qatario in an- ther way, ] thick | can show this fo gs hat the Province of Ontario does nt stand a that proud positio », that the hon. gin le man would lead this House to be'ieve I have taken the provinces separately to show ‘he population, the value of the imports, te value per head of the imports, the value of

© exports, the value per head of the

expected from Upper Canada and the States,

, members to suppose, members who know

exports, the Customs duties, and the

the Island. No doubt he led many hon.

the hon. gentleman very well, and he has so far as | know, a very good reputation for calculating and putting tigures in their pro- per relation if he is disposed to do 80, that the Island is not capable of ex- porting much produce, but only of importing goods to the value of $585,000 according to the blue books, and ther fore the item of exports should not be considered in this question. J have gone Over the ex- ports of the Dominion for 1890, and I was surprised to find that the Island exported to countries outside of Canada more potatoes than did all the rest of the Dominion. | will give the hon. member for centre Tor- onto the figures. The exporta of potatoes for 1890 by Canada to countries outside of the Dominion amounted to 1,458.797 bushels. Of this quantity Prince "Edward Island shipped 749,049 bushels, while the whole of the other provinces shipped 709, - 000 bushels. Hon. members may be led to helieve that 749,000 was the total quantit the Island had to export; but such was ah the case. The Island exported that to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick bushele, and there was produced of 1600 tons, each ton representing 200 bushels of potatoes, or in all 320,000 bush So that the exports of potatoes from P, E. pene really aggregated 1,419,849 bushels,

his was not an extra year, as all hon. gen- tlemen who are farmers know, and when the accounts come in for the year which closed yesterday, the figures will be fonnd far to exceed those I have given.

year 350,060 starch

exchanges goods with the Island ahnost to |

raised by the Island h in connection with ry:

|. The yeople oO f ; comsuiaiane ‘that they are paying more than their share to the revenue. That why | point out that the Islaud butes as much per head as do

whenever this question 15 1 it is alleged that the Island

ias been brought up 3 question of a tun-

is not contri-

provinces, but brought up anc is a beggar and to the Dominion ceives, it is desirable is not only wildly inaccurate, but that » it would be no reason why the terms

treasury than she re-

true of Confederation should not That is the reason I bring it Up. oth a statement showing the amount controa

In 1886

Sullivan and Fergusor, who were sppol ed a delegation frem the Provineial Gov- ernment on a question of winter commant cation, to the Secretary of State Colonies. This statement shows

cannot du better than read it to the House. member for Queen’s (Mr. Davies) who put

the case very clearly from the Island stand- point and very moderately, 1 was quite

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FREIGHT.—Greater facilities are now

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SHERWOOD CEMETERY.

H1S CEMETERY, situated at the june- tion of Royalty and Brackley Point

Roads, is conveuiently reached by Rail or

Carriage. ‘Trains uu there daily :—

Leaving Charlottetown at 7.30 and 9,45 in the

Ferenoon, aud at 4.15 and 430 in the Afternoon.

Returning, leave Cemetery at 10.25. m. and at 5.30 and 8 o’clock, p. m., (local time). Funeral Trains may be had whenever re quirea, and interments inay be made by regn- lar trains at ordinary passenger rates. Prices of Plots as tollows :— Family Plots, 20x15 f et, sold at re. EE se a $2) 00 Plots half above size, in good locations, 12 10 Single Graves 2 09 For further information apply to the der- sigued, at office of County Court. re

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THE RELATIVE AMOUNT

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