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MING'’S: A. C. Mac lonald. WEST QUEEN'S: Dr. Jenkins. QUEEN'S: Alexander Martin. WEST PRINCE: Sdward Hackett. EAST PRINCE: Richard Hunt,

Hon. Mr. Dickey's Visit.

The Hon. Mr. Dickey, Min- ister of Justice, will arrive in Charlottetown on Monday eveuing next, accompanying Sir Charles Tupper. On Tues- day evening Mr. Dickey will address a meeting of electors at Kensington.

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

East

THE PREMIER’S VISIT,

—

fir and How. Mr.

Dickey, Minister of Justice, will arrive via

Cnartes Turrer

Pictou on Monday afternoon about five o’clock, and at eight o'clock the Premier, and possibly Mr. Dickey, will address the electors in the Skating Rink, Fitzroy Street. Every arrangement has been made to accommodate the large number of electors who will attend

The Hon. Mr. Dickey will not return to Pictou with Sir Charles Tupper, but will remain over and proceed to Prince County and address public meetings “there in the

jaterests of the L beral-Conservatives.

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GOOD NEWS FROM THE WEST

Tar Hon. Mr. Ferguson arrived in town by the morning train from Summerside, having driven from Arlington, Lot 14, after the cloze of the meeting held there

The hon. gentleman seem

last evening. as fresh as when he began Lis meetings

over three weeks ago, and ia in excellent

spirits over the prospects of Messrs. Bunt and Uackett in the West. He reports that the Liberal-Conser- vatives are gaining ground = every-

day in both Ridings. To ure a common “eoate 18

His aitem pts

expression, Perry’s cooked ” in West Priscs.

to éxplain oa the Manitoba School Ques

poor

tion have only put him deeper in the mire. In one breath he says that he voted avainst the bill because it did not go far ero gh, and in the next gives as his excase that if he voted for the bill Peters would expel the Frereh books from the Sehoo!s

of this Island,

THE FARMER AND THE DUTY

The Examiner, The Examiner, May 20. May 29.

“All "the articles, “The Examiner tco, the farmer re- never stated that

the duties were not

quires to buy for or- imposed

dipary use are free upon ar- from duty underthe ticles used by the present system.” farmer, imported

Britain coun-

from Great

and foreign

tries.” It may, in charity, be assumed that it was simple iguorance of the esential dilf- ence there ‘s between “duties imposed upos articles” and articles being “ free from duty” that caused the Guardian to charge Tue Exawiver with “ falsehood ” in this regard. But we fail, even in char- ity, to find an excuse for the Guardian’s failure to withdraw the charge and apol- ogize after the ditference las been pointed

out and the real meaning of the parsage upon which the charge is based fully explained. It is 20

be noted that the Guardian does not at- tempt to deny the reasonableness of the

pee ee an explanation. It is, indeed, as clear as

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stronger foreign manufacturers will have

Canada at their mercy, and willere Jong]

be sure to see to it that they do not pay the to make up farmers will not be

Thus while the,

have the United |

luties which must be levied

, } the revenue ; and our

} : able to escape them, ?

Canadian farmer will

States farmer ¢ with him in the

Nova Scotia and New Bruns-

ym peting markets of wick, he will Jose the inestimable advan tage which he now possesses of being able les that he

to obtain all the artic reguires t>

buy for ordinary use, free from duty, as

under the present system. Wedonot say-——we have never said— the pr

that the farmers do no’, uader

Farmers who }

of Prince E! |

sent system, pay taxes, live as well as the farmers

ward Island, pay their fair share of taxs

pure

which they do notabsolutely neet. Among

1 1 ole respect to the base of arlicies

tion 1a

the articles referred t> by the Guardian as

being s rh} ct tO

| i | taxation was “ china- |

ware.” Surely the farmer who can afford | : a a “set of china'—is Well

In the

able to pay

the duty that is charge i. sane | way, the farmer who can afford to buy his | wife a silk dress or a tine fur overcoat 13 | not a subj -ct for pity when required to con tribute to the revenue of the country a | certain fair payaient,

I

that articles of necessity to the

prop yriioa Of the

ut what we desire to impress is the fact

w

farmer are,

under the present system, practically free

from duty—that is to say, he pays uo duty in respect to them. If the Guardian’s rudeness shall resul: in a clearer percep tion of this fact by our farmers we shall

not complain.

ere CAS PAIGN NOTE),

a —Where Mr. Laurier stands—on bo h | sides of every que -tion. —The London Pest thinks that for| Canadians to make a change in the par- | ties in control of the Government at the present time “would seem to the ordinary | business man a mistake in commercial as well as political tactics. Tle English | and Canadian ideas a:e alike on point.

—The erits have withdrawn their can-

didates sgain-t Davin in Eastern Assiviboia,

leaving the fight 1o the McCarthyites and ; This u akea in all some 2@ con- stituencies from which the grits have withdrawn their candidates. Add till the excdus continues.

—Sir Charles Tupper’s conduct in Le- coming personslly responsible fer the money to run the Goverament printing bureau at Ottawa strongly indicates his confidence in the cood seuse and judgment of the people of Canada. Sir Charies evi- dently has no misgivings a3 to the result of the election.

Parrons.

— Halifax Herald: The grit papers are publishing the names of half a dozen or s) alleged manufaciures in Ontario who are favoring their cause; but they omit two very important things. First, they omit any mention of the thousands of Canadian manufsctures all over the coun- try who are opposing their policy; an?, secondly, they omit to mention that all the Yankee manufactures, without exception, are wildly in favor of the grit policy of giving them the Canadian masket.

—In our telephone message anent the Ferguson meeting at Alberton we eaid, “Cheers were given in the end for the Queen, Sir Charlies Tupper, Hon. Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Rogers.” Mr. Hack- ett’s name, and not Mr. Rogers’, should have been mentioned, as will readily , be seen. No Conservative mecting ever en- thused over Mr. Rogers’ name, and _ in- deed, if the reports are true, a cheer could not be raised for him in any meeting from Sheep River to Horse Head. The name of Hackett is everywhere warmly acclaimed in the west.

—The Truro Sun says: The fel!owing touching story somewhat illurtrates what is going on to-day. In Februarythe Grit committee of Cape Bretcn wrote toa prom- inent Cumberland worker for a subscrip tion, saying that they were bound to beat Sir Charles this time and were going to do it. Immediately op receipt of the Jetter the following reply was sent: “Glad to hear that you can beat Sir Charles, ard you have my best wi«hes to that end—we tried it on bere very earnestly for over thirty vears, but never succeeded. As soon as you can deliver goods you may draw on me for Oxe Huxpegep Dotiars.”

—The Conservative ministers in Quebec province are all running in strong liberal constituencies, Mr. Angers is giving up his seat in the senate to Quebec Centre, which was repre-ented in the last parliament by C.F. Langelier, a Liberal. Mr. Desjardins also gives up a senatorship to fight for the representation of Richelieu, held last session by Mr. Bruneau, a Liber- al. Mr. Taillon gites up the provincial premiership to struggle with Mr. Geoffrion for his seat for Chambly and Vercheres,

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anything cao be thet if a man does not use or ‘consume articles upon which duties are paid, he dors not pay duties. or charges imposed ia respect to those articles may be 50 per cent. or 500 per cer:.—he laughs at the tariff; he pays no duties. Soin respect to any particular article which he may raise or purchase from his neighbor for his own use or con- sumption, he iv free from duty in respect to it though a heavy duty may be impos-

: ‘ j ed under the tarilf.

raise for themselves, or can purchase d r-

ectly or indirectly from their neighbors, | the manufacturers cf Canada, (who work upon free raw materials) all the ariicles | that they require, except tea, coffee and a | few other articles which are free of duty under the tariff. We siated with perfect truth, even though duties are imposed by the tariff, that “ all the articles, that th- farmer requires are free from duty under the present system.” The Guardian calle this “ an astounding ix, at all

have, therefore,

statement.” It events, @ statement containing a truth which well be weighed by every farmer. Destroy

the present system—as the Grits propose

may

todo—and what will follow? “Direct Taxation”? Not to be thought of. Buta

revenue must be made up. Tiren there must follow heavy taxes on tea, and all other articles of foreign production, while the duties on articles made in Canada will, in ali probability, be so much abated as to

destroy the protection of the home market

which is now afforded, ruin a large proportion of our manufacturers, and

greatly redace the keen wkolesoim> | home competition which results in such low prices for goods as we pay today. When this has been accomplished the

The duties |

} counties represented in the last parliament | by Messrs. Geoffrion and Prefontaine, j both Liberals. Men who admire courage will appreciate this conduct.

— Sir Charles Tupper spok- at Antig- onish on Thursday, and humorously allud- ed to the fact that all the Opposition charges against him had now simmered down to the al'egation that somsetoly was distributing seed oats, in Care Breton

; supposed to bein the interest of his (the

Premier’=)election. Hon. Daniel McNeill, a recent member of the Liberal Govern-

Oar farmers either | ment of Nova Scotia, and one cf the Nova

Scotia delegates to the Liberal Convention at Ottawa, al+o spoke at the meeting. Mr, McNeill has abandoned the Liberals, and

| is now an enthusiastic supoorter of the

party of progress led by Sir Charles Tup - per.

—It has always been one of the first princip'es of the advocates of the national policy to remove the taxation as much as possible from all articles that cannot be produced in Canada. Accordingly, in 1882; the Liberal-Conservative government struck off entirely the duties en tea, coffee and tin; and from that period to the present time there bas thus been saved to the people on these articles aloue the following amounts : —

i $11,024,039 ERE AOE ANS A 332,538 UN ils vida aoe iieisibiaiias 1,465,103

$13,331,670

Every dollar of this amount has gone

into the pockets of the great maas of the consumers of this country.

ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT,

“We say that it the Liberals of this County are goiog to win, and we bel eve thev are, the Liberals are going to w'n all over.”—Truro Times-Guardian.

We say that ifthe chances of the Lib-

held’s

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| been to assist in putting ont a fire

| directed the firemen, both in extinguishing | RETURN OF Fue FAVIJURITES,

Greek merchant who financed the recent international athletic game at Athens, is |

| rejoice ngs at Fr @iriechernne cover | of the first grandson of Prinee

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and against Rufus Pope in Compton,—

|) warship Hood.